Weekly Bulletin March 5, 2023

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF TOULON                     March 5, 2023          Second Sunday in Lent     (*indicates to stand if able)

PRELUDE – Congregational Keyboards

CALL TO WORSHIP

*HYMN – “Jesus Calls Us o’er the Tumult,” No. 314

ANNOUNCEMENTS, JOYS AND CONCERNS

WORSHIPING THROUGH PRAYER

Prayers for the People

The Lord’s Prayer    

*GLORIA PATRI     No. 558

*THE PEACE

SPECIAL MUSIC

YOUNG PEOPLE’S SERMON

WORSHIPPING THROUGH GIVING

Offering

*DOXOLOGY     No. 563

*0FFERING PRAYER

*HYMN OF PREPARATION – “Let Your Heart be Broken,” No. 539

SCRIPTURE READING – Matthew 9: 35-38    

SERMON – “The Power & Purity of the Gospel,”

                        Rev. John McIntosh

INVITATION TO COMMUNION

Hymn – “Break Thou the Bread of Life,” No. 250

Communion Prayer

Communion

*CLOSING HYMN – “I Have Decided to Follow Jesus,” No. 322  

 *BENEDICTION

 POSTLUDE

                             UPCOMING EVENTS

 Today – Congo Café after worship, including a light lunch

 Today, 2:00 PM - Combined Choir practice at our church

 Today , 5:00 PM - Lenten Service at Toulon United Methodist Church, soup supper to follow, the speaker will be Michelle West

 Wednesday, 6:30 PM – Choir Practice

 March 12, 5:30 PM - Lenten Service at our church (choir practice at 5:00), soup supper will follow, Rev. Rebecca Klemm will be the speaker, Combined Choir sings

 March 13 - 9 AM Deacons

 March 14 – 7 PM Trustees

 March 19 – Congo Café will be a taco bar served by the Mission Board

 March 19, 5 PM, Lenten Service at Elmira Presbyterian, soup supper will follow, Art or Annabelle Blegen will be the speaker

 Prayer Requests:

Please pass along your prayer requests to a member of the Deacons; Pam Sprout, Mary Hawk, or Janet Wilkinson

·        Ed and Marie Smith

·         Dave & Lynne Roark

·         Jane Heaton

·         Bob & Judy Beamer

·        The Family of Rodney Williams

Focused Mission for March

Stark County Food Pantry – paper towels

Altar Flowers

The flowers on the altar were presented by Bill Hamilton in memory of his parents, Dan & Vicki Hamilton.

March 26, 5 PM, Lenten Service at Wyoming Methodist, soup supper will follow, the speaker will be Dan Wright

April 2, 5 PM,  Lenten Service at Wyoming First Congregational UCC, the speaker will be Fr. John Cyr

April 6, 7:00 PM, Maundy Thursday Service at Wyoming Methodist

April 7, 7:00 PM, Good Friday Tenebrae Service at St. Timothy Lutheran

April 9, 7:00 AM, Easter Sunrise Service at Paramount Theater

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