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May 14, 2023
Our next Book Club will be on Tuesday, May 16th at 6pm. We'll be discussing Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi. Please stay tuned for an announcement about the location.
Join us in welcoming Emelia Joseph to the Westminster Staff! Before coming to Westminster, Emelia served as Parish Coordinator and Director of Religious Education at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church. Emelia has lived in Greenwood her entire life and is passionate about investing in her community. Emelia enjoys traveling and loves animals, is passionate about her faith and loves to meet new people. Be sure to stop by the office and introduce yourself!

email: ejoseph@wpcgreenwood.org
office phone: (662) 453-7608
cell phone: (662) 897-2120
In This Issue
This Week's Events
 
  • Sunday, May 14th - Music Team Rehearsal
    Our Music Team will rehearse this morning at 8:30 a.m.
     
  • Sunday, May 14th  - Senior Breakfast
    All graduating high school seniors and their parents are invited to a breakfast with Josh and Christina in the Courtyard at 8:30am on Sunday.

     
  • Sunday, May 14th - Prayer in the Church Office at 9:30 a.m.
     
  • Sunday, May 14th  - Morning Worship, Senior Sunday, and Sunday School
    We invite everyone to join us for our morning Worship Service. Josh and Christina Reagan will lead Little Worship. If you are unable to attend the Service, please click here to watch our LiveStream. We will have Sunday School for all ages immediately following our Morning Worship Service
     
  • Tuesday, May 16th - "Tuesdays at Turnrow" Women's Book Club
    Ladies, join us this Tuesday evening at the home of Diane Finnegan (416 Grand Blvd.) at 6pm as we discuss the book Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi.
     
  • Wednesday, May 17th - NO Mid-Week Studies
    We will be on break from our Mid-Week Studies for the remainder of the month of May. In June, we will resume meeting. We will enjoy our Fellowship Meal followed by a brief time of prayer for all ages. 
May Calendar
A Look At Last Week

Bridal Shower Honoring Mabry Dye

Mid-Week Studies

Resources
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Happy Birthday
(May 12 - 19)
5/12 - Trey O'Brien
5/13 - Dylan Branson
5/13 - Allison Pillow
5/14 - Cyndi Savage
5/17 - Jack Wade Wilson
5/18 - Charles Allen
5/19 - Benjamin Downs
Happy Anniversary
(May 12 - 19)
No anniversaries this week.
Looking Ahead
This summer, we plan to continue gathering on Wednesday nights for a time of food, fellowship and prayer. We will resume meeting on Wednesday, June 7th

We will have a fellowship meal at 5:30pm ($5/person or $15/family). We will then have a brief time of guided prayer. Our Rooted Kids in K4 - 5th grades will break out for a prayer time led by our Deacons and Elders. (Kids in grades 3-5 will have the option to either stay with the adults or go with the children.) A nursery will also be available for younger children.

