FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF WAUWATOSA

 

May 29, 2005

MORNING WORSHIP 10:00 a.m.

2nd Sunday after Pentecost

Memorial Day

 

GATHERING MUSIC                                                                                                          

 

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS                                              Rev. Samuel Schaal

 

THE PRELUDE                 Variations on an American Hymn Tune                                  Young

 

CHIMES AND TOWER BELLS 

 

CALL TO WORSHIP                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Minister:    The Lord your God has brought you into a good land; and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which God has given you.

People:     Our soul waits for the Lord; God is our help and our shield.

Minister     Righteousness exalts a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people.

People:     Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom God has chosen for an inheritance.

All:            O Lord, God of our ancestors, keep this forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare our hearts for you,
 to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes through all generations. Come among us, O Lord,
 as we join our hearts in worship today.

 

*HYMN 433                     God of Our Fathers, Whose Almighty Hand

 

*THE CHORAL CALL TO WORSHIP

 

*THE PRAYER OF INVOCATION AND LORDÕS PRAYER (unison)

Lord God of the nations, you have revealed your will to all people and promised us your saving help. May we hear and do
 what you command, that the darkness may be overcome by the power of your light; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives
 and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, and who taught us to pray:

 

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.

 

*THE GLORIA PATRI

 

 

THE CHILDREN IN WORSHIP                                                                   Carrie Sgarlata

 

*HYMN 438                           O God, Beneath Thy Guiding Hand

{Children 2nd grade and younger are dismissed to Sunday School

during the singing of the hymn.}

 

THE NEW TESTAMENT LESSON   Romans 1:16-17: 3:22b-31                Bible, page 977

 

THE PSALMODY (responsive)               Psalm 46                             Hymnal p. 523 No. 79

                                        

THE GOSPEL LESSON                  Matthew 7:21-29                                   Bible, page 840

                                                                                                      Rev. Steven A Peay, Ph.D.

 

THE ANTHEM                        Let Us Now Praise Famous Men                                    Vaughan

 

PRAYERS FOR THE NATION ON MEMORIAL DAY SUNDAY

 

INVITATION TO PRAYER

 

A PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING (unison)

Almighty God, Author of humanity, we thank you for the heritage and privilege of our beloved country, and for the
 wisdom with which you have led it from its perilous beginnings, through all the difficulties and dangers to this day of grace;
 reverently we take it to our hearts as we lift our prayer to you, beseeching you with passionate tenderness that your people
 may be delivered from every evil, turned from every error, and kept in the highway of a divine vocation; that your will may be
 done in familial righteousness, and your purpose fulfilled in the amplitude, power and prophecy of a nation called to you for a
 vast and holy errand in your world. As we come to you with thankful hearts, forgive us where we have failed to serve or to live
 out the freedom to which we have been called, and with which we have been blessed. We ask you to hear us, good Lord.  Amen.

 

PRAYERS OF PETITION

Please respond ÔAmenÕ to each prayer.

 

RESPONSE TO PRAYER    

HYMN 437 verse 4                 My Country, TÕis of Thee

 

THE SERMON             ÒFaith and Freedom: Foundation for LifeÓ  Rev. Schaal & Dr. Peay

 

THE OFFERTORY

 

THE ANTHEM                             From Sea to Shining Sea                                              Ward

                                                       David Miles-Trumpet

 

*DOXOLOGY (hymn 515)

 

*THE PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

                                                   

*HYMN 366                              God of Grace and God of Glory

 

*THE CHARGE AND BENEDICTION

 

THE CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE: [Refrain from the ÔBattle HymnÕ]

 

THE POSTLUDE                      A Mighty Fortress is Our God                                        Scheidt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

*The congregation is invited to stand.

 

TodayÕs Chancel flowers are given by Jane Soper
 in loving memory of her husband, Robert.

 

SERVING May 29, 2005

Head Greeters: Mark Hendrickson, David Moore

Head Usher: Susie Daigneau, Katie Holtz

Ushers: 10:00 a.m. Captain: Harry Collis, J.C. Moore, Michael Rehfeldt, Michael Elwing

Greeters: 10:00 a.m. Alex and Tom Saeger

Acolyte: 10:00 a.m. Beau Allison and Michael Anheuser

 

 

CARE  FOR  CHILDREN

A nursery for infants and toddlers is available during the 10:00 a.m. service.

Sunday School for ages 2nd grade and below at 10:00.

 

Worship Preview for Sunday, June 5, 10:00 a.m.

Join us as our Sunday School Children lead us in worship!

