Quotes for Reflection:

You can survive on your own.

You can grow strong on your own.
You can even prevail on your own.
But you cannot become human on your own.

Frederick Buechner

-We Gather as Gods PeopleHYMN

Come Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy

UMH 340

Jesus, Name Above All Names

PSALTER

FWS 2071

PASSING THE PEACE

CHOIR ANTHEM
YOUNG PEOPLES MESSAGE
TAIZ

Come and Fill Our Hearts

OPENING TO GOD
O Holy One,
I hear and say so many words,
yet yours is the word I need.

FWS 2188
Ted Loder

-We Respond to Gods Word-

Psalm 146

Love More; Judge Less

REFLECTION

INVITATION TO COMMUNION
HYMN

-We Listen for Gods WordHEBREW SCRIPTURES

But Ruth said,
Do not press me to leave you
or to turn back from following you!
Where you go, I will go;
where you lodge, I will lodge;
your people shall be my people,
and your God my God.
Where you die, I will die
there will I be buried.
May the Lord do thus and so to me,
and more as well,
if even death parts me from you!

CELTIC CALL TO WORSHIP

LEADER: The cross. . .
PEOPLE: We shall take it.
LEADER: The bread. . .
PEOPLE: We shall break it.
LEADER: The pain. . .
PEOPLE: We shall bear it.
LEADER: The joy. . .
PEOPLE: We shall share it.
LEADER: The gospel. . .
PEOPLE: We shall live it.
LEADER: The love. . .
PEOPLE: We shall give it.
LEADER: The light. . .
PEOPLE: We shall cherish it.
LEADER: The darkness. . .
PEOPLE: God will perish it. Amen.
PRAISE

Speak now,
and help me listen;
and, if what I hear is silence,
let it quiet me,
let it touch my need,
let it break my pride,
let it shrink my certainties,
let it enlarge my wonder.

Ruth 1:16-17

Jesus, Lover of My Soul

THE LORDS SUPPER

UMH 479
FWS 2257-b, c, d

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE & THE LORDS PRAYER

OFFERING & DOXOLOGY

UMH 94

-We Scatter to Serve the WorldANNOUNCEMENTS

BENEDICTION
RESPONSE

UMH 858

GOSPEL
Mark 12:28-34
One of the scribes came near and heard them disputing with one
another, and seeing that Jesus answered them well, he asked him,
Which commandment is the first of all?
Jesus answered, The first is, Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the
Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and
with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.
The second is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There
is no other commandment greater than these.
Then the scribe said to him, You are right, Teacher; you have truly
said that God is one, and besides God there is no other; and to love
the Lord with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with
all the strength, and to love ones neighbor as oneself,this is much
more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. When
Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, You are not far
from the kingdom of God. After that no one dared to ask him any
question.

Shalom to You

UMH 666

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Birthdays & Anniversaries
September 16 - Corey Fortin
September 18 - Dale Billado

September 14 - Larry & Donna Holmes Anniversary

Essex Eats Out Schedule

Sept 18 - St. James

Sept 25 - EUMC
Oct 2 - 1st Congregational
Oct 9 - Holy Family
Oct16 - St James Oct 23 - EUMC
Oct 30 - St Pius

Announcements

The Essex/Jericho/Underhill Food Shelf is in need of

Vegetables (no green beans please though!), Soup, Peanut Butter,
Tuna, Mac & Cheese, Baked Beans.

Announcements, cont.

Usher & Greeter Schedules are available in the Narthex for

September & October

Below are people, places, & concerns that folk have lifted up.
Please keep them in your prayers at home.
Please call or email the church office to add to the prayer list.

300 BARS of SOAP needed by Nov 1. These will be part of 300

health kits being put together by Shelburne UMC for UMCOR. (No
Ivory or Jergens, please, as they are too soft.)
Noisy Offering! On a Sunday in October we will will have a Noisy
Offering for church missions. Start saving your change to pour into
some loud metal containers! Well announce the date next week.

Calendar

Sun, 13 Sep: Invitation Sunday; Fall Schedule Begins

Worship 10:00 a.m. (note time change!)
The Totally Tubular Timothy Society
(Ecumenical Youth Group in Burlington)
informational/kickoff meeting, 4:30-6:00 pm
Tue, 15 Sep : Office Hours
Church: 9-10:30am
Phoenix Books: 10:40-noon
Bible Study 1:45-3:15 pm at Mansfield Place
Trustees, 7:00 pm
Thu, 17 Sep: Food Shelf Set-up at Good Shepherd, 6:30 pm
Sat.,19 Sep:

Food Shelf Distribution at Good Shepherd, 9 am

Chicken & Biscuit Dinner 5:00 & 6:30 pm



Ongoing Prayers
Judy & Diezela
Zachary Roy
John Bartlett
Brooks Family
Michael Parker
Jill & Doug Griffin
Stan Komecki
Jenna Roy
Paul
Dick Shepard
Robin
Jaylene
Mary
Jake Greg
DJ
Chris
Gloria
Anne
Michael Paradee
John Young IV
Brenda
Lenore
Scott

Lifted Up Last Sunday

Patty - nephew, Eric, rehab
Bill - Don, metastasized melanoma
Jody - thankful for prayers &
successful surgery for Noah.
Paula - TJ, inner wisdom & healing



Love
More;
Judge
Less

Sun, 20 Sep: Sunday School Begins

The Totally Tubular Timothy Society 4:30 pm
Tue, 22 Sep: Office Hours
Church: 9-10:30am
Phoenix Books: 10:40-noon
Bible Study 1:45-3:15 pm at Mansfield Place
Staff-Parish Relations Committee, 7 pm
Mon, 28 Sep: Monday Companions Group Begins (tentative)
Wed, 7 Oct:

Green Mountain Nursing Home Service 2:30 pm.

Essex Center United Methodist Church

essex_umc@comcast.net
tel. 878-8304
www.essexumc.com
Ministers: the entire congregation
Lay Leader: Joshua Knox
Equipping Pastor: Rev. V. Mitchell Hay
cell tel. 881-3268 (feel free to call)
mitchellhay@comcast.net
Office Manager: Heidi Evans
Organist: Kathryn Parker Pianists: June Packard, Ellie Uckele
Djembe: Barbara Lemmel
Guitar: Richard Randazzo
Song Leader: Dana Thomas Projection: Sam Evans
Greeter: Mary Willard
Usher: Gill & Barb Myers, Dawn Hill-Fleury

Part One of
Dont Just Go to Church;
Be the Church

Essex Center United Methodist Church

13 September 2015

16th Sunday after Pentecost