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JULY 5, 2020 • 11 AMALL ARE WELCOME AT ASBURY FIRST. PLEASE JOIN US IN CELEBRATING OUR 200TH ANNIVERSARY!
FIRST TIME HERE We are so glad you are joining us! If you’re out there watching, check in through the website or take a picture and post it on social media using #asburyfirstathome. Our hope is to get to know you better and help you find your place within our community. Additionally, drop us an email at [email protected] and we will answer any questions you may have.
NEED PRAYER? We invite you to share with us how we can be praying for you by emailing [email protected]. All prayer requests are prayed over by our Ministers and Intercessory Prayer Group.
CHILDREN We believe children are a sacred gift. We will have a segment during our live stream for Children’s Time. We will also be holding a special Zoom meeting (https://zoom.us/j/8347173468) with Paula and Holly on Wednesdays at 11:30 am to keep connected. If there is a way our children’s ministry can be more welcoming to you and your child, please contact Paula Dugan at [email protected].
RECONCILING STATEMENT We are a reconciling congregation and seek to be a fully inclusive church, believing that all people are God’s children. We encourage full participation in our community for all, regardless of age, race, origin, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, education/economic background, and physical/mental ability. We recognize that we hold a variety of opinions. We do not seek to erase our differences, but to journey together in faith toward greater understanding and mutual respect. We believe that reconciliation to God and to one another is central to our mission and ministry.
GIVE TO ASBURY FIRST There are three ways to make a gift to Asbury First. Each gift supports the everyday ministries and operations of this church, allowing us to live into our vision to Do More Good. Cash/Check—We welcome you to send a gift of cash/check in the mail.Text to Give—You may give a gift with a debit/credit card by texting the dollar amount to 206-222-1050.Online—Online giving is available on our website at www.asburyfirst.org/give
WATCH AND LISTEN Tune into the live video stream of the 11 am service at www.asburyfirst.org/worship/live. To listen to the service, call 833-829-1050. A video archive of past services is also available at www.asburyfirst.org/worship/video-archive. You can also view all sermons on our YouTube channel.
5th Sunday after Pentecost 11 am • July 5, 2020
THE COMMUNITY GATHERS As the community gathers, may the music of the prelude draw your hearts and minds to God.
Prelude “Six Canzonetti” for Organ — Noel Goemanne
Welcome
Call to Worship
All are invited to read the bold-faced type; the lay reader will read the unbolded type.
God is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.God is good to all, and God’s compassion is over all that God has made.Let us give thanks to God, let us bless God!Let us speak of God’s glory and tell of God’s power!God’s kingdom is everlasting, God’s love for us is eternal.Thanks be to God! Let us worship God
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Opening Hymn #132 “All My Hope Is Firmly Grounded”
Words: Joachim Neander, 1680; trans. by Fred Pratt Green, 1986; Tune: Herbert Howells, 1930, 1977
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Prayer of Confession
Merciful God, we ask your forgiveness for all that we have done, be it recent or in the distant past.Help us to see the ways we can adjust our lives to let your love shine in all we do. Give us eyes to see, ears to hear, and hearts to feel you in every person we meet.In this way, may our sins be forgiven and our world begin to heal.
Silent Confession
Word of Assurance Beloved Friends, hear the Good News! God loves us each and all. God knows us, inside and out. In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forever forgiven.In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Amen.
GloriaHymnal #102, Tune: “NowThank We All Our God”
All glory be to God, all praise and thanks be given;Whose Son and Spirit reign as one in highest Heaven;Our one eternal God, whom earth and heaven adore;For thus it was, is now, and shall be evermore.
TO HEAR THE WORD Scripture I Corinthians 13
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
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Anthem “Not for Tongues of Heaven’s Angels” — Peter Cutts, arr. Carl Johengen; words by Timothy Dudley-Smith
Not for tongues of heaven’s angels, not for wisdom to discern, not for faith that masters mountains, for this better gift we yearn:May love be ours, O Lord.
Love is humble, love is gentle, love is tender, true and kind; love is gracious, ever patient, generous of heart and mind; May love be ours, O Lord.
Never jealous, never selfish, love will not rejoice in wrong; never boastful nor resentful, love believes and suffers long; May love be ours, O Lord.
Soon will fade the word of wisdom, faith and hope be one day past: when we see our Savior clearly love it is alone will last; May love be ours, O Lord.
Children’s Time Children of all ages are invited to join us in this special moment.
Lord’s Prayer Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
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Hymn #408 “The Gift of Love”
Words: Hal Hopson, 1972 (1 Cor. 13:1–3); Tune: Trad. English melody; adapt. by Hal Hopson, 1972
Sermon The Greatest of These
Pastoral Prayer
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TO RENEW COMMITMENT Invitation to Discipleship, Membership, and Commitment
Our Creative God endows us with the gifts of time, talent, and treasure. Within this bulletin you will find invitations to enrich your faith journey and enhance your commitment. We invite you to prayerfully consider these opportunities. If you’re out there watching, check in through the website or take a picture and post it on social media using #asburyfirstathome. You may give a gift with a debit/credit card by texting the dollar amount to 206-222-1050. Online giving is available on our website at www.asburyfirst.org/give.
