Today’s service will be held indoors in the sanctuary as an in-person service and also live streamed at this link. Click on “live” for live stream. Join us!
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Gathering Music Polly Dunford
Welcome and Announcements Laurie Gentry
Call to Worship
Leader: Come, people of hope and possibility. We gather to celebrate the gifts of life and the promise of a new day.
People: We come with gratitude for all that is good, beautiful, and life-giving.
Leader: Let us praise the courage that helps us grow, the compassion that connects us, and the wisdom that guides us.
People: We celebrate the best within ourselves and within one another.
Leader: In this time of worship, may our hearts be opened to joy, wonder, and purpose.
People: May we be inspired to live with kindness, justice, and love.
All: Let us worship God with grateful hearts and voices of praise.
Opening Hymn“Weave Us Together” (Lin’s hymn choice) Handout By Rosemary Crow
Refrain: Weave, weave, weave us together. Weave us together in unity and love.
Weave, weave, weave us together. Weave us together, together in love.
1) We are many textures, we are many colors, each one different from the other.
But we are entwined with one another in one great tapestry.Refrain
2) We are different instruments playing our own melodies, each one tuning to a different key.
But we are all playing in harmony, in one great symphony.Refrain
Scripture Reading Psalm 121
I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where will my help come?
My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.
He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade at your right hand.
The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.
The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time on and forevermore.
Hymn “In This Time of Great Reflection” (Trevor’s hymn choice) Handout
Words by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette
Tune is Walker’s Southern Harmony, 1835
1) In this time of great reflection on two hundred fifty years,
We remember, as a nation, times we’ve prospered, times of tears.
“We shall be,” a preacher told us, “As a city on a hill,”
not to praise us but to warn us: We’ve a duty to fulfill.
2) Here is what holds us together: Mercy, love, community.
We’re to seek to care for neighbors in a just society.
If we fail to help the needy and to build a land that’s just,
we will simply be a byword as the world looks on at us.
3) We recall our nation’s story. Keep us honest, God above!
In our quest for wealth and glory, we have injured ones you love.
Through enslavement, through displacement, we have chosen ways of sin.
We’ve been violent. We’ve stayed silent. So our light of love stays dim.
4) Will we work for racial justice? Will we turn from fear and hate?
What is now the public witness that you call us to create?
As we celebrate our country, help us, Lord, to understand:
All of us must share the bounty and the goodness of the land.
5) In this time, O God, restore us to the land we’re called to be,
where all people here among us know your blest community.
May we seek to be that city, not with pride but as a prayer.
May we love and serve you humbly, in our land and everywhere.
Speakers “My Story” NACCP Members
Lin Hagen, Trevor Stoute, DuPre Calhoun, Manella Calhoun
Hymn “Take My Life” (DuPre’s hymn choice) Hymnal #697
1) Take my life and lit it be consecrated, Lord, to thee;
take my moments and my days; let them flow in ceaseless praise;
let them flow in ceaseless praise.
2) Take my hands and let them move at the impulse of thy love;
take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for thee,
swift and beautiful for thee.
3) Take my voice and let me sing always, only, for my King;
take my lips and let them be filled with messages from thee,
filled with messages from thee.
4) Take my silver and gold; not a mite would I withhold;
take my intellect and use every power as thou shalt choose,
every power as thou shalt choose.
5) Take my will and make it thine; it shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart, it is thine own; it shall be thy royal throne,
it shall be thy royal throne.
6) Take my love; my Lord, I pour at thy feet its treasure store;
take myself and I will be ever, only, all for thee,
ever, only, all for thee.
Prayerful Circle of Care
Closing Hymn and Offertory “Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love” Hymnal #203
(Manella’s hymn choice)
Refrain: Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love;
show us how to serve the neighbors we have from you.
1) Kneels at the feet of his friends, silently washes their feet,
Master who acts as a slave to them.Refrain
2) Neighbors are wealthy and poor, varied in color and race;
neighbors are near us and far away.Refrain
3) These are the ones we should serve; these are the ones we should love;
all these are neighbors to us and you.Refrain
4) Loving puts us on our knees, willing to wash others’ feet;
this is the way we should live like you.Refrain
Benediction (in unison)
May the love of God rest upon your soul.
May God’s love dwell in you throughout every day of your week.
May God’s countenance shine upon you and be gracious to you.
May God’s Spirit be upon you as you leave this place.
Discussion
Shalom (“May you be well and whole and in communion with all creation.”)
Shalom, my friends, Shalom, my friends, Shalom, Shalom.
Till we meet again, Till we meet again, Shalom, Shalom. ******************************
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Please join us for our Potluck Meal following worship service.
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Calendar of Service -
July 12 - Rev. Nancy Blakely; Communion; Session meets
July 19 - Rev. Deb Richardson-Moore
July 26 - Rev. Tricia Lytle
August 2 - TBD
August 9 - TBD
August 16 - Dave Johnson
August 23 - TBD
August 30 - TBD
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No choir practice on Sunday, July 5.
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The 227th General Assembly of PCUSA finishes July 2, in Milwaukee. Diane Lee has been one of six commissioners from Foothills Presbytery. We look forward to hear her news.
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Three Nights of Nature speakers:
July 21 - Jessica Bell - 7:00 pm. Split Creek Goat Farm - program title:
“Golden Guernsey in the U.S. - saving an endangered breed”
July 22 - Jay Keck - 7:00 pm. SC Wildlife Federation’s Industry Habitat Education
Manager, a passionate nature and bird lover since his early teens - program
title: “Become a Better Birder; See & Hear; Create habitat for more birds!”
July 23 - Robby Morrow - 7:00 pm. Geologist with SC Department of Natural Resources - Geological Survey. Co-authored a book, Geology of the Foothills Trail. Program title: “Piedmont Geology in South Carolina: Earth History, Resources, & Hazards”
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Meet and Eat group will gather next time on Wednesday, August 5, at Fruit Punch Sandwich Shop on Hwy 24. Everyone is welcome!
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Shower Update: The shower is now under construction. Please excuse the happy mess!
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Keep up with the latest news from Foothills Presbytery here.
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Bible Study meets on Mondays at 6:30 pm through Zoom. The topic is Apocalyptic Eschatology along with the Book of Revelation. Dave says he will try to make sense of it! If you’d like to be added to the Zoom invite list, contact Cynthia at cynthiakwarner@mac.com.
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Please remember to donate non-perishable food items to AIM (Anderson Interfaith Ministries). An extra item when you shop is a great help to others in our community.
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Remember in prayer: Matt Wolf; Steve and Brenda Swearingen; Jay Lyn Martin and Jerry Meehan; Mary Alice Mundy; Latha Semones; Immigrant families; Victims of all violence, oppression, and injustice; People of the World in ALL walks of life and strife.