3031 Monticello Blvd, Cleveland Hts OH 44118

216-321-2660 Fax: 216-320-1214

Email: office@fhcpresb.org Website: www.fhcpresb.org

Rev. Dr. John C. Lentz, Jr., Pastor

Rev. Lois Annich, Interim Assoc. Pastor

Rachel McDonald, Interim Assoc. Pastor

Rev. Tricia Dykers-Koenig, Parish Assoc.

Anne Wilson, Director of Music

Kate Burleigh, Dir. of Children’s Ministries

Shannon Headen, Dir. of Youth Education

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Service of Worship September 13, 2015 at 11:00 am

Celebration of Holy Communion

Welcome! Thank you for joining us today for worship. This morning we celebrate the Eucharist (the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, or Holy Communion) by intinction (dipping the bread into the cup). We also provide a gluten-free alternative. After receiving the elements you may come to the railing to receive a blessing from the pastors.

Prayer of Preparation O gracious and holy God, give us diligence to seek you, wisdom to perceive you, and patience to wait for you. Welcome

Choral Introit

Greeting Our God with Joy

Call to Worship Elder Rosanna Sprague Leader: The work of the Creator is visible all around us. People: Let us respond with praise. Leader: The example of Jesus is apparent. People: Let us respond with obedience. Leader: The wind of the Spirit is blowing. People: Let us respond with joy. Leader: The word of God is calling. People: Let us worship in spirit and in truth.

* Processional Hymn No. 1 “Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty!”

*please stand if able

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Renewing Our Relationship with God

Prayer of Confession Rachel McDonald There are times, O God, when our greatest sin is not what we do but what we fail to do. For those times when we have not spoken up; for those times when we have not acted; for those times when we have not responded: forgive us. Give us courage to name what is wrong when we see it. Give us confidence to do what is hard. Give us grace to reach out when that is frightening or uncomfortable. This we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Time of Silent Confession

Kyrie eleison (Lord, have mercy) John Merbecke

Affirming the Good News in Our Lives

Assurance of Pardon Leader: New every morning is God’s love for us, and so we are bold to

proclaim the Good News: People: In Jesus Christ we are forgiven. Thanks be to God!

* Alleluia Jeannette Sorell

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Opening Our Hearts to God’s Word

Commissioning of Teachers, Students and Parents Shannon Headen Kate Burleigh

Pathways children may leave following the commissioning

Scripture Lessons (see pg. 11) Ephesians 4: 11-13 John 1: 35-39 After the readings Leader: Hear what the Holy Spirit is telling God’s people. People: Thanks be to God.

Sermon Rev. Dr. John C. Lentz, Jr. “The Starting Lineup”

Ritual of Friendship all are asked to sign

Offertory Stephen Schwartz “Beautiful City” from Godspell

Jack Lentz, tenor

* Doxology Praise God from whom all blessings flow, Praise God all creatures here below, Praise God above ye heavenly host, Creator, Christ, and Holy Ghost.

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Eucharist Invitation Great Thanksgiving Leader: The Lord be with you. People: And also with you. Leader: Lift up your hearts. People: We lift them up unto the Lord. Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. People: It is right to give our thanks and praise.

Sanctus John Bell

Prayers of the People Rev. Lois Annich

Lord’s Prayer Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors; And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

Communion of the People

Music during Communion The Sacred Harp “Loaves Were Broken, Words Were Spoken”

Prayer after Communion We thank you, O God, that through Word and Sacrament you have given us your Son who is the true bread from heaven. So strengthen us in your service that our daily living may show our thanks; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Going Forth to Live as God’s People

* Closing Hymn No. 591 “Halle, Halle, Hallelujah!”

* Commission and Blessing Leader: Come, Holy Spirit. People: Come as Holy Fire and burn in us, Leader: Come as Holy Wind and cleanse us within, Men: Come as Holy Truth and dispel our ignorance, Women: Come as Holy Power and transform us, Leader: Come as Holy Life and dwell in us. People: Convict us, convert us, consecrate us, until we are set free

from the service of ourselves, to be your servants in the world. Amen.

* Choral Benediction

* Passing of the Peace

Postlude C. S. Lang

“Tuba Tune”

Welcome Visitors! We look forward to greeting you and answering any questions you may have. Visitor welcome bags are available in the foyers and the narthex. Take one home with you! Be sure to visit our website, www.fhcpresb.org, to find a complete list of upcoming events, education programs for all ages, and texts and audio of past sermons.

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The Deacons encourage you to stop by the Greeting Card Table in Fellowship Hall before or after worship to sign a card for one or more of our homebound members. We will address and mail the card for you.