The annual Ice Cream Social follows.

Betty Dethmers is the organist.

                                                                       

 

CALENDAR WEEK OF May 29, 2005

SUNDAY, May 29

9:30 a.m.& 11:00 PF 4th of July t-shirt sale-Atrium

10:00 a.m. Worship/Children in Church/ Sunday School ages 4&5, grades 1&2

11:00 a.m. Coffee Hour-Lounge
No PF

 

MONDAY, May 30
Memorial Day-Office Closed

 

TUESDAY, May 31

9:00 a.m. Tues. Morning Bible Study-RC,

10 & 11:00 a.m. Music Jamboree-LL2

7:00 p.m. Boy Scouts–LL5

 

WEDNESDAY, June 1

6:30 a.m. WomenÕs Bible Study-Parlor,

6:30 a.m. MenÕs Bible Study-Lounge

9:00 a.m. Chapel Devotions

9:30 a.m. Prayer & Pilates-Lounge

10:00 a.m. Music Jamboree-LL2

6:00 p.m. Pig & Chicken Roast-Ridge Court

 

THURSDAY, June 2
9:00 a.m. Big Band-SH

 

FRIDAY, June 3

8:15 a.m. St. VincentÕs prep.

4:15 p.m. Serve at St. VincentÕs

 

SATURDAY, June 4

9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Pioneer Club car wash-parking lot

10:00 a.m. Music Jamboree

12:00 p.m. Pioneer Club lunch-Ridge Ct.

 

 

Welcome to all visitors joining us today. Please check the welcome tables in the atrium.

 

For those who wear a hearing aid, our Nave is equipped with an FM loop system. Simply set your hearing aid to the ÒTÓ setting.

 

Sunday Symposium Adult Ed. - Today there will be no Sunday Symposium.

 

 

The PF will be selling 4th of July t-shirts as a fundraiser. The shirts are designed to be worn at the 4th of July parade. T-shirts are $10 (size XXL is $14) and may be purchased in the atrium today, June 1 (at the pig roast) and June 5.

 

 

Church Street Singers final Concert is scheduled June 7 at 6:45 p.m. at the Congregational Home.

 

 

MenÕs Tuesday Night Church League Softball TeamÕs next game is May 31, 7:30 p.m. at Hart Park.

 

 

All Church Chicken/Pig Roast will be held Wednesday, June 1 at  6 p.m. on Ridge court. Prepaid reservations accepted at the church office no later than 11:30 a.m. today.  Cost: $9/adults; $3/ children under 12; under 3/free.  Sides include salads, baked beans, German potato salad, rolls and beverages. Please bring a dessert to pass. There will be entertainment by the Ray Neumann Big Band.

 

 

Progressive Church Music Concert at 3 p.m. on June 5 – Begins at First Congregational Church, then moves to Wauwatosa Avenue United Methodist Church and concludes at St. BernardÕs. Free-will offering to benefit the Mayfair Rotary Village Green project for the restoration/renovation of Root Common, which is located in front of Drews Variety Store.

 

 

A Mission Mazahua Trip is currently being planned for Dec. 26, 2005 – Jan. 2, 2006.  If you are a high school or college student or an adult and are interested in going, please contact Carrie Kreps Wegenast.

 

 

Registration for Prayer and Pilates for the month of June is now being taken at the church office.

 

Musicians are wanted to perform at the Congregational Home Chapel Service on Sunday morning.  Please contact Carol Wittig at

414-771-6459 for more details.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Choir Anthems

Pilgrim Choir  10:00 a.m.

 

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Ecclesiasticus XLVI

 

Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.

Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms, men renowned for their power.

Leaders of the people by their counsels and by their knowledge.

Such as found out musical tunes and recited verses in writing:

all these were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of their times.

And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished as though they had never been.

Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.

 

From Sea To Shining Sea

Katherine Lee Bates

 

O beautiful for spacious skies,

For amber waves of grain,

For purple mountain majesties

Above the fruited plain.

America! America! God shed His grace on thee,

And crown thy good with brotherhood

From sea to shining sea.

 

O beautiful for pilgrim feet

Whose stern impassioned stress

A thoroughfare for freedom beat

Across the wilderness,

America! America! God mend thine every flaw,

Confirm thy soul in self-control,

Thy liberty in law.

 

O beautiful for patriot dream

That sees beyond the years

Thine alabaster cities gleam

Undimmed by human tears.

America! America! God shed His grace on thee,

And crown thy good with brotherhood

From sea to shining sea!