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Our Purpose
To grow in our relationship with God, ourselves and others.
To carry out the ministry of Jesus Christ.
Our Mission
Welcome to Worship at
St. Matthew’s United Methodist Church
March 1, 2015 10:00am
Bring spiritual wanderers and seekers into relationship with Jesus Christ.
Grow in discipleship through small group communities.
Serve through our calling and giftedness.
Easter Services
April 2nd—7:00pm
Maundy Thursday Service
April 3rd—11:00am to 1:00pm
Good Friday Communion at the Labyrinth
April 5th
SONrise Easter Service 6:30am
Above the Waterfall
Easter Services with Choirs
8:30am and 10:00am
A Special Welcome to our Guests and Visitors!
St. Matthew’s United Methodist Church
1360 S. Wendy Dr., Newbury Park, CA 91320
(805) 498-6910
[email protected]
Pastor Stan Ferguson: [email protected]
www.StMatthewsNP.com
Office Hours: 9 am to 3 pm, Monday-Thursday
We hope that you feel at home here, and that you will linger with us after
worship for conversation and coffee service on the patio. Signing the
attendance folder during the service helps us to keep in touch and let you
know of opportunities to serve God and strengthen your faith through
fellowship. May God’s peace always be with you.
Your Greeter this morning is Nancy Liedblad
Order of Worship
Activities In Our Church Family
March 1, 2015
2nd Sunday of Lent
10:00 a.m. Worship
PREPARATION FOR THE WORD
Kevin Su Fukagawa
BRINGING IN THE LIGHT OF CHRIST
Maile Kuo & Lark Detweiler, Acolytes
INTROIT “Lift High the Cross”
Hymnal #159(v1)
Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim
till all the world adore his sacred name
+OPENING PRAYER (The Common Book of Prayers, Thomas Cramer)
Grant that we may both follow the example of His patience, and
also be made partakers of His resurrection. Amen.
+OPENING HYMN “God of Love and God of Power”
Hymnal #578
WORD FROM THE YOUTH GROUP
Ryan Blanck
WORD FOR THE CHILDREN
Barbara Karplus
CHILDREN LEAVE FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL Focus Today:
Genesis 9:8-17, Psalm 25:1-10 (UMH 756), 1 Peter 3:18-22, Mark 1:9-15
PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD
THE LESSON Mark 5:21-43
Nancy Liedblad, Liturgist
Jesus Raises a Dead Girl and Heals a Sick Woman
21 When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the
+ Stand if you are able
WELCOME
Nancy Liedblad, Liturgist
+CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader:
The Lord be with you
People:
And also with you
Leader:
Last week, resurrection changes everything
People:
This week, resurrection changes everything
Bold invites participation
PRELUDE
Worship for Sunday, March 8—3rd Sunday in Lent
8:30 & 10:00am Worship Services
9:00am Angel Dancers & Dangerous Boys
9:45am Nursery Care
10:00am Sunday School
11:30am Youth Group
Mar 2—Trustees Meeting 7:15pm, Fireside Room
Mar 7—Men’s Breakfast 8am, Denny’s in Newbury Park
Mar 7—TALENT SHOW 6:30pm, Sanctuary
Mar 8—Leadership Development 11:30a, Pastor’s Study
Mar 9—Finance Committee Meeting 7pm, Fireside Room
Mar 10—Worship Committee 7pm, Fireside Room
Mar 10—Admin Council Meeting 8pm, Fireside Room
Mar 14—Women’s Breakfast 8am, Denny’s in Newbury Park
Mar 14– ALL CHURCH WORK DAY 9am-noon
Mar 14—Ides of March Dinner (Jacobson’s Home)
Mar 20-22—Sierra Service Project (SSP) Youth Mission group
March 22—Laity Sunday Service
SPRING CLEANING
Saturday March 14th
9:00am—Noon
Come play with the flowers, catch those
cobwebs or pick another way to help
spruce up our church as we prepare for
Easter Guests
A To Do List is posted in the Entry
Narthex—there are plenty of projects to
choose from!
Please Welcome Aubree Gass
Our NEW Nursery Attendant
Night of a Thousand Stars
St. Matthew’s Talent Show
Saturday, March 7, 6:30pm
LAST CHANCE FOR ACTS TO SIGN UP contact Mike Summers
(499-4488). If you chicken out, please save the date and come see
a lot of very talented people (and a few who are just silly!)
Tickets are on sale now—see Mike before and after church on
Sunday. Tickets will be available at the door as well.
Got Fellowship?
Join one of our groups at Denny’s in Newbury Park
1st Saturday of the month the men meet at 8:00am
2nd Saturday on the month the women meet at 8:30am
REMEMBER TO BUY YOUR GIFTCARDS ON SUNDAY
The Ides of March is Upon us…
Are you coming to the party?
Rob and Sili Jacobson are opening their home
(and wine!) for an Irish beef stew dinner. See
Barbara Crowdis to sign up to attend and
suggested food or drink items to bring.
