Sunday, Jan 19, 2025

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News and Announcements

Sunday School Training

Available TODAY for $10 each or more, Nacoochee T-shirts! The shirts will be sorted by adult sizes S to XXXL in the Old Fellowship Hall. Pick up your shirts and pay using any of these options:

a check in the offering plate; use the Nacoochee app or web GIVE tab and select T-shirts; cash in an envelope in the offering plate with your name. Wear them every where!

Prayer List

William Dockery

Evan Windham

Marcia and Frank Brazinski

Tiffany Lyons

Art Powell

Sue Church

Ed Pauls

Nancy Coile

Cecilia Maher

Nancy Kirkland

Julie Bahre Belew

Trent Allison

Holly Harkins

Tina Davis

Fred Heyl

Family of Michael Kuhner

Cathy Grubbs

EAGLE

EAGLE’s Winter Semester begins Thursday! Thanks to all who work to bring classes, organization, and friendships to Nacoochee. Please pray not only for the safety and well-being of all who participate, but that relationships will deepen and that the people of God will shine among them like stars as we hold firmly to the word of life!

This week at a glance

MONDAY

9:00 am Methodist Men’s Group

10:30 am Women’s Bible Study

6:00 pm Administrative Council Mtg.

TUESDAY

9:00 am Prayer Time

10:15 am M&Ms Meeting

5:30 pm Choir Rehearsal

WEDNESDAY

6:30 pm Youth Mtg

THURSDAY

10:00 am EAGLE

7:00 pm Praise Team Rehearsal

SUNDAY

9:00 am Praise Worship

10:00 am Sunday School

11:00 am Traditional Worship

New Sermon Series

Next Sunday, Pastor Keith will begin a new sermon series entitled Apprentice with various New Testament texts in which Jesus describes what being a disciple is. For message details, click HERE.

To accompany this series, our pastor will offer a Wednesday Bible study beginning January 29, with a devotional guide to complement it. You may access the guide through the link above or pick up a print copy at the church facility.

Order of Worship 11:00 am

GATHERING

LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES

PRELUDE

GREETING AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

OPENING HYMN No. 244

Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

HYMN No. 465

Baptized in Water

OFFERTORY ANTHEM

I Ponder P Martin/ C Courtney

SCRIPTURE

Luke 3:1-20

SERMON

I Have Been Baptized

Rev. Keith Windmiller

RENEWAL OF BAPTISM

HYMN No. 697

The Way of the Cross Leads Home

THE LIGHT OF CHRIST TAKEN INTO THE WORLD

BENEDICTION

Thank you for worshipping with us!

Renewal of Baptism

Dear friends, we are buried with Christ by Baptism into his death and raised with him to new-ness of life. I call upon you, therefore, to renew the solemn promises and vows of Holy Baptism, by which you, or your parents on your behalf, once renounced the devil and all his works, and promised to serve God faithfully in his one holy catholic and apostolic Church.

Do you, here in the presence of God and the Church, renew the solemn promises and vows made at your Baptism and commit yourself to keep them?

I do.

Do you renounce the devil and all his works, and reject the evil powers of this world?

I renounce them.

Do you repent of your sin, turn to Jesus Christ, and confess Him as your Lord and Savior?

I do.

Do you receive and profess the Christian faith as contained in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments?

I do.

Do you accept the responsibility to resist evil, injustice, and oppression by the grace and power of God?

I do.

Will you obediently keep God’s holy will and commandments, and walk in them all the days of your life by the grace and power of God?

I will.

Now, let us confess their faith as contained in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments.

Do you believe in God the Father?

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth.

Do you believe in Jesus Christ?

I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, is seated at the right hand of the Father, and will come again to judge the living and the dead.

Do you believe in the Holy Spirit?

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.