Please join us in wearing a name tag so that we might greet you. Our ushers have hearing devices, large print editions of the bulletin, activity bags for children staying in worship, and directions to our nursery for babies and young children.

Congregational Notes Welcome to the Rev. Lois Annich and Rachel McDonald, Forest Hill Church’s new Interim Associate Pastors! Please greet them and introduce yourself when you see them during the Fall Festival. Chancel Flowers Today’s flowers are given by Marilyn Wilk in memory of her mother, Cinderella Paradiso; and in memory of Maybelle Geyer and Nancy Harper, dearest grandmother and mother of Jenny and Caty Himmelman. Prayer Concerns this Week Prayers are requested this week for the following: Nan Dorer, Robert Fink, Chuck Ishler, Ann Jones, Mary Lewis, Debbie Ungemach, Marilyn Wilk, and Scott, Kari and Evelyn Louise Fuller. Please pray for Jeanette Nemcek and her family; Jeanette’s husband Robert died September 5, 2015. The memorial service is this afternoon at 3 pm at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church. Please remember these homebound members in your prayers: Bill Currie, Marge Drollinger, Betty Farnfield, Iris Gilbert, Ron Klein, Emelia McGuire, Joyce Peters, Arlene & Jack Quinn, George Sentell, Margie & Dwight Stauffer, Elaine Tapié.

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This Month’s Ushers Thank you to head usher Roger Heineman and today’s ushers. Please contact the church office if you are interested in joining an usher team.

Announcements TODAY

Volunteer Opportunity Available We're looking for a few people to sell grocery certificates approximately once a month after worship. Leave the service during the last hymn to set up; you're done by about 12:40 pm. (Reminder: the church buys certificates in $25 and $100 amounts at a small discount, and sells them at face value. The proceeds from the sales help fund our Food Pantry, youth mission trips, and mission giving of the church.) If you are interested in helping with this, please contact Kathy Hanna-Stauffer at khannas@sbcglobal.net, or 216 544-0916.

THIS WEEK Bible and Bagels

Bible and Bagels meets Wednesdays from 7:30 to 8:30 am in the Jin Room. All are welcome! The lessons this week are from Proverbs 31: 10-31; Psalm 1; James 3:13 – 4:3, 7-8a; Mark 9: 30 - 37.

Choirs The choir season has begun! It’s not too late to join a group and enrich your life. Please see the September TOWER or the hallway bulletin board for more information, or contact Anne Wilson (annew@fhcpresb.org or 216-870-2729).

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NEXT SUNDAY Adult Education: Prophets Amos and Hosea

9:30 am, South Hall Join this fall’s Kerygma class: “Boundaries, Tough Love, and Amazing Grace: Amos and Hosea.” Sign up today for the series; small group discussions begin Sunday, September 27.

New Members’ Brunch New members (who have joined since 2013) are invited to brunch in Bodwell Hall next Sunday, September 20 after worship. RSVP to the church office.

Social Groups and Circles Hilltoppers (retired)

Join the Hilltoppers for an art museum tour with docent Anne Wilson on September 18. We’ll meet at the church at 10:15 to carpool to the museum. Reservations are required; RSVP to Joy Stang (joystang@sbcglobal.net or 440-449-0437). Those who wish will have lunch in the museum’s Atrium Café.

Iris Circle (all women of the church) Iris Circle will meet on Tuesday, September 15 at 12 noon in Bodwell Hall for a potluck lunch. Anne Wilson will present a program about her recent El Camino pilgrimage.

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ADDITIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Care Group

The Nazareth Care Group is responsible for meeting members’ needs during September. Please call the church office to report an illness, hospitalization, family emergency, birth or death. Information will then be passed on to the Care Group leaders.

Members of this month’s Care Group are: Suzanne Marcy , Deacon leader Melanie Alban Doris Bartlett Marcia Beck JoAnne Black Deborah Chapman & Lyn Hale Ron & Patty Console Jim & Terry Daedelow Melinda Dus & Curtis Jastremsky Beth Garrett Jennifer & Barry Hartz & family Kathryn Himmelsteib Audrey & Bob Kellermeyer Jane & Cliff Kowall Wafa Kuri

Barb & Kermit Lind Laura Minder Dave & Allie Neff Cindy Newton Dora Owusu Elspeth & Richard Peterjohn Scott Peters, Jeannine Gury & family Lois Reilly Eric Rich & family Jim Roosa & family Peggy Sasso Kevin & Laura Stauffer & family Kimble & Sandy True Megan & Peter Tzefronis & family Matt & Sarah Winters & family

Youth News The Youth Kickoff Party is next Sunday at 5 pm! All youth in grades 6-12 are invited. The cost is $10.

