First Presbyterian Church Founded June 15, 1818

OUR VISION STATEMENT:

We seek to be a Church United in Christ, Scripturally Based, and

a Compassionate Community of Faith.

(The worship service is broadcast over WLOR AM 1550 or FM 98.1)

307 Gates Avenue, Huntsville, AL 35801 256-536-3354 ~Fax (256) 536-3038

E-Mail: fpc@fpchsv.org Home page: www.fpchsv.org

First Presbyterian is a Congregation of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and a Stephen Ministry Congregation

SUNDAY, February 26 CHILI COOKOFF

9:30 AM - Sunday School 10:30 AM - Worship Service/SAN 11:30 AM - Handbell Rehearsal/BR 11:30 AM - PYC/Lunch and Mission 11:30 AM - Chili Cookoff/FH 6:00 PM - Bible Study/LIB MONDAY, February 27

9:00 AM - FF Preschool 9:00 AM - Together in Mission/FH 4:30 PM - Evening Bible Study/LIB TUESDAY, February 28

6:15 AM - Outback/GBH 9:00 AM - FF Preschool 9:30 AM - Transformational Yoga/CH 5.30 PM - Youth Committee Mtg/CER 6:00 PM - HMC/CR 6:00 PM - Outback/GBH 6:30 PM - Boy Scouts 633/GBH WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1 ASH WEDNESDAY

7:00 AM - Men’s Bible Study/FH 9:00 AM - FF Preschool 9:15 AM - Wed. Morning Disciple 1/LIB 12:00 PM - Ash Wednesday Service/GBH 1:30 PM - Prayer Shawl Ministry/LIB 5:00 PM - WNL Children 5:30 PM - WNL Adults 6:20 PM - WNL Dinner/FH 7:15 PM - Chancel Choir rehearsal/CR THURSDAY, MARCH 2

9:00 AM - FF Preschool 9:00 AM - Thursday Morning Disciple 1/LIB 9:30 AM - Transformational Yoga/CH 11:15 AM - FPC Prayer Group/LIB 12:15 PM - Al-Anon/GBH 5:30 PM - Thursday Evening Disciple 1/LIB FRIDAY, MARCH 3

9:00 AM - FF Preschool SATURDAY, MARCH 4

7:30 AM - Early Christian Study Group/LIB SUNDAY, MARCH 5 HOLY COMMUNION

8:30 AM - Worship Service/JAH 9:30 AM - Sunday School 10:30 AM - Worship Service/SAN 11:30 AM - Handbell Rehearsal/BR 5:00 PM - PYC/FH

FEBRUARY

• February 26th Chili cook-off after service and mission

MARCH

• March 5th PYC • March 12th No PYC (Spring Break) • March 19th PYC (Youth Sunday practice) • March 26th Youth Sunday

We still have slots available for meal

providers. You can sign up at http://www.takethemameal.com/meals.php?t=WFEX2496 or, if you would rather donate, the cost is $75.00. Upcoming available dates: March 19; April 2, 9 and 23.

Many thanks to Stacy Owens for the beautiful music she provided during our worship service this morning.

Many thanks to the Westminster Ringers for leading worship this morning.

FPC MINISTRY TEAM

Rev. Rosemary McMahan, Interim Pastor rmcmahan@fpchsv.org Ext. 122

Dr. Patricia Hacker, Director of Music phacker@fpchsv.org Ext. 126

Dr. Frank Contreras, Organist

Angela Green, Director of Children’s Ministry agreen@fpchsv.org Ext. 129

Lacey Guthrie, First Friends Preschool Director ffdirector@fpchsv.org Ext. 128

Cynde Tannehill, Pastor’s Secretary/Notary ctannehill@fpchsv.org Ext. 132

Amber Stewart, Receptionist Ext. 130 astewart@fpchsv.org

Johann Malan, Facilities Coordinator jmalan@fpchsv.org Ext. 121

Quentin Fitzpatrick, Sexton

In case of emergency please contact the church office at 256-536-3354, ext.132.

Transformation Yoga

Yoga from a Christian Perspective

Tuesdays and Thursdays Carriage House

Taught by Lori Smith

9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. - Basic Level 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Gentle

Calendar Legend: BR - Bell Room CH - Carriage House (GBH) CER - Christian Ed Resource upstairs CR - Choir Room FH - Fellowship Hall GBH - Gideon Blackburn House HR - Historical Room JAH - John Allan Hall (GBH) LIB - Library SAN - Sanctuary SMR - Stephen Ministry Room (GBH)

Lectionary Readings March 5, 2017

Gen. 2:15-17; 3:1-7; Psalm 32 Rom. 5:12-19; Matt. 4:1-11

Sermon Text: Exodus 18:13-24; Act 13:1-3

March Volunteers Needed! Gather Cluster is looking for volunteers to help with the coffee and snacks prior to the 10:30 a.m. service during the month of March. This entails making coffee and put-ting out the supplied snacks. Contact Bo Lundy at jlundyjr@knology.net or signup at the bulletin board.

