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UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST 409 CENTER PARKWAY, YORKVILLE, IL 60560-1015
Phone: 630/553-7308 Fax: 630/553-5176
E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.yorkvilleucc.org
Announcements: [email protected] Facebook: www.facebook.com/yorkvilleucc
August 23, 2015
Pastor: Rev. Mark Gregory Ministers: The Congregation
Worship: 10:00 A.M.
Liturgist Altar Guild
Jeff Jerabek Pat Stewart & Ellie Gentile
Ushers Head Usher & Sound Room
Worship & Serving Ministry Rick Matuna, Steven Redmon
Greeters Church Guardians
8/9 Marcella Culbertson & JoAnn Matlock Brian Bazan Ben Moe
8/16 JoAnne Vitek & Mary McCracken Fred Dickson
8/23 Tim & Tracy Andrus & boys Andy Hamblin
8/30 Mary Ellen & Earl Bushnell Jeff Jerabek
Worship Assistants
Tim Belcher
Mrs. Belcher
Kevin Broderick
Benjamin DeFuss
Mary Ellen Dempsay
Dan DiGuido
Dan Duus
Rick Falato
Gary Gold
Larry Gold
Marie Griffith
Peggy Humphrey
Jeff Jerabek
Vivian Kammeyer
Michelle Kelly
Rebecca Leggett
Steve Meade
Joanne O’Brien
Matt Potempo
Elizabeth Purcell
Ellie Salisbury
Judy Schrand
Frank Strasser
Margeurite Wickens
Andrea Wickens Zumhagon
Prayer List
Dan DiGuido has been moved to MarionJoy for rehab
Dan Hirns’ auction went very well
Joys
Concerns
McKenna Middlestadt, Pam & Hamblin’s granddaughter—having tests done.
Family of Peggy (Perkins) Humphrey
Virginia Dedoe—Admitted to Rush/Copley
Jordyn Lange—daughter of our Administrative Assistant, Susan Lange
Skogsberg family asks for prayers for their friend Jim Schultz.
Offerings Received - August 16, 2015
$7365.00
$116.24
117
Operating Income
Designated Income
Attendance
Church Directory
Life Touch Photography appointments are being made now for August 28 & 29. Please see
Ellie Gentile in the Narthex to schedule your sitting time.
Newsletter Articles
Articles for the newsletter are due on the 15th of the month for the following month’s
publication. Please email to [email protected] or drop your article off in the
office.
The church office will now be open Monday - Friday from 8:30am until 4:00pm.
Announcements
Monday Brodie Phillipp
Tuesday Audrey Enlow
Wednesday Mary Lee Swickert
Harold & Mary McCracken—58 years
Thursday Rusty Corneils
Rachel Hart
Friday Carole Cook
Pam Campos
Diane Lee
Luke Schoenfelder
Robert & Mary Freeman—49 years
This Week’s Birthdays and Anniversaries
Once a month, usually the last Sunday,
we celebrate birthdays and anniversaries with cake
during Coffee Fellowship. Please join us!
Sunday Worship - Chaplain Dan Sullivan
Kid Church
Children’s Message -Deanna Bazan
Coffee Fellowship
Youth Drop In
Monday 12 STEP
Tuesday Building & Grounds Committee Meeting
Wednesday Youth Drop In
Peace Jam
Friday Life Touch Portraits
Saturday Life Touch Portraits
10:00AM
11:30AM
7:00PM
6:30PM
4:00PM
7:00PM
2-8:50PM
10-4:00PM
This Week’s Calendar August 23-29
10:00AM
12:00PM
5:00PM
7:00PM
6:30PM
7:00PM
4:00PM
7:00PM
Sunday Worship
Kid’s Church
Church Picnic
Monday: Cougars Game
12 STEP
Tuesday PADS Committee Meeting
Stephen Ministry
Wednesday Youth Drop In
PeaceJam
Next Week’s Calendar August 30-September 5
WELCOME
If you are seeking a new church home. . .
No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey,
You - and your questions - and your desire to know Christ
- are welcome here.
“That they may all be one . . .” John 17:21
Welcome to YCUCC We welcome all who worship here. In God, we are not
Strangers, but friends.
Please use the card titled:
“Prayer Concerns and Celebrations”
- to share joys and concerns during our time of prayer.
“Announcements”
- to share events & ministry happenings during our announcement
time.
