Ponce Worship Bulletin | September 8th 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS

CHILDREN’S MINISTRY DIRECTOR ROLE
We are taking applicants for the new Children’s Ministry Director role. If you are interested or know someone who would be interested in this position, please contact Hace Cargo (hace@poncechurch.org).

FALL EPHESIANS SERMON SERIES
Beginning in September.

INTRO TO PONCE
9.15. 9:15 AM. Please let Tristan know if you are coming and if you need childcare.

MERCY CARE TEAM MEETING
9.8. 12-1:30 PM. Join us in the upstairs Piedmont Room after the service for a time of equipping and prayer. This team helps meet people's physical and relational needs and helps engage our whole church family in mercy ministry. Light snacks will be provided. 

FALL WEDNESDAY WOMEN’S BIBLE STUDY
9.11. 10-11:30 AM. Location: Ponce Church. We'll work through "God of Creation" by Jen WIlkin, a study on Genesis. Childcare is available for a fee; contact Melanie for more details. Please purchase a copy of the book before our first meeting (you do not need to get the version with video access).

TUESDAY EVENING WOMEN’S BIBLE STUDY
9.17. 7:30 PM. Location: Lauren Huh's house in Roswell. Laura and Lauren will lead every other Tuesday evening beginning on September 17. We'll work through Jen Wilken's God of Creation, a study on Genesis. Contact Laura for more details.

AFTER PARTY WITH THE PICKRENS
9.12. 6:30 PM. Join us on Thursday evenings at Ponce Church for 6 weeks, as we discuss political engagement with content from The After Party. This course will help shift our political identity away from the "what” of political positions and towards the "how" of being centered on Jesus. The real question for us is “How do I relate to others--including those I might disagree with--so that I better reflect Jesus?” We’ll be guided with a curriculum from The After Party to help you reorient your heart and mind toward a Christ-centered political identity, in 2024 and beyond. If you have questions please contact Pat or Tessa Pickren. Sign up will be coming soon via the Church Center App.

MEN’S GAME NIGHT!
9.14. 7:30. See here for more details or to sign-up!

PONCE CHURCH SKILL MAPPING SURVEY
Our deacons would love for our congregation to participate in the Ponce Church Skill Mapping Survey. Take it here!

CONGREGATIONAL MEETING
9.23.

GOSPEL AND LIFE: MANAGING ANXIETY FROM A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE
9.28. We have another women's panel! Save the date. Details to come.

CHURCH WORKDAY
10.9. 9:30-12:30 PM. Hey Ponce Fam! Do you love weeding, cleaning, and doing projects with friends? Mark your calendars and join us for a church work day. Pizza lunch provided.

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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 | 12 PM | 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

“Chasing After You”

“O The Deep Love of Jesus”

“Great Are You Lord”

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Pastoral PRAYER

SERMON

Text: Ephesians 1:3-14 & Genesis 49:8-12

Spiritual Blessings in Christ

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us[a] for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9 making known[b] to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

11 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. 13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee[c] of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it,[d] to the praise of his glory.

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8 “Judah, your brothers shall praise you;

    your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;

    your father's sons shall bow down before you.

9 Judah is a lion's cub;

    from the prey, my son, you have gone up.

He stooped down; he crouched as a lion

    and as a lioness; who dares rouse him?

10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah,

    nor the ruler's staff from between his feet,

until tribute comes to him;[a]

    and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

11 Binding his foal to the vine

    and his donkey's colt to the choice vine,

he has washed his garments in wine

    and his vesture in the blood of grapes.

12 His eyes are darker than wine,

    and his teeth whiter than milk.

“Nothing I Hold On To”

“Greater Still”

Confession of faith

Q. 20. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?

A. God having, out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life,k did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer.

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

COMMUNION

“I Just Want to Praise You”

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Hunter Duke

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Andrew Fisher

  • Pat Pickren

  • Tyler Smith

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Aaron Eide

  • Jon Gilliam

  • David Huggins

  • Lisa Huggins

  • William Panik

  • Rolando Rodriguez

  • Adam Snow

  • Chris Sobata