Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 10:15 a.m. Church Gathering with Dr. Keith Ray

5th Sunday of Easter 

Today’s service may be viewed on Facebook Live Stream at this link in the comfort of your own home or in person outside.   Bring a chair and Join us!

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Gathering Music                                          Polly Dunford

Welcome and Announcements              Gloria Bennett                                               

Call to Worship

One: We delight ourselves in the presence of Christ and his love for all creation.

All: Let us open our hearts to receive Christ’s abundant love.

One: Christ calls us to see him as the vine and for us to become the branches.

All: Let us seek to produce much fruit in God’s Garden where all are welcome.

One: Come, let us worship the Gardener, Creator of all that was, is and forever will be.

All: Amen 

Opening Hymn            “Let Us Build a House - All Are Welcome”           Hymnal #301 

1)  Let us build a house where love can dwell and all can safely live,

a place where saints and children tell how hearts learn to forgive.

Built of hopes and dreams and visions, rock of faith and vault of grace;

here the love of Christ shall end divisions:  

all are welcome; all are welcome; all are welcome in this place.

2)  Let us build a house where prophets speak, and words are strong and true,

where all God’s children dare to seek to dream God’s reign anew.

Here the cross shall stand as witness and as symbol of God’s grace;

here as one we claim the faith of Jesus:  

all are welcome; all are welcome; all are welcome in this place.

3)  Let us build a house where love is found in water, wine, and wheat;

a banquet hall on holy ground where peace and justice meet.

Here the love of God, through Jesus, is revealed in time and space;

as we share in Christ the feast that frees us:   

all are welcome; all are welcome; all are welcome in this place.

4)  Let us build a house where hands will reach beyond the wood and stone 

to heal and strengthen, serve and teach and live the Word they’ve known.

Here the outcast and the stranger bear the image of God’s face;

let us bring an end to fear and danger:   

all are welcome; all are welcome; all are welcome in this place.

5)  Let us build a house where all are named, their songs and visions heard

and loved and treasured, taught and claimed as words within the Word.

Built of tears and cries and laughter, prayers of faith and songs of grace;

let this house proclaim from floor to rafter:   

all are welcome; all are welcome; all are welcome in this place.

Scripture Lesson Acts 8:26-40

Sermon       “Evolutionary Theology”      Dr. Keith Ray

Thoughts to consider: Most of us would agree that we evolve, for better or for worse, 

as we navigate life. The same is true for our religious institutions. 

But what do we do when we realize what we have professed and taught is wrong? 

Is it possible to say that even our sacred texts can be wrong.

 Let’s consider these questions together! 

Prayers of the People

Closing Hymn and Offertory        “Help Us Accept Each Other”         Hymnal #754

1)  Help us accept each other as Christ accepted us;

teach us as sister, brother, each person to embrace.

Be present, Lord, among us and bring us to believe

we are ourselves accepted, and meant to love and live.

2)  Teach us, O Lord, your lessons, as in our daily life

we struggle to be human and search for hope and faith.

Teach us to care for people, for all, not just for some,

to love them as we find them, or as they may become.

3)  Let your acceptance change us, so that we may be moved

in living situations to do the truth in love;

to practice your acceptance until we know by heart

the table of forgiveness, and laughter’s healing art.

4)  Lord, for today’s encounters with all who are in need,

who hunger for acceptance, for justice and for bread,

we need new eyes for seeing, new hands for holding on:

renew us with your Spirit; Lord, free us; make us one!  

Benediction

Discussion

Shalom       (“May you be well and whole and in communion with all creation.”)

                          Shalom, my friends, Shalom, my friends, Shalom, Shalom.

                            Till we meet again, Till we meet again, Shalom, Shalom.

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Calendar of Service -

May 5 - Rev. Hillary Taylor, SC for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

May 12 -  TBD

May 19 -  TBD

May 26 - Service and Lunch at South Main Chapel and Mercy Center; NO service at NACCP

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News from Rev. Mike Johnston — “I have completed my radiation for prostate cancer - 5 weeks out and my PSA was 0.03.  Doctor was hoping for 0 within 5 months - radiation did its job.”   Great news to hear! 

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Joanne and Cynthia play in the Handbell Choir at CUMC. Their spring concerts will take place on May 1 and 3.  Both are free, and parking is easy.  We hope you will consider attending! The Director’s words follow:

It's that time of year, dear friends! The Celebration Ringers of Clemson United Methodist Church offer a free concert, and you have two opportunities to attend!

We will share Hymns We Love to Ring on May 1st (Wednesday) and May 3rd (Friday). In this free concert, we’ll play a collection of well-known hymns—handbell style! So whether your favorite hymn is “Be Thou My Vision” or “Trust and Obey” or maybe even something new, you’re invited to join us in the Clemson United Methodist Church Worship Center on Frontage Road in Clemson, on May 1st at 6:15 pm or May 3rd at 5:00 pm. Hope to see you there!

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You may have noticed the new glass “tip jar” on the piano at church that serendipitously came about when someone didn’t claim a flower vase. Feel free to drop in a dollar or five when you like the music during the service. Dave and Polly will donate the “tips” to a cause related to music, such as bringing music to schools.
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Vicki is looking for a missing Trader Joe’s bag that was full of beanies that the Keenagers crocheted. Please return to Vicki or be sure to let her know if you already donated the beanies to an organization!
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GAMAC has two concerts coming up: The Creation by Joseph Hayden on Saturday, May 4 at 7:30 pm at First Baptist Church and Serenade on Sunday, April 28 at 3:00 pm at the Rainey Fine Arts Center. Visit gamac.org for tickets.
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Market Theatre’s next show is “Hands on a Hardbody” that will be presented outdoors in the North Main Commons (home of Magnetic South Brewery) May 3 – 6. Admission is free.
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World Labyrinth Day is May 4. Please join us as we “Walk as One at 1” in our own labyrinth at 1 pm.

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Reminder that PFLAG meets Thursday, May 9, at NACCP at 7 pm.
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Women’s clothing is needed for women coming out of incarceration. Good, gently used items please. All sizes.
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Church Clean-up days are the 2nd Saturday of the month at 9:30 am and usually take no more than 90 minutes. The sign-up sheet is in the church. 
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The Bible Study Group (BSG) meets Mondays at 6:30 pm via Zoom. If you’d like to be added to the Zoom invite list then contact Cynthia at cynthiakwarner@mac.com. We’d love to have newcomers!

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Doug Booth encourages everyone to volunteer at PAWS – there is something for everyone, from socializing with the dogs on-site to taking a dog to lunch to hosting weekend visits. There are many dogs at the facility who crave human interaction.  Additionally, don’t forget to bring in any donations of blankets to the church. 
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Karen highlighted that the Prayer Tree has been moved into the sanctuary. If you have a prayer request to add to the tree, write in on one of the provided tags and hang it on a branch.
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Joanne reminds us all to keep up the food donations for AIM (Anderson Interfaith Ministries)!  Bring your non-perishable items to the church.  This is an on-going need that should become part of everyone’s shopping routine.

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Are you interested in becoming a member of NACCP?  Would you like to make this community your spiritual home?  Please contact Keith at keithdray@gmail.com or at 864-508-1530. 

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Remember in prayer:  Nancy and Charlie Blakely; Michael Little’s friend Becky; Shea Marsden; Linda McFall; Bonnie Marsden and son Michael; Jackie Moore; Glennie Burns; Mary Alice Mundy; Jason Harding; Madison Bishop (Whitney’s niece); Latha and Cheryl Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; People of Ukraine; People of Israel and Palestine.

NACCP is an inclusive Faith Community that values questions

and the journey to the answers.

Ministry Leader: Dr. Keith Ray
keithdray@gmail.com

Pianist and Choir Director: Polly Dunford

Mailing address: P.O. Box 4346, Anderson, SC 29622

Phone: 864-225-3575

Website:  naccpchurch.org

Church News:  naccpnews@yahoo.com

Instagram:  northandersonccp

Facebook:  NorthAndersonCommunityChurchPresbyterian

Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 10:15 a.m. Church Gathering with Dave Johnson

Earth Day

Today’s service may be viewed on Facebook Live Stream at this link in the comfort of your own home or in person outside.   Bring a chair and Join us!

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Gathering Music                                          Polly Dunford

Welcome and Announcements    Thor Raines                                                

 Call to Worship  (Read Responsively)

Scripture tells us that “creation waits with eager longing for the children of God to be revealed.”

Creation is waiting for us.

To open our eyes to the devastation in our world.

Creation is waiting for us.

To put the needs of the most vulnerable above the greed of the most powerful.

Creation is waiting for us.

To move from doing what is easy to doing what is right.

Creation is waiting for us.

To prioritize the needs of community over the convenience of self.

Creation is waiting for us.

To remove the pollution from our seas, land, air, bodies and hearts.

Creation is waiting for us.

Creation waits for us to assume our roles as its servants and protectors - to answer creation’s call for renewal.  Amen.

Opening Hymn        “The Earth Belongs to God Alone”           Hymnal #715

1)  The earth belongs to God alone; hard clay, rich soil, fine sand.

Give thanks wherever food is grown on borrowed holy land.

2)  The fertile ground through years of toil has cried for Sabbath rest —

a time of peace for worn out soil so land can be refreshed.

3)  All life belongs to God alone, in wilderness and fields.

From fallow land, or plowed and sown, God gives the good it yields.

4)  Till God endows the earth once more with Eden’s state of grace,

may we endeavor to restore all land as sacred space.  

First Reading

From Greta Thunberg, Swedish climate activist who, at age 16, addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January 2019 in a speech called “Our House is on Fire.”

Second Reading

Greta’s answer to critics was used as a chant three months later at the March Strike 4 Climate event in Morristown, N.J.          

Scripture Lesson Luke 24:13-35    The Road to Emmaus

Message    “Are We Crucifying the Earth? Can it be Resurrected?”      Dave Johnson

Theme:  Ecological practices are spiritual practices. 

Our fear and panic lead to action, and action leads to hope.

Prayers of the People

Closing Hymn and Offertory        “The Harmony of the Incredible Earth”         Handout 

by Adam Brooks Webber

2015. Adam Brooks Webber.  Music and Lyrics licensed under the 

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License.   All rights reserved.

1)  Oh, blessed is Earth, the prolific and sweet, 

providing us plenty of good things to eat.

With life on the surface and treasures below, 

what greater abundance could any bestow?

Her fisheries, forests, and fields of grain, 

her breathable breezes, her drinkable rain,

the harmony of the incredible Earth! 

The harmony of, the harmony of, the harmony of the incredible Earth!

2)  Oh, good is the heart that is grateful to Earth

for gifts of a tangible, practical worth,

but better the heart with a reverent joy 

in even the treasures it cannot employ:

the scent of the flower, the song of the lark,

the weed in the meadow, the wolf in the dark,

the harmony of the incredible Earth! 

The harmony of, the harmony of, the harmony of the incredible Earth!

3)  So clever of intellect, nimble of hand,

more able than any to alter the land,

we’re called to be careful, to save and protect,

to serve and conserve and to treat with respect,

that all generations may hear and may see

  the song of the whale, the dance of the bee,

the harmony of the incredible Earth! 

The harmony of, the harmony of, the harmony of the incredible Earth!

4)  Oh, wise is the one with the wit and the will

to nurture the Earth with benevolent skill,

but wiser the one who attends to her song,

who joins in her music and follows along,

who humbly hears the harmonious call of God,

the Creator and Singer of all

the harmony of the incredible Earth! 

The harmony of, the harmony of, the harmony of the incredible Earth!

Benediction

Discussion

Shalom       (“May you be well and whole and in communion with all creation.”)

                          Shalom, my friends, Shalom, my friends, Shalom, Shalom.

                            Till we meet again, Till we meet again, Shalom, Shalom.

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Reprinted with permission under One License #A-625711.  All rights reserved.

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Calendar of Service -

April 28 - Dr. Keith Ray

May 5 - Rev. Hillary Taylor, SC for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

May 12 -  TBD

May 19 -  TBD

May 26 - Service and Lunch at South Main Chapel and Mercy Center; NO service at NACCP

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News from Rev. Mike Johnston — “I have completed my radiation for prostate cancer - 5 weeks out and my PSA was 0.03.  Doctor was hoping for 0 within 5 months - radiation did its job.”   Great news to hear! 

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Joanne and Cynthia play in the Handbell Choir at CUMC. Their spring concerts will take place on May 1 and 3.  Both are free, and parking is easy.  We hope you will consider attending! The Director’s words follow:

It's that time of year, dear friends! The Celebration Ringers of Clemson United Methodist Church offer a free concert, and you have two opportunities to attend!

We will share Hymns We Love to Ring on May 1st (Wednesday) and May 3rd (Friday). In this free concert, we’ll play a collection of well-known hymns—handbell style! So whether your favorite hymn is “Be Thou My Vision” or “Trust and Obey” or maybe even something new, you’re invited to join us in the Clemson United Methodist Church Worship Center on Frontage Road in Clemson, on May 1st at 6:15 pm or May 3rd at 5:00 pm. Hope to see you there!

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The Bible Study Group (BSG) meets Mondays at 6:30 pm via Zoom. If you’d like to be added to the Zoom invite list then contact Cynthia at cynthiakwarner@mac.com. We’d love to have newcomers!

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Doug Booth encourages everyone to volunteer at PAWS – there is something for everyone, from socializing with the dogs on-site to taking a dog to lunch to hosting weekend visits. There are many dogs at the facility who crave human interaction.  Additionally, don’t forget to bring in any donations of blankets to the church. 
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Split Creek Farm will be having its Spring Means Babies Festival on Saturday, April 20 from 10 am until 4 pm. Don’t miss spending some quality time with the baby goats!
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Karen highlighted that the Prayer Tree has been moved into the sanctuary. If you have a prayer request to add to the tree, write in on one of the provided tags and hang it on a branch.
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Joanne reminds us all to keep up the food donations for AIM (Anderson Interfaith Ministries)!  Bring your non-perishable items to the church.  This is an on-going need that should become part of everyone’s shopping routine.

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Are you interested in becoming a member of NACCP?  Would you like to make this community your spiritual home?  Please contact Keith at keithdray@gmail.com or at 864-508-1530. 

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Remember in prayer:  Nancy and Charlie Blakely; Michael Little’s friend Becky; Shea Marsden; Linda McFall; Bonnie Marsden and son Michael; Jackie Moore; Glennie Burns; Mary Alice Mundy; Jason Harding; Madison Bishop (Whitney’s niece); Latha and Cheryl Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; People of Ukraine; People of Israel and Palestine.

NACCP is an inclusive Faith Community that values questions

and the journey to the answers.

Ministry Leader: Dr. Keith Ray
keithdray@gmail.com

Pianist and Choir Director: Polly Dunford

Mailing address: P.O. Box 4346, Anderson, SC 29622

Phone: 864-225-3575

Website:  naccpchurch.org

Church News:  naccpnews@yahoo.com

Instagram:  northandersonccp

Facebook:  NorthAndersonCommunityChurchPresbyterian

Sunday, April 14, 2024 at 10:15 a.m. Church Gathering with Dr. Keith Ray and Sarah Junkin Woodard

Third Sunday of Easter

Today’s service may be viewed on Facebook Live Stream at this link in the comfort of your own home or in person in the sanctuary.   Join us!

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Gathering Music                                          Polly Dunford

Welcome and Announcements                   Barb Barham                                     

 Call to Worship

In the midst of a world where people hunger and thirst…,

come worship a God who calls us to feed the hungry.

In the midst of a world where people are abused and oppressed…,

come worship a God who calls for compassion and justice.

In the midst of a world filled with wars and rumors of war…,

come worship a God who desires nothing less than peace for the world.

In the midst of a world of spiritual emptiness…,

come worship a God who gives life meaning.

Come worship a God whose grace and love knows no end.

Amen.

Opening Hymn      “Love the Lord Your God”   Hymnal #62          

Love the Lord your God with all your heart.

Love the Lord your God with all your soul.

Love the Lord your God with all your mind.

Love the Lord your God with all that you are.

Scripture Lesson        A Reading from the campesinos of Solentiname  

Sermon                             Sarah Junkin Woodard

  “Harmony Unveiled: Nurturing Nicaragua’s Future Together”

Prayers of the People

Closing Hymn and Offertory   “Lord, You Have Come to the Lakeshore”  Hymnal #721

1)  Lord, you have come to the lakeshore looking neither for wealthy nor wise ones;

you only asked me to follow humbly.

Refrain: O Lord, with your eyes you have searched me, 

  and while smiling have spoken my name;

  now my boat’s left on the shoreline behind me. 

  By your side I will seek other seas.

2)  You know so well my possessions; my boat carries no gold and no weapons;

you will find there my nets and labor. Refrain

3)  You need my hands, full of caring, through my labors to give others rest

and constant love that keeps on loving. Refrain

4)  You, who have fished other oceans, ever longed for by souls who are waiting, 

my loving friend, as thus you call me: Refrain  

 Benediction

Discussion

Shalom       (“May you be well and whole and in communion with all creation.”)

                          Shalom, my friends, Shalom, my friends, Shalom, Shalom.

                            Till we meet again, Till we meet again, Shalom, Shalom.

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Calendar of Service -

April 21 - Dave Johnson - Earth Day

April 28 - Dr. Keith Ray

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A message from the Earth Care Team about Plastic and You:  Last Sunday our Earth Care Team asked you to reflect upon your use of plastic - especially during your vacation this year: How much plastic will you need? How much plastic will you pack? How could you use less plastic on your vacation?   

Please use the Post-It in your bulletin to offer your words about your Reduced Use of plastic. Your Post-Its will be assembled into a collage by Earth Sunday. Your offering may inspire others to Reduce Use of plastic in coming weeks and months!
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There will be a Missions and Outreach Committee meeting on April 14 after church.

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The Bible Study Group (BSG) meets Mondays at 6:30 pm via Zoom. If you’d like to be added to the Zoom invite list then contact Cynthia at cynthiakwarner@mac.com. We’d love to have newcomers!

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Doug Booth encourages everyone to volunteer at PAWS – there is something for everyone, from socializing with the dogs on-site to taking a dog to lunch to hosting weekend visits. There are many dogs at the facility who crave human interaction.  Additionally, don’t forget to bring in any donations of blankets to the church. 
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Split Creek Farm will be having its Spring Means Babies Festival on Saturday, April 20 from 10 am until 4 pm. Don’t miss spending some quality time with the baby goats!
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Karen highlighted that the Prayer Tree has been moved into the sanctuary. If you have a prayer request to add to the tree, write in on one of the provided tags and hang it on a branch.
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Joanne reminds us all to keep up the food donations for AIM (Anderson Interfaith Ministries)!  Bring your non-perishable items to the church.  This is an on-going need that should become part of everyone’s shopping routine.

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Are you interested in becoming a member of NACCP?  Would you like to make this community your spiritual home?  Please contact Keith at keithdray@gmail.com or at 864-508-1530. 

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Remember in prayer:  Michael Little’s friend Becky; Shea Marsden; Linda McFall; Bonnie Marsden and son Michael; Jackie Moore; Glennie Burns; Mary Alice Mundy; Jason Harding; Madison Bishop (Whitney’s niece); Latha and Cheryl Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; People of Ukraine; People of Israel and Palestine.

NACCP is an inclusive Faith Community that values questions

and the journey to the answers.

Ministry Leader: Dr. Keith Ray keithdray@gmail.com

Pianist and Choir Director: Polly Dunford

Mailing address: P.O. Box 4346, Anderson, SC 29622

Phone: 864-225-3575

Website:  naccpchurch.org

Church News:  naccpnews@yahoo.com

Instagram:  northandersonccp

Facebook:  NorthAndersonCommunityChurchPresbyterian

Sunday, April 7, 2024 at 10:15 a.m. Church Gathering with Dr. Keith Ray

Second Sunday of Easter

Today’s service may be viewed on Facebook Live Stream at this link in the comfort of your own home or in person in the sanctuary.   Join us!

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Gathering Music                                          Polly Dunford

Welcome and Announcements         Sharon Fowler                                      

Call to Worship

We gather as Easter people.

We gather as those committed to new life and new possibilities.

In the midst of war, famine, and division,

We come to this place to be reminded of Easter. 

Let us worship.

Let us worship together.  Amen. 

Opening Hymn               Potluck Hymn

Scripture Lesson Acts 4:32-35

Sermon         “What Difference Does Easter Make?”       Dr. Keith Ray

Thoughts about today’s sermon:  It’s the Sunday after Easter Day.  

What difference does the story of the resurrection make?  In the book of Acts, there are some who are so invested in the Jesus story that it impacts their lives significantly.  

It even changes what they do with their personal wealth. 

Let’s talk about it together!

Prayers of the People

Closing Hymn and Offertory             Potluck Hymn

Benediction

Discussion

Shalom       (“May you be well and whole and in communion with all creation.”)

                          Shalom, my friends, Shalom, my friends, Shalom, Shalom.

                            Till we meet again, Till we meet again, Shalom, Shalom.

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Join us for our Potluck Meal following service.

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Calendar of Service -

April 14 - Sarah Woodard from CDCA

April 21 - Dave Johnson - Earth Day

April 28 - Dr. Keith Ray

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Many thanks to our Kudzu Killers for their work in recent weeks. Although most kudzu has begun leafing out (and indeed rapidly growing!), I can report that kudzu plants nearest our labyrinth are doing very poorly!  While I hesitate to pronounce then dead, they are far less vigorous than they would have been without your work.  Many thanks!  Cynthia.   

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Adopt-A-Highway:  NACCP Trash Collectors will gather on Saturday, 6 April at 9:00 AM to collect trash strewn along a one-mile stretch on each side of 4200 Liberty Highway.  The more people we have, the less time we will need!  If you have friends who might be willing to help, please invite them!  

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Celebrate Earth Month 2024:  Attend a Tree Rescue Workshop!  Cynthia Warner will host a Tree Rescue Workshop at NACCP on Thursday, 11 April 2024, beginning at 9 AM.  Some people rescue raptors; other people rescue mammals; Cynthia rescues trees!  After years of engaging in tree rescue, Cynthia has been convinced to share what she knows with others.  If you attend this workshop, you can celebrate Earth Month 2024 by rescuing a tree (maybe even 2 or 3 trees!) from being overtaken (and killed) by invasive vines.  

This workshop is a joint endeavor by North Anderson Community Church (Presbyterian) (NACCP) and Peace Church, UCC in Clemson.  If you would like more information about this workshop, contact Cynthia (cynthiakwarner@mac.com) or Laura (pastor@thepeacechurch.org).  If this is all the information you need, just show up at 4200 Liberty Highway at 9:00 AM on Thursday 11 April to learn about (and practice) tree rescue!  

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The next PFLAG meeting will be Thursday, April 11, at 7:00 pm.  Everyone is welcome!

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The Bible Study Group (BSG) meets Mondays at 6:30 pm via Zoom.  If you’d like to be added to the Zoom invite list then contact Cynthia at cynthiakwarner@mac.com. We’d love to have newcomers!

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Joanne reminds us all to keep up the food donations for AIM (Anderson Interfaith Ministries)!  Bring your non-perishable items to the church.  This is an on-going need that should become part of everyone’s shopping routine.

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Are you interested in becoming a member of NACCP?  Would you like to make this community your spiritual home?  Please contact Keith at keithdray@gmail.com or at 864-508-1530. 

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Remember in prayer:  Michael Little’s friend Becky; Shea Marsden; Linda McFall; Bonnie Marsden and son Michael; Jackie Moore; Glennie Burns; Mary Alice Mundy; Jason Harding; Madison Bishop (Whitney’s niece); Latha and Cheryl Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; People of Ukraine; People of Israel and Palestine.

NACCP is an inclusive Faith Community that values questions

and the journey to the answers.

Ministry Leader: Dr. Keith Ray
keithdray@gmail.com

Pianist and Choir Director: Polly Dunford

Mailing address: P.O. Box 4346, Anderson, SC 29622

Phone: 864-225-3575

Website:  naccpchurch.org

Church News:  naccpnews@yahoo.com

Instagram:  northandersonccp

Facebook:  NorthAndersonCommunityChurchPresbyterian

Easter Sunday, March 31 at 10:15 a.m. Church Gathering with Dr. Keith Ray

Today’s service may be viewed on Facebook Live Stream at this link in the comfort of your own home or in person in the labyrinth. Bring a chair and Join us!

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Gathering Music  (Listen carefully)           Birds in the Woods                  

Welcome and Announcements       Cierra Moss                        

Call to Worship

One:  Give thanks to our Good God whose unfailing love lasts forever!

Many:  Give thanks to our God whose unfailing love lives forever!

One:  We gather together in the dawn of a new day.  We look toward the tomb to seek the Enfleshed Word.

Many:  The stone has been rolled away.  The tomb is empty!  Alleluia!

One:  We find God alive in the searching, in the garden, in our hope-filled spaces.

Many:  Alleluia.  Christ lives and finds us with unfailing love!

Opening Hymn       “Morning Has Broken”              

        Words by Eleanor Farjeon; Music is a Gaelic melody

      1)  Morning has broken like the first morning; blackbird has spoken like the first bird.

          Praise for the singing! Praise for the morning! Praise for them, springing fresh  

            from the Word! 

    2)  Sweet the rain’s new fall sunlit from heaven, like the first dewfall on the first grass.

         Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden, sprung in completeness where God’s feet pass.

     3)  Mine is the sunlight! Mine is the morning, born of the one light Eden saw play!

          Praise with elation; praise every morning, God’s recreation of the new day!  

Scripture Lesson John 20:1-8

Sermon   “I Have Seen…”        Dr. Keith Ray

Thoughts to Consider: While preparing for today’s worship gathering, I came across these words by Chris Barnes regarding Easter: “‘The question that Easter asks of us is not, ‘Do we believe in the doctrine of the resurrection?’ Frankly, that is not particularly hard.  What the Gospels ask is not, ‘Do you believe?’ but ‘Have you encountered the risen Christ?’”  

As progressives, where do we encounter the living Divine in our midst? 

Let’s talk about it together.

Prayers of the People

Closing Hymn and Offertory   “I Danced in the Morning”

Words by Sydney Carter; Music based on a Shaker tune

1)  I danced in the morning when the world was begun,

and I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun,

and I came down from heaven and I danced on the earth. 

At Bethlehem I had my birth.

(Refrain)  Dance, then, wherever you may be;

I am the Lord of the Dance, said he,

and I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be,

and I’ll lead you all in the dance, said he.

2)  I danced for the scribe and the Pharisee,

but they would not dance and they would not follow me.

I danced for the fishermen, for James and John.

They came with me and the dance went on. Refrain

3)  I danced on the Sabbath and I cured the lame.

The holy people said it was a shame.

They whipped and the stripped and they hung me high,

and left me there on a cross to die. Refrain

4)  I danced on a Friday when the sky turned black.

It’s hard to dance with the devil on your back.

They buried my body and they thought I’d gone,

but I am the dance and I still go on. Refrain

5)  They cut me down and I leapt up high.

I am the life that will never, never die.

I’ll live in you if you’ll live in me,

I am the Lord of the Dance, said he. Refrain

Benediction

Discussion

Shalom       (“May you be well and whole and in communion with all creation.”)

                          Shalom, my friends, Shalom, my friends, Shalom, Shalom.

                            Till we meet again, Till we meet again, Shalom, Shalom.

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Join us for our Potluck Brunch following service.

    Easter Egg Hunt for all those Young at Heart! 

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Calendar of Service -

April 7 - Dr. Keith Ray - Potluck meal; Potluck Hymn Sunday

April 14 - Sarah Woodard from CDCA

April 21 - TBD

April 28 - Dr. Keith Ray

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Adopt-A-Highway:  NACCP Trash Collectors will gather on Saturday, 6 April at 9:00 AM to collect trash strewn along a one-mile stretch on each side of 4200 Liberty Highway.  The more people we have, the less time we will need!  If you have friends who might be willing to help, please invite them!  

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Celebrate Earth Month 2024:  Attend a Tree Rescue Workshop!  Cynthia Warner will host a Tree Rescue Workshop at NACCP on Thursday, 11 April 2024, beginning at 9 AM.  Some people rescue raptors; other people rescue mammals; Cynthia rescues trees!  After years of engaging in tree rescue, Cynthia has been convinced to share what she knows with others.  If you attend this workshop, you can celebrate Earth Month 2024 by rescuing a tree (maybe even 2 or 3 trees!) from being overtaken (and killed) by invasive vines.  

This workshop is a joint endeavor by North Anderson Community Church (Presbyterian) (NACCP) and Peace Church, UCC in Clemson.  If you would like more information about this workshop, contact Cynthia (cynthiakwarner@mac.com) or Laura (pastor@thepeacechurch.org).  If this is all the information you need, just show up at 4200 Liberty Highway at 9:00 AM on Thursday 11 April to learn about (and practice) tree rescue!  

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Sharon reminds us that the “One Great Hour of Sharing” special collections continue through Lent season.  You may write “OGHS” on the memo line of your check or use the designated envelopes for cash donations.

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The Bible Study Group (BSG) meets Mondays at 6:30 pm via Zoom.  If you’d like to be added to the Zoom invite list then contact Cynthia at cynthiakwarner@mac.com. We’d love to have newcomers!

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Joanne reminds us all to keep up the food donations for AIM (Anderson Interfaith Ministries)!  Bring your non-perishable items to the church.  This is an on-going need that should become part of everyone’s shopping routine.

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Are you interested in becoming a member of NACCP?  Would you like to make this community your spiritual home?  Please contact Keith at keithdray@gmail.com or at 864-508-1530. 

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Remember in prayer:  Michael Little’s friend Becky; Shea Marsden; Linda McFall; Bonnie Marsden and son Michael; Jackie Moore; Glennie Burns; Mary Alice Mundy; Jason Harding; Madison Bishop (Whitney’s niece); Latha and Cheryl Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; People of Ukraine; People of Israel and Palestine.

NACCP is an inclusive Faith Community that values questions

and the journey to the answers.

Ministry Leader: Dr. Keith Ray
keithdray@gmail.com

Pianist and Choir Director: Polly Dunford

Mailing address: P.O. Box 4346, Anderson, SC 29622

Phone: 864-225-3575

Website:  naccpchurch.org

Church News:  naccpnews@yahoo.com

Instagram:  northandersonccp

Facebook:  NorthAndersonCommunityChurchPresbyterian

Sunday, March 24 at 10:15 a.m. Church Gathering with Dr. Keith Ray

Palm Sunday

Today’s service may be viewed on Facebook Live Stream at this link in the comfort of your own home or in person in the sanctuary.  Join us!

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Gathering Music               Polly Dunford                  

Welcome and Announcements     Rosie Thompson                    

Anthem      “Antiphonal Hosanna”  by G. Alan Smith                                

Call to Worship

Leader:  People of God, do not be afraid, for the presence of the Divine is coming,

All:  riding on a donkey, daring to raise the branches of liberation.

Leader:  Shout your hosannas in the street and in the sanctuary.

All:  Hosanna in the highest!  Jesus has come to set us free from greed, oppression, and hatred!

Leader:  Palm branches and praise mark this day with hope.

All:  Hosanna, come and renew us and our world!

Opening Hymn      “Filled with Excitement” Hymnal #199        

Wave your palm branches during the singing of this hymn.

1)  Filled with excitement, all the happy throng spread cloaks and branches on the city streets.   

There in the distance they begin to see, there on a donkey comes the Savior Christ.

Refrain:  From every corner a thousand voices sing praise to the One 

who comes in the name of God.

Our acclamation breaks forth in shouts of praise, our triumphant song of joy:

“Hosanna, hosanna to Christ!  Hosanna, hosanna to Christ!”

2)  As in that entrance to Jerusalem, hosannas we will sing to Jesus Christ,

to our Redeemer who still calls today, asks us to follow with our love and faith.

Refrain

 Scripture Lesson Mark 11:1-11

Sermon “The Radical Parade of Seemingly Powerless Activism”        Dr. Keith Ray

Thoughts to consider:  Today we read Mark’s version of the story of Jesus’ triumphant entrance into Jerusalem, where “[m]any people spread out their clothes on the road while others spread branches cut from the fields” (verse 8).  But what does this triumphant entrance teach us about our own sense of purpose and calling, especially when Jesus’ entrance is contrasted with the mighty power demonstrated by Pilate who, according to some scholars, marched into Jerusalem days before the Passover celebration each year to remind the people who was in charge (Rome)?  

Let us consider which of these marches speak to our own purpose and calling in our context and circumstances.  What does it mean for us to learn from a marginal Jewish teacher?

Prayers of the People

Closing Hymn and Offertory     “A Cheering, Chanting, Dizzy Crowd”   Hymnal #200  

Wave your palm branches during the singing of this hymn.

1)  A cheering, chanting, dizzy crowd had stripped the green trees bare,

and hailing Christ as king aloud, waved branches in the air.

2)  They laid their garments in the road and spread his path with palms

and vows of lasting love bestowed with royal hymns and psalms.

3)  When day dimmed down to deepening dark the crowd began to fade

till only trampled leaves and bark were left from the parade.

4)  Lest we be fooled because our hearts have surged with passing praise,

remind us, God, as this week starts where Christ has fixed his gaze.

5)  Instead of palms, a winding sheet will have to be unrolled,

a carpet much more fit to greet the king a cross will hold.

Benediction

Discussion

Shalom       (“May you be well and whole and in communion with all creation.”)

                          Shalom, my friends, Shalom, my friends, Shalom, Shalom.

                            Till we meet again, Till we meet again, Shalom, Shalom.

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Calendar of Service -

March 24 - Maundy Tuesday dress rehearsal after worship service.  

March 26 - Maundy Thursday Tableau (On Tuesday!)  7:00 pm

March 31 - Dr. Keith Ray - Easter - In Labyrinth (weather permitting)

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Choir practice meets Sunday at 9:25 AM in the choir room for our final practice, and we will sing during service that day.  Please come a little early so that you are ready to start on time.  See you all then!  Polly 864- 940-0640

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“Is it I, Lord?”, a Maundy Thursday Tableau, will be presented to NACCP on Tuesday, March 26, at 7:00 pm. This is a short drama that tells the story of the disciples and Jesus during the last supper.

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Sharon reminds us that the “One Great Hour of Sharing” special collections continue through Lent season.  You may write “OGHS” on the memo line of your check or use the designated envelopes for cash donations.

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Market Theatre presents “Jersey Boys”.  Drew Whitley is directing, Thor Raines is choreographing the show, and Rosie Thompson is understudying the role that Joe Pesci had in the movie. 
The group from church will see the show on Sunday, March 24; plan for lunch on your own. 

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The Kudzu Krew is now the “Kudzu Killers” who are set to take out the kudzu that has invaded our labyrinth.  New members are welcome!  If you have the energy and/or interest in joining, please let Cynthia know via email (cynthiakwarner@mac.com) 

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If you are interested in volunteering at the Anderson Soiree children’s games on April 26-27, please let Vicki know.  585-781-4620

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PAWS is currently in need of blankets.  Please bring them to church if you have donations.

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The Bible Study Group (BSG) meets Mondays at 6:30 pm via Zoom.  If you’d like to be added to the Zoom invite list then contact Cynthia at cynthiakwarner@mac.com. We’d love to have newcomers!

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Joanne reminds us all to keep up the food donations for AIM (Anderson Interfaith Ministries)!  Bring your non-perishable items to the church.  This is an on-going need that should become part of everyone’s shopping routine.

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Are you interested in becoming a member of NACCP?  Would you like to make this community your spiritual home?  Please contact Keith at keithdray@gmail.com or at 864-508-1530. 

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Remember in prayer:  Michael Little’s friend Becky; Shea Marsden; Linda McFall; Bonnie Marsden and son Michael; Jackie Moore; Glennie Burns; Mary Alice Mundy; Jason Harding; Madison Bishop (Whitney’s niece); Latha and Cheryl Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; People of Ukraine; People of Israel and Palestine.

NACCP is an inclusive Faith Community that values questions and the journey to the answers.

Ministry Leader: Dr. Keith Ray keithdray@gmail.com

Pianist and Choir Director: Polly Dunford

Mailing address: P.O. Box 4346, Anderson, SC 29622

Phone: 864-225-3575

Website:  naccpchurch.org

Church News:  naccpnews@yahoo.com

Instagram:  northandersonccp

Facebook:  NorthAndersonCommunityChurchPresbyterian

Sunday, March 17 at 10:15 a.m. Church Gathering with Rev. Nancy Blakely

5th Sunday in Lent

Today’s service may be viewed on Facebook Live Stream at this link in the comfort of your own home or in person in the sanctuary.  Join us!

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Gathering Music               Polly Dunford                  

Welcome and Announcements     Vicki Conrad-Wright                        

 Call to Worship    (from Praying with the Earth, John Philip Newell)

All things come from you, O God,

and to you we return.

All things emerge in your great river of life

and into you we vanish again.

At the beginning of this day we wake

not as separate streams but as countless currents

in a single flow

the flow of this day’s dawning

the flow of this day’s delight

the flow of this day’s sorrows

your flow, O God,

in the twistings and turnings of this new day.

Opening Hymn      “Here in This Place – Gather Us In”    Hymnal # 401

 1)  Here in this place the new light is streaming; now is the darkness vanished away;

     see in this space our fears and our dreamings brought here to you in the light of this day.

     Gather us in, the lost and forsaken; gather us in, the blind and the lame;

     call to us now, and we shall awaken; we shall arise at the sound of our name.

2)  We are the young, our lives are a mystery.  We are the old who yearn for your face.

We have been sung throughout all of history, called to be light to the whole human race.

Gather us in, the rich and the haughty; gather us in, the proud and the strong;

give us a heart, so meek and so lowly; give us the courage to enter the song.

3)  Here we will take the wine and the water; here we will take the bread of new birth.

Here you shall call your sons and your daughters, call us anew to be salt for the earth.

Give us to drink the wine of compassion; give us to eat the bread that is you;

nourish us well, and teach us to fashion lives that are holy and hearts that are true.

4)  Not in the dark of buildings confining, not in some heaven, light years away:

here in this place the new light is shining; now is the kingdom, and now is the day.

Gather us in and hold us forever; gather us in and make us your own;

gather us in, all peoples together, fire of love in our flesh and our bone.

Scripture Lesson Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon       “On Not Tearing out the Tares”         Rev. Nancy Blakely      

Thoughts to ponder:  Jesus’ parable of the weeds among the wheat points to the fact that we live in a paradoxical world.  How are we to navigate through these daily tensions with any kind of wisdom?

Prayers of the People

Anthem         “Remember Me” 

Words by Stephen Andrews and Music by Aaron Adams                                

Celebration of Communion

Closing Hymn and Offertory   “Today We All Are Called to be Disciples”  Hymnal #757

1)  Today we all are called to be disciples of the Lord,

to help to set the captive free, make plowshare out of sword,

to feed the hungry, quench their thirst, make love and peace our fast,

to serve the poor and homeless first, our ease and comfort last.

2)  God made the world and at its birth ordained our human race 

to live as stewards of the earth, responding to God’s grace.

But we are vain and sadly proud; we sow not peace but strife.

Our discord spreads a deadly cloud that threatens all of life.

3)  Pray justice may come rolling down as in a mighty stream,

with righteousness in field and town to cleanse us and redeem.

For God is longing to restore an earth where conflicts cease,

a world that was created for a harmony of peace.

4)  May we in service to our God act out the living word,

and walk the road the saints have trod till all have seen and heard.

As stewards of the earth may we give thanks in one accord

to God who calls us all to be disciples of the Lord.            

Benediction

Discussion

Shalom       (“May you be well and whole and in communion with all creation.”)

                          Shalom, my friends, Shalom, my friends, Shalom, Shalom.

                            Till we meet again, Till we meet again, Shalom, Shalom.

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Calendar of Service -

March 24 - Dr. Keith Ray - Palm Sunday

March 26 - Maundy Thursday Tableau (on Tuesday!), 7:00 pm

March 31 - Dr. Keith Ray - Easter - 10:15 am in the Labyrinth 

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Choir practice will meet Sunday at 9:25 AM in the choir room. The remaining choir practice dates are 3/17, and 3/24, and we will sing during services on these same dates.  Please come a little early so that you are ready to start on time. See you then!  Polly 864- 940-0640

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Sharon reminds us that the “One Great Hour of Sharing” special collections continue through Lent season.  You may write “OGHS” on the memo line of your check or use the designated envelopes for cash donations.

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Easter lily orders are due Sunday, March 17.  Forms are available on the table outside the sanctuary.  The cost is $10. each. Please put your order form and money in the offering basket. ********************

AFPT is hosting an event on Sunday, March 17, at 3:00 pm. This is a live event with Zoom provided to hear Ramsey Hanhan. His presentation is “What It Means to Be Palestinian: A Palestinian’s Dream.”  There are three ways to watch:  1) Join the in-person event at NACCP. No registration necessary.    2)  View at home alone - Register for the Zoom link here.   

3) Create your own satellite “watch party” with friends using the Zoom registration above.

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The Junior League of Anderson will hold its annual Oyster Roast fundraiser on March 16 at 6:00 pm.  Visit https://andersonsc.jl.org/events/register-2024-spring-oyster-roast/ for tickets.

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Spring Equinox is Tuesday, March 19 and celebrated with a labyrinth walk at 5:30 pm.  
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On Friday, March 22nd, meet Diane Lee at the Anderson Arts Center Downtown on Federal Street at the front desk at 3 pm.  We will look at the varied artwork being submitted for the annual Juried Show, choose our favorite pieces (we can later see if they make it into the show!!) and then go across the street to the Bradbury Bistro for afternoon refreshments!!  Roxanna Albert, former Anderson 5 Arts Coordinator, is this year’s juror!

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Market Theatre presents “Jersey Boys”.  Drew Whitley, Thor Raines and Rosie Thompson are involved with this outstanding show.  It is a must see!  The group from church will see the show on Sunday, March 24, with lunch before the show.  

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“Is it I, Lord?”, a Maundy Thursday Tableau, will be presented to NACCP on Tuesday, March 26, at 7:00 pm. This is a short drama that tells the story of the disciples and Jesus during the last supper.  Please consult the chart in the church hallway for rehearsal dates and times.  See you there!

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The Kudzu Krew is now the “Kudzu Killers” who are set to take out the kudzu that has invaded our labyrinth.  New members are welcome!  If you have the energy and/or interest in joining, please let Cynthia know via email (cynthiakwarner@mac.com) 

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If you are interested in volunteering at the Anderson Soiree children’s games on April 26-27, please let Vicki know.  585-781-4620

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PAWS is currently in need of blankets.  Please bring them to church if you have donations.

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The Bible Study Group (BSG) meets Mondays at 6:30 pm via Zoom.  If you’d like to be added to the Zoom invite list then contact Cynthia at cynthiakwarner@mac.com. We’d love to have newcomers!

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Joanne reminds us all to keep up the food donations for AIM (Anderson Interfaith Ministries)!  Bring your non-perishable items to the church.  This is an on-going need that should become part of everyone’s shopping routine.

********************

Are you interested in becoming a member of NACCP?  Would you like to make this community your spiritual home?  Please contact Keith at keithdray@gmail.com or at 864-508-1530. 

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Remember in prayer:  Michael Little’s friend Becky; Shea Marsden; Linda McFall; Bonnie Marsden and son Michael; Jackie Moore; Glennie Burns; Mary Alice Mundy; Jason Harding; Madison Bishop (Whitney’s niece); Latha and Cheryl Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; People of Ukraine; People of Israel and Palestine.

NACCP is an inclusive Faith Community that values questions

and the journey to the answers.

Ministry Leader: Dr. Keith Ray
keithdray@gmail.com

Pianist and Choir Director: Polly Dunford

Mailing address: P.O. Box 4346, Anderson, SC 29622

Phone: 864-225-3575

Website:  naccpchurch.org

Church News:  naccpnews@yahoo.com

Instagram:  northandersonccp

Facebook:  NorthAndersonCommunityChurchPresbyterian

Sunday, March 10 at 10:15 a.m. Church Gathering with Dr. Keith Ray

4th Sunday in Lent

Today’s service may be viewed on Facebook Live Stream at this link in the comfort of your own home or in person in the sanctuary.  Join us!

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Gathering Music                            Polly Dunford                  

Welcome and Announcements                 Ed Yokley   

Anthem              “Shepherd Me, O God”                                

            Words and Music by Marty Haugen

Call to Worship

God’s love is for all of creation.

The vastness of God is for human, animal, soil, and sun, all together as God’s beloved.

God has not come into the world to condemn us.

Jesus has come to live God’s love in the flesh.