Once completed, please hand it to an Usher. Please sign and pass attendance
pads as they are passed to you. Thank You!
As We Prepare Our Hearts for Worship “Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or
later, and then you still have to decide what to do.” ~ C.C. Lewis,
The Silver Chair
“When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third
choice; to not choose.” ~ Jarod Kintz
“Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either
make them or they’re made for you, but you can’t avoid them.”
~Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello
We Gather Together Prelude: Tina Andersen, Organist
Lighting the Path
Ringing of the Bells
Welcome and Trinitarian Greeting—Lou Ann Hoffman
A Time for Praise and Preparation *Call to Worship:
Leader: Praise the Lord! We gather and give thanks to God.
People: How incredible are the works of our God!
Leader: The Lord is gracious and merciful, faithful and just.
People: Holy and awesome is God’s name!
Leader: Wisdom begins with respect for the Lord.
ALL: May our praise go on forever!
Opening Hymn: The Heart of Worship Supplemental Hymnal #8
*Prayer of Adoration and Praise:
Loving Christ, we come together in this hour of worship to be refreshed and
refueled for the mission you left to us, your followers. Rekindle the joyful
opportunity we have to be Your body, the hands, feet, heart and mind through
whom you reach, touch, feed, lift up, and embrace all people. We choose to follow
you, as did those who have gone before us, and we follow you for the sake of
those who wait to learn from us the ways of discipleship. It is in Your name we
pray. Amen
*The Commissioning, Benediction and Response: “Alleluia”
#106
Postlude: Tina Andersen
* Indicates congregation standing; if this creates a hardship, please remain
seated.
† We extend a warm welcome to our guests and hope to see you again.
† Nursery care is available for infants through age 3. Please see an usher.
† All are invited to join us for coffee in the Fellowship Hall following the
service.
Our special guest today is Reverend Daniel Sullivan, MS, MDiv,
Rush-Copley chaplain and director of Spiritual Care. Following the ser-
vice, Rev. Sullivan will share important information about advance di-
rectives: tools available to assist in communicating wishes for the fu-
ture, should you become unable to do so. Please welcome Rev. Sullivan.
The Scripture Lesson Matthew 25:1-13
Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten bridesmaids took
their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were
foolish, and five were wise. When the foolish took their lamps, they
took no oil with them; but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.
As the bridegroom was delayed, all of them became drowsy and slept.
But at midnight there was a shout, “Look! Here is the bridegroom!
Come out to meet him.” Then all those bridesmaids got up and
trimmed their lamps. The foolish said to the wise, “Give us some of
your oil, for our lamps are going out.” But the wise replied, “No!
There will not be enough for you and for us; you had better go to the
dealers and buy some for yourselves.” And while they went to buy it,
the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went with him into
the wedding banquet; and the door was shut. Later the other brides-
maids came also, saying, “Lord, Lord, open to us.” But he replied,
“Truly I tell you, O do not know you.” Keep awake therefore, for you
know neither the day nor the hour.
*The Gloria Patri:
Glory be to the Savior, and to our God, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was
in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, love without end. Amen.
*Passing the Peace:
With a “Holy Hug” or a “Holy Handshake,” we greet those around us as
a sharing of God’s love with the words,
“Welcome, the Peace of Christ be with you.”
A Time with Children—Deanna Bazan
Sharing Joys and Concerns
The Pastoral Prayer & The Lord’s Prayer— Doug Clevenger
Responding to God’s Gifts and Grace
The Call for the Offering
The Offertory:
*The Presentation - The Doxology:
Praise God from whom all blessings flow; Praise God, all creatures here
below; Praise God for all that love has done; Creator, Christ and Spirit One.
Amen.
*Prayer of Dedication of Gifts and Self:
Receive, O God, these gifts which we choose to return to you through this
church. May this congregation discern wisely where and how to use these
gifts in your service. And remind us always how you have chosen to en-
trust us as stewards with creation’s gift, love’s grace, and discipleship’s call.
May our wills tend faithfully to your purposes for us and for all your chil-
dren. In Jesus Christ. Amen.
We Listen for God’s Word
Scripture Background
Scripture Lessons: Matthew 25:1-13
Message: When the Lord comes, Will You be Ready?
Rev. Dan Sullivan, Chaplain
Preparing for a Week of Serving
*The Closing Hymn: “Wonderful Words of Life” #323
Carrying the Light into the World ~
*Announcements