Welcome to Christ Church!We Are Delighted That You Are Worshipping with Us. All Baptized

ChristChurch

The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
July27, 2014
The Rev. Douglas G. Tompkins, Rector
The Rev. Judith Buck-Glenn, Associate Rector
The Rev. William Musselman, Rector Emeritus
Ms. Janet Miller, Organist
Church Office 610-521-1626
104 Nevin St. Ridley Park, PA 19078

Welcome to Christ Church!We are delighted that you are worshipping with us. All baptized persons of every denomination are welcome to receive communion at our altar. Please introduce yourself to one of our greeters. You are invited to put on a nametag as you come into church. You are also welcome to fill out a pew card and place it in the offering plate or give it to a greeter. Please let an usher know if you are unable to come to the railing for Communion and the clergy will come to you.

Are you looking for a church home? You are welcome to fill out a pew card and place it in the offering plate or give it to a greeter. On it you can indicate that you would like the clergy to call on you.

Out of respect for neighbors wishing for quiet time to pray before the liturgy begins, please refrain from LOUD talking in the nave.

Flower Memorials – Flowers are given today in loving memory of Dorothy Collins, by Gerry Martz.

June, July and August are typically the months that fall behind in pledges. Please make arrangements to mail in your pledge if you are going to be away. Thank you!

We now have a gluten-free option for Communion. If you require this, please give your name and contact information to the office.

Bible for Kids for sale: The Paraclete Press Bible for Kids is a wonderful adaptation of the bible. It is interesting to read and illustrated very beautifully. It was written with young children – ages 2 or 3-8 or so – in mind. (However, adults might learn a thing or two as well). We have gotten a special price on 16 bibles, and we are selling them to benefit the Youth Pilgrimage Fund. Normal price is $18; we are selling them for $14. They make great gifts for children or grandchildren, or to have on hand when grandchildren come to visit. Please take a look – and, we hope, buy a copy to support the youth! They are on the Youth table in the Deppich Room.

Outreach Committee - Our next meal is scheduled for Wednesday, August 13th. If you have an easy recipe for a main dish, please share it by emailing . Recipe needs to feed 24 and contain beef, chicken or pork. Sign-up sheets are by the water cooler beginning today. Thank you for your anticipated participation in the Outreach Mission.

Would you like to establish a fundfor Christ Church through your estate planning? Your restricted gift will ensure the continuation of the ministry of Christ Church and will benefit your parish friends and family for generations to come. Please speak to the rector if you would like assistance in establishing such a fund. You might also consider a gift to our permanent endowment fund.

Do you pledge to Christ Church? If you didn’t get a chance to fill out a pledge card, now is an excellent opportunity. There are additional pledge cards available at the back of church. You can also go to the church website and fill out a pledge card online.

Ditty Bags for Seaman’s Institute –The Outreach Committee collects items for the ditty bags for the Seaman’s Church Institute through the year. For all of June and July, we are asking for shampoo, shaving cream and toothpaste. Please call Nan Garthwaite at 610-532-2801 with any questions about knitting scarves.

Do we have your email address??? So much of our correspondence now is through email. If you have not been receiving weekly email news bulletins and other important notifications, please be sure to let the office know your email address, and update us on any changes. You can also put it on a white pew card. Place it in the offering plate.

Activity bags for children can be found on a rack in the back of church, under the memorial table. Bags with pink stickers are for younger children – up to age 5 or so. Please take any activity your child completes home with you and return the bags to the rack.

Please do not take crayons, or the whole bag, but just the children’s work, home with you.

Children’s Pew Envelopes: All the money collected from children in Sunday School and Children’s Chapel and from Lenten Mite Boxes goes to support our two ChildFund children, Chanel and Jay-R. All proceeds from the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper also go to these children. There are special offering envelopes for children in the pews. If your child is going to put money in the plate, please give them a children’s pew envelope. Please note that ANY donation made in these special envelopes will be credited to our ChildFund children—you don’t have to be a child!