While the world is dim with injustice and the feeling of loneliness,

it is our belief that the light of love illuminates our path of friendship. Come, let us join our lives with the Friend Jesus, whose love is for the whole world. Let us worship God!

Opening Hymn      “God Welcomes All”  Hymnal #399

God welcomes all, strangers and friends.

God’s love is strong and it never ends.

Scripture Lesson Numbers 21:4-9 and John 3:14-21

Sermon       “The Ongoing Work of Transformation”             Dr. Keith Ray

Thoughts to ponder (this week from the Buddhist master, Thich Nhat Hanh): Around us, life bursts forth with miracles - a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. Each human being is a multiplicity of miracles. Eyes that see thousands of colors, shapes, and forms; ears that hear a bee flying or a thunderclap; a brain that ponders a speck of dust as easily as the entire cosmos; a heart that beats in rhythm with the heartbeat of all beings. 

When we are tired and feel discouraged by life’s daily struggles, 

we may not notice these miracles, but they are always there. 

Prayers of the People

Closing Hymn and Offertory    “What a Wonderful World” Handout                           by George David Weiss and Bob Thiele; Arranged by David Johnson

From One World, Many Voices songbook, Interfaith Center at the Presidio, 2002.

Used by permission from Abilene Music, Range Road Music and Quartet All rights reserved.        

1)  I see trees of green, red roses too, 

I see them bloom for me and you, 

and I think to myself

What a Wonderful World.

2)  I see skies of blue and clouds of white,

the bright blessed day, the dark sacred night,

and I think to myself

What a Wonderful World.

3)  The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky are also on the faces of people goin’ by,

I see friends shakin’ hands, sayin’ “How do you do!”  They’re really sayin’ “I love you.”

4)  I hear babies cry, I watch them grow.

They’ll learn much more than I’ll every know

and I think to myself  What a Wonderful World.

Yes, I think to myself  What a Wonderful World.  

Benediction

Discussion

Shalom       (“May you be well and whole and in communion with all creation.”)

                          Shalom, my friends, Shalom, my friends, Shalom, Shalom.

                            Till we meet again, Till we meet again, Shalom, Shalom.

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Reprinted with permission under One License #A-625711.  All rights reserved.

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Calendar of Service -

March 17 - Rev. Nancy Blakely; Communion; Session meeting

March 24 - Dr. Keith Ray - Palm Sunday

March 31 - Dr. Keith Ray - Easter

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Choir practice will meet every Sunday at 9:25 AM in the choir room. The remaining choir practice dates for this season are 3/10, 3/17, and 3/24, and we will sing during services on these same dates.  Please come a little early so that you are ready to start on time.  

See you all then!  Polly 864- 940-0640

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Sharon reminds us that the “One Great Hour of Sharing” special collections continue through Lent season.  You may write “OGHS” on the memo line of your check or use the designated envelopes for cash donations.

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Filling snack packs at Golden Harvest on March 15 has been cancelled due to scheduling conflicts.  

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Easter lily order forms are available on the table outside the sanctuary.  The cost is $10. each. Please put your order form and money in the offering basket.  Order deadline is March 17.

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AFPT is hosting an event on Sunday, March 17, at 3:00 pm. This is a live event with Zoom provided to hear Ramsey Hanhan. His presentation is “What It Means to Be Palestinian: A Palestinian’s Dream.”  There are three ways to watch:  1) Join the in-person event at NACCP. No registration necessary.    2)  View at home alone - Register for the Zoom link here.   

3) Create your own satellite “watch party” with friends using the Zoom registration above.

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The Junior League of Anderson will hold its annual Oyster Roast fundraiser on March 16 at 6:00 pm.  Visit https://andersonsc.jl.org/events/register-2024-spring-oyster-roast/ for tickets.

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Market Theatre presents “Jersey Boys” opening March 8.  Drew Whitley is directing, Thor Raines is choreographing the show, and Rosie Thompson is understudying the role that Joe Pesci had in the movie. 
The group from church will see the show on Sunday, March 24, with lunch before the show.  More details to follow.

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“Is it I, Lord?”, a Maundy Thursday Tableau, will be presented to NACCP on Tuesday, March 26, at 7:00 pm. This is a short drama that tells the story of the disciples and Jesus during the last supper.  Please consult the chart in the church hallway for rehearsal dates and times.  See you there!

*******************

The Kudzu Krew is now the “Kudzu Killers” who are set to take out the kudzu that has invaded our labyrinth.  New members are welcome!  If you have the energy and/or interest in joining, please let Cynthia know via email (cynthiakwarner@mac.com) 

********************

If you are interested in volunteering at the Anderson Soiree children’s games on April 26-27, please let Vicki know.  585-781-4620

********************
PAWS is currently in need of blankets.  Please bring them to church if you have donations.

*******************

The Bible Study Group (BSG) meets Mondays at 6:30 pm via Zoom.  If you’d like to be added to the Zoom invite list then contact Cynthia at cynthiakwarner@mac.com. We’d love to have newcomers!

********************

Joanne reminds us all to keep up the food donations for AIM (Anderson Interfaith Ministries)!  Bring your non-perishable items to the church.  This is an on-going need that should become part of everyone’s shopping routine.

********************

Are you interested in becoming a member of NACCP?  Would you like to make this community your spiritual home?  Please contact Keith at keithdray@gmail.com or at 864-508-1530. 

********************

Remember in prayer:  Michael Little’s friend Becky; Shea Marsden; Linda McFall; Bonnie Marsden and son Michael; Jackie Moore; Glennie Burns; Mary Alice Mundy; Jason Harding; Madison Bishop (Whitney’s niece); Latha and Cheryl Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; People of Ukraine; People of Israel and Palestine.

NACCP is an inclusive Faith Community that values questions

and the journey to the answers.

Ministry Leader: Dr. Keith Ray
keithdray@gmail.com

Pianist and Choir Director: Polly Dunford

Mailing address: P.O. Box 4346, Anderson, SC 29622

Phone: 864-225-3575

Website:  naccpchurch.org

Church News:  naccpnews@yahoo.com

Instagram:  northandersonccp

Facebook:  NorthAndersonCommunityChurchPresbyterian

Sunday, March 3 at 10:15 a.m. Church Gathering with Dr. Keith Ray

3rd Sunday in Lent

Today’s service may be viewed on Facebook Live Stream at this link in the comfort of your own home or in person in the sanctuary.  Join us!

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Gathering Music               Polly Dunford                  

Welcome and Announcements   Barb Barham   

My Story   Rob Gentry  

                                                                                                                                                                                Anthem      “How Can I Keep From Singing?”           Quaker hymn

 Words and Music by Robert Lowry;  Arranged by Michael Burkhardt                        

Call to Worship

Into the house of God we are called to enter,

to worship and receive the gift of grace.

As we step towards this sacred space,

we acknowledge all that can distract or exploit.

God calls upon us to cleanse our houses of all that does not find its source in God’s love.

Together we give ourselves in worship and right relations with our neighbor.     Let us worship God.

Opening Hymn             Potluck Hymns         

Scripture Lesson   John 12:13-22

Sermon                       “Prophetic Jesus”                                  Dr. Keith Ray

Thoughts to ponder: Today we read the story of Jesus driving people out of the place of worship. Often called the “Cleansing of the Temple,” it is sometimes a favorite story because it gives us an image of an angry Jesus driving out injustice.  And yet, it invites us to ask what news to be driven out of our own lives and institutions. One commentator says: “Tempting as it might be to offer up a sermon on this text in which we take up our own whip of cords and overturn the tables of our favorite injustices, the text pushes us to imagine Jesus entering our own sanctuaries, overturning our own cherished rationalizations and driving us out in the name of God.  Surely we can be honest enough to acknowledge that often enough we put ourselves and our institutions at the service of powers that are decidedly less than God” (Paul Shupe, Feasting on the Word, Year B. Volume 2). 

Prayers of the People

Closing Hymn and Offertory           Potluck Hymns      

 Benediction

Discussion

Shalom       (“May you be well and whole and in communion with all creation.”)

                          Shalom, my friends, Shalom, my friends, Shalom, Shalom.

                            Till we meet again, Till we meet again, Shalom, Shalom.

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Please join us for our 1st Sunday Potluck meal.

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Calendar of Service -

March 10 - Dr. Keith Ray

March 17 - Rev. Nancy Blakely; Communion; Session meeting

March 24 - Dr. Keith Ray - Palm Sunday

March 31 - Dr. Keith Ray - Easter

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Choir practice will meet every Sunday at 9:25 AM in the choir room. The remaining choir practice dates for this season are  3/3, 3/10, 3/17, and 3/24. 

We will sing during services on 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, and 3/24.
Please come a little early so that you are ready to start on time.  See you all then!  Polly 864- 940-0640

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Sharon reminds us that the “One Great Hour of Sharing” special collections continue through Lent season.  You may write “OGHS” on the memo line of your check or use the designated envelopes for cash donations.

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We are looking for people willing to snack packs at Golden Harvest on March 15, 9-11 am. Please text Vicki at 585-781-4620 if you can help.

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The Junior League of Anderson will hold its annual Oyster Roast fundraiser on March 16 at 6:00 pm.  Visit https://andersonsc.jl.org/events/register-2024-spring-oyster-roast/ for tickets.

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If you are interested in volunteering at the Anderson Soiree children’s games on April 26-27, please let Vicki know.  585-781-4620

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The Kudzu Krew is now the “Kudzu Killers” who are set to take out the kudzu that has invaded our labyrinth.  New members are welcome!  If you have the energy and/or interest in joining, please let Cynthia know via email (cynthiakwarner@mac.com) 

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Check out the FREE concert by the Astralis Chamber Ensemble at St. Andrew Catholic Church in Clemson on Wednesday, March 6 at 7:30 pm.  The church acoustics are great!  Parking is easy!  So mark your calendars!

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Market Theatre presents “Jersey Boys” opening March 8.  Drew Whitley is directing, Thor Raines is choreographing the show, and Rosie Thompson is understudying the role that Joe Pesci had in the movie. 
The group from church will see the show on Sunday, March 24, with lunch before the show.  More details to follow.

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“Is it I, Lord?” a Maundy Thursday Tableau is coming back to NACCP on Thursday March 28. This is a short drama that tells the story of the disciples and Jesus during the last supper.  Please consult the chart in the church hallway for rehearsal dates and times.  See you there!

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PAWS is currently in need of blankets.  Please bring them to church if you have donations.

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The Bible Study Group (BSG) meets Mondays at 6:30 pm via Zoom. Dave Johnson is guiding us through the book of Exodus. If you’d like to be added to the Zoom invite list then contact Cynthia at cynthiakwarner@mac.com. We’d love to have newcomers!

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Joanne reminds us all to keep up the food donations for AIM (Anderson Interfaith Ministries)!  Bring your non-perishable items to the church.  This is an on-going need that should become part of everyone’s shopping routine.

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Are you interested in becoming a member of NACCP?  Would you like to make this community your spiritual home?  Please contact Keith at keithdray@gmail.com or at 864-508-1530. 

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Remember in prayer:  Michael Little’s friend Becky; Shea Marsden; Linda McFall; Bonnie Marsden and son Michael; Jackie Moore; Glennie Burns; Mary Alice Mundy; Jason Harding; Madison Bishop (Whitney’s niece); Latha and Cheryl Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; People of Ukraine; People of Israel and Palestine.

NACCP is an inclusive Faith Community that values questions

and the journey to the answers.

Ministry Leader: Dr. Keith Ray
keithdray@gmail.com

Pianist and Choir Director: Polly Dunford

Mailing address: P.O. Box 4346, Anderson, SC 29622

Phone: 864-225-3575

Website:  naccpchurch.org

Church News:  naccpnews@yahoo.com

Instagram:  northandersonccp

Facebook:  NorthAndersonCommunityChurchPresbyterian

Sunday, February 25 at 10:15 a.m. Church Gathering with Dr. Keith Ray

2nd Sunday in Lent

Today’s service may be viewed on Facebook Live Stream at this link in the comfort of your own home or in person in the sanctuary.  Join us!

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Gathering Music                        Polly Dunford                  

Welcome and Announcements         Thor Raines                                  

Call to Worship

Do not be afraid to answer the call to discipleship.

What does the call require?

Letting go of our life as we know it. Following the way of the community and love. Aligning our soul with the Divine.

We step out in the way of Jesus by finding our true selves and sharing ourselves with others.

Do not be afraid to walk in the way of Jesus.

We answer the call, unashamed and unafraid.  Amen.

Opening Hymn      Hymnal #751 

  “From the Nets of Our Labor - We Will Rise Up and Follow”

1)  From the nets of our labors, through the noise and confusion,

from the city or seashore, Jesus summons us all.

Refrain — We will rise up and follow, Christ before and beside us,

loving pattern to guide us, as we answer the call.

2)  When we faint and grow weary from the bearing of burdens,

with a message of comfort, Jesus summons us all. Refrain

3)  In the eyes of the stranger — tearful, joyous, or frightened —

in the face of each neighbor, Jesus summons us all. Refrain

4)  When we hear words of hatred spreading fear or false witness,

words that cry to be challenged, Jesus summons us all. Refrain

5)  In each moment of courage, steadfast even through trembling;

in the yearning for justice, Jesus summons us all. Refrain

6)  Like disciples before us, from the city or seashore,

risking selfless compassion: Jesus summons us all. Refrain

Scripture Lesson Mark 8:31-38

Sermon     “Interventions and Hard Conversations”             Dr. Keith Ray

Thoughts to Ponder:  Sometimes love demands hard conversations with ourselves, with people we love, with the church.  But the purpose is always for transformation and rehabilitation. Jesus speaks harsh truth to Peter not to drive Peter away but to put him on a path to a life of purpose. How might we, during this season of Lent, engage in our own growth as people of hope and love?

Prayers of the People

Closing Hymn and Offertory    Hymnal #765

      “May the God of Hope Go with Us - Song of Hope”

May the God of hope go with us every day, 

filling all our lives with love and joy and peace.

May the God of justice speed us on our way, 

bringing light and hope to every land and race.

Praying, let us work for peace; singing, share our joy with all;   working for a world that’s new, faithful when we hear Christ’s call.    

Benediction

Discussion

Shalom       (“May you be well and whole and in communion with all creation.”)

                          Shalom, my friends, Shalom, my friends, Shalom, Shalom.

                            Till we meet again, Till we meet again, Shalom, Shalom.

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Calendar of Service -

March 3 -  Dr. Keith Ray; 1st Sunday Potluck

March 10 - Dr. Keith Ray

March 17 - Rev. Nancy Blakely; Communion; Session meeting

March 24 - Dr. Keith Ray - Palm Sunday

March 31 - Dr. Keith Ray - Easter

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Adopt-A-Highway:  NACCP Trash Collectors will gather on Saturday 24 February at 9:00 AM to collect trash strewn along a one-mile stretch on each side of 4200 Liberty Highway.  The more people we have, the less time we will need!  If you have friends who might be willing to help, please invite them!  

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Choir practice will meet every Sunday at 9:25 AM in the choir room. The remaining choir practice dates for this season are 2/25, 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, and 3/24. 