We are looking forward to this time to continue gathering together throughout the summer.
We will be ordering a limited number of Westminster coffee mugs. If you would like to pre-order one (or several!), please email Kathryn Dyksterhouse.
Prayer List
WPC Prayer Needs
  • Darrell and Theresa Belk - Prayers as Darrell works in Idaho
  • Mike Barth 
  • Dylan Branson - Prayers as she is being treated for benign epilepsy.
  • Shelby and Joseph Gorman - Prayers after the fire at Turnrow Books.
  • Michelle Hodges 
  • Cyndi Savage - Prayer for stamina and healing after cancer treatment
  • Gene & Jere Stansel
Friends of WPC Prayer Needs
  • Stephen and Jessi Belk (Son and Daughter-in-Law of Darrell and Theresa Belk) - Prayers for a healthy pregnancy after previous complications
  • Dr. Mike Boler - Treatment for T-Cell Leukemia
  • Christine Boye, friend of Derek & Elizabeth Hinckley - prayer for Christine and her family during treatment of metastatic breast cancer
  • Jan Champion (Widow of Bobo, friend of Johnny & Georgeanne Smith) - Prayers for Jan and her family as she battles cancer
  • Ben Downs, Son of John and Mary Nell Downs - Prayers for recovery from a stroke
  • Jenna Hoover, Niece of Betty Boyd - Prayers for healing and comfort as she battles renal cancer
  • Kevin Kendall - Prayers for encouragement, healing and guidance
  • Sawyer Kimbriel - He has a rare lymphatic abnormality
  • Page Whites - Cancer treatment
Expecting Parents
  • Jarrett & Anna Mills (adopting)
  • Adron & Betsy Belk (due July 15, 2023)
  • Isaiah & Destinie Riley (due August 30, 2023)
  • Tyler & Gray Blocker (due September 30, 2023)
  • Alex & Hannah Bush (due October 1, 2023)
Shut-Ins
  • Betty Morgan (Indywood, Room 127)
Community Prayer Needs
  • Turnrow Books, Turnrow Cafe, and Turnrow Art Co., their employees and families, after a fire caused damage to the store.
  • Greenwood-Leflore Hospital - Their employees and families of their employees as they navigate the possibilities of continuing to serve our community.
Praise
Psalm 145:14-19 The LORD upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down. The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season. You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing. The Lord is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works. The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.
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Welcome and Announcements

Introit - “My Worth Is Not In What I Own”
My worth is not in what I own, Not in the strength of flesh and bone
But in the costly wounds of love at the crossMy worth is not in skill or name
In win or lose in pride or shame, But in the blood of Christ that flowed at the cross

I rejoice in my Redeemer, Greatest treasure Wellspring of my soul
I will trust in Him no other, My soul is satisfied in Him alone

As summer flowers we fade and die, Fame youth and beauty hurry by
But life eternal calls to us at the cross

I will not boast in wealth or might, Or human wisdom's fleeting light
But I will boast in knowing Christ at the cross

Two wonders here that I confess, My worth and my unworthiness
My value fixed my ransom paid at the cross

CCLI Song # 7024758Graham Kendrick | Keith Getty | Kristyn Getty

‡The Call to Worship — (From Psalm 91, 95, 96, and 126)
Leader:  Those who dwell in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
Congregation: I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

Leader: Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
Congregation: Let us come into His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him with songs of praise!

Leader:  Ascribe to the Lord the glory due His name; bring an offering, and come into His courts!          
Congregation: For He is our God and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.

Leader and Congregation:  Worship the Lord, for He has done great things for us and we are filled with joy!

‡The Hymn – “Before the Throne of God Above” 
Before the throne of God above, I have a strong and perfect plea,
A great High Priest, whose Name is Love, who ever lives and pleads for me.
My name is graven on His hands, my name is written on His heart.
I know that while in heaven He stands, no tongue can bid me thence depart.
No tongue can bid me thence depart.

When Satan tempts me to despair, and tells me of the guilt within,
Upward I look and see Him there, who made an end to all my sin.
Because the sinless Savior died, my sinful soul is counted free,
For God the Just is satisfied, to look on Him and pardon me.
To look on Him and pardon me.

Hallelujah!  Hallelujah!  Praise the One Risen Son of God!    

Behold Him there, the risen Lamb, my perfect, spotless righteousness,
The great Unchangeable I Am, the King of glory and of grace!
One with Himself I cannot die, my soul is purchased by His blood.
My life is hid with Christ on high, with Christ, my Savior and my God!
With Christ, my Savior and my God!

Hallelujah!  Hallelujah!  Praise the One Risen Son of God!

© 1997 Sovereign Grace Worship (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing (IMI)) | CCLI  License #2306412

‡The Prayer of Invocation 

Recognition of Seniors:
ElysaBeth Floyd, Sarah Frances O’Brien, Hayden Pillow, Bailey Swain, and Julie Day Warren

The Old Testament Reading 
Proverbs 10:15; 17:16; 23:4,5 and Ecclesiastes 5:10-12 --- Matthew Waldrop
Proverbs 10:15   A rich man's wealth is his strong city; the poverty of the poor is their ruin.  
Proverbs 17:16   Why should a fool have money in his hand to buy wisdom
when he has no sense?  Proverbs 23:4 Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. 
Proverbs 23:5 When your eyes light on it, it is gone,
for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.  
Ecclesiastes 5:10-12 10 He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity. 11 When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes? 12 Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.