Need for Food is on the Rise. The shrinking economy and drastic state cuts in aid to the poor and unemployed have caused demand for food aid to rise dramatically, straining efforts by food banks to feed the hungry. We maintain an Emergency Food Cupboard and also help supply the Food Pantry at Ridley Park United Methodist Church. Please consider donating dry and/or canned food items and place them in the basket at the back of the church. Of particular need: canned meats, canned fruits, and containers of 100% fruit juice.

Pull-up Tabs: If you get pull-up tabs from beverage, soup or pet food cans, including (colored tabs). The Outreach Committee is collecting tabs for Ronald McDonald House. There is a marked clear plastic jar on the counter near the green doors where you can drop the tabs.

CD’s for Elwyn: If you have CD’s that you are getting rid of, we have a pink box near the green doors for CD’s for Elwyn. Hymns, children’s music, lively music of almost any kind, are very welcome.

Please remember Christ Church in your will and estate planning. If you need further information on how to make provisions for the church, please speak to the rector.

Military Service: Richard Walker - U.S. Army; Eric Curfman - Army; Michael A. Smith - Captain, U.S. Army; Charles Schlegel – Col., Air Force; William Ford - USA; Major Troy O'Donnell - USA; John Oliver - U. S. Navy; Nicole Gieder, USN; David Berkland – USAF; Timothy Nellet – USMC; Staff Sgt. Tony Grassel, USAF; Robert Whalen, National Guard; Michael Belay; Capt. Chris Warrick, Army Ranger; Neil Shea, Marine Reserve; Jerome Swierczek, USMC; William Simpson, Marine Corps
**Please let us know when we can remove a name from this list. **

THOSE SEEKING WORK: Eric, Lynn, Shaun

THIS WEEK’S PRAYERS REQUESTED FOR:Don, Theresa

CONTINUING PRAYERS REQUESTED FOR: Jessica Davenport, Kim Scheb, Tony, Joseph Kershaw, Megan, Cameron, Pat, Terri M., Buddy, Hannah M., Talon, John Rubillo, Sr., Fran Johnson, Mary Stokes, Nikki Crisfield, Mike, Cheryl, Anna Saul, Vicki A., Eileen, Chris Ternove, McKenzie, Kidnapped girls in Nigeria, Freddy Bibbo, Roger, Les, Gary LaFollette, Jane Whitehead, Marie Johnson, Noah, Barbara Hendrickson, Bernadette,
the Kurdish children of Turkey, Dru Seiverd, Stephen McGough, Jonathan M., Sr. Magdalene, Doris W., Debbie

Names will remain on the prayer list for a four week period. If we do not hear from you, we will assume that prayers have been answered and the name(s) will be removed from the list.

Memorials:Dorothy Collins

Participating in the Liturgy Today

Altar Guild / Ushers / Acolytes / Lay Readers
Team IV
Shirley McGahan
Sue Dowling / 8:00 AM
Al Humes
Ed Riffert
10:00 AM
Pat O’Neill
Bryan Gallagher
Keith Laird
general backup / 8:00 AM
Jason Tustin (C/S)
10:00 AM
S: Michael Huber
C: Enric Rhoades / 8:00 AM
Vicki Myers
10:00 AM
Pat O’Neill
Chalice Bearers / Counters / Newcomer Greeters / LEMS
8:00 AM
Vicki Myers
Ed Riffert
10:00 AM
Kathie Klee
Maripat King / Team IV
Gerry Martz, Captain /
Kay Twesten
Barb Torrens
Robert Hand
Maripat King
ML & B Whaley
Ken Mobley

ANGLICAN CYCLE OF PRAYER: Pray for the Province de L’EgliseAnglicane au Rwanda and the Diocese of Gasabo

DIOCESAN PROGRAMS:Diocesan History Committee

DIOCESE OF GUATEMALA: Iglesia Episcopal San Jose, (Church of Saint Joseph), Campo Tres, Izabal, the Rev. Rene Rodriguez

A Note on Today’s Readings

Proper 12: Sunday closest to July 27—Year A

As we did last Sunday, today we hear parables of Jesus concerning God’s Kingdom. The Kingdom is characterized as hidden, yet being revealed; as small now but destined to grow large; as so precious that those who discover it will give all in order to attain it; as open to all who will accept it.