We will sing during services on 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, and 3/24.
Please come a little early so that you are ready to start on time.  See you all then!  Polly  (864) 940-0640

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The Anderson Symphony Orchestra will present “Anderson’s Got Talent” this Sunday, February 25, at 3:00 pm in the Rainey Fine Arts Center at Anderson University.  Featured will be Dr. Howard Kim and AU students who have won the Concerto and Aria Competition.  For tickets, call the GAMAC office at 864-231-6147 or go to www.GAMAC.org 

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The Kudzu Krew is now the “Kudzu Killers” who are set to take out the kudzu that has invaded our labyrinth.  New members are welcome!  If you have the energy and/or interest in joining, please let Cynthia know via email (cynthiakwarner@mac.com) 

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Check out the FREE concert by the Astralis Chamber Ensemble at St. Andrew Catholic Church in Clemson on Wednesday, March 6 at 7:30 pm.  The church acoustics are great!  Parking is easy!  So mark your calendars!

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Market Theatre presents “Jersey Boys” opening March 8.  Drew Whitley is directing, Thor Raines is choreographing the show, and Rosie Thompson is understudying the role that Joe Pesci had in the movie. 
The group from church will see the show on Sunday, March 24, with lunch before the show.  More details to follow.

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“Is it I, Lord?” a Maundy Thursday Tableau is coming back to NACCP on Thursday March 28. This is a short drama that tells the story of the disciples and Jesus during the last supper. We need 16 individuals to perform short monologues!  (You don’t have to memorize, although it would be nice) Please sign up with Laurie G PS- stay tuned for Easter schedule
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PAWS is currently in need of blankets.  Please bring them to church if you have donations.

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The Bible Study Group (BSG) meets Mondays at 6:30 pm via Zoom. Dave Johnson is guiding us through the book of Exodus. If you’d like to be added to the Zoom invite list then contact Cynthia at cynthiakwarner@mac.com. We’d love to have newcomers!

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Joanne reminds us all to keep up the food donations for AIM (Anderson Interfaith Ministries)!  Bring your non-perishable items to the church.  This is an on-going need that should become part of everyone’s shopping routine.

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Are you interested in becoming a member of NACCP?  Would you like to make this community your spiritual home?  Please contact Keith at keithdray@gmail.com or at 864-508-1530. 

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Remember in prayer:  Michael Little’s friend Becky; Shea Marsden; Linda McFall; Bonnie Marsden and son Michael; Jackie Moore; Glennie Burns; Mary Alice Mundy; Jason Harding; Madison Bishop (Whitney’s niece); Latha and Cheryl Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; People of Ukraine; People of Israel and Palestine.

NACCP is an inclusive Faith Community that values questions

and the journey to the answers.

Ministry Leader: Dr. Keith Ray
keithdray@gmail.com

Pianist and Choir Director: Polly Dunford

Mailing address: P.O. Box 4346, Anderson, SC 29622

Phone: 864-225-3575

Website:  naccpchurch.org

Church News:  naccpnews@yahoo.com

Instagram:  northandersonccp

Facebook:  NorthAndersonCommunityChurchPresbyterian

Sunday, February 18 at 10:15 a.m. Church Gathering with Rev. Deb Richardson-Moore

1st Sunday of Lent

Today’s service may be viewed on Facebook Live Stream at this link in the comfort of your own home or in person in the sanctuary.  Join us!

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Gathering Music                                   Polly Dunford                  

Welcome and Announcements        Autumn Donnelly

Opening Hymn      “My Life Flows On:                            Hymnal #821

How Can I Keep From Singing?”

1)  My life flows on in endless song, above earth’s lamentation.

I hear the clear, though far-off hymn that hails a new creation.

Refrain:  No storm can shake my inmost calm while to that Rock I’m clinging.

  Since Christ is Lord of heaven and earth, how can I keep from singing?

2)  Through all the tumult and the strife, I hear that music ringing.

It finds an echo in my soul.  How can I keep from singing? Refrain  

3)  What though my joys and comforts die?  I know my Savior liveth.

What though the darkness gather round? Songs in the night he giveth.    Refrain 

4)  The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart, a fountain ever springing!

All things are mine since I am his!  How can I keep from singing?              Refrain 

Scripture Lesson Mark 9: 14-27                  

Sermon       “Drunks Like Us ”                 Rev. Deb Richardson-Moore

Prayers of the Peopl

Closing Hymn and Offertory       “I Want Jesus to Walk with Me”         Hymnal #775 

1)  I want Jesus to walk with me;  I want Jesus to walk with me;

all along my pilgrim journey,  Lord, I want Jesus to walk with me.

2)  In my trials, Lord, walk with me;  in my trials, Lord, walk with me;

when my heart is almost breaking,  Lord, I want Jesus to walk with me.

3)  When I’m in trouble, Lord, walk with me; 

when I’m in trouble, Lord, walk with me;

when my head is bowed in sorrow,  Lord, I want Jesus to walk with me.

Benediction

Discussion

Shalom       (“May you be well and whole and in communion with all creation.”)

                          Shalom, my friends, Shalom, my friends, Shalom, Shalom.

                            Till we meet again, Till we meet again, Shalom, Shalom.

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Calendar of Service -

February 25 - Dr. Keith Ray

March 3 -  Dr. Keith Ray; 1st Sunday Potluck

March 10 - Dr. Keith Ray

March 17 - Rev. Nancy Blakely; Communion; Session meeting

March 24 - Dr. Keith Ray - Palm Sunday

March 31 - Dr. Keith Ray - Easter

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Choir practice will meet every Sunday at 9:25 AM in the choir room. Please come a little early so that you are ready to start on time.  See you all then!  Polly  (864) 940-0640

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There will be a Missions and Outreach committee meeting after church on February 18. See Ann Blackwood if you are interested.
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Kudzu Krew. The recently formed NACCP Kudzu Krew welcomes more members! If you have interest and/or energy to protect our labyrinth from being invaded by kudzu, please let Cynthia know via email. She will introduce you to your own personal kudzu plant and provide whatever help or encouragement you need to "manage" it! (cynthiakwarner@mac.com)
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Check out the FREE concert by the Astralis Chamber Ensemble at St. Andrew Catholic Church in Clemson on Wednesday, March 6 at 7:30 pm. The church acoustics are great! Parking is easy! So mark your calendars!

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Market Theatre presents “Jersey Boys” opening March 8.  Drew Whitley is directing, Thor Raines is choreographing the show, and Rosie Thompson is understudying the role that Joe Pesci had in the movie.  

There is a group planning to see the show on Sunday, March 24.  We will be able to get tickets at a group rate as well as have our block of seats reserved.  If you are interested, please let Karen Manley know.

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“Is it I, Lord?” a Maundy Thursday Tableau is coming back to NACCP on Thursday March 28. This is a short drama that tells the story of the disciples and Jesus during the last supper. We need 16 individuals to perform short monologues!  (You don’t have to memorize, although it would be nice).  Please sign up with Laurie G.  PS - stay tuned for Easter schedule.
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Adopt-A-Highway:  NACCP Trash Collectors will gather on Saturday 24 February at 9:00 AM to collect trash strewn along a one-mile stretch on each side of 4200 Liberty Highway.  The more people we have, the less time we will need!  If you have friends who might be willing to help, please invite them!  

PAWS is currently in need of blankets.  Please bring them to church if you have donations.

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The Bible Study Group (BSG) meets Mondays at 6:30 pm via Zoom. Dave Johnson is guiding us through the book of Exodus. If you’d like to be added to the Zoom invite list then contact Cynthia at cynthiakwarner@mac.com. We’d love to have newcomers!

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Joanne reminds us all to keep up the food donations for AIM (Anderson Interfaith Ministries)!  Bring your non-perishable items to the church.  This is an on-going need that should become part of everyone’s shopping routine.

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Are you interested in becoming a member of NACCP?  Would you like to make this community your spiritual home?  Please contact Keith at keithdray@gmail.com or at 864-508-1530. 

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Remember in prayer:  Michael Little’s friend Becky; Shea Marsden; Linda McFall; Bonnie Marsden and son Michael; Jackie Moore; Glennie Burns; Mary Alice Mundy; Jason Harding; Madison Bishop (Whitney’s niece); Latha and Cheryl Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; People of Ukraine; People of Israel and Palestine.

NACCP is an inclusive Faith Community that values questions

and the journey to the answers.

Ministry Leader: Dr. Keith Ray
keithdray@gmail.com

Pianist and Choir Director: Polly Dunford

Mailing address: P.O. Box 4346, Anderson, SC 29622

Phone: 864-225-3575

Website:  naccpchurch.org

Church News:  naccpnews@yahoo.com

Instagram:  northandersonccp

Facebook:  NorthAndersonCommunityChurchPresbyterian

Sunday, February 11 at 10:15 a.m. Church Gathering with Dr. Keith Ray

Transfiguration Sunday 

Today’s service may be viewed on Facebook Live Stream at this link in the comfort of your own home or in person in the sanctuary.  Join us!

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Gathering Music                                   Polly Dunford                  

Welcome and Announcements           Karen Manley

Call to Worship

From the rising of the sun to its setting

God speaks to us and summons us.

God gathers us in covenant,

God’s glory shines forth.

Let us worship God!

Opening Hymn               “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee”      Hymnal #611

1)  Joyful, joyful, we adore thee, God of glory, Lord of love!

Hearts unfold like flowers before thee, opening to the sun above.

Melt the clouds of sin and sadness; drive the dark of doubt away.

Giver of immortal gladness, fill us with the light of day.

2)  All thy works with joy surround thee; earth and heaven reflect thy rays;

stars and angels sing around thee, center of unbroken praise.

Field and forest, vale and mountain, flowery meadow, flashing sea,

chanting bird and flowing fountain, call us to rejoice in thee.

3)  Mortals, join the happy chorus which the morning stars began.

Love divine is reigning o’er us, joining all in heaven’s plan.

Ever singing, march we onward, victors in the midst of strife.

Joyful music leads us sunward in the triumph song of life.

Scripture Lesson       Mark 9:2-9

Sermon                 “Six Days Later”                 Dr. Keith Ray

Thoughts to ponder: The story of the Transfiguration of Jesus reveals a mystical nature of Jesus. Yet it comes just six days after Jesus announced that suffering was a part of his ministry. I wonder how we, in a period of great suffering, can claim some mystical hope for our future. Let’s consider it in worship. 

Prayers of the People

Closing Hymn and Offertory   Hymnal #191

         “We Have Come at Christ’s Own Bidding”

1)  We have come at Christ’s own bidding to this high and holy place,

where we wait with hope and longing for some token of God’s grace.

Here we pray for new assurance that our faith is not in vain,

searching like those first disciples for a sign both clear and plain.

2)  Light breaks through our clouds and shadows; 

splendor bathes the flesh-joined Word;

Moses and Elijah marvel as the heavenly voice is heard.

Eyes and hearts behold with wonder how the law and prophets meet:

Christ, with garments drenched in brightness, stands transfigured and complete.

3)  Strengthened by this glimpse of glory, fearful lest our faith decline,

we like Peter find it tempting to remain and build a shrine.

But true worship gives us courage to proclaim what we profess,

that our daily lives may prove us people of the God we bless.

Benediction

Discussion

Shalom       (“May you be well and whole and in communion with all creation.”)

                          Shalom, my friends, Shalom, my friends, Shalom, Shalom.

                            Till we meet again, Till we meet again, Shalom, Shalom.

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Calendar of Service -

February 18 - Rev. Deb Richardson-Moore
February 25 - Dr. Keith Ray

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Choir practice will meet every Sunday at 9:25 AM in the choir room. Please come a little early so that you are ready to start on time.  See you all then!  Polly  (864) 940-0640

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February 11 will be Souper Bowl Sunday where we take up a special collection for those who have food insecurity.
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Update to Keenagers announcement:  Keenagers will be on Valentine’s Day, February 14 at 11:00 am. To crochet a beanie, you will need a size H crochet hook. We will have some yarn but if you want to pick out your own yarn, feel free. We will be meeting AT DIANE LEE’S HOUSE - please bring a salad or other snack to share for lunch.

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There will be a Missions and Outreach committee meeting after church on February 18. See Ann Blackwood if you are interested.
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Market Theatre presents “Jersey Boys” opening March 8.  Drew Whitley is directing, Thor Raines is choreographing the show, and Rosie Thompson is understudying the role that Joe Pesci had in the movie.  

There is a group planning to see the show on Sunday, March 24.  We will be able to get tickets at a group rate as well as have our block of seats reserved.  If you are interested, please let Karen Manley know.

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“Is it I, Lord?” a Maundy Thursday Tableau is coming back to NACCP on Thursday March 28. This is a short drama that tells the story of the disciples and Jesus during the last supper. We need 16 individuals to perform short monologues!  (You don’t have to memorize, although it would be nice) Please sign up with Laurie G PS- stay tuned for Easter schedule
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Adopt-A-Highway:  NACCP Trash Collectors will gather on Saturday 24 February at 9:00 AM to collect trash strewn along a one-mile stretch on each side of 4200 Liberty Highway.  The more people we have, the less time we will need!  If you have friends who might be willing to help, please invite them!  

PAWS is currently in need of blankets.  Please bring them to church if you have donations.

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The Bible Study Group (BSG) meets Mondays at 6:30 pm via Zoom. Dave Johnson is guiding us through the book of Exodus. If you’d like to be added to the Zoom invite list then contact Cynthia at cynthiakwarner@mac.com. We’d love to have newcomers!

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Joanne reminds us all to keep up the food donations for AIM (Anderson Interfaith Ministries)!  Bring your non-perishable items to the church.  This is an on-going need that should become part of everyone’s shopping routine.

*********************

Are you interested in becoming a member of NACCP?  Would you like to make this community your spiritual home?  Please contact Keith at keithdray@gmail.com or at 864-508-1530. 

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Remember in prayer:  Shea Marsden; Linda McFall; Bonnie Marsden and son Michael; Jackie Moore; Glennie Burns; Mary Alice Mundy; Jason Harding; Madison Bishop (Whitney’s niece); Latha and Cheryl Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; People of Ukraine; People of Israel and Palestine.

NACCP is an inclusive Faith Community that values questions

and the journey to the answers.

Ministry Leader: Dr. Keith Ray
keithdray@gmail.com

Pianist and Choir Director: Polly Dunford

Mailing address: P.O. Box 4346, Anderson, SC 29622

Phone: 864-225-3575

Website:  naccpchurch.org

Church News:  naccpnews@yahoo.com

Instagram:  northandersonccp

Facebook:  NorthAndersonCommunityChurchPresbyterian

Sunday, February 4 at 10:15 a.m. Church Gathering with Dr. Keith Ray

Today’s service may be viewed on Facebook Live Stream at this link in the comfort of your own home or in person in the sanctuary.  Join us!

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Gathering Music                           Polly Dunford                  

Welcome and Announcements     David Lollis                      

Call to Worship

One: Something drew us together this morning

All: Something we can’t name but which we experience in worship

One: Some holy mystery we call God

All: Some sacred calling we hear in the life of Jesus

One: Some indescribable hope we feel when we gather in the Spirit

All: May our experience of the Divine transform our doubts and fears 

and prepare us to love the world.

