We are delighted to welcome violin soloist Lynn White McMahon to our service this morning.  She is the elementary strings instructor in the York Public Schools, a private string teacher in Cape Neddick, and a well-known performer in the Seacoast area.

Women’s Fellowship Colonial Market needs you!  Yarn and patterns are  available at coffee hour this morning and again on August 8.  Women’s Fellowship will not meet during July and August.

Portland Sea Dogs!!!  We’re going to the Sea Dogs!  Sunday, August 22 is the date for a 1:00 p.m. game.  Tickets are $8.00 and are in the “Green Monster” section (lots of room to run around!)  Stop by the church office or call to reserve your tickets!

Communion Table Cloth:  Like lost sheep, our Communion table cloth has gone astray!  If you know of its whereabouts, please contact the church office.

Mission Trip T-Shirts: If anyone has a t-shirt from a previous Sr. High Youth Mission Trip, I would like to have one.  I would prefer medium size, but will take any size with thanks.  I would like to collect one from each mission trip to become a church display.  You may bring them to church or call me and I will pick them up.  Again, many thanks.  Blue Mission Trip T-Shirts are on sale this morning at coffee hour.  It only takes a minute to support our youth and their mission trip.  s/Dick Lalley, 363-4711.

Tim Janis Ensemble Concert:  Please join Tim Janis at his annual summer concert this Saturday evening July 17, at 8:00 p.m. in Moody Hall.  There is limited seating available.  Tickets are $20. and available by calling 207-363-1202.  Tim has left some free copies of   his new CD “The Journey Home” as well as some tickets to his show.  They are located on the table in the narthex by the DVD and sermon tapes.

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Mission Statement

The mission of our church is to create a fellowship

that celebrates and reflects the presence of Christ.

Through worship and spiritual growth

we will equip ourselves and go forth

to share God’s love in word and deed

within our community and throughout the world.

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This Week at First Parish

Thursday:

6:00 p.m. Men’s Ensemble rehearsal

7:00 p.m. Book of Revelation Bible Study - Moody Hall

Saturday: 8:00 p.m. Tim Janis Ensemble Concert

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Sunday, July 11. 2010                                                         10:00 a.m.

9:45 Hymn-Sing

Prelude for Prayer and Meditation - a time for personal prayer

“Prayer of the Morning”                                            Gerald Peterson

Call to Worship

*Opening Hymn #40:  “For the Beauty of the Earth”

The Opening Prayer 

Gracious God, you fill the world with your presence and you dwell in every human heart.  Your word inspires us; your music fills us, and your Spirit sets our feet to dancing.  Help us, this week, to see you in the stranger, the hungry, the ill and the prisoner, and may we respond with open hearts and hands and hope, through Christ our Lord, who taught us to pray.  .  .

The Lord’s Prayer (“debts”)

Solo:  Lynn White McMahon, violin

Parish Concerns and Celebrations

A Message for Children of All Ages: - Julie Crafts

(Children will then be dismissed for Church School)

The Offertory and Offertory Solo:  Lynn White McMahon, violin

The Doxology (#34) and the Prayer of Dedication

*Hymn #469:  “Lord of All Hopefulness”

The Pastoral Prayer - Jim Carter

Holy Scripture:  Luke 10:25-37 (page 62 N.T.) - Bill Olsen

Sermon:  “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”

*Closing Hymn #391:  “Will You Let Me Be Your Servant”

*The Benediction and Threefold Amen #744:  (sung by the congregation)

Postlude:  Les Cloches (“The Bells”) Nicholas Leberge (1631 - 1702)

*All who are able, please stand

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Flowers are given in loving memory of

Charlie Ludgate

by his wife Charline

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Thank you for worshiping with us today.  All visitors are invited to join us after church for refreshments and fellowship.  Summer is here, so weather permitting coffee hour is outdoors.  During the summer months, you’ll find our Welcome Table just inside Fellowship Hall in the entryway, with helpful information about our church.  We also encourage you to sign a pew card and place it in the offering plate and speak with our pastors.  Welcome!!

As the old hymn says, "Jesus calls us, o'er the tumult of our life's wild, restless sea," but he doesn't need a cell phone to do it.  Please turn your ringers off before worship.

Coffee hour is hosted by Priscilla Thomson.