‡The Hymn - “His Mercy is More”
Chorus
Praise the Lord His mercy is more
Stronger than darkness new every morn
Our sins they are many His mercy is more

What love could remember no wrongs we have done
Omniscient all knowing He counts not their sum
Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore
Our sins they are many His mercy is more (Chorus)

What patience would wait as we constantly roam
What Father so tender is calling us home
He welcomes the weakest, the vilest, the poor
Our sins they are many His mercy is more (Chorus)

What riches of kindness He lavished on us
His blood was the payment His life was the cost
We stood 'neath a debt we could never afford
Our sins they are many His mercy is more (Chorus)                                             

CCLI Song # 7065053 |Matt Boswell | Matt Papa |  CCLI License # 2640266

The Old Testament Reading #2:  Deuteronomy 8:11-18 --- Mischa McCray
11 “Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, 12 lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them, 13 and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, 14 then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, 15 who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock, 16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end. 17 Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ 18 You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.         

Words of Assurance (Heidelberg Catechism #1)
Pastor:  What is your only comfort in life and death?

Congregation:  That I, with body and soul, both in life and death, am not my own, but belong unto my faithful Savior Jesus Christ; whowith His precious blood has fully satisfied for all my sins, and delivered me from all the power of the devil; and so preserves me thatwithout the will of my heavenly Father not a hair can fall from my head; yea, that all things must be subservient to my salvation,wherefore by His Holy Spirit he also assures me of eternal life, and makes me heartily willing and ready, henceforth, to live unto Him.

Offertory Prayer

‡The Hymn – “Lord I Need You”
Lord, I come, I confess, bowing here, I find my rest
And without You, I fall apart.  You're the one that guides my heart.

Chorus
Lord, I need You, oh, I need You.  Ev’ry hour I need You.
My one defense, my righteousness; Oh, God, how I need You.

Where sin runs deep, Your grace is more. Where grace is found is where You are.
And where You are, Lord, I am free.  Holiness is Christ in me. 
Where You are, Lord, I am free.  Holiness is Christ in me. (Chorus)

So, teach my song to rise to You when temptation comes my way.
And when I cannot stand, I'll fall on You. Jesus, You're my hope and stay.
And when I cannot stand, I'll fall on You. Jesus, You're my hope and stay. (Chorus)

Words and Music by Jesse Reeves, Kristian Stanfill, Matt Maher, Christy Nockels and Daniel Carson | © 2011 sixsteps Music  Sweater Weather Music |Thankyou Music |All rights reserved. www.ccli.com | CCLI License # 5925687

Children dismissed for Little Worship at this time
(K4 – K5)

Reading of the Holy Scripture: Luke 16:1-13
16 He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ He said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light. And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.10 “One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. 11 If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? 12 And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own? 13 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”

The Sermon – “Luke #66: God’s Vision For Wealth - Richard Owens

The Hymn – “Jesus Keep Me Near The Cross”
Jesus, keep me near the cross; there a precious fountain,
Free to all a healing stream flows from Calv’ry’s mountain.

[Refrain]
In the cross, in the cross, be my glory ever;
Till my raptured soul shall find rest beyond the river. 

Near the cross, a trembling soul, love and mercy found me;
There the Bright and Morning Star shed its beams around me. [Refrain]

Near the cross! O Lamb of God, bring its scenes before me;
Help me walk from day to day with its shadow o’er me. [Refrain]

Near the cross I’ll watch and wait, hoping, trusting ever,
Till I reach the golden strand just beyond the river. [Refrain]

‡Benediction
‡Congregation standing

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