Trinity United Methodist Church, Orrville, Ohio

Announcements

October 25, 2009:

Fall Sunday School - Our 2009-2010 Sunday School Classes are offered Sundays at 10:30 AM. Click here to see what is available!

Christmas Baskets - Trinity has been asked to contribute 200 bags or boxes of stuffing mix (any variety) for the Salvation Army Christmas Baskets that will be filled for those in need this year. Please place your stuffing in the boxes provided in the Sanctuary Lobby and by the north door entrance by Sunday, December 13th.

Empty Bowls - Important Reminder: The "EMPTY BOWLS" Meal is this coming Saturday, Nov. 7. For those of you who purchased pre-sale tickets, we will begin serving in the TUMC Fellowship Hall at 11 AM. The 250 handmade pottery bowls will be distributed on a "first come first served basis". If you did not purchase pre-sale tickets and would still like to support the Orrville Salvation Army and Friendship Meals, we will be serving homemade soup and bread beginning at 12:30 p.m. However, those without pre-sale tickets may not get a pottery bowl.

Issue 3 - The United Methodist Church and the Ohio Council of Churches are encouraging voters from faith communities to vote against gambling in Ohio. Information sheets are in the lobby for your review.

Church Conference - All are invited to attend the Trinity United Methodist Church and Compass Group #7 Church Conference on Tuesday, November 3, at 7:00 PM at Seville U.M. Church. Compass Group #7 also includes Shreve, Seville, Granger, Doylestown, Green Valley and York. This year the conference will primarily be a worship celebration of transformation.

Mission Opportunity - We need five people to help serve and clean up at Friendship Meals for the Thanksgiving Meal being served at the United Church of Christ, 314 North Main Street, Orrville on Thursday, November 19th from 5:00 to 7:00 PM. Sign up at the Welcome Center in the Narthex.

Mark your calendar! On November 15, Thom & Chris Denman from Red Bird Mission will be with us and there will be only one worship service that day at 9:30 a.m. Details to follow.

Orrville Community Chorus - is looking for singers to be a part of their 66th annual performance of the Messiah. Rehearsals begin at Kidron Mennonite Church on Nov. 1 (on Kidron Rd. across from Central Christian HS) at 2:00 and end at 3:30 PM, so arrive early to get situated. Scores are available for purchase at a reasonable cost at rehearsals. Check of the Chorus' website: www.orrvillecommunitychorus.org or the Trinity Trumpet for more details.

Trinity United Methodist Church

Vision Statement: "Making Disciples Making Differences"

November 1, 2009

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PRELUDE "Pie Jesu" from Requiem Gabriel Faure

Sue Hillebrecht, Organist

BRINGING THE LIGHT Acolyte

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

CONGREGATIONAL INTROIT "His Name Is Wonderful" No. 174

CALL TO WORSHIP

Listen! Someone stands at the door and knocks! Someone calls and asks to come in.

Like the beat of our hearts, we recognize that knocking, we know that voice, that call.

If we hear that voice, and open the door, the One who calls will come in!

Open the gates! Fling wide every door! Come, Lord Jesus, with your love and light!

Listen, Jesus has promised to share a meal with us, to share a meal as friends.

To eat with Jesus is to be changed, to be transformed from enemies into friends.

Lord Jesus, come into this moment, into our hearts and lives. Stay with us; eat with us; make our hearts an open door to you and to all you are calling to yourself this day.

HYMN "Rejoice, the Lord Is King" No. 715

CHILDREN'S TIME "Running Shoes" Rev. Dave

OFFERING

Offertory "Adagio" Handel/Bliss

Doxology No. 95

Prayer of Consecration: Lord, we give, not to earn your blessing, but

because You have freely blessed us in abundance. May what we give be a blessing to others. Amen.

PASTORAL PRAYER

NEW TESTAMENT LESSON Hebrews 12:1-2 Page 211- Pew Bible.

SERMON "Setting the Pace of Life" Rev. Dave Kowaleski

THE GREAT THANKSGIVING

Renew our communion with all your saints, especially those whom we remember in our hearts and name before you:

Jimmie Bertsch

Margaret Davis

Donald Demlow

Betty Morton

Lydia Miyashita

Robert Reynolds

Dick Zarle

HYMN (8:00) "For All the Saints" No. 711

ANTHEM (9:30) "For All the Saints" Vaughn Williams

Sarah Kovach, Director of Choirs

THE LORD'S PRAYER

SHARING THE BREAD AND CUP

HYMN "Here, O My Lord, I See Thee" No. 623

BENEDICTION

On our hearts and on our houses, the blessing of God.

In our coming and in our going, the peace of God.

In our lives and in our seeking, the love of God.

At our end and new beginning, the arms of God to welcome us

and bring us home. Amen.

POSTLUDE "Blessed State of Faithful Souls" Bach

SERVING IN WORSHIP TODAY

Greeters: Dick & Marguerite Wagner, Sam & Shirley Sheller

Hosts: Don & Joyce Smart

Acolyte: Kyle Corfman, Ephraim Miller

Liturgists: 8:00 - Carolyn Kinney, 9:30 - Pat Berg

Ushers: Dean Reusser, Brian Orr, Dennis Adcock, Jeff Brediger

Reading the Roll: 8:00 - Carolyn Kinney, 9:30 - Lorin Miller

Lighting the Candles: 8:00 - Donna Smith, 9:30 - Becky Shilling

Tolling the Bell: 8:00 - Sharon Kowaleski, 9:30 - Mark Nussbaum

Altar flowers are given by Justin & Emily Vodika in honor of Dane's 2nd birthday.