Worship and Wonder for our young which is held 
during the Scripture and Sermon time in worship on the first and third Sunday of each month

Worship and Wonders Leaders and Study Schedule: 

 

• WORSHIP AND WONDER 
  IS FOR CHILDREN FROM AGE 4 TO GRADE 5.
  
  WHAT IS WORSHIP AND WONDER?
  Worship experience designed for the developmental stages of our children
  A time to hear God’s Word through stories told with figures and objects the kids can touch and even work with themselves
  A time to let God speak to them as they wonder together about how they can relate with the story they’ve just seen and heard
  An opportunity to internalize the story and to respond to God through their choice of any number of activities like clay, painting, drawing, working with the story figures & set, etc.
  A time with God and friends where we sing, and feast, and even 
  encounter God. We trust that God is already at work within and around 
  our young people so we want to give them the space to process 
  that loving presence and communication.  Worship is relational, not simply educational.
  
  WHEN WILL IT BE OFFERED?
  Worship and Wonder will now be a part of the whole worship experience of our young people.
  Children will come to worship with their parents and stay through the 
  opening singing, prayer, greeting of one another, and singing. They 
  will be invited to follow the “Light of Christ” back to the Children’s 
  Sanctuary (Worship and Wonder Room) immediately before the 
  Scripture reading in the regular sanctuary. They will return to the 
  whole church worship around the time of Offering so that they can 
  experience the rest of the rituals of the whole church family.
  
  WHO WILL BE LEADING IT?
  Two trained adults will be leading the Children Worship & Wonder each week.
  If there are lots of children on any given week, a trained high school volunteer might be asked to provide extra help.
  
  HOW CAN THE CONGREGATION BE SUPPORTIVE?
  Welcome and love all our young people.
  Keep the ministry and the children in your prayers.
  Consider if you have gifts and a passion for working with young people.
  Create a hospitable environment for the children in our worship service. Since they will be learning how to be a part of the beginning and end of the service, it may take some time for each of them to grow into the expectations and into full participation.
  Try to encourage them and model for them with your own participation.
  Be patient and graceful with kids and adults alike as we are all capable of making too much noise or doing some things differently.
  Celebrate every life (young or old) that wants to grow in faith and islearning to offer praise and their lives in their own unique ways.

Sunday, February 14, 2010
10:15 a.m. Worship Service
The message will be delivered Rev. Marilyn Howard
Sermon Title: 
Scripture:  

Weekly Lectionary Readings: Year C
 
Exodus 34:29-35 (9-13)   He gave them all the commands with which the LORD had charged him on Mount Sinai, and finished what he had to say.
Psalm 99  Thou hast established justice and equity; thou hast dealt reighteousley in Jacob.
2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2 But in any case their minds had been made insensitive, for that same veil is there to this very day when the lesson is read from the old covenant; and it is nver lifted, because only in Christ is the old covenant abrogated.
Luke 9:28-36  About eight days afer this conversation he took Peter, John , and James with him and went up into the hills to pray.

Sunday, February 21, 2010
10:15 a.m. Worship Service
First Sunday in Lent
The message will be delivered Rev. Bob Howard
Sermon Title: 
Scripture: Mark 1:9-15  

Weekly Lectionary Readings: Year C
 
Deuteronomy 26:1-11  Then we cried to the LORD the God of our fatherws for help, and he listened to us and saw our humiliation, our hardship and distress. . .
Psalm 91:1-2, (9-16)   You live in the shelter of the Most High and lodge under the shadow of the Almighty.
Romans 10:8b-13 For the faith that leads to righteousness is in the heart, and the confession that leads to salvation is upon the lips. 
Luke 4:1-13  Full of the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan, and for forty days was led by the Spirit up and down the wilderness and tempted by the devil.

Sunday, February 28, 2010
10:15 a.m. Worship Service
Second Sunday in Lent
The message will be delivered Rev. Bob Howard
Sermon Title: 
Scripture:  Luke 9:28-36

Weekly Lectionary Readings: Year C
 
Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18 Abram replied, 'LORD GOD, what canst thou give me? I have no standing among men, for the heir to my household is Eliezer of Damascus.'
Psalm 27 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom should I fear?  The LORD is the refuge of my life; of whom then should I go in dread
Philippians 3:17-4:1 . . .there are many whose way of life makes them enemies of the cross of Christ.  They are heading for destruction, appetite is their god, and they glory in their shame.
Luke 13:31-35  'O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that murders the prophets and stones the messengers sent to her!

Sunday, March 7, 2010
10:15 a.m. Worship Service
Third Sunday in Lent
The message will be delivered Rev. Bob Howard
Sermon Title: 
Scripture:   Philippians 2:1-11

Weekly Lectionary Readings: Year C
 
Isaiah 55:1-9 Come, all whoe are thirsty, come, fetch water; come, you who have no food, buy corn and eat; come and buy, not for money, not for a price.
Psalm 63:1-8  O God, thou art my God, Iseek thee early with a heart that thirsts for thee and a body wasted with longing for thee, like a dry and thirsty land that has no water.
1Corinthians 10:1-13  Do not be idolaters, like some of them; as Scripture has it, 'the people sat down to feast and rose up to revel'.
Luke 13:1-9  I tell you they were not; but unless you repent, you will all of you come to the same end. 

Sunday, March 14, 2010
10:15 a.m. Worship Service
Fourth Sunday in Lent
The message will be delivered by guest speaker:
Sermon Title: 
Scripture:  

Weekly Lectionary Readings: Year C
 
Joshua 5:9-12 The Israelites receive no more manna; and that year they ate what had grown in the land of Canaan.
Psalm 32 Happy the man whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is put away!  Happy is a man when the LORD lays no guild to his account, and in his spirit there is no deceit,
2 Corinthians 5:16-21 When anyone is united to Christ, there is anew world; the old order has gone, and a new order has already begun.
Luke15:1-3, 11b-32  'This fellow', they said, 'welcomes sinners and eats with them.'

Sunday, March 21, 2010
10:15 a.m. Worship Service
Fifth Sunday in Lent
The message will be delivered Rev. Bob Howard
Sermon Title: 
Scripture:  Hebrews 5:5-10; 7:25 

Weekly Lectionary Readings: Year C
 
Isaiah 43:16-21   Thus says the LORD, who opened a way in the sea and a path through mighty waters, who drew on chariot and horse to their destruction, a whole army, men of valour;
Psalm  126  When the LORD turned the tide of Zion's fortune, we were like men who had found new health.
Philippians 3:4b-14  I count everything sheer loss, because all is far outweighed by the gain of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I did in fact lose everything. .
John 12:1-8 Then Mary brought a pound of very costly perfume, pure oil of nard, and anoited the feet of Jesus and wiped them with her hair, till the house was filled with the fragrance.

Sunday, March 28, 2010
10:15 a.m. Worship Service
PALM SUNDAY
The message will be delivered Rev. Bob Howard
Sermon Title: 
Scripture:  Mark 11:1-11 

Weekly Lectionary Readings: Year C
 
Luke 19:28-40 'Blessings on him who comes as king in the name of the LORD! Peace in heaven, glory in highest heaven!'
Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29  It is good to give thanks to the LORD, for his love endures for ever.  Declaire it, house of Israel: his love endures for ever.

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