“Welcome”
S UNDAY W ORSHIP C ELEBRATION
OCTOBER 26, 2014 • 6:00 PM
REFORMATION SUNDAY
You’re welcome in this house
Rest inside this house
We all are flawed, no judgments made.
That’s the beauty of this place
~ GATHERING ~
PRELUDE
Improv on “Welcome”
(Tituss Burgess)
ANNOUNCEMENTS/INVITATION TO ART & SOUL ++
“Welcome”
MUSIC
Jacqui Lewis
(Tituss Burgess)
“Love, Love, Love”
(Herb Brokering)
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE/LORD’S PRAYER
Jim Kast7Keat
Ever7loving and holy God, hallowed be your name.
Your reign come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins,
as we forgive those who sin against us,
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,
for yours is the reign, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
“Love, Love, Love”
Love, love, love; That’s what it’s all about.
’Cause God loves us, we love each other,
mother, father, sister, brother.
Everybody sing and shout ’cause that’s what it’s all about.
It’s about love, love, love; it’s about love, love, love
~ REFLECTING ~
“Others”
Oh, it’s safe here
Minds can renew here
Come in and you’ll find out.
Matthew 22.34–40
HOMILY
“The Greatest Love of All”
Natalie Perkins
Jacqui Lewis
~ RESPONDING ~
INVITATION TO JOIN THE MOVEMENT
OFFERTORY “Love Lifted Me”
“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.
(Traditional)
(Aaron Niequist)
Jacqui Lewis
ENCORE!! after
fter77worship food and conversation
Join us for ENCORE
and an opportunity to join our movement.
*Indicates please stand if you are able
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29 – NO PROGRAMMING
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30
• CREATIVE WRITING THURSDAYS — 6:30–8:00 PM • Conference Room — A supportive,
creative, and fun place to work on an idea you’ve always wanted to write. — Arts
• UPPER ROOM PRAYER GROUP — 6:30–8:00 PM • Parlor — This monthly opportunity to
pray in community uses The Upper Room prayer devotional as its guide. Middle member
Judith Brown7Leigh leads this group to deeper and higher places. — Being Group
• MIDDLE CHURCH JERRIESE JOHNSON GOSPEL CHOIR REHEARSAL — 7:00–9:00 PM •
Community Room — Weekly rehearsal. All are welcome to join! — Arts
• CARE CORNER WITH RUCHI AMIN — 9:30 AM–4:00 PM • Room 210 — Support by
appointment. Contact Ruchi: 212747770666 ext 304 or [email protected]. — Get Help
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 – NO PROGRAMMING
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
• BUTTERFLY MEAL PREPARATION — 9:00 AM & 10:00 AM • Social Hall — Prepare bag lunches
for distribution to the hungry in local parks. — Give Help
• MIDDLE PROJECT FREEDOM SCHOOL PLANNING MEETING — 9:30–11:00 AM • Parlor —
For information, contact Jim at [email protected]. — Youth Education
• WEE CARE (INFANT–AGE 4) — 10:00 AM–2:30 PM • Wee Care Room — Childcare.
• MORNING WORSHIP — 11:15 AM • Sanctuary — “If Jesus Preached a Sermon” Jim Ka
Kast7
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Keat,
Keat, preache
preacher • Middle Church Choir • Communion • Family Worship. — Worship
• THE ARK — on hiatus – All of God’s children, the big and the small, enjoy the worship
celebration in the sanctuary. — Children and Youth Education
• JOIN THE MIDDLE MOVEMENT! — 1:00 PM • Social Hall — Join our village of dreamers and
stand with us for racial, LGBT, and economic justice. — Community
Jim Kast7Keat, guitar
BENEDICTION*
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28 – NO PROGRAMMING
(Hezekiah Walker)
Jacqui Lewis
“Love Can Change the World”
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27 – NO PROGRAMMING
• IN GOD’S HOUSEHOLD: PART 1 — 12:30–1:00 PM • Sanctuary — What does it mean to live
in God’s household? A congregational conversation for Vision 2020. — Adult Education
“Love Can Change the World”
CHORUS
MUSIC
Check middlechurch.org for full details of all events.
