Ponce Worship Bulletin | November 27th 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  

INVOCATION

CALL TO WORSHIP

LIGHTING OF ADVENT CANDLE

The Brittingham Family

Prayer: 

Come, true light.

Come, life eternal.

Come, hidden mystery.

Come, light that knows no evening.

Come, for your name fills our hearts with 

longing and is ever on our lips;

yet who you are and what your

nature is, we cannot say or know.

Come, Alone to the alone.

Come, for you are yourself

the desire that is within me.

Come, my breath and life.

Come, the consolation of my humble soul. 

Come, my joy, my glory, my endless delight

“This is Amazing Grace”

“Holy Spirit”

“Goodness of God“

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - Kindergarten)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PASTORAL PRAYER

SERMON TEXT | Colossians 4:2-18 ESV

An Encouragement for Prayer

2 Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart. 3 Pray for us, too, that God will give us many opportunities to speak about his mysterious plan concerning Christ. That is why I am here in chains. 4 Pray that I will proclaim this message as clearly as I should.

5 Live wisely among those who are not believers, and make the most of every opportunity. 6 Let your conversation be gracious and attractive so that you will have the right response for everyone.

Paul’s Final Instructions and Greetings

7 Tychicus will give you a full report about how I am getting along. He is a beloved brother and faithful helper who serves with me in the Lord’s work. 8 I have sent him to you for this very purpose—to let you know how we are doing and to encourage you. 9 I am also sending Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, one of your own people. He and Tychicus will tell you everything that’s happening here.

10 Aristarchus, who is in prison with me, sends you his greetings, and so does Mark, Barnabas’s cousin. As you were instructed before, make Mark welcome if he comes your way. 11 Jesus (the one we call Justus) also sends his greetings. These are the only Jewish believers among my co-workers; they are working with me here for the Kingdom of God. And what a comfort they have been!

12 Epaphras, a member of your own fellowship and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his greetings. He always prays earnestly for you, asking God to make you strong and perfect, fully confident that you are following the whole will of God. 13 I can assure you that he prays hard for you and also for the believers in Laodicea and Hierapolis.

14 Luke, the beloved doctor, sends his greetings, and so does Demas. 15 Please give my greetings to our brothers and sisters at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church that meets in her house.

16 After you have read this letter, pass it on to the church at Laodicea so they can read it, too. And you should read the letter I wrote to them.

17 And say to Archippus, “Be sure to carry out the ministry the Lord gave you.”

18 HERE IS MY GREETING IN MY OWN HANDWRITING—PAUL.

SERMON | Rev. T. Wills

Title: “Dressed…For Success (or, To Be On Mission w/ Jesus)"

“You Hold It All Together”

CONFESSION OF SIN

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

“God So Loved”

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