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NORTHEAST
N.E.
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
4000 Hard Scrabble Road
Columbia, South Carolina 29223-8548
NORTHEAST
9:00 AM Contemporary Service
10:15 AM Sunday School
11:15 AM Traditional Service
Nursery available at all services.
s Following Christ
s Growing Disciples
s Changing Lives
March 1, 2015
THIS WEEK AT NEUMC
TODAY
David W. Day
Pastor
Gerald Watford
Director of Family Ministries
Bonnie Riley
Director of Children & Youth
Ministries
Lawrence Abernathy
Director of Music
Sean Riley
Crossing Guard Leader
2:00 PM Church Council Meeting (Sanctuary)
5:00 PM UP!
5:00 PM Youth Group
(Education Building, Youth Rooms)
5:00 PM Disciple I (Education Building, Room 203)
6:45 PM Disciple II (Education Building, Room 208)
MONDAY
6:30 PM United Methodist Men (Room 102)
6:30 PM Tiger, Wolf & Webelos I Den Meeting
(Education Building)
TUESDAY
6:30 PM Bear Den Meeting (Education Building)
7:00 PM Long Range Planning Committee
Meeting (Library)
Ka-Young Lee
Pianist
WEDNESDAY
Dale A. Purvis
Office Manager
10:00 AM Spirit Sisters Prayer Group (Room 102)
7:15 AM Men’s Prayer Group (Contact John Clayton)
10:00 AM Women’s Bible Study (Library)
10:00 AM Living in the Balance of Grace & Faith
(Education Building, Room 208)
Pastor’s Cell:
803.587.1682
Office:
803.736.6386
Fax:
803.699.1334
E-mail:
[email protected]
Web:
www.neumc.com
Office Hours:
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Monday - Friday
4:00 PM Deadline for Bulletin Announcements
6:00 PM Women’s Bible Study
(Tammie Sloop’s Home)
6:30 PM Youth Small Group
(Education Building, Youth Rooms)
7:00 PM Chancel Choir Practice (Sanctuary)
THURSDAY
7:00 AM Men’s Prayer Group (Panera Bread)
9:30 AM Mothers Bible Study (Library)
7:00 PM Crossing Guard (Sanctuary)
7:00 PM Rooted in Christ Prayer Group (Library)
FRIDAY
6:00 PM First Friday Movie Night
World Day of Prayer
PRAYER REQUESTS
We are pleased to join you in praying
for specific needs.
RECORD OF OUR
FAITHFULNESS
OUR SERVICE
Presence
Please write your request(s) here and
place this card in the offering plate.
Please pray for:
9:00 AM Contemporary Service
10:15 AM Sunday School
104
11:15 AM Traditional Service
95
109
9:00 SERVICE
ACOLYTE
Jesse Shealy
CHILDREN'S CHURCH
Joy Fink
JUNIOR ASSISTANT
Marvin Rogers
GREETERS
Bob & Faye Ellrott
NURSERY
Sarah Williamson
NURSERY NEXT WEEK
Ann Payne
PRAYER ROOM
Ann Henry
PRAYER ROOM NEXT WEEK
Bob Ellrott
11:15 SERVICE
ACOLYTE
Jada Senior
CHILDREN'S CHURCH
Jennifer Wargel
JUNIOR ASSISTANT
Caroline Nutter
GREETERS
Spencer Miller & Mary McMillan
NURSERY
Emilie Lassiter
NURSERY NEXT WEEK
Laraine Owen
PRAYER ROOM
Pat Hynds
PRAYER ROOM NEXT WEEK
Wanda Stueber
COMMUNION PREPARER
Mike & Patty Munn
COMMUNION PREPARERS NEXT WEEK
Dianne Markham & Carrie Conrad
Pastor Only
Prayer Chain
Bulletin
Prayer Warriors
I would like someone to contact me
to pray over a more confidential matter.
Let us know when God meets your
needs so we may rejoice with you!
COMMUNION SERVERS
Mike & Patty Munn
Annie Day
COMMUNION SERVERS NEXT WEEK
Tom & Jane DeCristofaro
Carrie Conrad
OFFERING
OFFERING COUNTERS
Stan Luallin/Don Starner/Laraine Owen
OFFERING COUNTERS NEXT WEEK
Stephen Crowell/Gina Kimball/
Dianne Markham
ALTAR FLOWERS
Today’s flowers are given by Lorraine Rowe
in honor of Doug Rowe’s birthday.
9:00 CONTEMPORARY SERVICE
Second Sunday in Lent
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
MUSIC
(As we sing you are invited to stand or sit as you are led and able.)
OFFERING
SERMON
“Giving Up Superiority”
Pastor Day
COMMUNION
(Wine and grape juice are used for communion. Center chalice is grape juice.
Gluten free wafers are also available.)
CLOSING SONG
CLOSING PRAYER/BENEDICTION
CURRENT SERMON SERIES
“Giving Up!”
