Ponce Worship Bulletin | April 14th 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS

APRIL SUNDAY SCHOOL
Join us for our class on Old Testament Poetry. 

NEW PONCE SOCIAL MEDIA AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN Ponce Women! Check out our new Women’s Ministry Instagram (poncepreswomen) and Facebook (Ponce Presbyterian Women) pages, as well as our Women’s Ministry Info Hub on the church center app (under ‘groups’). Follow us weekly as we seek to build a greater sense of connection, encouragement, and awareness for all women’s ministry happenings!

GOSPEL AND LIFE - WOMEN AND WELLNESS: FINDING BALANCE THROUGH A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE
4.27. 10:00-11:30AM. Ladies! Mark your calendars for our first ever Gospel and Life event at the church. Join us for a time of fellowship and panel discussion on how the gospel informs the topic of health and overall well-being. Light refreshments provided. RSVP and find full info on the church center app (here: https://ponce-presbyterian-church-264690.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/2230769)

CHICKEN SUNDAY
4.28. Sign-up to come.

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DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Feel free to download the new Pentecost Guide located in the weekly email.

CONNECT VIA TEXT Ponce is now sending a once-a-week text with the latest announcement. Text: “connect” to (678) 252-5571 to get on the list! Never miss another event!

WEEKLY NEIGHBORHOOD BIBLE STUDY | 8 AM | THUR + FRI
We are looking for bible study leaders for our new weekly Neighborhood Bible Study. Reach out to Hace if you are interested.

WELCOME

INVOCATION

CALL TO WORSHIP

It is truly good and right,

with all the powers of our heart and mind, to praise you, Father,

and your only-begotten Son,

our Lord Jesus Christ.

Dear Father, by your wondrous condescension of loving-kindness

toward us your servants,

you gave up your Son.

Dear Jesus, you paid the debt of Adam

for us to the eternal Father

by your blood poured forth

in loving-kindness.

You cleared away the darkness of sin

by your magnificent and

radiant resurrection.

You broke the bonds of death

and rose from the grave as a conqueror.

You reconciled heaven and earth.

Our life had no hope of eternal happiness before you redeemed us.

Your resurrection has washed away our sins, restored our innocence, and brought us joy.

You are worthy of all glory, honor and praise. Amen.

“Blessed Be Your Name”

“10,000 Reasons”

“Goodness of God”

CONFession of faith

Together: We believe

Leader: That the Lord Jesus of very love did become man, to be made like humanity in all except sin;

Together: We believe

Leader: That the Lord Jesus came in this humanity to receive the punishments

of our transgressions and by his death

to make satisfaction to God’s justice;

Together: We believe

Leader: That by his resurrection the Lord

Jesus destroyed the hold of death

on the world, bringing again life to

this world from which the whole offspring

of Adam was justly exiled.

Together: We believe

Leader: No creature is able to comprehend

the length and breadth, the depth and height, of that most excellent love which

moved God to show mercy, where none was deserved, to promise and give life,

where death had gotten the victory, to rescue people in his grace.

Together: We believe! Praise be to God! Amen!

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

Scripture | Genesis 8:20 - 9:17

God's Covenant with Noah

20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. 22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”

9 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. 5 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.

6 “Whoever sheds the blood of man,
    by man shall his blood be shed,
for God made man in his own image.

7 And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.”

8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: 13 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

SERMON

Title: “A New Beginning“

Guest Speaker: Rev. G. Hamm

“King of My Heart”

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

*Parents can pick up their children from Children’s Church

COMMUNION

“All The Poor and Powerless”

BENEDICTION

“God Is Good”

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • Charlton Hughes

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata