Pastor Bryan Dick
Gathering to Worship
Prelude
Call to Worship
* Responding in Adoration: “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” PH 556
* God’s Greeting
* We Greet Each Other
* Time of Praise: “Ancient of Days”
Confession and Assurance
Prayer of Confession
Assurance of Pardon
Song of Response: “The God We Love (Nicene Creed)”
Our Grateful Lives
Offering Our Prayer and Gifts
Congregational Prayer
Offertory —Offering received for General Fund
Children are invited forward for a Children’s Message as the
deacons come to present the offerings
God’s Word
Children’s Message
Children age 3 – 2nd grade are dismissed afterward to Children & Worship
* Song of Preparation: “What A Friend We Have in Jesus”
Scripture: Matthew 6:5-15 (p. 964); Lord’s Day 45 (PH p. 916)
Message: “Why Should I Pray?”
Prayer
* Song of Response: “Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us” 591:1-3
(alternate tune)
Communion
We will partake of the elements together at the invitation of the pastor, after the elders distribute the bread and the juice.
Closing
* Benediction
* Doxology: “Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow” PH 638
* Postlude
Pianist: Laura Te Velde
Praise team: Carissa Hiemstra, Elaine Vos
PLEASE KEEP Lisa Bosman in your prayers as she will have lymphatic bypass surgery in Seattle tomorrow to hopefully help with the lymphatic drainage in her left leg from her melanoma cancer four years ago.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Wilma Groen who will celebrate her 87th birthday January 6 and to Pastor Peter Mans who will celebrate his 90th birthday January 11!
WE EXTEND our Christian sympathy to Doug and Norene Van Andel in the passing of his brother-in-law, Gord Buys, former member and missionary of Bethel.
COMMUNION: This morning, we celebrate the sacrament of communion.
A PRAYING PEOPLE: We are beginning a short sermon series on the Lord’s Prayer. Prayer is one the central parts of our response of faith and yet most overlooked, misunderstood and forgotten. Using the Heidelberg Catechism we are going to walk through the Lord's prayer line-by-line. My hope is that in this series all our prayer lives should grow in depth, purpose and we will deepen our walk as followers of Jesus.
REFORMED ROOTS: We celebrate Christmas and the arrival of Jesus, we spend weeks looking ahead to the death and resurrection, but the ascension we often forget. Jesus floating off to heaven is the most overlooked major event in his life. Yet in the Apostle's Creed we confess he ascended into heaven. This evening we are going to consider why the ascension should not be forgotten and why it is a benefit to us that Jesus left this earth 2000 years ago.
MEAL TRAIN: We have set up a meal train for Lance & Lisa Bosman. Here is the link https://mealtrain.com/3yww3w
SUNDAY SCHOOL resumes next week, January 11.
REFLECTING ON 2025: As we move into the new year, let us remember God’s faithfulness to our Bethel family in 2025: Deaths: Ben Spoelstra, Howard Nunnikhoven, Hilda Zylstra, Grace Feddema, John Maas. Baptisms: Brielle Schwandt, Rose Shreve; Professions of Faith: Carson Dick, Rose Shreve. Thanks be to God for his care to us, in life and in death.
MAILBOXES: Please remember to empty your church mailbox regularly.
SUNDAY
10:00 AM - Worship Service/Children & Worship
6:00 PM - Reformed Roots class
MONDAY
7:00 PM - Cadets
7:00 PM - GEMS
7:00 PM - Deacons
TUESDAY
6:30 AM - Men’s Bible study
10:00 AM - Ladies’ Bible study
WEDNESDAY
10:00 AM - Coffee Fellowship
SUNDAY 11th
9:00 AM - Sunday School
10:00 AM - Worship Service/Children & Worship
6:00 PM - Youth Group