Jim Kast7Keat
DOXOLOGY* “Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow”
DEDICATION PRAYER*
M IDDLE C HURCH
• CARE CORNER WITH RUCHI AMIN — 9:30 AM–4:00 PM • Room 210 — Support by
appointment. Contact Ruchi: 212747770666 ext 304 or [email protected]. — Get Help
(I. Houghton/M. Houghton)
Cassondra Kellam, solo
SCRIPTURE
AT
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
PASSING OF THE PEACE++
MUSIC
No one is turned away
This rule we cannot break
And just in case you’re wondering –
We’re more alike than it may seem
T HIS W EEK
++ You may find a seat or an Usher will assist you.
PARTICIPATING IN THE CELEBRATION
Singers • Cassondra Kellam and the Middle Community Chorus
Musicians
Musicians • Casual7T, drums; BAASSIK, bass guitar; Sean Willis, Hammond organ; Dionne
McClain7Freeney–Director of Community Music, piano.
WORSHIP VIDEOS AND PODCASTS – Worship music and sermon videos are available on
the Middle Collegiate Church channel. Click the YouTube icon at middlechurch.org.
Subscribe to Middle Collegiate Church sermon podcasts on iTunes: http://ow.ly/i6fHu.
Love, love can change the world.
Oh, do we still believe that love, love can change the world.
God is love, our God is love and love can change the world.
• BUTTERFLY MEAL DISTRIBUTION — 12:30 PM • meet at Church House — Help to distribute
bag lunches for the hungry in local parks. — Give Help
• CHAT & CHEW — 1:00 PM • Social Hall — Break bread and share conversation with your
Middle Church family. — Community
• IN GOD’S HOUSEHOLD: PART 2 — 1:30–2:30 PM • Sanctuary — What does it mean to live
in God’s household? Small group chats to envision Middle in 2020. — Adult Education
• MIDDLE YOUNG ADULTS (AGES 20–40) — depart 2:30 PM • meet in the narthex — Travel to
Harlem and watch the New York City Marathon together near Gabby Deveaux’s apartment.
If you’d like to go, contact Jim Kast7Keat at [email protected].— Being Group
• VILLAGE CHORUS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH — 1:15–2:30 PM • Community Room —
Musical and performance workshop for ages 6–14. — Youth Education
• ART & SOUL REHEARSAL — 4:30–5:30 PM • Sanctuary — For more information or to RSVP,
contact Dionne McClain7Freeney at [email protected]. — Art
• THE OPENING ACT — 4:30–5:30 PM • Conference Room — Gather every week before Art &
Soul to explore themes of faith, life, spirituality, and more. — Adult Education
• ART & SOUL WORSHIP — 6:00 PM • Sanctuary — “How to Be Hot, Holy, and Humble”
Humble”
Taryn Strauss, preache
preacher • Middle Community Chorus • Communion. — Worship
• ENCORE! — 7:00–7:30 PM • Social Hall — Food, conversation, and a time to join our village
of dreamers and stand with us for racial, LGBT, and economic justice. — Community
OCTOBER = DISABILITIES AWARENESS
October is Disabilities Awareness Month. Reach out to your neighbors and friends and help
create a space for conversation around the challenges of differently7abled bodies and
minds. Ruchi Amin is available to discuss cares and concerns at 212747770666 x304 or
[email protected].
C ONNECT
What is art & soul?
Pablo Picasso once said,
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Art & Soul at Middle Church is —
A cool drink of art for your soul, and a chance to bathe in Love.
Worship at night, outside and in between the lines.
Fantastic music that makes you get off your feet or weep.
Sermons that are bold, meaningful, and make you think.
A safe space to be unsure of Spirit, but to lean into it anyway.
A powerful pause from the busy, and a way to jumpstart your heart.
Art & Soul is The Word Made Art.
Come again next week, and bring a friend.
WITH
US!
Join
ART & SOUL ON FACEBOOK
FACEBOOK –
facebook.com/groups/MiddleChurchArtAndSoul/
ART & SOUL ON TWITTER
TWITTER AND INSTAGRAM –
Find us at @MiddleChurch. Tag us with #MiddleChurch.
