Weekly Bulletin

Winchester Friends Church
Welcome, Friends!          November 10, 2019          9:15 AM   


To you who are seekers, to you, young and old, who have toiled all night and caught nothing, but who want to launch out into the deeps and let down your nets for a catch — God can be found.  There is a Rock for your souls, a resting place of absolute peace and joy and power and radiance and security.  There is a Divine Center into which your life can slip, a new and absolute orientation in God, a Center where you live with Him and out of which you see all of life through new and radiant vision, tinged yes with new sorrows and pangs, but also with new joys unspeakable and full of glory.
–Quaker author and professor Thomas Kelly, 1941
 
Meeting for Worship
Thank you for turning off cell phones before the service begins.
 
Prelude                                                                                                                                      Mary Clark
 
Welcome, Introductions, Announcements                                                                         Doug Baker
Call to Worship                                                                                                                                            
Prayer                                                                                                                                                           
 
Hymn # 66                                                 To God Be the Glory                                             Brian Lilly
 
Choir                                          God, Grant Me to Be Silent                              Brian Lilly, Mary Clark
God, grant me to be silent before You, that I may hear You. 
God, grant me to be at rest in You, that You may work in me. 
God, grant me to be open to You, that You may enter. 
God, grant me to be empty before You, that You may fill me. 
Let me be still, let me be still; let me be still and know You are my God.
Amen.
–Sir Paul Reeves, Mark Hill,  CCLI 649965
 
Unprogrammed Worship  —  17th century Friends taught that “Jesus has come to teach His people Himself,” and they made that truth the centerpiece of their lives by spending significant periods of time, individually and in gatherings for worship, to listen to their Inward Teacher and obey what they heard.  If God leads you to speak out of the silence, please request a microphone so all can hear your ministry.
 
Hymn # 80                                   I Love You, Lord (sing twice)                                             Brian Lilly
 
Offertory Prayer                                                                                                                      Doug Baker
Offertory                                                                                                                                    Mary Clark
 
Hymn #524                                               It Took a Miracle                                                     Brian Lilly
 
Message                                             John 12:23-33                                                        Ron Ferguson
 
Testimonies of Praise, Concerns for Prayer                                                                                           
Closing Prayer                                                                                                                                             
 
Postlude                                                                                                                          Mary Clark          
 
 
 
following a brief time of fellowship, please join us today for
 
Sunday School    10:30 AM
There is a class waiting to welcome you for study of the scriptures.
 
 

NOVEMBER USHERS: Tony Kritsch, Tim Hart
NOVEMBER GREETERS: Joyce & John Edwards, Kay Mendenhall, Bettye Monks
 

THROUGH THE BIBLE IN A YEAR READINGS
November 11 – 17
Acts 3-14;  James 1-5;  Galatians 1-3