Opening Hymn       Potluck Hymn

Scripture Lesson   Mark 1:29-39

Sermon                 “Let’s Go”                 Dr. Keith Ray

Thoughts to Ponder:  In today’s passage from Mark, Jesus leaves a town where people are amazed at his work and teaching.  

When they want to have more time with Jesus, he decides to leave.  

Let’s explore the WHY of Jesus’ mission and seek to understand why he leaves.  

Could there be a message for us in Jesus’ act of taking his message near and far?  

Is it possible for the church to become too comfortable and risk-averse? 

Let’s consider this text together. 

Prayers of the People

Closing Hymn and Offertory             Potluck Hymn   

Benediction

Discussion

Shalom       (“May you be well and whole and in communion with all creation.”)

                          Shalom, my friends, Shalom, my friends, Shalom, Shalom.

                            Till we meet again, Till we meet again, Shalom, Shalom.

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Please join us for our 1st Sunday Potluck meal.

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Calendar of Service -

February 11 - Dr. Keith Ray
February 18 - Rev. Deb Richardson-Moore
February 25 - Dr. Keith Ray

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Choir practice will meet every Sunday at 9:25 AM in the choir room. Please come a little early so that you are ready to start on time.  See you all then!  Polly  (864) 940-0640

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Remember our Red Cross Blood Drive on Wednesday, February 7, from 2-7 pm.  Schedule your appointment today!  1-800-RED CROSS | RedCrossBlood.org

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Reminder that PFLAG meets the second Thursday of the month at NACCP at 7 pm.
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The next Keenagers event will be crochet lessons and a Valentine’s Day celebration on Wednesday, February 14 at 11 am at NACCP.
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PAWS is currently in need of blankets.  Please bring them to church if you have donations.

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The Bible Study Group (BSG) meets Mondays at 6:30 pm via Zoom. Dave Johnson is guiding us through the book of Exodus. If you’d like to be added to the Zoom invite list then contact Cynthia at cynthiakwarner@mac.com. We’d love to have newcomers!

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Joanne reminds us all to keep up the food donations for AIM (Anderson Interfaith Ministries)!  Bring your non-perishable items to the church.  This is an on-going need that should become part of everyone’s shopping routine.

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Are you interested in becoming a member of NACCP?  Would you like to make this community your spiritual home?  Please contact Keith at keithdray@gmail.com or at 864-508-1530. 

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Remember in prayer:  Shea Marsden; Linda McFall; Bonnie Marsden and son Michael; Jackie Moore; Glennie Burns; Mary Alice Mundy; Jason Harding; Madison Bishop (Whitney’s niece); Latha and Cheryl Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; People of Ukraine; People of Israel and Palestine.

NACCP is an inclusive Faith Community that values questions

and the journey to the answers.

Ministry Leader: Dr. Keith Ray
keithdray@gmail.com

Pianist and Choir Director: Polly Dunford

Mailing address: P.O. Box 4346, Anderson, SC 29622

Phone: 864-225-3575

Website:  naccpchurch.org

Church News:  naccpnews@yahoo.com

Instagram:  northandersonccp

Facebook:  NorthAndersonCommunityChurchPresbyterian

Sunday, January 28 at 10:15 a.m. Church Gathering with Dr. Keith Ray

Today’s service may be viewed on Facebook Live Stream at this link in the comfort of your own home or in person in the sanctuary.  Join us!

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Gathering Music                            Polly Dunford                  

Welcome and Announcements       Rosie Thompson                

Call to Worship

When the way is difficult and dangerous,
let us still choose what is good and just.

When evil comes to break us down and break us apart,
let us still choose to carry on with each other.

When power from on high strikes fear in our hearts,
let us still choose the courage to persist.

For we know that the love and power of God, which abides in us, will not be overcome.

Opening Hymn       “Morning Has Broken”          Hymnal #664 

      Words by Eleanor Farjeon; Music is a Gaelic melody

      1)  Morning has broken like the first morning; blackbird has spoken like the first bird.

          Praise for the singing! Praise for the morning! Praise for them, springing fresh  

            from the Word! 

    2)  Sweet the rain’s new fall sunlit from heaven, like the first dewfall on the first grass.

         Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden, sprung in completeness where God’s feet pass.

     3)  Mine is the sunlight! Mine is the morning, born of the one light Eden saw play!

          Praise with elation; praise every morning, God’s recreation of the new day!  

Tending Creation                           Cynthia Warner

Scripture Lesson                Mark 1:21-28

Sermon               “The Healing Service”                Dr. Keith Ray

Thoughts: Throughout the Gospels, Jesus is portrayed as a healer. 

What do these narratives have to say to us?  The whole idea of healing can put us in mind of a religious huckster, but is there something to learn from the healing ministry of Jesus?  Perhaps. 

Prayers of the People

Closing Hymn and Offertory    “We Come to You for Healing, Lord”         Hymnal #796 

1)  We come to you for healing, Lord, of body, mind, and soul,

and pray that by your Spirit’s touch we may again be whole. 

2)  As once you walked through ancient streets and reached toward those in pain,

we know you come among us still with power to heal again.  

3)  You touch us through physicians’ skills, through nurses’ gifts of care,

and through the love of faithful friends who lift our lives in prayer.

4)  Through nights of pain and wakefulness, through days when strength runs low,

grant us your gift of patience, Lord, your calming peace to know.

5)  We come to you, O loving Lord, in our distress and pain,

in trust that through our nights and days your grace will heal, sustain.

Benediction

Discussion

Shalom       (“May you be well and whole and in communion with all creation.”)

                          Shalom, my friends, Shalom, my friends, Shalom, Shalom.

                            Till we meet again, Till we meet again, Shalom, Shalom.

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Calendar of Service -

February 4 - Dr. Keith Ray, 1st Sunday Potluck meal
February 11 - Dr. Keith Ray
February 18 - Rev. Deb Richardson-Moore
February 25 - Dr. Keith Ray

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Choir practice will start again on Sunday, January 28 at 9:25 AM in the choir room. Please come a little early to put your music in a folder and make notes. See you all then! Polly (864) 940-0640

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February 4 - Potluck Hymn Sunday - Pick a hymn, write its name and number on the paper provided, and put your completed paper in the basket on the Communion table.

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Remember our Red Cross Blood Drive on Wednesday, February 7, from 2-7 pm.  Schedule your appointment today!  1-800-RED CROSS | RedCrossBlood.org

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Reminder that PFLAG meets the second Thursday of the month at NACCP at 7 pm.
******************

The next Keenagers event will be crochet lessons and a Valentine’s Day celebration on Wednesday, February 14 at 11 am at NACCP.
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PAWS is currently in need of blankets.  Please bring them to church if you have donations.

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The Bible Study Group (BSG) meets Mondays at 6:30 pm via Zoom. Dave Johnson is guiding us through the book of Exodus. If you’d like to be added to the Zoom invite list then contact Cynthia at cynthiakwarner@mac.com. We’d love to have newcomers!

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Joanne reminds us all to keep up the food donations for AIM (Anderson Interfaith Ministries)!  Bring your non-perishable items to the church.  This is an on-going need that should become part of everyone’s shopping routine.

*********************

Are you interested in becoming a member of NACCP?  Would you like to make this community your spiritual home?  Please contact Keith at keithdray@gmail.com or at 864-508-1530. 

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Remember in prayer:  Linda McFall; Bonnie Marsden and son Michael; Jackie Moore; Glennie Burns; Mary Alice Mundy; Jason Harding; Madison Bishop (Whitney’s niece); Latha and Cheryl Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; People of Ukraine; People of Israel and Palestine.

NACCP is an inclusive Faith Community that values questions

and the journey to the answers.

Ministry Leader: Dr. Keith Ray
keithdray@gmail.com

Pianist and Choir Director: Polly Dunford

Mailing address: P.O. Box 4346, Anderson, SC 29622

Phone: 864-225-3575

Website:  naccpchurch.org

Church News:  naccpnews@yahoo.com

Instagram:  northandersonccp

Facebook:  NorthAndersonCommunityChurchPresbyterian

Sunday, January 21 at 10:15 a.m. Church Gathering with Dr. Keith Ray

Today’s service may be viewed on Facebook Live Stream at this link in the comfort of your own home or in person in the sanctuary.  Join us!

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Gathering Music                           Polly Dunford                  

Welcome and Announcements       Jax Collins            

Call to Worship

Children of God: welcome!

Welcome to this place of love and grace.

Welcome to this place of hope and perseverance.

God invites all of us to be a part of the beloved community.

God invites all of us to share in the good news:

We are welcome, just as we are. We are loved, just as we are.

In gratitude for all of this, let us worship God.

Opening Hymn       “Let Us Build a House - All are Welcome” Hymnal #301 

1)  Let us build a house where love can dwell and all can safely live,

a place where saints and children tell how hearts learn to forgive.

Built of hopes and dreams and visions, rock of faith and vault of grace;

here the love of Christ shall end divisions:  

all are welcome; all are welcome; all are welcome in this place.

2)  Let us build a house where prophets speak, and words are strong and true,

where all God’s children dare to seek to dream God’s reign anew.

Here the cross shall stand as witness and as symbol of God’s grace;

here as one we claim the faith of Jesus:  

all are welcome; all are welcome; all are welcome in this place.

3)  Let us build a house where love is found in water, wine, and wheat;

a banquet hall on holy ground where peace and justice meet.

Here the love of God, through Jesus, is revealed in time and space;

as we share in Christ the feast that frees us:   

all are welcome; all are welcome; all are welcome in this place.

4)  Let us build a house where hands will reach beyond the wood and stone 

to heal and strengthen, serve and teach and live the Word they’ve known.

Here the outcast and the stranger bear the image of God’s face;

let us bring an end to fear and danger:   

all are welcome; all are welcome; all are welcome in this place.

5)  Let us build a house where all are named, their songs and visions heard

and loved and treasured, taught and claimed as words within the Word.

Built of tears and cries and laughter, prayers of faith and songs of grace;

let this house proclaim from floor to rafter:   

all are welcome; all are welcome; all are welcome in this place.

Scripture Lesson                  Jonah 3:1-5, 10    

Sermon               “When God Cannot be Trusted”             Dr. Keith Ray

Thoughts to Consider: One of the hazards of religion is that the followers of said religion can begin to see themselves as separate and, therefore, better than particular groups of other people.  Even progressives justify classifying persons in categories of the enlightened versus the unenlightened.  It even happens in scripture.  But occasionally the universality of Divine love shows up and reminds us that the expanse of the human family is far and wide, inviting us to become uncomfortable in sharing community with the diversity of God’s human creation. Perhaps we can learn something of this in an old fish story!

Prayers of the People

Closing Hymn and Offertory                “Walls Mark Our Bound’ries”                Handout 

      Words by Ruth Duck; Music by Jim Strathdee

Words-1996. The Pilgrim Press.  Music-1997. The Pilgrim Press.  All rights reserved.

1)  Walls mark our bound’ries and keep us apart; 

walls keep the world from our eyes and our heart.

Tables are round making room for one more,

welcoming friends we had not known before.

So build us a table and tear down the wall!  

Christ is our host.  There is room for us all!

2)  Walls make us sure who is in and who’s out;

walls keep us safe from all question and doubt,

but at a table in open exchange

new ties are formed as our lives rearrange.

So build us a table and tear down the wall!  

Christ is our host.  There is room for us all!

3)  Once we were strangers, divided, alone.

Hate and distrust built a wall stone by stone.

Now at a table the bread that we share

joins us to Christ in a circle of care.

So build us a table and tear down the wall!  

Christ is our host.  There is room for us all!

Benediction

Discussion

Shalom       (“May you be well and whole and in communion with all creation.”)

                          Shalom, my friends, Shalom, my friends, Shalom, Shalom.

                            Till we meet again, Till we meet again, Shalom, Shalom.

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Reprinted with permission under One License #A-625711.  All rights reserved.

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Calendar of Service -

January 28 - Dr. Keith Ray

February 4 - Dr. Keith Ray, 1st Sunday Potluck meal
February 11 - Dr. Keith Ray
February 18 - TBD
February 25 - Dr. Keith Ray

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Choir practice will start again on Sunday, January 28 at 9:25 AM in the choir room. Please come a little early to put your music in a folder with a pencil. See you all then! Polly (864) 940-0640

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February 4 - Potluck Hymn Sunday - Pick a hymn, write its name and number on the paper provided, and put your completed paper in the basket on the Communion table.

******************

Reminder that PFLAG meets the second Thursday of the month at NACCP at 7 pm.
******************

The next Keenagers event will be crochet lessons and a Valentine’s Day celebration on Wednesday, February 14 at 11 am at NACCP.
********************
PAWS is currently in need of blankets.  Please bring them to church if you have donations.

******************

The Bible Study Group (BSG) meets Mondays at 6:30 pm via Zoom. Dave Johnson is guiding us through the book of Exodus. If you’d like to be added to the Zoom invite list then contact Cynthia at cynthiakwarner@mac.com. We’d love to have newcomers!

*********************

Joanne reminds us all to keep up the food donations for AIM (Anderson Interfaith Ministries)!  Bring your non-perishable items to the church.  This is an on-going need that should become part of everyone’s shopping routine.

*********************

Are you interested in becoming a member of NACCP?  Would you like to make this community your spiritual home?  Please contact Keith at keithdray@gmail.com or at 864-508-1530. 

**************************

Remember in prayer:  Linda McFall; Bonnie Marsden and son Michael; Jackie Moore; Glennie Burns; Mary Alice Mundy; Jason Harding; Madison Bishop (Whitney’s niece); Latha and Cheryl Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; People of Ukraine; People of Israel and Palestine.

NACCP is an inclusive Faith Community that values questions

and the journey to the answers.

Ministry Leader: Dr. Keith Ray
keithdray@gmail.com

Pianist and Choir Director: Polly Dunford

Mailing address: P.O. Box 4346, Anderson, SC 29622

Phone: 864-225-3575

Website:  naccpchurch.org

Church News:  naccpnews@yahoo.com

Instagram:  northandersonccp

Facebook:  NorthAndersonCommunityChurchPresbyterian

Sunday, January 14 at 10:15 a.m. Church Gathering with Rev. Dr. Steve Morgan

Today’s service may be viewed on Facebook Live Stream at this link in the comfort of your own home or in person in the sanctuary.  Join us!

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Gathering Music                                  Polly Dunford                  

Welcome and Announcements           Jason Harding    

Opening Refections – Responsive Reading  

Quotations from the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C.

"We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
Washington National Cathedral, March 31, 1968

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."
Strength to Love, 1963

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 1964

"Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in."
March for Integrated Schools, April 18, 1959

"I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example to the world."
Anti-War Conference, Los Angeles, California, February 26, 1967

"If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective."
Christmas sermon, Atlanta, Georgia, 1967

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
Letter from Birmingham, Alabama jail, April 16, 1963

"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits."
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 1964

"It is not enough to say 'We must not wage war.' It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but the positive affirmation of peace."
Anti-War Conference, Los Angeles, California, February 25, 1967

"Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies."
New York City, April 4, 1967

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice."
Stride Toward Freedom, 1958

Opening Hymn         “We Shall Overcome” Hymnal #379

1)  We shall overcome; we shall overcome; we shall overcome someday.