March 8: “Giving Up Enemies” Luke 19:37-44
March 15: “Giving Up Our Lives” Ezekiel 37:1-14 and Luke 9:21-25
March 22: “Giving Up Judgmentalism” Galatians 5:1-13
March 29: Palm Sunday “Giving Up Popularity” Matthew 21:1-11
April 5: Easter “Giving Up Death” John 20:1-18 and Acts 10:39-43
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The United Methodist Men (UMM) will meet tomorrow evening in room 102. Dinner
begins at 6:30 PM and dinner donation is $5. The meeting starts at 7 PM. All men are
welcome as we focus on Following Christ, Growing Disciples and Changing Lives.
First Friday Movie Night is March 6, 2015, 6-8 PM. Join us in pjs for a movie and snacks
with your friends. Drop the kids off at 6 PM and pick them up at 8 PM and enjoy your
evening. Cost is $2 per child with a $5 family cap. A few more dates to enjoy this night
out for the family. Please note the April First Friday Movie Night has been moved to the
second Friday, April 10 due to Good Friday.
Daylight saving time begins Sunday, March 8. Don’t forget to forward your clocks one
hour before going to bed Saturday night.
Sunday Morning Prayer Room Volunteers: The Prayer Ministry Team sincerely thanks
those volunteers who have given time on Sunday mornings to pray on behalf of our
church during our 9:00 and 11:15 worship services. In the next few weeks we will be
preparing a schedule for prayer room volunteers for the second quarter. If this is
something that you would like to be a part of please contact Jane Scott (803) 425-9121,
[email protected]) and let us include you.
Due to problems in delivery of the altar flowers with our current florist, we have had to change
florist. Our new florist is DeLoache Florist. As a result of this change the altar flowers are now
$47.50 per arrangement. If you have any questions about the altar flowers, please contact
the Church Office.
The United Methodist Women will meet on Monday, March 9 at 7 PM in room 102.
Please come and join us! Point of contact is Inez McLaurin at 788-6167.
(Announcements continued on insert)
A SERVICE OF WORD AND TABLE
Second Sunday in Lent
11:15 TRADITIONAL SERVICE
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
(As the Prelude begins, please prayerfully prepare for worship.)
PRELUDE (Acolyte)
Ka-Young Lee, piano
CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: The heavens are telling the glory of God;
People: And the firmament proclaims God’s handiwork.
Leader: In the heavens God has set a tent for the sun,
People: Its rising is from the end of the heavens.
Leader: Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable to you,
People: O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
*HYMN OF PRAISE, No. 340
“Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy”
*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH, No. 885
Congregation
A Modern Affirmation
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE/LORD’S PRAYER
HYMN OF PREPARATION, No. 292
“What Wondrous Love Is This” (verse 2)
Congregation
(Children in kindergarten through 2nd grade are dismissed for Children’s Worship.)
GIVING OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS
OFFERTORY
Ka-Young Lee, piano
*PRESENTATION, No. 95
“Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow”
ANTHEM
“Deep River”
Congregation
Chancel Choir
SERMON LESSON, John 4:1-15 (NIV)
The word of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God.
SERMON
“Giving Up Superiority”
Pastor Day
INVITATION TO CHRISTIAN DISCIPLESHIP
HOLY COMMUNION, No. 12
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Almighty and most merciful God, you know the thoughts of our hearts. We confess that
we have sinned against you and done evil in your sight. We have transgressed your holy
laws. We have disregarded your Word and Sacraments. Forgive us, O Lord. Give us grace
and power to put away all hurtful things, that, being delivered from the bondage of sin, we
may bring forth fruit worthy of repentance, and from henceforth may ever walk in your holy
ways; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
(WESLEYAN METHODIST CONFERENCE, ENGLAND, 20TH CENT., ALT.)
All offer prayers of confession in silence.
If we confess our sins, God who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all
unrighteousness. (1 JOHN 1:9, ALT.)
Thanks be to God.
COMMUNION MUSIC
Ka-Young Lee, piano
(Wine and grape juice are used for communion. Center chalice is grape juice.
Gluten free wafers are also available.)
*CLOSING HYMN, No 400
“Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing”
Congregation
*CHARGE TO THE PEOPLE
*BENEDICTION
*CHORAL RESPONSE
Chancel Choir
POSTLUDE
Ka-Young Lee, piano
* Please stand as you are able.
MEMORY VERSE
Welcome Guests and Members!
John 4:14 (NIV)
We are so glad that you are here and hope
you feel at home as you join us in worship.
We’d like to get to know you better.
“But whoever drinks the water I give him
will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give
him will become in him a spring of water
welling up to eternal life."
SERMON LESSON
Date:__________________________
Service
John 4:1-15 (NIV)
1 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees
had heard that he was gaining and
baptizing more disciples than John—
2 although in fact it was not Jesus who
baptized, but his disciples.
3 So he left Judea and went back once
more to Galilee.
4 Now he had to go through Samaria.
5 So he came to a town in Samaria called
Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had
given to his son Joseph.
6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired
as he was from the journey, sat down by
the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw
water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me
a drink?"