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FHC Staff Emails Rev. Dr. John Lentz Jr. Pastor pastorlentz@fhcpresb.org Rev. Lois Annich Interim Assoc. Pastor pastorannich@fhcpresb.org Rachel McDonald Interim Assoc. Pastor RachelM@fhcpresb.org Anne Wilson Music annew@fhcpresb.org Shannon Headen Youth shannon@fhcpresb.org Kate Burleigh Children kateb@fhcpresb.org Lynda Bernays Administration office@fhcpresb.org Becky Austin Finance beckya@fhcpresb.org Peg Weissbrod Outreach webeditor@fhcpresb.org Stavros Gazis Custodial office@fhcpresb.org

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Calendar: September 13-20, 2015 Sunday, September 13 8:30 Nominating Committee mtg 9:15 Child care begins 9:30 Adult Education Youth: Pancake breakfast Descant Choir 10:15 Descant Choir activity 10:30 Continental Breakfast Chancel Choir 11:00 WORSHIP: Communion Pathways to the Promise Land Children in Worship class 12:15 FALL FESTIVAL 5:00 Labre ministry Monday, September 14 6:00 pm Progress not Perfection (AA) 7:00 pm Al Anon 7:30 pm AA: Borton Group Tuesday, September 15 12:00 pm Iris Circle 1:00 pm Abundance Pantry opens 5:00 pm Fitness Fusion exercise class Wednesday, September 16 7:30 am Bible and Bagels 12:00 pm Bullshevicks 12:30 pm Wednesday Women’s AA

Thursday, September 17 10:00 am “Telling Our Stories” group 5:00 pm Fitness Fusion exercise class 6:20 pm Voices in Bronze choir 7:00 pm Kerygma Leaders orientation 7:30 pm Chancel Choir Friday, September 18 7:00 am TOWER deadline 10:00 am Al Anon meeting Hilltoppers meet to go to CMA Sunday, September 20 9:00 Child care begins 9:30 Adult Education Youth Education Descant Choir 10:15 Descant Choir activity 10:30 Continental Breakfast Chancel Choir 11:00 WORSHIP Pathways to the Promise Land Children in Worship class 12:15 Fellowship Hour Blood pressure check Sine Nomine Choir New Members’ Brunch 2:00 Cleveland Messiah Society rehearsal 5:00 Labre ministry Youth: Kick-off Tailgate Party

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Abundance Pantry Report Have you been in the building on a recent Tuesday afternoon? Have you noticed that Fellowship Hall is brimming with people helping, serving and waiting? Abundance Pantry continues to grow, and with it does the need for Forest Hill Church involvement. On the 4th Tuesday of each month we serve lunch to 100 guests. Lunch ministry volunteers are needed in several capacities:

1. Prepare food at home and bring it to be served (see Beth Zych) 2. Helping prepare and/or serve food here (see Beth Zych) 3. Set tables 4. Serve as table host (see Joyce Pope or Margie Glaros)

In addition, at anytime you may:

1. Donate money to the food pantry. 2. Donate old magazines and books for the guests to read while they

wait. 3. Donate non-food items (soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, toilet

paper). Food is distributed every Tuesday. If you wish to help with that, see Paul Jennings. Many of the guests repeatedly state how much they appreciate being able to come here and being treated like real people with families and real needs. Many of them offer to help with the sorting and distribution of food and with the clean-up afterwards.

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Pantry contact information Paul Jennings, pantry coordinator: 440-570-6736, Jennings_paul@att.net Beth Zych, lunch coordinator: 216-371-3381, cubbyboz@gmail.com Joyce Pope and Margie Glaros, table host coordinators: Joyce – 216-283-4519, teach1pope@gmail.com Margie – 216-382-8328, mglaros@yahoo.com

The Lessons

Ephesians 4: 11-13

The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.

John 1: 35-39

The next day John again was standing with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus walk by, he exclaimed, “Look, here is the Lamb of God!”

The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. When Jesus turned and saw them following, he said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi” (which translated means Teacher), “where are you staying?” He said to them, “Come and see.” They came and saw where he was staying, and they remained with him that day. It was about four o’clock in the afternoon.

Next Sunday: Proverbs 31: 10-31; Psalm 1; James 3:13 – 4:3, 7-8a; Mark 9: 30 – 37. Set aside time each day for prayer and study. As you read the lessons for the week, consider how they settle or challenge you?

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