Refrain:  O, deep in my heart I do believe we shall overcome someday!

2)  We’ll walk hand in hand; we’ll walk hand in hand; we’ll walk hand in hand someday. Refrain

3)  We shall all be free; we shall all be free; we shall all be free someday.  Refrain

4)  We shall live in peace; we shall live in peace; we shall live in peace someday.

Refrain

Message     “Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.:”            Rev. Dr. Steve Morgan

                                   ---  incorporating Amos 5:21-24   —

Ordination and Installation of New Elders                 Rev. Nancy Blakely

                                                                                        Karen Manley                                                                              Prayers of the People

Closing Hymn and Offertory                “Lift Every Voice and Sing”            Hymnal #339

1)  Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty.

Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us;

sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us.

Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, let us march on, till victory is won.

2)  Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died.

Yet, with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our parents sighed?

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered;

we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,

out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. 

3)  God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;

thou who hast by thy might led us into the light, keep us forever in the path, we pray.

Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee;

lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee;

shadowed beneath thy hand may we forever stand, true to our God, true to our native land.

Benediction

Discussion

Shalom       (“May you be well and whole and in communion with all creation.”)

                          Shalom, my friends, Shalom, my friends, Shalom, Shalom.

                            Till we meet again, Till we meet again, Shalom, Shalom.

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Calendar of Service -

January 21 - Dr. Keith Ray

January 28 - Dr. Keith Ray

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The next Anderson Forum for Progressive Theology event is Sunday, January 14 at 3 pm will be Rev. Gretta vosper of West Hill Untied Church of Canada.

1. Join the in-person “watch party” at the Anderson County Library (Rooms B&C) to view with a group (and snacks!) - No registration necessary.  This is a great option if you want to meet and talk with fellow progressives.

2. view at home alone - Zoom registration required at aftponline.org

3. Create your own satellite “watch party” with friends - Zoom registration required at

afptonline.org

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February 4 - Potluck Hymn Sunday - Pick a hymn, write its name and number on the paper provided, and put your completed paper in the basket on the Communion table.

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PAWS is currently in need of blankets.  Please bring them to church if you have donations.

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The Bible Study Group (BSG) meets Mondays at 6:30 pm via Zoom. Dave Johnson is guiding us through the book of Exodus. If you’d like to be added to the Zoom invite list then contact Cynthia at cynthiakwarner@mac.com. We’d love to have newcomers!

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Joanne reminds us all to keep up the food donations for AIM (Anderson Interfaith Ministries)!  Bring your non-perishable items to the church.  This is an on-going need that should become part of everyone’s shopping routine.

*********************

Are you interested in becoming a member of NACCP?  Would you like to make this community your spiritual home?  Please contact Keith at keithdray@gmail.com or at 864-508-1530. 

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Remember in prayer:  Linda McFall; Bonnie Marsden and son Michael; Jackie Moore; Glennie Burns; Mary Alice Mundy; Jason Harding; Madison Bishop (Whitney’s niece); Latha and Cheryl Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; People of Ukraine; People of Israel and Palestine.

NACCP is an inclusive Faith Community that values questions

and the journey to the answers.

Ministry Leader: Dr. Keith Ray
keithdray@gmail.com

Pianist and Choir Director: Polly Dunford

Mailing address: P.O. Box 4346, Anderson, SC 29622

Phone: 864-225-3575

Website:  naccpchurch.org

Church News:  naccpnews@yahoo.com

Instagram:  northandersonccp

Facebook:  NorthAndersonCommunityChurchPresbyterian

Sunday, January 7, 2024 at 10:15 a.m. Church Gathering with Dr. Keith Ray

Epiphany Sunday

Today’s service may be viewed on Facebook Live Stream at this link in the comfort of your own home or in person in the sanctuary.  Join us!

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Gathering Music                                   Polly Dunford                  

Welcome and Announcements           Laurie Gentry    

Call to Worship

One:  As the sun climbs from the horizon

Many:  God’s presence endures with us.

One:  As the clouds mask the sun’s warming presence,

Many:  God’s presence remains with us.

One:  As the sun drifts back to the horizon,

Many:  God’s presence lingers with us.

One:  As light rests until morning,

Many:  God’s presence persists with us.

Opening Hymn “Who Sweep the Stable?”         Handout 

  Words by Shirley Erena Murray;  Music by Jim Strathdee

    Words - 2004. Hope Publishing Co.  All rights reserved.

    Music - 2004. Desert Flower Music.  All rights reserved.  

1)  Who sweep the stable when Christmas is over,

who clear the table, the crumbs of the meal?

Practical people, compassionate people,

people not proud to take basin and kneel.

2)  Who take the load for the helpless and hurting,

who drive the road when the crisis is there?

People of spirit, compassionate people,

people with hands at the ready to care.

3)  Who are the first to bring calm into chaos,

who tend the worst and restore what is best?

Heart and soul people, compassionate people,                   

saviors and servants, humanity’s test.

4)  God give us eyes for the needs of our neighbor.

God make us wise to the actions that bless,

being your servants and taking directions,

gladly and instantly answering “Yes!” 

                                                                                                                                                                              Scripture             Matthew 2:1-12  

Sermon                 “The Stars of Epiphany”                       Dr. Keith Ray

Celebrating the New Year with Epiphany Stars

Prayers of the People

Closing Hymn and Offertory                               Handout

                        “Now the Star of Christmas (Three Faiths Epiphany Carol)”        

Words by Shirley Erena Murray; Music by Jim Strathdee. The tune is Becker.

Words - 2008. Hope Publishing Co.  All rights reserved.

Music - 2008.  Desert Flower Music.  All rights reserved.

1)  Now the star of Christmas shines into our day, 

points a new direction: change is on the way —

there’s another landscape to be travelled through,

there’s a newborn spirit broadening our view.

2)  When the Christ of Christmas speaks to heart and mind,

clears the clouded vision hurting humankind,

kindred spirits gather, drawn toward the light,

sharing revelation, joyful at the sight.

3)  If we choose to follow, we may yet be wise:

where the three kings travel, three great faiths arise:

Jesus Christ for Christians, Jesus, Judah’s son,

Prophet for the Muslim, truth within each one.

4)  Where the star enlightens, light is shared around.

God has drawn no borders, faith sees common ground:

Peace the hopeful journey, justice without bar,

God’s illumination from the Christmas star.

Benediction

Discussion

Shalom       (“May you be well and whole and in communion with all creation.”)

                          Shalom, my friends, Shalom, my friends, Shalom, Shalom.

                            Till we meet again, Till we meet again, Shalom, Shalom.

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Reprinted with permission under One License #A-625711.  All rights reserved.

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Please join us for our 1st Sunday Potluck meal.

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Calendar of Service -

January 14 – Rev. Dr. Steve Morgan — New Elder ordination and installation; 

Session meeting

January 21 - Dr. Keith Ray

January 28 - Dr. Keith Ray

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February 4 - Potluck Hymn Sunday - Pick a hymn, write its name and number on the paper provided, and put your completed paper in the basket on the Communion table.

******************

PAWS is currently in need of blankets.  Please bring them to church if you have donations.

******************

The Bible Study Group (BSG) meets Mondays at 6:30 pm via Zoom. Dave Johnson is guiding us through the book of Exodus. If you’d like to be added to the Zoom invite list then contact Cynthia at cynthiakwarner@mac.com. We’d love to have newcomers!

*********************

Joanne reminds us all to keep up the food donations for AIM (Anderson Interfaith Ministries)!  Bring your non-perishable items to the church.  This is an on-going need that should become part of everyone’s shopping routine.

*********************

Are you interested in becoming a member of NACCP?  Would you like to make this community your spiritual home?  Please contact Keith at keithdray@gmail.com or at 864-508-1530. 

**************************

Remember in prayer:  Ann Blackwood; Linda McFall; Bonnie Marsden and son Michael; Jackie Moore; Glennie Burns; Mary Alice Mundy; Jason Harding; Madison Bishop (Whitney’s niece); Latha and Cheryl Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; People of Ukraine; People of Israel and Palestine.

NACCP is an inclusive Faith Community that values questions

and the journey to the answers.

Ministry Leader: Dr. Keith Ray
keithdray@gmail.com

Pianist and Choir Director: Polly Dunford

Mailing address: P.O. Box 4346, Anderson, SC 29622

Phone: 864-225-3575

Website:  naccpchurch.org

Church News:  naccpnews@yahoo.com

Instagram:  northandersonccp

Facebook:  NorthAndersonCommunityChurchPresbyterian

Sunday, December 31 at 10:15 a.m. Church Gathering with Rev. Dr. Steve Morgan

Today’s service may be viewed on Facebook Live Stream at this link in the comfort of your own home or in person in the sanctuary.  Join us!

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Gathering Music                   Polly Dunford                  

Welcome and Announcements       Bonnie Marsden

                             Shea Marsden

Call to Reflection - Insights by a Friend

Who am I?

A link between generations,

The two that went before

And two that will come after.

Child – a mother

Begetter and begot.

But more than that

Tenuous generations bind me to many generations past

And many in the future

Will hold a feel of me within their personal ties. 

I am strengthened or reduced

By what has gone before

And will, in turn, fortify or weaken

Those who follow on.

Still more than this

I do not walk alone.

Many, in my three score years and ten

Will tread the way beside me,

The web of life joining my life with theirs.

Maybe just for a moment our lives are one

And I can build or weaken that beside me

As they do that to me

And enhance or detract from the whole of humankind.

And if I choose to live just for myself

What strength am I withholding from my fellow man.

And more besides,

Somehow, I am linked

With worlds I cannot see – but only feel.

And do these other worlds suffer or rejoice because of me.

We like to think we are autonomous,

That we can live just as we like,

But are we, by our refusal to hold hands with our fellow man -

Behind, beside, around

Making many holes in the web of life

And threatening to bring the whole lot down.

A child - an adult

Or eternally a child until I learn the secret of the universe

And uncomplainingly fill my place within it

Giving and receiving, constructively reacting with all around me.

Opening Hymn              “Spirit of Life”                   Handout

Words and Music by Carolyn McDade; Harmony by Grace Lewis-McLaren

Words and Music-1981. Carolyn McDade. All rights reserved.

Harmony-1992. Unitarian Universalist Association. All rights reserved.

Spirit of Life, come unto me.

Sing in my heart all the stirrings of compassion.

Blow in the wind, rise in the sea;

move in the hand, giving life the shape of justice.

Roots hold me close; wings set me free; 

Spirit of Life, come to me, come to me.  

Scripture                     Matthew 4:23-25

Sermon   “Thoughts on Facing the Storm”                   Rev. Dr. Steve Morgan

Prayers of the People

Closing Hymn and Offertory           “We’ll Build a Land”                  Handout

Words by Barbara Zanotti; Music by Carolyn McDade

Arranged by Betsy Jo Angebranndt

Words and Music - 1979. Surtsey Publishing Co. All rights reserved.

Arrangement - 1992. Unitarian Universalist Association. All rights reserved.

1)  We’ll build a land where we bind up the broken.

We’ll build a land where the captives go free, 

where the oil of gladness dissolves all mourning.

Oh, we’ll build a promised land that can be.

Refrain:  Come build a land where sisters and brothers, anointed by God,

may then create peace: where justice shall roll down like waters,

and peace like an ever flowing stream.

2)  We’ll build a land where we bring the good tidings 

to all the afflicted and all those who mourn.

And we’ll give them garlands instead of ashes.

Oh, we’ll build a land where peace is born. Refrain

3)  We’ll be a land building up ancient cities,

raising up devastations from old;

restoring ruins of generations.

Oh, we’ll build a land of people so bold. Refrain

4)  Come, build a land where the mantles of praises

resound from spirits once faint and once weak;

where like oaks of righteousness stand her people.

Oh, come build the land, my people we seek. Refrain

Benediction

Shalom       (“May you be well and whole and in communion with all creation.”)

                          Shalom, my friends, Shalom, my friends, Shalom, Shalom.

                            Till we meet again, Till we meet again, Shalom, Shalom.

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Please stay after worship service to help undecorate the church.

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Calendar of Service -

January 7 - Dr. Keith Ray — Epiphany Stars; 1st Sunday Potluck meal

January 14 – Dr. Keith Ray — New Elder ordination and installation; Session meeting

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January 14 - Potluck Hymn Sunday - Pick a hymn, write its name and number on the paper provided, and put your completed paper in the basket on the Communion table before Jan. 14.

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PAWS is currently in need of blankets.  Please bring them to church if you have donations.

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The Bible Study Group (BSG) meets Mondays at 6:30 pm via Zoom. Dave Johnson is guiding us through the book of Exodus. If you’d like to be added to the Zoom invite list then contact Cynthia at cynthiakwarner@mac.com. We’d love to have newcomers!

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Joanne reminds us all to keep up the food donations for AIM (Anderson Interfaith Ministries)!  Bring your non-perishable items to the church.  This is an on-going need that should become part of everyone’s shopping routine.

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Are you interested in becoming a member of NACCP?  Would you like to make this community your spiritual home?  Please contact Keith at keithdray@gmail.com or at 864-508-1530. 

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Remember in prayer:  Ann Blackwood; Linda McFall; Bonnie Marsden and son Michael; Jackie Moore; Glennie Burns; Mary Alice Mundy; Jason Harding; Madison Bishop (Whitney’s niece); Latha and Cheryl Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; People of Ukraine; People of Israel and Palestine.

NACCP is an inclusive Faith Community that values questions

and the journey to the answers.

Ministry Leader: Dr. Keith Ray
keithdray@gmail.com

Pianist and Choir Director: Polly Dunford

Mailing address: P.O. Box 4346, Anderson, SC 29622

Phone: 864-225-3575

Website:  naccpchurch.org

Church News:  naccpnews@yahoo.com

Instagram:  northandersonccp

Facebook:  NorthAndersonCommunityChurchPresbyterian

Sunday, December 24 at 7:00 p.m. Christmas Eve Service with Dr. Keith Ray

Merry Christmas  

Tonight’s service may be viewed on Facebook Live Stream at this link in the comfort of your own home or in person in the sanctuary.  Join us!

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Gathering Music                                               Polly Dunford                  

                                                         Laurie Gentry

Advent Litany - Part 1 (light the four candles)    Dr. Keith Ray

Leader:  The Light of Christ is born anew this night in your heart.

Assembly:  And also yours.

Leader:  In the beginning, Light shines in the darkness –

Loving, Beautiful, Good –

giving birth to all creation,

the center, the heart, of unfolding life.

The Light graces all creation as God’s presence.

Assembly: The Light is Christ.

Special Music       “Silent Night”                        Adrienne Lee

          Words by Joseph Mohr; Music by Franz Gruber 

Advent Litany - Part 2                                 Dr. Keith Ray

Leader:  The Light is the child of Mary and Joseph.

