2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, January 19, 2020

 “Come. See. Find. Follow.”

Ezekiel 34:23-31; John 1:35-51 (NRSV) (The Message)

• 8:08 a.m. – Contemporary Worship
• 9:00 a.m. – Breakfast served
• 9:45 a.m. – Sunday School
• 11:00 a.m. – Traditional Worship
  • Liturgist – Vivian Oney
  •  Ushers – Retta Powel and Jim Ingram

Mission of the Month –Our January mission is once again 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. Let us continue in our care and generosity this year.

Announcements:

• 21st – 7:00 p.m. – Choir Practice
• 22nd
  • – 10:30 a.m. – Lost and Found?: Lila by Marilynne Robinson at Uptown Café
  • – 12:00 p.m. – Midweek Prayer
• 23rd – 5:30 p.m. – Lost and Found?: Lila by Marilynne Robinson at Tobacco Wood Brewing Co.

Our local book has begun reading Marilynne Robinson’s National Book Award runner-up novel Lila. Come join old friends and make new ones all while indulging your reading pleasure. Please let Alan know if you are interested in attending.

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!

Continue to pray for our dear friend Kathy Webb as she continues to heal and rehabilitate from her accident. She is now at Universal Health in Oxford and requests that visitors come during the afternoon hours. In her absence, Alex Rote from our friends at the Oxford United Methodist Church continues to be our accompanist during our worship services.

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, Will Newcomb,  Greg and Kellie Price,  Kathy Webb

Happy Birthday to: Peyton Tarry – 21st; Peggie Strother – 21st; Cathy Yancey – 24th; Sharyl Shelton – 25th; Lynn Currin – 25th; Boyd Phillips – 25th; Fred Heath – 25th

“For thus says the Lord God: I myself will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. As shepherds seek out their flocks when they are among their scattered sheep, so I will seek out my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places to which they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness. I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited parts of the land. I will feed them with good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel shall be their pasture; there they shall lie down in good grazing land, and they shall feed on rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will make them lie down, says the Lord God. (Ezekiel 34:11-15 NRSV)

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