September 6, Sanctuary Choir First Fall Rehearsal
September 7, One Voice/Dei Gloriam First Fall Rehearsals
September 13 (Wednesday) - Sanctuary Choir Social (during rehearsal)
4:00 p.m. Pastor Ann's Installation Service (Sanctuary) & Reception
Sanctuary Choir
Dei Gloriam Handbell Choir
HolyGrounds Praise Band
Sermon: Jim Bruening
Prelude/Introit: Majesty - Jack Hayford, arr. Joel Raney (Sanctuary Choir, Organist Mark Ramsey, Pianist Barb Walker)
Call to Worship: (Praise Band)
Opening Hymn: God Is Here! - #461
Anthem: Silent Devotion, from "Sacred Service" (Avodath Hakodesh) - Ernest Bloch (NEW)
Hymn of Affirmation: The Summons
Call to Offering: (10,000 Reasons - Praise Band)
Offertory (to benefit Presbytery seminary students): His Eye Is On The Sparrow - Charles Gabriel, arr. Joel Raney
Sending Hymn: Go to the World! (Tune: Sine Nomine)
Benediction Response: (Praise Band)
November 22-23 No Rehearsal for Sanctuary Choir, One Voice, Dei Gloriam. Happy Thanksgiving!
December 2 (Saturday), 4-6:30 p.m. - Advent Decorations and Supper, Fellowship Hall & Sanctuary
December 20 (Wednesday), Music Sunday Rehearsal, 6:00-7:00 p.m., Sanctuary, followed by Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal in the Choir Room
10:00 a.m. Combined Worship Service in the Sanctuary, "Music Sunday" (no Sunday School for classes through 12th grade)
Social Time (Fellowship Hall): Sanctuary Choir "Jingle Bells Through the Ages"
5:30 p.m. Family Christmas Eve Candlelight Communion Service of Lessons & Carols
8:30 p.m. Traditional Christmas Eve Candlelight Communion Service of Lessons & Carols
1/11 (Thursday), Dei Gloriam Handbell Choir ringing at Phoenix Zoolights, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
We move into a sermon series focused on the newness offered to us in Christ Jesus. We are each given the opportunity to put on Christ and be a new person, to belong to a new community, and to become a new creation! We’ll consider what implications this has for the way we live out our lives.
February 2-4
Friday-Sunday
Sanctuary Choir Retreat, Sedona
We will gather with the congregation of Iglesia de Dios El Gran Pastor for a combined worship service of praise and prayer! This Hispanic congregation worships in our chapel every Sunday and holds classes and music lessons there during the week. Worshiping God together will give us an opportunity to get to know one another better and experience worship in a different form and language (both English and Spanish)!
February 14
Ash Wednesday Service, 7-7:30PM in Fox Chapel
Meditation: "Cleaning out the Clutter”
Opening Hymn: Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days - #81
Closing Hymn: Sign Us with Ashes, vss. 1,2,3,6 - Bringle/Rowan (GIA, used by permission)
March 21 No Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal
March 22 No One Voice nor Dei Gloriam Handbell Choir Rehearsal
March 23-25
(Friday-Sunday)
First Players Theater Production
March 29
Maundy Thursday Service
Communion
Anthem/Service Music: Tenebrae - Hal Hopson (#C-027)
1. Prelude
7. Crucify Him!
August 29 Wednesday Wrap Begins!
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