Signups for flower dedications/memorials for 2017 are now being accepted. “Flower Dedication” envelopes are

available at the bulletin board or in the pew racks with a small card inside the envelope that you will fill out and place back in the en-velope with your $50.

Upcoming available dates: April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; May 7, 14, 28.

Our Annual Chili Cook-off is this morning after the service. Come, eat, and then see who goes home with this

year’s bragging rights.

WELCOME VISITORS!

We welcome you as a participant in worship today. We pray that you will find this service meaningful. Worship is but one of the many ministries of First Presbyterian Church.

Please remember to turn off all cell phones and pagers. Also please DO NOT take flash photographs during the services.

Please sign in: The folders will be passed during the offering.

Looking for a Church home? Please speak with Pastor Rosemary or the “Ask Me” person standing at the rear of the church.

Ushers serving this morning: 10:30 a.m.: Leigh Brown, Andrea Gaskins, Benjamin Pe-ters, and Sally Troy.

The flowers this morning are given to the Glory of God and in honor of Jimmie Williams’ birthday by Bruce and Janis Williams.

The FPC Men’s Study Group (Fellows Pursu-ing Christ) meet every Wednesday morning at 7:00 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall. Topics alternate, sometimes hearing speakers or read-ing a book, and often studying the Word and spending time in prayer together. Join us.

Called Congregational Meeting: This morn-ing at 11:30 a.m. in the sanctuary. Agenda: to vote on unanimous proposal from the Trustees and Session of FPC to sell the three donated lots of lake (Guntersville) property for $85,000.

Transfiguration of the Lord

February 26, 2017

10:30 a.m. Worship Service

Save the Date! June 26-29, 2017

March 1st @ 12:00pm - John Allan Hall

Registration is now open for the GenOn Youth Conference in Wheeling, West Vir-ginia on July 16-22, 2017. This confer-

ence is open to any youth that has com-pleted the 8th grade. College age persons are also included. Please contact Bo or Nancy Lundy if you have any ques-tions. Bo will be the director of this confer-ence again this year.

The Sacrament of Holy Communion will be

observed next Sunday, March 5 at all worship services.

The Distribution of Ashes also will take place on March 1st at 6:45 PM during Wed Nite Live in the Fellowship Hall. Anyone wishing to receive ashes is welcome to join us. Please

signup at the bulletin board if you are stay-ing for dinner . Dinner is $5 per person.

Assemble in God’s Name With the chiming of the bell, we quietly and prayerfully prepare our hearts and minds

to worship God.

Chiming of the Bell Dedication John C. Dare

Westminster Ringers

Prelude Praise to the Lord, the Almighty arr. Melody Bobe

Dr. Frank Contreras, organ

Welcome and Announcements Rev. Rosemary McMahan

Choral Introit This is the Day ESTE ES EL DIA

Chancel Choir

*Call to Worship Stephanie Hyatt

Leader: Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; People: break forth, O mountains, in singing! Leader: For the Lord has comforted us; People: God has compassion on all who suffer. Leader: Like a woman with her nursing child, People: God holds us with compassion and gives us all we need. Leader: Let us worship our God.

*Opening Prayer

*Opening Hymn 396 Brethren, We Have Met to Worship HOLY MANNA

Prayer of Confession

Holy and Merciful God, you are our judge, for you alone know us fully. You know the sins we hide from others: the unkind thought, the unspoken word of grace, the helping hand not offered. Forgive us, we pray. Bring us into your marvelous light so that we live before others as you intend. We seek your tender mercy, for you also love us as a mother loves her little child. In your Son’s name we pray. Hear now our silent confession . . .

Kyrie Lord, Have Mercy Upon Us KYRIE

Lord, have mercy upon us, (3 times) Christ, have mercy upon us, (3 times) Lord, have mercy upon us.(3 times)

Assurance of Pardon

*Hymn 583 Glory to God GLORIA

Proclaim God’s Word

First Lesson - 2 Timothy 1:1-7; 2:1-2 pew Bible, NT, pg. 211

pew Bible (large print), NT, pg. 258

Anthem Sonata No. 2, Andante G. F. Handel

Stacy Owens, Flute

Time for Young Disciples Angela Green At this time all children will be invited to come to the chancel steps. Children ages KINDERGARTEN AND YOUNGER are dismissed to the nursery. FIRST GRADE AND UP should remain in the sanctuary with parents.

