January 12, 2003 Bulletin

For joys, respond: "Thanks Be to God" For our concerns, respond: "Lord Have Mercy"

People: The voice of God is full of majesty, Let us praise the name of the Lord!

For joys, respond: "Thanks Be to God" For our concerns, respond: "Lord Have Mercy"

8:15 & 10:30 a.m. - Worship 9:00 a.m. - Fellowship Time 9:30 a.m. - Sunday School 5:00 p.m. - Youth Groups 6:15 p.m. - Spirit Ringers Practice	Today	Special Events 2:00 p.m. - Wedding Shower 6:00 p.m. - Small Group Coord. 7:30 p.m. - Church Council Childcare provided
6:30 p.m. - Praise Team Practice 7:30 p.m. - Angelus Practice	Monday	6:30 p.m. - La Leche League
6:30 p.m. - Quilters 6:30 p.m. - Boy Scouts	Tuesday	6:30 p.m. PROUDD Meeting 7:30 pm - Small Group Leaders
6a.m. - Men’s Prayer Breakfast 6:30 p.m. - Cherub Practice 6:30 p.m. - Chancel Choir 7:30 p.m. - Wellspring Service 8:30 p.m. - Small Group	Wednesday	7:00 p.m. - Ushers Meeting
9:am - Bible Study	Thursday
	Friday	6:00 p.m. - Tacos & Bingo Night sponsored by Loaves & Fishes
	Saturday
8:15 & 10:30 a.m. - Worship 9:00 a.m. - Fellowship Time 9:30 a.m. - Sunday School 5:00 p.m. - Youth Group 6:00 p.m. - Spirit Ringers Practice	Next Sunday January 19^th, 2003	9:30 a.m. - Special planning session of the Fellowship Team during Fellowship Time. noon - Small Group Leaders

Searing joy for the 20 youth and 6 adults enjoying the lock-in last Sunday/Monday for 12 hours (or at least most of the 12 hours). And concern that God leads the youth groups to maintain growth beginning at 5 p.m. today.

Carolyn Dickey joy and thanks God for a good & prosperous new year and concern & prayers for a member of her family who received bad results from recent tests.

Georgia Hillery joy & thanks to God for the beautiful season and concern for Nancy Bible who is better but still in need of our prayers. Also prayers for her niece, Linda Sollers, who will have surgery on Monday.

Ted & Jessica Hartke concern & prayers for a co-worker’s wife with terminal illness & prayers for a co-worker whose brother committed suicide on New Year’s Eve. Also prayers for safe travel for their vacation this week to Hawaii.

The Johnston’s concern for Adelaide Lovitt, Dale’s grandmother, who is in intensive care in Galesburg.

Herschel Cline concern & prayers for Harriet. She fell on the ice & sustained a bad sprain in her right leg.

Janet Fredrick joy for safe return for both her children, Kim & Brian, from travels to the Quad Cities.

Pat Price concern for her mother and the decisions she has to make concerning her moving.

Matt Peters joy for ringing in the New Year with friends & a great conclusion for 2002 and concern for travels to Detroit for the Auto Show next weekend.

Todd Searing joy for fellowship with friends over Winter Break and a certain football game Friday night.

Joy Valentine joy for Karen Henderson sharing her musical talent every Sunday playing the piano.

Marsha Durbin concern & prayers for strength & healing for her sister, Paula Wright, & her three children as they deal with the tragic death of their husband/father on New Year’s Day.

Janice Roy joy that her son, David, and Elisha Clark are getting married Monday in Florida & going on a Carribean Cruise and concern for all those ill, in hospitals, nursing homes & shut-ins. Richard King concern for the Osborne family as Ed Osborne’s father passed away 12/27.

Fellowship Time Host: Julie & Joey Smith. Please join us downstairs in the fellowship hall for coffee, koolade and cookies, following the first service.

Church Office: 328-1414 (office hours: Monday-Friday 9:00 am-12:00 & 1:00-4:00 pm)

Parsonage: 367-1046 Fax: 328-9259 E-mail: and web site at http://www.urbanagrace.org

The financial reports for the fourth quarter and the year 2002 were recently mailed. If any questions please call the church office, 328-1414.

Ron & Berniel Stinebring will be celebrating their 50^th wedding anniversary with their daughters & families on January 11 and then off to spend the winter in Arizona. Their actual wedding date is January 24, so we can still send them cards and greetings.

We remember the conviction of Martin Luther King, Jr., that "freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

Therefore, let us pray for courage and determination by those who are oppressed. . . . .

We remember Martin’s warning that "a negative peace which is the absence of tension" is less than "a positive peace which is the presence of justice."

Therefore, let us pray that those who work for peace in our world may cry out first for justice. .

We remember Martin’s insight that "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny.

Therefore, let us pray that we may see nothing in isolation, but may know ourselves bound to one another and to all people under heaven. . .

We remember Martin’s lament that "the contemporary church often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound.

Far from being disturbed by the presence of the Church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the Church’s silent and often vocal sanction of things as they are."

Therefore, let us pray that neither this congregation nor any congregation of Christ’s people may be silent in the face of wrong, but that we may be disturbers of the status quo when that is God’s call to us. . .

We remember Martin’s "hope that dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty."

Therefore, in faith, let us commend ourselves and our work for justice to the goodness of almighty God.