Ponce Worship Bulletin | November 20th 2022

ANNOUNCEMENTS

COFFEE AND WELCOME TEAM MEMBERS NEEDED
Enjoy making coffee or greeting people? Join our Welcome and Hospitality Team to help out on Sunday mornings! Reach out to Ashley if interested.

WALKING ANEW'S ANNUAL CHRISTMAS OUTREACH  Let's help Walking Anew serve our neighbors as they gear up for our 6th Annual Christmas at Ponce. The donation list is here. The deadline for donations is November 30, 2022. 

CHRISTMAS GIVING Let's celebrate our hard-working staff this Christmas! You can contribute to the staff gift fund by dropping a labeled check or cash in the offering box in the sanctuary or by selecting "Christmas staff gifts" on the Clover giving page at poncechurch.org/give. Any questions re: staff gifts? Reach out to the deacons at deacons@poncechurch.org.

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SPECIAL CHILDREN'S MUSIC REHEARSALS
Dec 11th (5pm)
Rehearsals will take place during Sunday School and during Children’s Church each week following. Please contact Stefanie with your questions.

SPECIAL CHRISTMAS MUSIC SERVICE | 12.11 | 5 PM

CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE | 12.24 | 5 PM

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  

CALL TO WORSHIP

INVOCATION

“Better Is One Day”

“In Christ Alone”

CHILDREN’S CHOIR

“The Wedding Banquet”

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - Kindergarten)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

SERMON TEXT | Colossians 3:12-4:1 ESV

12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Rules for Christian Households

18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. 20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. 21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. 22 Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. 23 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. 25 For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

4 Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

SERMON | Rev. Hace Cargo

Title: “ The Head of the Body (and the Household)"

“Better Word”

CONFESSION

Together: Father in Heaven, though we are your chosen ones, holy and beloved, we often fail to put on the compassion, kindness, humility, patience and forgiveness that enable us to be the body you created and redeemed us to be. We pray especially for your forgiveness in the ways we fail to love those closest to us:

Leader: For the ways in which we fail to love and serve our spouses,

Together: Father, forgive us

Leader: For the ways in which we fail to honor our parents and provoke our children to discouragement,

Together: Father, forgive us

Leader: For the ways we work as people pleasers and not for your glory,

Together: Father, forgive us

Leader: For the ways in which we treat those in our service unjustly and unfairly,

Together: Father, forgive us

[Silent confession]

Assurance of Pardon: Colossians 1:21–22
[21] And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, [22] he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him.

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

Click to give here.

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

COMMUNION

“O Come Let Us Adore Him”

BENEDICTION

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Sunday:

Monday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

*cc (child friendly)

 

CHURCH STAFF

ELDERS

  • Matthew Brittingham

  • Jay Duff

  • Aaron Eide

  • Phil Ellen

  • Pat Pickren

DEACONS

  • Katelyn DiGioia

  • Jonathan DiGioia

  • Jon Gilliam

  • Charlton Hughes

  • Chris Sobata