8 (His disciples had gone into the town to
buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "You
are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman.
How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews
do not associate with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the
gift of God and who it is that asks you for a
drink, you would have asked him and he
would have given you living water."
11 "Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing
to draw with and the well is deep. Where
can you get this living water?
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob,
who gave us the well and drank from it
himself, as did also his sons and his flocks
and herds?"
13 Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks
this water will be thirsty again,
14 but whoever drinks the water I give him
will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him
will become in him a spring of water welling
up to eternal life."
15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me
this water so that I won't get thirsty and
have to keep coming here to draw water."
FAMILY MINISTRY MINUTE
In Proverbs 19:11 we read, "A person’s
wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory
to overlook an offense." How many of us
subscribe to that biblical guidance? Our
families and our friendships would be much
stronger if we practiced the wisdom of
Proverbs 19:11 more often. Self-restraint,
perhaps the chief quality pointed to in this
verse delivers us to God's best for us.
─Gerald Watford
Director of Family Ministries
9:00
11:15
Member
Regular Attendee
First Time Guest
New Resident
Name(s)
Name(s) & Ages of Children
Address, City, State, Zip
Home Phone:
Email:
How Did You Learn About NEUMC?
Desire to Know More About NEUMC
Desire a Call From the Pastor
Desire to Become a Member
Additional Comments:
MINISTRY AND PRAYER NEEDS
▪ Matthew Shoup, who had a bone and CT scan on Friday to rule out a lumbar stress fracture.
▪ The family of Rev. Curtis Felkel, upon his death after a short battle with cancer.
▪ Ken Haftorson, recovering from a mini stroke.
▪ Jimmy Lackey, Ann Payne's uncle, who is now on oxygen and Hospice has been called
in. He is too sick to undergo chemo treatments from his recurrent lung cancer.
▪ Pam Weil, friend of Kay Burgess and Jim Wheeler, who has completed radiation treatment
for her cancer and has had her first chemo treatment. She left Houston and was almost
home to Montgomery, AL when she developed severe abdominal pain. She was admitted
to the hospital and underwent emergency surgery to remove part of her colon.
▪ Kathleen Blind, who is hospitalized at Palmetto Health Richland, Room 6433 with
respiratory problems.
▪ Floyd Hedlund, upon the death of his brother in Florida.
▪ Sharon Gleffe, who is undergoing tests for problems with her spleen.
▪ Gladys Henzler, aunt of Annie Day, recovering from heart valve replacement surgery.
▪ Miriam Simpson, Pastor David's mother, who is at the Rice Estates for rehab and is
scheduled for knee surgey.
▪ Our military personnel.
▪ Our missionaries: Tom & Emma Henry — Appalachian Mountain Leadership (AML),
a ministry based in Boone, NC, which facilitates Christian outdoor adventure experiences.
Matt & Jenny Williams ([email protected]) — Matt is a member of NEUMC,
who works as a missionary to university students with Cru with the Indianapolis Metro
team in Indianapolis, Indiana, which consists of two campuses, Butler and IUPUI (an
Indiana University located downtown). Steve & Stephanie Bredesen, in Nakalanda,
Uganda, as directors of Eagle’s Nest Clinic and Eaglet’s Primary School. Abbu, the
Bredesen's neighbor, that he will either allow them to drill a well on his land or sell the
land to them so that they will have a fresh water supply. Ben & Jenny Reyes: Ben, born
in Puerto Rico, and Jenny, born in Brazil, have ministered in Brazil and Paraguay since
their marriage in 1989. They have two sons, Phillipe and Mathias. The Reyes work
locally in discipleship, leading Inductive Bible Study seminars, and teaching on the
subjects of church planting, mission to Muslims, mission in the local church, and effective
short-term mission trips.
▪ Salkehatchie families: Iris Edwards, Theresa and Buddy Lines
▪ Our pastor and staff members.
PRAYER FOR OUR FAMILIES OF THE WEEK
Monday
March 2
Sandra Miller
Tuesday
March 3
Spencer Miller & Mary McMillan & son Clay
Wednesday March 4
Ryon & Kristen Miro & children Walker, C. J. & Robbie
Thursday
March 5
Joe & Cholly Morris
Friday
March 6
Larry & Nora Mullen
HOMEBOUND AND ELDERLY
We are a family. As such we encourage anyone who feels led by God to visit those who
are sick or homebound. We also encourage your visits to those who are new to this family
of believers and to those have visited.
Lee Chandler
Bruce & Frankie Dodd
Sam Blaylock
Sabra Stewart
Mildred Watson
Pat Woodle
Bonnie McBurnett
PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY
The Prayer Shawl Ministry Team create shawls and other items for you to share with those
who need encouragement. When you give a shawl away, you are sharing the love and
prayers of NEUMC. The prayer shawls are kept in the Prayer Center if one is needed.
Please remember to sign the journal. If you need assistance, please see a staff member.
The Prayer Shawl Ministry Team