1. family and parenting
2. children

OVERBROOK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
The First Sunday in Lent
February 22, 2015
10:30 A.M.
Notes on Today’s Service
We are glad you are worshiping with us this morning! If you
are a visitor, we invite you to fill out a card in the pew rack and
place it in the offering plate.
Childcare is available during the service. Worship is for all ages,
but should your infant or preschooler become restless during
worship, there is excellent childcare provided in our nursery.
Worship kits for children are available at the front entrance to
the Sanctuary.
Large print bulletins are available. Please speak to one of the
ushers if you have special needs. Enlarged copies of the hymns
for each Sunday are included in the large print bulletins.
Leading worship this morning: The Rev. Wallace W. Bubar,
pastor; Aimerie Scherluebbe, worship leader; The Overbrook
Choir; The Overbrook Westminster Handbell Choir; and Dennis
Elwell, Minister of Music.
Acolyte: Daniel Biedermann.
Ushers: Phil Sheau, Chad Burkins, Tyrone Frisby, Ronald Homer,
Jane Krumrine, Jim McDaniel, Carol Tulba, and Sean Whalen.
The chancel flowers are given to the glory of God by Olga E.
Hoggard in memory of Goddaughters Connie and Tanya, and her
friend Gladys L. Wilson.
Deacons delivering flowers: Danielle Long and John Baker.
Please silence all cell phones during the worship service.
Thank you.
 = All who are able, please stand.
GATHERING
PRELUDES
Pastorale: The Faithful Shepherd
George Frideric Handel
Where’er You Walk
Remembering George Frederic Handel’s Birthday, February 23, 1685
CHORAL INTROIT
God Is Love
George Thalben-Ball
 CALL TO WORSHIP
Round about us, here among us—
God of promise and love.
Good and faithful, strong in mercy—
God of promise and love.
Calling our names, bidding us welcome—
God of promise and love.
 HYMN, NO. 65
Iona Community
CWM RHONDDA
Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
God of mercy,
we begin this Lenten season in confession.
We do not live according to your ways,
but according to our own.
We condone violence, participate in systems of injustice,
and use power to our own advantage at the expense of others.
Forgive us, we pray,
when we are tempted to follow paths
other than those you set before us.
Teach us your commandments.
Help us to turn from evil in its many guises,
and turn us toward your kingdom drawing near.
In covenantal love, remember us, we pray,
and be for us, once more and always,
an ark of safety and new life.
In Christ’s name we pray. Amen.
SILENT PRAYER
Worshipers are invited to pause for a time of reflection,
silent prayer, and meditation.
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
As Noah and his family were brought safely
through the flood onto dry ground,
so in baptismal waters we are brought from death
into new life in Christ.
Jesus Christ, who is at the right hand of God,
forgives us and reconciles us
and all things in heaven and on earth.
Thanks be to God!
KYRIE
KYRIE ELEISON (ORTHODOX)
GREETING
From our God who brings us out of captivity into freedom,
out of the wilderness into the promised land,
out of death into life:
grace, mercy, and peace be with you all.
And also with you.
WORD
OLD TESTAMENT READING
The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
ANTHEM
Genesis 9:8-17
pew Bible, p. 7
Spiritual; arr. Sandra Eithun
Steal Away
The Overbrook Westminster Handbell Choir
TIME WITH CHILDREN
The Rev. LoisAnn Furgess-Oler
Following the Time with Children, children Pre-K through
Grade 1 may depart to Sunday School. Older children and
youth will remain in the service until the Exchange of Peace.
GOSPEL READING
The Gospel of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
SERMON
Mark 1:9-15
pew Bible, p. 33
The Rev. Wallace W. Bubar
“Where the Wild Things Are”
 HYMN, NO. 775
WALK WITH ME
I Want Jesus to Walk with Me
 AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
United Church of Canada
We are not alone; we live in God’s world.
We believe in God:
who has created and is creating,
who has come in Jesus, the Word made flesh,
to reconcile and make new,
who works in us and others by the Spirit.
We trust in God.
We are called to be the Church:
to celebrate God’s presence,
to live with respect in Creation,
to love and serve others,
to seek justice and resist evil,
to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen,
our judge and our hope.
In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us.
We are not alone.
Thanks be to God.
RESPONSE
CELEBRATIONS AND CONCERNS
MINUTE FOR MISSION
The Rev. Andy Greenhow
Broad Street Ministry
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
Lord, in your mercy:
Hear our prayer.
