Transfiguration of the Lord Sunday, February 23, 2020

“True Glory”

 John 12:36b-43 (NRSV) (The Message)

• 8:08 a.m. – Contemporary Worship and Communion
• 9:00 a.m. – Breakfast served
• 9:45 a.m. – Sunday School
• 11:00 a.m. – Traditional Worship
  • Liturgist – Judy Miller
  •  Ushers – June Howell and Lindsay Miller

Mission of the Month –We are in the final week of our annual blanket drive for Church World Service. Every year for the past decade without exception we have increased the number of blankets we have provided for this critical ministry. So far, we have raised $2,245—almost three-quarters of the way to our goal of $3,351. Blankets are $10 each and you can purchase them by writing a check to OPC with the designation “blankets.”

Announcements:

• 25th – 7:00 p.m. – Choir Practice
• 26th
  • – 10:30 a.m. – Modernity vs. Medievalism: John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces at Uptown 101 Bistro
  • – 12:00 p.m. – Midweek Prayer
  • – 6:00 p.m. – Ash Wednesday Worship with communion
• 27th – 5:30 p.m. – Modernity vs. Medievalism: John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces at Tobacco Wood Brewing Co.

On Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. we will begin the Lenten season with Ash Wednesday Worship with communion. Please come and join us in worship.

Our local book is concluding our latest book—John Kennedy Toole’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces. Next week, we will begin reading Paul: An Apostle’s Journey, by Douglas A. Campbell. This book is a biography of the man who authored more than one-quarter of the New Testament and is a key witness to Jesus Christ resurrected. Come join old friends and make new ones all while indulging your reading pleasure. Please let Alan know if you are interested in attending.

A week from Wednesday our Annual Lenten Bible Study will begin. And that night it will coincide with the OPC Men’s Supper. Come enjoy a delicious meal followed by a stimulating lesson and discussion—“Soft Hearts in a Hard World: A Study of 1 Thessalonians.”

Calling all kids to Sunday School! This winter and spring we will be learning the church’s oldest and simplest confession: The Apostles’ Creed. It promises to be fun and exciting and utterly true. Come at 9:45am this Sunday!

Prayers for: Becky and Isabella Baird, Michael Boyd, Ann Currin, Linda and Mike Diamond, Randy Downey, Julie Gaydon, Diane and Fred Heath, Hannah Hobgood, Sue Huggins, Barbara Laurent, Will Newcomb,  Greg and Kellie Price,  Kathy Webb

Happy Birthday to: Sis McCarty – 24th; Laura Taylor – 24th; Doug Twisdale – 25th; Angela Parham – 27th

“Who has believed what we have heard?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by others;
a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity;
and as one from whom others hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him of no account.” (Isaiah 53:1-3 NRSV)

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