Winchester Friends Church
Welcome, Friends! March 1, 2020 9:15 AM
Welcome, Friends! March 1, 2020 9:15 AM
Worship is our response to an awareness of God. We can worship alone, but when we join with others in expectant waiting, we may discover a deeper sense of God’s presence. We seek a gathered stillness in our meetings for worship so that all may feel the power of God’s love drawing us together and leading us. In worship, we enter with reverence into communion with God and respond to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. Come to meeting for worship with heart and mind prepared. Yield yourself and all your outward concerns to God’s guidance so that you may “find the evil weakening in you and the good raised up.” ….Seek to know one another in the things which are eternal, bear the burden of each other’s failings and pray for one another. As we enter with tender sympathy into the joys and sorrows of each other’s lives, ready to give help and to receive it, our Meeting can be a channel for God’s love and forgiveness.
–Britain Yearly Meeting Advices & Queries, 1995
–Britain Yearly Meeting Advices & Queries, 1995
Meeting for Worship
Thank you for turning off cell phones before the service begins.
Thank you for turning off cell phones before the service begins.
Prelude
Welcome, Introductions, Announcements
March Birthdays & Anniversaries (offering to Whites Res. & Family Services)
March Birthdays & Anniversaries (offering to Whites Res. & Family Services)
Call to Worship
Prayer
Prayer
Hymn # 8 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
Choir The Heavens Are Telling (Psalms 19:1-4)
Hymn #455 Come All Christians, Be Committed
Offertory Prayer
Offertory
The Stewardship & Finance Committee designates each Monthly Meeting Sunday as Stewardship Sunday. Please study last month’s treasurer’s report (available from ushers) and prayerfully consider your part in the ministries to which God has called our church.
Offertory
The Stewardship & Finance Committee designates each Monthly Meeting Sunday as Stewardship Sunday. Please study last month’s treasurer’s report (available from ushers) and prayerfully consider your part in the ministries to which God has called our church.
Hymn #312
Message
Unprogrammed Worship is time allowed for Friends’ practice of non-symbolic holy communion. In focused reverence, we experience God’s perfect expression of reconciling love in Jesus’ sacrificial living, dying, and resurrection. Through the Holy Spirit, the written Word, and Christ’s Body the Church, we acknowledge Jesus’ presence with us as the Bread of Life for our souls’ nourishment, growth, and vitality. If God leads you to speak out of the silence, please request a microphone so all can hear your ministry.
Testimonies of Praise, Concerns for Prayer
Closing Prayer
Postlude
following a brief time of fellowship, please join us for
Sunday School 10:30 AM
There is a class waiting to welcome you for study of the scriptures!
There is a class waiting to welcome you for study of the scriptures!
Monthly Meeting for Business 11:20 AM
All Friends are urged to attend to hear reports on the church’s ministries and to help discern God’s leading for any resource decisions that need to be made.
All Friends are urged to attend to hear reports on the church’s ministries and to help discern God’s leading for any resource decisions that need to be made.
Informal Potluck Lunch approx. 12:30 PM
Everyone is welcome to enjoy a simple lunch together in the dining hall downstairs.
Everyone is welcome to enjoy a simple lunch together in the dining hall downstairs.
MARCH USHERS: Rob Pearson, Betty Locke, Norman Peters
MARCH GREETERS: Judy & Dave Longnecker, Piper Boyd, Shane Hall
THROUGH THE BIBLE IN A YEAR READINGS
March 2 – 8
Deuteronomy 7-28
March 2 – 8
Deuteronomy 7-28