LORD’S PRAYER
debts/debtors
EXCHANGE OF PEACE
The peace of Christ be with you.
And also with you.
During the Exchange of Peace, children and youth
grades 2-12 may depart to Sunday School.
OFFERTORY
Thomas Keesecker
Oh Love, How Deep
The Overbrook Choir
Oh love, how deep, how broad, how high, beyond all thought and fantasy,
that God, the Son of God, should take our mortal form for mortals’ sake!
God sent no angel to our race, not of a low or higher place,
but wore the robe of human frame, in Christ our Lord to this world came.
For us baptized, for us he bore his holy fast and hungered sore;
for us temptation sharp he knew; for us the tempter overthrew.
For us he prayed, for us he taught; for us his daily works he wrought,
by words and signs and actions thus still seeking not himself but us.
For us by wickedness betrayed, for us, in crown of thorns arrayed,
he bore the shameful cross and death; for us he gave his dying breath.
For us he rose from death again; for us he went on high to reign;
for us he sent his Spirit here to guide, to strengthen, and to cheer.
All glory to our Lord and God, for love so deep, so high, so broad;
the Trinity whom we adore forever and forevermore. Amen
 DOXOLOGY, NO. 606
OLD HUNDREDTH
 PRAYER OF DEDICATION
SENDING
COMMISSIONING
The Rev. LoisAnn Furgess-Oler
Parish Associate
 HYMN, NO. 488
I Was There to Hear Your Borning Cry
WATERLIFE
 BENEDICTION
 CHORAL BENEDICTION
Fivefold Amen
POSTLUDE
March from ‘Judas Maccabaeus’
Traditional African-American
George Frideric Handel
Welcome to Overbrook Presbyterian Church
Sunday School schedule for children and youth:
• 10:45 AM: Students in PreK-1st grade will leave following
the Time with Children
• 11:20 AM: Students in 2nd-12th grades will leave during the
Exchange of Peace
• 11:30 AM: Students in PreK-1st grade are picked up
following the worship service in their classrooms
• 12:00 PM: Students in 2nd-12th grades will be dismissed
Please join us immediately following worship for Coffee Hour in the
Wistar Morris Room, hosted by Phil & Trudy Sheau.
Next Sunday, March 1, 2015: The Second Sunday in Lent
Scripture: Numbers 21:4-9, Mark 8:31-38
Preaching: The Rev. Wallace W. Bubar
Lay Leader: Raelyn Harman
Acolyte: Joanna Scherluebbe
Communion servers: Tyrone Frisby, Angie Goodall, Nathalie May,
Elizabeth Mendoza, Larry McGhee, Nicole Stokes-Robinson
Coffer Hour hosted by: Sabrina Johnson
Sanctuary Flowers for 2015. The book is different, but the location is
the same—on the small table in the Wistar Morris Room. Sign up
today during Coffee Hour, or call or email the church office with
your dates for 2015. Please sign up now for March!
Coffee Hour Hosts. Look for the new white binder in the usual place
in the Wistar Morris Room, and sign up now for March and
beyond. Contact Amarilis Stricker (484-343-0679) with questions.
Prayers for Sharon Parker. Offering prayers this week are (from
today through Saturday) Nathalie May, Nyani O’Leary, Lillian
Carnahan, Alyce Marsh, Andrea Knight, Kevin Trindade, and
Gretchen Boger.
About Our New Parish Associate
The Rev. LoisAnn Furgess-Oler
Upon the nomination of the
pastor and approval of the
Session, and with the concurrence
of the Presbytery of Philadelphia,
The Rev. LoisAnn Furgess-Oler has
joined Overbrook as a Parish
Associate.
LoisAnn worked as a psychiatric
nurse practitioner, serving as an
educator, administrator, and
clinician, after receiving her RN
from Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and BS and MS in Nursing
from the University of Maryland.
After sensing the call to ministry, she completed her MDiv at Wesley
Theological Seminary in 1993, and was ordained by the Presbytery of
Baltimore the following year.
LoisAnn was active in the Older Adult Ministries network of the
PCUSA from 1994 to 1999 and served as Commissioner to General
Assembly in 1999. She has served as Associate Pastor of First and
Franklin Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, chaplain of a retirement
community, and interim pastor of several congregations in Maryland.
Now honorably retired, she recently moved to Narberth to be closer
to family, and began attending Overbrook this summer.
As Parish Associate, LoisAnn will assist the pastor in the areas of
pastoral care, visitation, Christian education, and occasional
preaching and worship leadership.
Coming up at Overbrook Presbyterian Church
Sunday, Feb. 22
11:30 AM
12:00 PM
Wednesday, Feb. 25 10:00 AM
7:30 PM
Thursday, Feb. 26
10:30 AM
6:30 PM
7:30 PM
Friday, Feb. 27
6:30 PM
Sunday, March 1
9:15 AM
9:15 AM
10:30 AM
11:30 AM
Coffee Hour
Mission & Outreach Comm.
Bible Study
Overbrook Church Book Club
Heavenly Harvest Meal
Handbell Choir
Overbrook Choir @ St. Paul’s
Family Game Night
Junior Choir
Adult Forum
Worship
& Sunday School
Coffee Hour
Bible Study Group. Wednesday mornings, 10:00 to 11:30 AM, in
McMillan Chapel. For the next two weeks we will be looking at
the subject of “Family Dynamics in the Bible.” Led by The Rev.
LoisAnn Furgess-Oler.
Overbrook Church Book Club. Wednesday, February 25, 7:30 PM, at
the home of Elizabeth Cosgriff, 251 Linden Lane, in Merion. We will
be discussing Crossing to Safety by Wallace Earle Stegner. Please
RSVP directly to Elizabeth at [email protected].
Heavenly Harvest Meals at Calvin’s Kitchen. Every Thursday, 10:30
AM, at Calvin Presbyterian Church, 60th and Master Streets.
Volunteers are needed to prepare and serve a healthy and
nutritious meal for our neighbors in West Philadelphia. Contact
Elizabeth Cosgriff at [email protected] for more
information.
Family Game Night. Friday, February 27. Bring the whole the family
for half-court basketball, board games, pizza, and more, on Friday
evening from 6:30 to 9:30 PM. Contact Jason Sheau
[email protected] or 215-450-5190 for more info.
Adult Forum. Sunday mornings, 9:15 to 10:15 AM, in McMillan
Chapel. Beginning in March: Listening to Women’s Voices of the
New Testament, facilitated by the Rev. LoisAnn Furgess-Oler
Diaper, Clothing and Formula Donations Needed. The Mission &
Outreach Committee is holding a donation drive to help families
in need that work with the Special Immunology Family Care
Center at CHOP. Items needed are diapers (size newborn to size
3), formula (Similac brand only), and new or gently used baby
clothes (size newborn to 24 months). Items will be collected
during Coffee Hour on March 1, 8 & 15. Contact Meghan Burkins
at [email protected] or 610-529-2538 for more
information.
Chinese New Year Banquet. Saturday, March 7, 1:30 PM, at the
Sang Kee Asian Bistro Restaurant, 339 E. Lancaster Avenue, in
Wynnewood (Whole Foods Plaza). Usher in the Lunar New Year
4713, the Year of the Sheep, by attending a ten-course banquet
with your Overbrook family and friends, with foods symbolizing
good health, long life and good fortune.
The cost will be $35 per person (includes tip and tax). To reserve
your seat, full payment in check or cash is needed by March 1.
Sign up in the Wistar Morris Room today.
As in the past, expect to experience an afternoon of wonderful
FELLOWSHIP, LOTS of FUN, and PLENTY of FOOD! Family and
friends are also welcome to join us at this FESTIVE event. If you
have any questions, please speak with either Phil or Trudy Sheau,
or call them at 215-878-4872.
Participation in survey invited. Carl Brown, a doctoral student at
St. Joseph’s University, is conducting research on opinions on
race relations for his dissertation, and has chosen to survey
members of Overbrook Presbyterian Church. Anyone over 18
may participate. Surveys are available on the information tables
in the Fellowship Hall and the hallway outside McMillan Chapel.
The survey takes approximately 20 minutes to complete.
Completed surveys may be returned to the designated box in
the outer church office by Sunday, February 22. All responses
will be kept confidential.
CHURCH STAFF
The Rev. Wallace W. Bubar
The Rev. LoisAnn Furgess-Oler
Pastor
Parish Associate
The Rev. David K. McMillan
Cheryl Desmond
Pastor Emeritus
Office Manager
Dennis Elwell
Earlene Ford
Minister of Music
Financial Secretary
Margene Biedermann
Leonard Robbins
Junior Choir Director
Custodian
THE OVERBROOK QUARTET
Iris Fairfax
Toffer T. Mihalka
Soprano
Tenor
Lois Babbitt
Daniel Lickteig
Mezzo-Soprano
Baritone
OVERBROOK
PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
6376 City Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19151
215-877-2744
[email protected]
www.overbrookpresb.org