*Stand as you are able.

Second Lesson - Matthew 28:16-20 pew Bible, NT, pg. 34

pew Bible (large print), NT, pg. 41

Sermon “Who is Your Timothy?” Rev. Rosemary McMahan

Respond To God’s Word

*Hymn 369 Blessing and Honor O QUANTA QUALIA

*Affirmation of Faith PC (USA) Confession from A Brief Statement of Faith

Through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, we trust in the one triune God, the Holy One of Israel, whom alone we worship and serve.

We trust in God the Holy Spirit, everywhere the giver and renewer of life. The Spirit justifies us by grace through faith, sets us free to accept ourselves and to love God and neighbor, and binds us together with all believers in the one body of Christ, the church. The same Spirit who inspired the prophets and apostles rules our faith and life in Christ through Scripture, engages us through the Word proclaimed, claims us in the waters of baptism, feeds us with the bread of life and the cup of salvation, and calls women and men to all ministries of the church. In a broken and fearful world, the Spirit gives us courage to pray without ceasing, to witness among all peoples to Christ as Lord and Savior, to unmask idolatries in church and culture, to hear the voices of peoples long silenced, and to work with others for justice, freedom, and peace. Prayers of the People and The Lord’s Prayer Hymnal pg. 35

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.

Presentation of God’s Tithes and Our Offerings

Offertory Sonata No. 2, Largetto G. F. Handel

Stacy Owens, Flute

*Doxology Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow OLD ONE HUNDREDTH

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

*Offertory Prayer

*Closing Hymn 702 Christ Be Beside Me BUNESSAN

*Benediction

Congregational Meeting

*Postlude The God of Abraham Praise Franz Lubrich

Dr. Frank Contreras, organ/piano

AND NOW WE INVOKE OUR MISSION STATEMENT AS WE LEAVE: Having been drawn into Community and nurtured by God’s Word, we are

called into the world.

CCLI # 1345744

TO ADD NAMES TO THE PRAYER REQUEST FOR SIX WEEKS, please call or email Cynde Tannehill, Pastor’s Secretary, or use the Prayer and Care page by printing your prayer request and placing it in the offering plate. Prayer requests only remain on the list for SIX WEEKS unless you contact Cynde at the church office. If you know of someone who is in the hospital or need to inform the church of a death in your family, you may also contact Cynde Tannehill. Thank you!

PRAYER REQUESTS

Members: Anne Boles, John Clark, Charles Danner, David Hatch, Lou Horn, J. R. Howard, Kara Howard, Sharon Hudson, Cay Lambert, Lorinne Lilly, Sage Lyons, III, Bonnie Morris, and Sanders Pair.

Friends & Relatives: Laurel Blackwell - Friend of the Rev. Rosemary McMahan; Joe

Defley - Cousin of John McBride; Stormy Dovers - Friend of Tom and Sharon Hudson;

Robin Freisen - Friend of the Wessel Family; Cecil Hurt - Brother-in-law of Jeanette

Hollis; Margaret Linn - Mother of Melissa Jones; Beverlee Leo - Mother of Lori Smith;

Diana Rose - Mother of Serena Neely; Scott Seidlitz and Linda Taylor - Family of

Annewhite Fuller; Patricia Smith - Mother of David Smith; Lindsay Taylor - Granddaughter of

Betty Thompson; Tom Wilson - Father of Elaine Stowe.

Members and Relatives in Specialty Care: Annabell Aust (Regency Village); Lorinne

Lilly (Magnolia Cottage); Darwin Perkins (Brookdale Place); Ray Rose (Diversicare of

Big Springs); Virginia Rowe (Whitesburg Gardens); Marge Sharp (Birmingham).

The Church: The Pastor Nominating Committee; First Presbyterian Church, the Session,

the North Alabama Presbytery, and the search for our new Director of Youth Ministry.

Military & International: All those serving in the armed forces.

Our Nation: President Trump and our representatives.

First Presbyterian Missions & Ministries: Appalachia Service Project (ASP); Good

Samaritans; The Vine Pastoral Counseling Center; The Presbyterian Home for Children;

Second Mile Preschool, Kids to Love, and the CUP program.

Presbyterian Women invite you to the

Spring Gathering

Monday, March 6, 2017 10:00 a.m.

Fellowship Hall Hosted by Circle 2

Program: Christian Women’s Job Corp. of Madison County, AL

Speakers: Dana Lee Jennings and Elaine Dickson

All women of the church are invited to attend.