Assembly:  The Light is Love.

Leader:  The Light is a Jewish mystic, sage, and prophet.

Assembly:  The Light is Beautiful.

Leader:  The Light is life in the midst of death.

Assembly:  The Light is Good.

Leader:  May Christ, the Light, reveal to all who would see

the wisdom and wonder of God’s boundless love.

All: Amen.

Anthem  “Pass the Advent Light”

Words by Patrick M. Liebergen and John M. Neale;

Music is a traditional canon and “Veni Emmanuel”; Arranged by Patrick M. Liebergen

Lighting the Christ Candle                                 Dr. Keith Ray

Hymn                      “Angels We Have Heard on High” (verses 1 & 2)

                       Words: French carol, translated by James Chadwick 

                          Music: French carol, arranged by Edward Shippen Barnes

1)  Angels we have heard on high, sweetly singing o’er the plains,

and the mountains in reply echoing their joyous strains.

Glo-ri-a in excelsis De-o!  Glo-ri-a in excelsis De-o!

2)  Shepherds, why this jubilee?  Why your joyous strains prolong?

What the gladsome tidings be which inspire your heavenly song?

Glo-ri-a in excelsis De-o!  Glo-ri-a in excelsis De-o!

Special Music    “The Hands That First Held Mary’s Child”       Lilliana Sanchez

      Words by Thomas Troeger; Music by Dan Forrest

Scripture   Luke 2, selected verses

Sermon        “We May be in the Wrong Place!”        Dr. Keith Ray

Sharing the Light of Christ

As the light is passed from one candle to the next, tip the unlit candle into the flame of the lit candle.   Join in singing “Silent Night”.

1. Silent night, holy night!  All is calm, all is bright ‘round yon virgin mother and child!

Holy Infant, so tender and mild, sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace.

2)  Silent night, holy night! Shepherds quake at the sight; glories stream from heaven afar,

heavenly hosts sing “Alleluia: Christ the Savior is born; Christ the Savior is born!”

3)  Silent night, holy night! Son of God, love’s pure light radiant beams from thy holy face,

with the dawn of redeeming grace, Jesus, Lord, at thy birth, Jesus, Lord, at thy birth. 

Silent Meditation

An Invitation to the Love Feast

Holy God, source of life and without end,

we give thanks to you!

You continually call all life into being,

cradling your creation in compassion.

You spread out the heavens like a tent and

enclose the seas.

You fill the world with wondrous creatures and

know all things as truly good.

Holy God,

as You visit us in the birth of Jesus,

heal our blindness

so that we may see your presence now

always within and among us.

In these gifts of food and drink, bind us together as a community and help us to taste the banquet of heaven here on earth.

Distribution of Food and Drink

Benediction

Shalom

Fellowship Time

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Calendar of Service -

December 31 - Rev. Dr. Steve Morgan

January 3 - Keenagers Hymn Fest 

January 7 - Dr. Keith Ray

Epiphany Stars

1st Sunday Potluck meal

Elder training after service

January 14 - Dr. Keith Ray

Ordination and Installation of Elders

Session meeting 

January 21 -  TBD

January 28 -  TBD

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Remember in prayer:  Katie Hagen; Ann Blackwood; Linda McFall; Bonnie Marsden and son Michael; Jackie Moore; Glennie Burns; Mary Alice Mundy; Jason Harding; Madison Bishop (Whitney’s niece); Latha and Cheryl Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; People of Ukraine; People of Israel and Palestine.

NACCP is an inclusive Faith Community that values questions

and the journey to the answers.

Ministry Leader: Dr. Keith Ray
keithdray@gmail.com

Pianist and Choir Director: Polly Dunford

Mailing address: P.O. Box 4346, Anderson, SC 29622

Phone: 864-225-3575

Website:  naccpchurch.org

Church News:  naccpnews@yahoo.com

Instagram:  northandersonccp

Facebook:  NorthAndersonCommunityChurchPresbyterianformation to follow

Sunday, December 24 at 10:15 a.m. Church Gathering with Dr. Keith Ray

4th Sunday of Advent

A Service of Lessons and Carols 

Today’s service may be viewed on Facebook Live Stream at this link in the comfort of your own home or in person in the sanctuary.  Join us!

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Gathering Music                                      Polly Dunford                  

Welcome and Announcements                   Lin Hagen        

Advent Song “When God is a Child”  (verses 1-4)                   Handout

        Words by Brian Wren; Music by Joan Collier Fogg

1989. Hope Publishing Co.  All rights reserved.

Hope is a star that shines in the night, leading us on till the morning is bright.

When God is a child there’s joy in our song. The last shall be first and

the weak shall be strong, and none shall be afraid.

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Peace is a ribbon that circles the earth, giving a promise of safety and worth.

When God is a child there’s joy in our song.  The last shall be first and

the weak shall be strong, and none shall be afraid.

Joy is a song that welcomes the dawn, telling the world that Jesus is born.

When God is a child there’s joy in our song.  The last shall be first and

the weak shall be strong, and none shall be afraid.

Love is a flame that burns in our heart, Jesus has come and will never depart.

When God is a child there’s joy in our song.  The last shall be first and

the weak shall be strong, and none shall be afraid.

Fourth Sunday of Advent —Lighting the Fourth Advent Candle of Love        Lin Hagen

Katie Hagen

(Begin with the first three candles relit)

Voice 1: “Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart.” (Luke 2:19)

Voice 2: What does love feel like in the new world?

Voice 1: Love feels like knowing I am a sacred piece of a magnificent whole.

Many Voices:  Love feels like acceptance and gratitude.  Love feels like being cherished.

Voice 2: Advent is the beginning of this new world, a better world, where you, and me, and all of God’s creation are treasured and beloved.

Voice 1: May it be so.

Voice 2: (Fourth Advent candle is lit.)  Amen.

Many Voices: Amen

Opening Hymn “O Come All Ye Faithful” Hymnal #133

1)  O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant; 

O come ye; O come ye to Bethlehem!

Come and behold him, born the King of angels!

Refrain:  O come, let us adore him; O come, let us adore him;

    O come, let us adore him, Christ, the Lord! 

2)  True God from true God, Light from light eternal,

born of a virgin, a mortal he comes;

very God, begotten, not created!  Refrain

        3)  Sing, choirs of angels; sing in exultation;

        sing, all ye citizens of heaven above!

Glory to God, all glory in the highest! Refrain

4)  Yea, Lord, we greet thee, born this happy morning;

Jesus, to thee be all glory given; 

Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing!   Refrain

Lessons and Carols

First Lesson: Genesis 1:26-38; 5:1b-2  [God blesses humankind]

• Joy to the World, Hymnal #134, Verses 1-4

1)  Joy to the world, the Lord is come!  Let earth receive her king;

let every heart prepare him room, and heaven and nature sing,

and heaven and nature sing, and heaven and heaven and nature sing.

2)  Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns!  Let all their songs employ,

while fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains repeat the sounding joy,

repeat the sounding joy, repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

3)  No more let sins and sorrows grow, nor thorns infest the ground;

he comes to make his blessings flow far as the curse is found,

far as the curse is found, far as, far as the curse is found.

4)  He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove 

the glories of his righteousness and wonders of his love,

and wonders of his love, and wonders, wonders of his love.

Second Lesson: Genesis 9:8-17  [God establishes the covenant with Noah.]  

• O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright, Hymnal #827, Verse 1

1)  O Morning Star, how fair and bright!  

You shine with God’s own truth and light, aglow with grace and mercy!

Of Jacob’s line, King David’s son, our Lord and Savior,

you have won our hearts to serve you only!  Lowly, holy!

Great and glorious, all victorious, rich in blessing!

Rule and might o’er all possessing!  

Third Lesson: Isaiah 9:2; 6–7  [Christ’s birth foretold.]

• Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus, Hymnal #83, Verses 1-4

1)  Come, thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free;

from our fears and sins release us; let us find our rest in thee.

2)  Israel’s strength and consolation, hope of all the earth thou art;

dear desire of every nation, joy of every longing heart.

3)  Born thy people to deliver, born a child and yet a king,

born to reign in us forever, now thy gracious kingdom bring.

4)  By thine own eternal Spirit rule in all our hearts alone;

by thine all sufficient merit raise us to thy glorious throne.

Fourth Lesson: Isaiah 11:1–3a; 4a; 6–9  [The peace Christ will bring is foretold.]

• It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, Hymnal #123, Verses 1 and 5

1)  It came upon the midnight clear, that glorious song of old,

from angels bending near the earth, to touch their harps of gold:

“Peace on the earth, good will to all, from heaven’s all gracious King”:

the world in solemn stillness lay, to hear the angels sing.

5)  For lo, the days are hastening on, by prophets seen of old,

when with the ever circling years shall come the time foretold,

when peace shall over all the earth its ancient splendors fling,

and the whole world give back the song which now the angels sing.

Fifth Lesson: Luke:1:26–35; 38  [The Annunciation]  

• My Soul Cries Out with a Joyful Shout, Hymnal #100, Verses 1-4

1)  My soul cries out with a joyful shout that the God of my heart is great,

and my spirit sings of the wondrous things that you bring to the ones who wait.

You fixed your sight on your servant’s plight, and my weakness you did not spurn,

so from east to west shall my name be blest.  Could the world be about to turn?

Refrain   My heart shall sing of the day you bring.  Let the fires of your justice burn.

  Wipe away all tears, for the dawn draws near, and the world is about to turn.

2)  Though I am small, my God, my all, you work great things in me, 

and your mercy will last from the depths of the past to the end of the age to be.

Your very name puts the proud to shame, and to those who would for you yearn,

you will show your might, put the strong to flight, for the world is about to turn. Refrain

3)  From the halls of power to the fortress tower, not a stone will be left on stone.

Let the king beware for your justice tears every tyrant from his throne.

The hungry poor shall weep no more, for the food they can never earn;

there are tables spread; every mouth be fed, for the world is about to turn. Refrain  

4)  Though the nations rage from age to age, we remember who holds us fast:

God’s mercy must deliver us from the conqueror’s crushing grasp.

This saving word that our forebears heard is the promise which holds us bound,

till the spear and rod can be crushed by God, who is turning the world around. Refrain

Sixth Lesson: Luke 2:1; 3–7  [Luke tells of the birth of Jesus.]   

• O Little Town of Bethlehem, Hymnal #121, Verses 1, 3, 4

1)  O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie!

Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.

Yet in thy dark streets shineth the everlasting light;

the hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight.

3)  How silently, how silently, the wondrous gift is given!

So God imparts to human hearts the blessings of his heaven.

No ear may hear his coming, but in this world of sin,

where meek souls will receive him, still the dear Christ enters in.

4)  O holy child of Bethlehem, descend to us, we pray;

cast out our sin and enter in; be born in us today.

We hear the Christmas angels the great glad tidings tell;

O come to us; abide with us, our Lord Emmanuel!

Seventh Lesson: Luke 2:8–16  [The shepherds go to the manger.]

• The First Nowell, Hymnal #147, Verses 1, 2, 4

1)  The first Nowell the angel did say 

was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay,

in fields where they lay keeping their sheep, 

on a cold winter’s night that was so deep.

Refrain:  Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, born is the King of Israel.

2)  They looked up and saw a star 

shining in the east beyond them far;

and to the earth it gave great light, 

and so it continued both day and night.    Refrain

4)  This star drew nigh to the northwest; 

o’er Bethlehem it took its rest,

and there it did both stop and stay, 

right over the place where Jesus lay.    Refrain

Eighth Lesson: Matthew 2:1–12  [The wise men are led by the star.]

•   We Three Kings of Orient Are, Hymnal #151, Verse 1

1)  We three kings of Orient are; bearing gifts we travers afar,

field and fountain, moor and mountain, following yonder star.

O star of wonder, star of night, star of royal beauty bright,

westward leading, still proceeding, guide us to thy perfect light!

Ninth Lesson: John 1:1–14  [The mystery of incarnation.]

Prayers of the People

Closing Hymn and Offertory “People, Look East” Hymnal #105

1)  People, look east.  The time is near of the crowning of the year.

Make your house fair as you are able; trim the hearth and set the table.

People, look east and sing today:  Love, the Guest, is on the way.

2)  Furrows, be glad.  Though earth is bare, one more seed is planted there.

Give up your strength the seed to nourish, that in course the flower may flourish.

People, look east and sing today:  Love, the Rose, is on the way.

3)  Birds, though you long have ceased to build, guard the nest that must be filled.

Even the hour when wings are frozen God for fledging time has chosen.

People, look east and sing today:  Love, the Bird, is on the way.

4)  Stars, keep the watch. When night is dim one more light the bowl shall brim,

shining beyond the frosty weather, bright as sun and moon together.

People, look east and sing today:  Love, the Star, is on the way.

5)  Angels, announce with shouts of mirth Christ who brings new life to earth.

Set every peak and valley humming with the word, the Lord is coming.

People, look east and sing today:  Love, the Lord, is on the way.

Closing Prayer          

Benediction

Shalom       (“May you be well and whole and in communion with all creation.”)

                          Shalom, my friends, Shalom, my friends, Shalom, Shalom.

                            Till we meet again, Till we meet again, Shalom, Shalom.

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Calendar of Service -

December 24 -Dr. Keith Ray - Candlelight Service at 7 pm

December 31 - Rev. Dr. Steve Morgan

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PAWS is currently in need of blankets.  Please bring them to church if you have donations.

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Two choir practices on December 24 - one at 9:25 AM and the second at 6:15 PM. Please be seated and ready to rehearse at the starting time. Questions? Contact Polly (864) 940-0640.

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The Bible Study Group (BSG) meets Mondays at 6:30 pm via Zoom. Dave Johnson is guiding us through the book of Exodus. If you’d like to be added to the Zoom invite list then contact Cynthia at cynthiakwarner@mac.com. We’d love to have newcomers!

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Joanne reminds us all to keep up the food donations for AIM (Anderson Interfaith Ministries)!  Bring your non-perishable items to the church.  This is an on-going need that should become part of everyone’s shopping routine.

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Are you interested in becoming a member of NACCP?  Would you like to make this community your spiritual home?  Please contact Keith at keithdray@gmail.com or at 864-508-1530. 

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Remember in prayer:  Katie Hagen; Ann Blackwood; Linda McFall; Bonnie Marsden and son Michael; Jackie Moore; Glennie Burns; Mary Alice Mundy; Jason Harding; Madison Bishop (Whitney’s niece); Latha and Cheryl Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; People of Ukraine; People of Israel and Palestine.

NACCP is an inclusive Faith Community that values questions

and the journey to the answers.

Ministry Leader: Dr. Keith Ray
keithdray@gmail.com

Pianist and Choir Director: Polly Dunford

Mailing address: P.O. Box 4346, Anderson, SC 29622

Phone: 864-225-3575

Website:  naccpchurch.org

Church News:  naccpnews@yahoo.com

Instagram:  northandersonccp

Facebook:  NorthAndersonCommunityChurchPresbyterian