As we continue the story of our forebears, Jacob, living with his uncle Laban, asks for the hand of Rachel, whom he loves. Laban tricks him (trickery ran in the family, perhaps) and marries him to his older daughter, Leah. After a time, however, Jacob is allowed to marry Rachel, as well. From these two women came the twelve sons of Jacob and the twelve tribes of Israel.

Our continued reading of the Epistle to the Romans leads us to Paul’s great outburst of praise and assurance of the certainty of God’s love for us. Here Paul is certain that even our weakest and most elementary striving towards God is proof that God is leading us and has destined us for glory.

The Church is not the Kingdom of God. It is, in the words of Alexander Schmemann, the world in the process of becoming the Kingdom. When we gather to celebrate, our movement toward the Kingdom is revealed. In the Eucharist God reconstitutes us as the Church and we discover ourselves growing toward the Kingdom.

Ordinary Time, Proper 12 Sunday, July 27, 2014

Prelude: "Aria" Paul Manz

Liturgy of the Word

Entrance Rite (8 AM verses 1, 4; 10 AM all verses)

God of grace and God of glory Hymnal 594

The Celebrant says

Blessed be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

PeopleAnd blessed be his kingdom, now and for ever.

Amen.

The Celebrant says

Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known, and from you no secrets are hid: Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your holy Name; through Christ our Lord. Amen.

The following is sung, all standing

The following is said, all standing

Glory to God in the highest,

and peace to his people on earth.

Lord God, heavenly King,

almighty God and Father,

we worship you, we give you thanks,

we praise you for your glory.

Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father,

Lord God, Lamb of God,

you take away the sin of the world:

have mercy on us;

you are seated at the right hand of the Father:

receive our prayer.

For you alone are the Holy One,

you alone are the Lord,

you alone are the Most High,

Jesus Christ,

with the Holy Spirit,

in the glory of God the Father. Amen.

Collect of the Day

CelebrantThe Lord be with you.

PeopleAnd also with you.

CelebrantLet us pray.

O God, the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us your mercy; that, with you as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we lose not the things eternal; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

First Reading Genesis 29:15-28

All sit.

A Reading from the book of Genesis.

Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?” Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah’s eyes were lovely, and Rachel was graceful and beautiful. Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.” Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.” So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her. Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.” So Laban gathered together all the people of the place, and made a feast. But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob; and he went in to her. (Laban gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her maid.) When morning came, it was Leah! And Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?” Laban said, “This is not done in our country—giving the younger before the firstborn. Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years.” Jacob did so, and completed her week; then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as a wife.

ReaderThe Word of the Lord.

PeopleThanks be to God.

Remain seated.

Psalm 105:1-11,45b

1Give thanks to the Lord and call upon his Name;*

make known his deeds among the peoples.

2Sing to him, sing praises to him,*

and speak of all his marvelous works.

3Glory in his holy Name;*

let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.

4Search for the Lord and his strength;*

continually seek his face.

5Remember the marvels he has done,*

his wonders and the judgments of his mouth,

6O offspring of Abraham his servant,*

O children of Jacob his chosen.

7He is the Lord our God;*

his judgments prevail in all the world.

8He has always been mindful of his covenant,*

the promise he made for a thousand generations:

9The covenant he made with Abraham,*

the oath that he swore to Isaac,

10Which he established as a statute for Jacob,*

an everlasting covenant for Israel,

11Saying, “To you will I give the land of Canaan*

to be your allotted inheritance.”

45Hallelujah!

Second Reading Romans 8:26-39

A Reading from Paul’s letter to the Church in Rome.

The Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family. And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified. What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else? Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

ReaderThe Word of the Lord.

PeopleThanks be to God.

Sequence

All stand.

Like the murmur of the dove’s song Hymnal 513