Offertory “Give Me” — Carson Cooman; words translated from Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (1006–1088 C.E.)
O God, give me a heart that I can pour out in thanksgiving.Give me a life so I can spend it working for the salvation of the world.
DoxologyHymnal #95
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;Praise God, all creatures here below;Praise God above, ye heavenly host;Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
Prayer of Dedication
Loving God, on each and every morning of our lives we give you thanks.Take these our gifts in your blessed name to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and comfort the bereaved. Amen.
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TO DISPERSE IN MISSION Closing Hymn #672 “God Be With You Till We Meet Again” (vv. 1-2)
Words: Jeremiah Rankin, 1880; tune: God Be With You, William Tomer, 1880
Benediction
Postlude “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling — Don Hustad
ParticipantsIn the Service
Preacher: Rev. Kathy ThielLiturgist: Rev. Jackie NelsonDirector of Children’s Ministry: Paula DuganOrganist: Duane PrillSoloists: Susan Huppé, Dan McInerney, Jordan BachmannDirector of Music Ministry: Dr. Carl JohengenAudio Operator: Carolyn Curran Video Operator: Jake SchwartzTechnical Consultant: Justin Ocello
Permissions: “Not for Tongues of Heaven’s Angels” words © 1985, tune © 1969, Hope Publishing Co.; “Give Me” © 2011 St. James Music Press; Hymns © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House; OneLicense.net #A-721053.
Some of the liturgical elements have been adapted from the 2020 Abingdon Worship Annual
Illustration Credits: Designed by Sarah Brubaker and Freepik, and Sarah Brubaker and Vecteezy.
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SUNDAY 9:45 am Parables of Parenting—Zoom 742600309 10 am Zoom with Paula and Holly - Zoom 8685710891 11 am Live Stream Worship Service 12 pm Fellowship (Half) Hour—Zoom 8347173468 1:30 pm Bicentennial Bible Challenge Meeting —Zoom 8347173468 MONDAY 7:30 pm Guided Meditation—Zoom 8347173468
WEDNESDAY 7 am Men’s Fellowship Group—Zoom 8347173468 10 am Wednesday Morning Study Group —Zoom 8347173468 11:30 am Zoom with Paula and Holly—Zoom 8347173468 12:30 am Women on Wednesdays—Zoom 8347173468 3 pm Guided Meditation—Zoom 8347173468 6:30 pm Asbury Ringers—Zoom 7:30 pm Choir Fellowship—Zoom
THURSDAY 7 pm Bicentennial Bible Challenge Meeting —Zoom 8347173468
MEETINGS & REHEARSALS JULY 5–11
BICENTENNIAL TRIVIA Weekly Questions and Answers supplied by Jim Farrington, head of the church Archive Project
Question: In the 19th Century, First ME Church helped the founding of how many other Methodist congregations in Rochester?From last week: Which US President was the brother to one of our earliest ministers? A. A. Millard Fillmore was the brother of Glezen Fillmore, who was the First Church minister 1830-1831, 1833, and 1839.
HOW TO JOIN A ZOOM MEETING Follow the link: https://zoom.us/j/8347173468 for the main meetings, and https://us02web.zoom.us/j/338565981 for “Changing Weighs,” and https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86857108916?pwd=aHF4TEppZERJSXZoZmFxUHgrQ1hjdz09 for the Sunday morning Zoom with Paula and Holly. You can visit our website for a direct link to the meetings at www.asburyfirst.org/events.
When you open the link, you should get some pop-ups asking questions like:
1. Do you want to open and run the program Zoom?
2. Do you want to connect with your computer audio?3. Do you want to connect with your computer video?
Click yes to any and all of these prompts. Once you have clicked through these prompts, you should be able to see yourself on your computer screen, and you should be able to see the rest of the group that are also logged on.
If any group would like to utilize our discipleship Zoom account to take their meetings online, please contact Rev. Mike Mullin at [email protected].
GIVE ONLINE AT WWW.ASBURYFIRST.ORG/GIVE, TEXT TO GIVE AT 206-222-1050, OR MAIL IN YOUR CHECKS TO 1050 EAST AVENUE, ROCHESTER, NY 14620
#ASBURYFIRSTATHOME
STILL BETTER TOGETHER We are connected more than we think! Here are some numbers from June 28 that show our global reach.
VIEWERS WATCHING
VIEWERS CONNECTING
LIVE STREAM CHECK-INS
TEXT CHECK-INS
SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS
E-MAIL CHECK-INS246 47 10 2
1,450700WHICH EQUALS APPROXIMATELY:
If you’re watching at home, make sure to take a picture and post it with the tag #asburyfirstathome. Here are a few more posts and submitted pictures from June 28.
PEOPLEWATCHINGTOGETHER
Kathy and George Lease — Texarkana, AR
DEVICES WATCHING:
16TH3,936
JUNE 28 MARKS THETHAT MAKESAN AVERAGE OF
VIEWS PER MONTH
WEEK IN A ROW OF LIVE-STREAM ONLY WORSHIP
FROM MARCH 15 TO JUNE 28, THERE HAVE BEEN A TOTAL OF
15,742UNIQUE DEVICES WATCHING LIVE ON SUNDAYS
