Five Bold Women

Today’s guest speaker is Don Herschell.
​ 
All of the information normally found in our bulletin is below the video. Simply click on "Read More" to load the rest of the bulletin. You can use this to follow the service, as well as to pray our unison prayers. All joys and concerns that we know, as well as our continuing prayer list is within the Joys and Concerns. Announcements can be found at the bottom of this service.

Prelude:                     “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing”                      #318

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• There will be a congregational meeting following worship next Sunday, May 16, to vote on nominees for our Pastor Nominating Committee. Please plan to attend this very important meeting.
• Session will meet tomorrow, Monday, May 10th at 6:00 pm.
• Trustees will meet tomorrow, Monday, May 10th at 7:00 pm.

​Please return your reservation ASAP for our Congregational Self Study Day May 22nd.  We will start at 10 AM, have catered lunch at noon and wrap up early afternoon. Don Herschell will need a count of number attending for lunch caterer.
                                             
CALL TO WORSHIP:
Leader: It is not difficult to be God’s beloved child. 
People: We are called to obey God’s commandments and live in God’s love! 
Leader: The ways which God ordains are ways of peace and hope. 
People: The love of God shall conquer the world. 
Leader: Rejoice, O people of God, for God is near! 
People: Praise God for God’s power and might, God’s love and peace. AMEN.

INVOCATION
 
HYMN:                                   “For the Beauty of the Earth”                                    # 1                                             
Prayer of confession:
Holy God, we can be so full of fear at times – afraid of the unknown; afraid of what is beyond our control; afraid of what is strange to us.  And we know that fear stops us in our tracks, hinders our action, and gives excuse for not doing what you call us to do and what you empower us to do.  We pray that you will give us courage, O God.  Give us strong hearts and open hands, that we might set aside our fear, and walk confidently into this world you have made. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.

Time of Silent Prayer
Assurance of Pardon:
 “In Christ there is no East or West, in Him no South or North, but one great fellowship of love throughout the whole wide earth.”  In Jesus Christ there is new life, in Jesus Christ     we are forgiven.  

Children’s Moment

Prayer of Illumination

Scripture Reading:                                Exodus 1:8-2:10  ​

Exodus 1:8-2:10
8 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. 9 “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. 10 Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”

11 So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites 13 and worked them ruthlessly. 14 They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.

15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, 16 “When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.” 17 The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. 18 Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”

19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”

20 So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. 21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.

22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.”

The Birth of Moses
2 Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, 2 and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. 3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket[a] for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. 4 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

5 Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. 6 She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.

7 Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”
​
8 “Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother. 9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him. 10 When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”

SERMON:                              “Five Bold Women”                      
HYMN:                               “O God, Our Help in Ages Past”                       #370                                        
*Apostles’ Creed
Presentation of Our Tithes and Offerings                (Offering plates located at door)

Offertory                                                       

Prayer of Dedication

Concerns and Celebrations     ​

Birthdays: Tom Miller, Sidney Grace Phillips, Amelia Rose Phillips, Nellie Baker, Cassandra Clifford, Caleb Cummings, Brynn Hathaway, Diana Donaldson, Kevin Moore      

Anniversaries: Dawn & Bryan Miles, Nancy & Tom Molinaro 

JOYS AND CONCERNS

Ed Horne came home from Shadyside Hospital this past week, please pray for Ed as he builds up his strength.   Marlene Huffman is home from the hospital.  She is being treated with medication to get rid of fluid around her heart and is feeling much better.  Thanks for all the prayers.   
      
SYMPATHY   The Family of James McGuier 

Continued prayers for Susan Schively, Melissa Pedigo, Aaron Blake, Lisa Phillips, Dixie Avoila, Chuck Dicks, Randy Moore, Karen Eisiminger, Kelley Gump, Mary Ann McFeeley, Ed Horne, June and Keith McGill, Chuck Montecello,  Glenn Miles,  Roger Riggs, Doug Ward, Rick McFeeley, Deron Wood, Dana Wilson, Marge McWreath, Tim Knabenshue, Bill Stewart, Adam Moore, Cris Miller, Frank Huffman,  Nellie Baker, Michael Durila, Jr., Michael Durila Sr., Justin Hagon, Marge Shape, Ed Caffrey, Betty Matthews, and Susan West.      

Prayers of the People                                                           
The Lord’s Prayer

HYMN:                      “All Creatures of Our God and King”                               #347                     
           
Postlude and Benediction

---

COVID GUIDELINES for Church Services:  Face masks, hand sanitizer, social distance & seating 6 feet apart, no congregational singing, please participate in responsive readings at your seat if comfortable.

We welcome all who have come to join us in the worship of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Please come again.  If you are visiting with us today, please let us know that we might welcome you into our church family.

REMEMBER OUR FOOD COLLECTION: For the month of May, the food collection is CANNED FRUIT, CHUNKY SOUPS AND CANNED BEANS.  “CAN” YOU HELP OUT???  And Jesus said, “You give them something to eat.”  Mark 6:37. Please remember our food pantry is available to anyone in need.  Replenish with your hands and listen for the need with your ears.  Contact Becky Phillips with any need in the community or to donate.  ​