Children and Their Safety are Important at Chestnut Hill UMC
We rejoice that as a church we are able to offer carefully planned, age appropriate care and activities for our children and youth.
Today, children ages 4 -11 will be in Children’s Church.
Children 12 and above will stay in the sanctuary for worship.
Nursery is provided for infants and toddlers. The Nursery is located in Classroom 101 (exit through the right side door at the front of the sanctuary, pass through “the Commons,” gothrough the double doors to the Education Building and follow the hallway to the Nursery at the end of the hall on the left).
DIRECTORY OF CHESTNUT HILL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Sharma Lewis / Richmond Area Resident BishopScott Davis / Lynchburg District Superintendent
Liz Ecklund / Minister
Vernie Barrow / Minister Emeritus
Monica Campbell / Administrative Assistant
Will Sperrazza / Director of Music Ministry
Judy Martin / Bookkeeper
Elaine Clarke / Lay Leader
Jody Underwood / Lay Children’s Ministry Coordinator
Chris Glass / Lay Youth Ministry Coordinator
Chestnut Hill
United Methodist Church
Making disciples of Jesus Christ
for the transformation of the world.
You are welcome at Chestnut Hill UMC.
4660 Fort Avenue ~ Lynchburg, Virginia 24502
Church: 434-239-8423
Pastor’s Cell: 434-258-2934; Pastor’s Home: 434-319-5646
Email Pastor Liz:
~ on the web at chestnuthillumc.net
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Chestnut Hill United Methodist Church
10:30 a.m.~ May 21, 2017 ~ 6thSunday of Easter
Welcome! Join us in worshiping God!
Welcome and Ministry Announcements
Welcome in the name of Christ our Lord. Please register your attendance,
printing your name, address, phone, and email, when the pew pad is passed to you.
Thank you for silencing cell phones as we gather to worship God.
Invocation
Prelude The Acolytes enter with the light of Christ.
*Call to Worship
This is the day that the Lord has made!
Let us rejoice and be glad in it!
Sing for joy to the Lord, all the earth!
Praise God with songs and shouts of joy!
The Lord rules the people of the world with justice and fairness.
Roar you sea! Sing, you earth! Clap your hands, you rivers! You hills, sing together with joy before the Lord, because God comes to rule the earth. O singto the Lord with songs of joy! Amen!
*Singing Our Faith # 384“Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”
Morning Prayer
Ever-Loving God, help us to celebrate the joy and resurrection of our
Lord, and to express it in our lives. Grant this through our Lord Jesus
Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, on
God forever and ever. AMEN.
Choral Anthem
Prayer for Illumination Elaine Clarke
Prepare our hearts, O God, to accept your Word. Silence in us any voices but your own, so that we may hear your Word and also do it; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Gospel Lesson John 14:15-21(CEB) Elaine Clarke
Sermon Texts Galatians 5:22B-26(CEB); Romans 11:22 (CEB) Elaine Clarke
The Word of God for the people of God.
Thanks be to God.
Apostles Creed No. 881
*Singing Our Faith #393“Spirit of the Living God”
The Good News “Kindness”
The Giving of God’s Tithes and Our Gifts
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Offertory
*Doxology # 95 Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all
Creatures herebelow;praise him above, ye heavenly host; praise Father, Son,and Holy Ghost. Amen.
The Prayers of the People
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come,
Thywill be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thineis thekingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
*Singing Our Faith # 89“Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee”
*Blessing and Dismissal
*Postlude
We Scatter to Serve God & Neighbor
In Memoriam
Phyllis Herring Caldwell
May 6, 1947-May 16, 2017
Chestnut Hill United Methodist Church extends Christian love and sympathy to the family of Phyllis H. Caldwell, and especially to her son, Donnie.
**This Week’s Calendar**
Monday, 5/22 / 10:30 a.m. / Creed Lenten StudyStudy on the Apostles’ Creed by Adam Hamilton.
