Ponce Worship Bulletin | March 5th 2023

ANNOUNCEMENTS

CHURCH LUNCHEON | 3.19 Ponce will provide Publix chicken and drinks. Bring and family favorite or a heritage dish to share!

CITY FORUM | 3.19 | 6 PM | CITY CHURCH EASTSIDE All youth are welcome to join us at a youth event with CityChurch Eastisde on Racial Oppression, Racial Reconciliation and the Gospel. Reach out to Tolivar at tolivar@poncechurch.org.

CHURCH WORKDAY | 3.25 | 9:30-12:30 PM Let’s help our deacons spruce up the church! Bring your gardening gloves and favorite paintbrush! Lunch provided.  

SAVE THE DATE: MEN'S RETREAT | 4.14-15 RSVP here!

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DAILY PRAYER PROJECT Ponce is excited to begin a new communal subscription with the Daily Prayer Project! Feel free to download the new Lent Guide located in the weekly email or grab a copy on the back table.

COLLEGE STUDENTS! SUMMER @ PONCE! Figuring out summer plans? If you will be in Atlanta working, taking class, or doing anything else let us know! We will have opportunities to connect with other students, be discipled and serve the city. Email Pastor Hace (hace@poncechurch.org) if you want more information.

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

“Sing Wherever I Go”

“Open The Eyes Of My Heart”

“Undivided Heart”

CONFESSION OF FAITH

Litany of the Disciples of the Servant (from Daily Prayer Project):

Servant-Christ, help us to follow

you into the place of quiet retreat,

to intercede for the confused, the despairing, the anxiety-driven,

to prepare ourselves for costly service with you

All: Help us to follow you, Christ the servant.

Help us to follow you on the road to Jerusalem,

to set our faces firmly against friendly suggestions for a safe, expedient life,

to embrace boldly the way of self- offering, of life given for others’ gain

All: Help us to follow you, Christ the servant.

Help us to follow you into the city,

to claim its whole life for God whose image men and women bear,

to confront the ambitions of the power-hungry, the inhuman orthodoxy of the legalist, with the startling message of your present action, your living power

All: Help us to follow you, Christ the servant.

Children's Church Dismissal + Blessing*

*(Children 3 years old - 2nd Grade)

GREETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS


”How Great Thou Art”

SERMON TEXT | Song of solomon 2:8-17 ESV

The Bride Adores Her Beloved

8 The voice of my beloved!
    Behold, he comes,
leaping over the mountains,
    bounding over the hills.
9 My beloved is like a gazelle
    or a young stag.
Behold, there he stands
    behind our wall,
gazing through the windows,
    looking through the lattice.
10 My beloved speaks and says to me:
“Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
    and come away,
11 for behold, the winter is past;
    the rain is over and gone.
12 The flowers appear on the earth,
    the time of singing has come,
and the voice of the turtledove
    is heard in our land.
13 The fig tree ripens its figs,
    and the vines are in blossom;
    they give forth fragrance.
Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
    and come away.
14 O my dove, in the clefts of the rock,
    in the crannies of the cliff,
let me see your face,
    let me hear your voice,
for your voice is sweet,
    and your face is lovely.
15 Catch the foxes for us,
    the little foxes
that spoil the vineyards,
    for our vineyards are in blossom.”

16 My beloved is mine, and I am his;
    he grazes among the lilies.
17 Until the day breathes
    and the shadows flee,
turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle
    or a young stag on cleft mountains.

SERMON

Title: “The Courtship of Desire”

Speaker: Rev. Hace Cargo

TITHES + OFFERINGS*

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

“Greater Still”

COMMUNION

BENEDICTION

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

  • Jon Gilliam

  • Charlton Hughes

  • Chris Sobata