“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 st7 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 TELEPHONE CARE LINE E7MAIL WEBSITE 112 Second Avenue (at 7th St.) 50 East 7th Street New York, NY 10003 212747770666 917743979268 [email protected] middlechurch.org CONSISTORY ELDERS Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis, Ph.D. Veronica Carrera Kent Holliday Jeff Mummert Shanta Thake Chair Darren Major James Wu FOLLOW US! facebook.com/MiddleCollegiateChurch facebook.com/Rev.Jacqui.Lewis youtube.com/MiddleNYC vimeo.com/middlechurch twitter.com/middlechurch twitter.com/RevJacquiLewis DEACONS Malia T. Blake Graham Bridgeman Johanna Goepel Erica Hunt Jonathan Lucas Hadaryah Morgan Representatives to INTERSECTIONS Elder – Danita Branam Deacon – Marvin Rodriguez
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