Tuesday, 5/23 / 10:30 a.m. / Worship Committee
Wednesday, 5/24 / 11:30 a.m. / Top of the Hill
Going out to lunch to Big Lick Tropical Grill.
7:00 p.m. / Choir
** Looking Ahead on the Calendar **
Monday, 5/29 / Memorial Day ~ Offices ClosedTuesday, 5/30 / Offices Closed
For May 28, 2017: Ascension Sunday/Memorial Day ~ the Scripture is Luke 24:44-53 & Psalm 47. This is the sixth week in our sermon series on the Fruits of the Spirit. The sermon texts are Galatians 5:22B-26 & Titus 3:4-5 and the message is “Goodness”.
Samaritan Offering
Your gift supports the Samaritan Program, a benevolent fund which provides financial assistance to residents who have outlived their monetary resources and, through no fault of their own, can no longer afford the full cost of their care. Samaritan Offering gifts will be received until Father’s Day, June 18th. It may be designated to any of our VUMH communities. Undesignated gifts will be used where the need is greatest. Please consider making a gift today to help those who are in need of your generosity. Envelopes are placed in the Commons.
In the Grocery Cart This Month
Donations for MAY: “Canned Meats, Peanut Butter, KRAFT Mac. & Cheese, & Toilet Paper”. This will assist people through Park View Community Mission.Please place donations in the grocery cart, located in the Commons.
Meals on Wheels
Monday, May 22 ~Frances Unruh
Tuesday, May 23 ~Linda Jessen & Dan Robertson
Wednesday, May 24 ~Ruth Ann Harris & Judy Robertson
Thursday, May 25 ~Kitty Burgess & Frank Stewart
Friday, May26 ~TBA
Beat the canteen on Odd Fellows RD. @10:30am.
**In Our Thoughts and Prayers**Georgia Mason, Rev. Michael Southall-Vess, FarioStanzini, Johnnie Kinzer, Rev. Liz Ecklund, Beverly Franklin, June Crickenberger, Helen Snow, John Williams, Lisa Redford, Becky Spangler, Margaret Hicks, Louise Woody, Gene & Connie Harris, Cliff & Betty Taylor, Braelyn Underwood, Arthur Snodgrass, Al & Pat Wood, Bob & Kitty Boswell, Barbara Dunlop, Hylton & Sylvia Glass, Jeanette Cyrus, Chris Balderson, Carl Hardwick, Helen Fleck, Ken Wood,Doris Finch,Judy Johns, Victor Barrow,Susan Tedder, Charles Moore, Milton Sowell, Shayh,Alice Lovelace, Edna Wyatt, William Hicks, VernelleRoupe,Jeanette Almond,AsaFredell, Violet Ellis,Tucker Cole, Rhonda Wilkerson, Joseph Johnson,Chestnut Hill UMC, Military & Families
Lynchburg General: Robbie Perrow, Lloyd Smith
Guggenheimer Skilled Care: Kyle Cyrus, Thelma Hamilton
Berkshire Health & Rehab. Center: Shirley Johnson
The Elms of Lynchburg:Frances Callaham
Runk & Pratt at Liberty Ridge: Rose Morris
Heritage Green, Daybreak: Delma Scott
Runk & Pratt of Forest: Emily Morris, Shirley Wood
Oakwood Manor (Bedford):Robert Bennett
Please join the clergy of the Lynchburg Downtown Cluster in a covenant to pray for God’s blessing on the mission and ministry of our United Methodist Churches and local mission and ministry endeavors – Peakland, Centenary, Christ Community Fellowship/Fairview, Court Street/Marsh Memorial, Fort Hill, Chestnut Hill, Forest Road, Jackson Street, Heritage, Boonsboro, MeadMemorial, Cove, Park View Community Mission (PVCM), the Society of St. Andrew, the Henry Fork Service Center, and The Garden of Hope (Washington, D.C.)
*If you know of changes that need to be made to the prayer concerns, please contact Monica in the church office.