March 14th 5:30pm
A light jacket is suggested for outside seating
lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. 22 Then
one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus,
he fell at his feet. 23 He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is
dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed
and live.” 24 So Jesus went with him.
A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 25 And a woman was
there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had,
yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27 When she heard about
Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak,
28 because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.”
29 Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was
freed from her suffering.
30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned
around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”
31 “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and
yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”
32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33 Then the
woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and,
trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, “Daughter,
your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”
35 While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of
Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” they said. “Why
bother the teacher anymore?”
36 Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him,
“Don’t be afraid; just believe.”
37 He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the
brother of James. 38 When they came to the home of the synagogue leader,
Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly. 39 He went
in and said to them, “Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not
dead but asleep.” 40 But they laughed at him.
After he put them all out, he took the child’s father and mother and the
disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was. 41 He took
her by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum!” (which means “Little girl,
I say to you, get up!”). 42 Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk
around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished.
43 He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and told them
to give her something to eat.
CHOIR ANTHEM “Just One Touch”
by Carolyn Hamlin
SERMON
“Just One Touch”
Directed by Ryan Board
Pastor Stan Ferguson
RESPONSE TO THE WORD
MOVING INTO A SPIRIT OF PRAYER
“He Touched Me” #367(v1)
PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE
PRAYERS FOR THE DISTRICT
Dan Overton, Worship Leader
Woodland Hills First UMC &
Woodland Hills Korean
THE LORD’S PRAYER
MOVING BEYOND A SPIRIT OF PRAYER
“He Touched Me” #367(v2-3)
OFFERTORY
Bill Thompson and Kent Detweiler, Ushers
+DOXOLOGY
Hymnal #95
+BLESSINGS OF OUR TITHES & OFFERINGS
Dan Overton
+HOLY COMMUNION
Hymnal #7
+CLOSING HYMN “Up From the Grave He Arose” Hymnal #322
+BENEDICTION
Rev. Dr. Colleen Windham-Hughes
+CLOSING CIRCLE Please stand and join us as you are able
+THE LIFE AND MINISTRY OF THE CHURCH
+CELEBRATION OF BIRTHDAYS:
3-1 Susie Carter 3-1 Rocky Young
Dan Overton
3-2 Beverly Atkins
+UNISON BENEDICTION “Go Now in Peace”
POSTLUDE
Kevin Su Fukagawa
COFFEE FELLOWSHIP with Joanne Stone
Thank you to Tim LeRoy & Janice Kakazu
for providing flowers for the Altar today
and to those serving in our worship service.
If you would like prayers lifted up in worship and/or
included in the list below, please add them to the
Prayer Request Book prior to the worship service.
To add a request to the Prayer Chain, please contact
Lynne Hartley at (805) 341-5172 or [email protected]
New Prayer Requests:
Nathan Inouye’s Father recovery
from double bypass surgery (Nathan)
(Kathy Holzer)
Julie Salinas (Otto Sanders)
Logan Durban newborn (Kathy
Martin)
Continue to pray for:
Jacqueline Akagi 1yr old with liver
Jane Zimmerman blood pressure
transplant (Heather Knoedler)
control (Kathleen Harrell)
John Terry (Kelly Dillon)
Jim Reilly recovering from a lung
Heather recovery (Marty & Joanne
transplant (The McEacherns)
Oemig’s niece)
Round Fire Containment and UMC Larry liver disease (Christy Whisman)
members whose homes have burned Lena Ho with stage 4 cancer
Mike Madden in hospice care (Otto (Kuo family)
Sanders)
Karen Connelly with kidney failure
Sylvia Medrano kidney cancer
(Jan Gauwain)
diagnosis and treatment (Dana DeCuir) Holly Grago (Casey Goldberg)
Carys 11 year old with rare brain
Skogi Baker (Christina McEachern)
condition (Kathy Martin)
Marion and Jerry Vausbinder
Christine Richardson for seizure
(Kathy Martin)
control (Joanne Stone’s daughter)
Marcia Krafft (Pam Suggs)
Steve Smith and family patience for Fred Raum (Bill Hartley)
recovery (Gary & Delia Kellogg)
Leslie Hartley (The Hartley family)
Brandon 12yr old with leukemia
Meagan Smith (Tanya Blanck)
Pray for those in cancer treatment:
Janice McMahon
Richard McGraw
(Dan O & Casey G)
Billie Gayl Gray (Cheryl Quall)
Martha Ronat (Casey & Dan)
Donnie Richardson (Joyce Wheatly)
Nicole Pratt (Jan Shear)
Jane Eddy (Scott & Bonnie Culler)
Linda de Camp (Cheryl Qualls)
David Exstrom (Kathy Martin)
Julie Berry (Randi Berry)
Marilyn Peterson (Patti Adams)
Maria Blackwood (Denise Curtis)
Patricia Williams (Sheryl Jacobs)
Cheryl (Christy Whisman)
Thomas Bittner - (Tom McClellan)
Jean Arndt (Ramona Hallit)
Alex (Detweiler Family)
St. Matthew's Counseling Center
Provides services at no cost to members and associates.
Call 805-480-1167 for an appointment