MIDDLE COMMUNITY CHORUS
CHORUS – Rehearse with us on Sundays at 4:30–5:30 PM
in the sanctuary and then sing with us at Art & Soul that same evening at 6:00–
7:00 PM. For more information or to RSVP, contact Dionne McClain7Freeney at
[email protected].
Learn
THIS WEEK: THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL
THE OPENING ACT — Join us on Sundays at 4:30–5:30 PM for a new education
group, where we will explore creative and inspiring ideas about spirituality,
justice, theology, and more. For more information, contact Jim Kast7Keat at
[email protected].
Give
OCTOBER CLOTHING DRIVE
DRIVE — Middle Church is excited to participate in a
clothing drive with our partners at Project Hospitality who serve families in
need on Staten Island. They are seeking NEW unisex sweatpants and
sweatshirts for adults and children. Please also bring NEW packages of socks,
gloves, and hats appropriate for any adult or child. We will collect clothing in
the sanctuary through the end of October.
LAST WEEK: WHERE GOD WAS
• Where do you see God moving on the world around you. Write three places or situations
from your life. Be intentional about choosing to show up in each one.
1. ______________________________________________________________________________
2._______________________________________________________________________________
Pray
Please pray with us this week for these people and concerns:
Vincent Muraprdi, Middle’s children; Middle’s consistory; All who are suffering
and struggling from poverty, violence, and depression; All affected by
gun/police violence; All affected by Ebola; Bermuda, Hawaii; the Middle East;
Ukraine; Russia; Australia; Hong Kong; China; the Nigerian Girls77Bring back
our girls; For jobs and abundance for family and friends; Peace for all.
3._______________________________________________________________________________
• Read Genesis 28. What does this text have to say about "where God was"?
• Spend time with a child. What can they can teach you about God? How can you remind
them that their face reflects the image of God?
• Contact Jim at [email protected] to find out how you can be a part of the
Middle Project Freedom School.
WELCOME TO MIDDLE CHURCH. We are glad you are here today. If you are visiting for the
first time, we invite you to return often and make Middle Church a home for you, your family,
and friends. If you want to join our movement, see a clergy after worship. Complete the pew
card or sign the guest book in the narthex to receive our paper newsletter or weekly eblast.
For more information, visit middlechurch.org. Please silence your cell phone and leave food
or drink outside. Thank you for your cooperation.
By entering the Sanctuary, you grant Middle Collegiate Church unrestricted right to use and
publish, transmit, or telecast photographs or likenesses that might be taken of you this day
for use in communications related to the church. You agree that all such material will be the
sole property of Middle Collegiate Church. If you are uncomfortable in the Sanctuary, you
are welcome to worship in the Sanctuary balcony.
M I D D L E CO L L E G I A T E C H U R CH VI S I O N S T AT E M E N T
Middle Collegiate Church is a celebrating, culturally diverse, inclusive and growing
community of faith where all persons are welcomed just as they are as they come through
the door. Rooted in Christian tradition as the oldest continuous Protestant Church in North
America, Middle Church is called by God to boldly do a new thing on the earth.
As a teaching congregation that celebrates the arts, our ministries include rich and
meaningful worship, care, and education that nurture the mind, body, and spirit, social
action which embraces the global community, and participation in interfaith dialogue for
the purpose of justice and reconciliation. :: middlechurch.org
M I D D L E CO L L E G I A T E C H U R CH
Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis, Ph.D. – SENIOR MINISTER
Rev. Adriene Thorne – MINISTER • Chad Tanaka Pack, M.Div. – MINISTER
Jim Kast7Keat, M.Div. – ASSOCIATE MINISTER
Alisa Joyce, M.Div. – ASSISTANT MINISTER
SANCTUARY
OFFICE
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WEBSITE
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CONSISTORY
ELDERS
Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis, Ph.D.
Veronica Carrera
Kent Holliday
Jeff Mummert
Shanta Thake Chair
Darren Major
James Wu
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DEACONS
Malia T. Blake
Graham Bridgeman
Johanna Goepel
Erica Hunt
Jonathan Lucas
Hadaryah Morgan
Representatives to
INTERSECTIONS
Elder – Danita Branam
Deacon – Marvin Rodriguez