WHAT'S H A PPE NIN G !
Please join us after the service for Hospitality Time in Criswell Hall
This week's activities:
Mon. April 14 6:00 PM Gerry's Quilting Class, Criswell Hall
Tue April 15 ` 9:00 AM Senior Exercise, Criswell Hall
0:00 AM Sew ‘n’ Sews, McMillen Room 113
11:00 AM Chair Yoga, Criswell Hall
1:00PM Bible Study, Criswell Hall
1:30PM Finance-Library Room 123
3:00PM Joy Circle, Call Office
5:00PM Bell Choir Rehearsal – Handbell Room 115
Wed. April 16 9:00 AM Trustees Work Morning, Criswell Hall
2:00PM Church Council- McMillen Room 113
1:30 PM Mission Team – McMillen Room 113
Thu. April 17 9:00 AM Senior Exercise, Criswell Hall
11:00 AM Chair Yoga, Criswell Hall
3:30 PM Children’s Center Board, McMillen Room 113
6:00 PM Maundy Thursday/Tenebrae Service, Sanctuary
Sun April 20 8:30 AM Informal Worship, Sanctuary
10:30 AM Traditional Worship, Sanctuary
Upcoming Events:
Thu. April 15 Joy Circle, Kerren Brown’s Home 3PM
Wed. April 17 Maundy Thursday Service 6PM Sanctuary
Thu. April 20 Easter Sunday
Thu. April 25 Book Club Library 10:30AM
Sun. April 27 Children’s Center Art Show
Sun. April 27 Free Movie: Six Triple Eight, Criswell Hall 4PM
Mon. April 28 People’s Kitchen Food Prep, Kitchen 1:30PM
Tue. April 29 People’s Kitchen Food Distribution, 11:00AM
Wed. April 30 Mary, Martha, Esther Circle, McMillen Room 10AM
Sun. May 4 Methodist Men Taco Bar, Criswell Hall 11:30 to 1PM
Thu. May 15 Everett Lee Taylor Scholarship application deadline
Sat. June 21 Scott Trees Garden Tour
First United Methodist Church
of Arroyo Grande
275 N. Halcyon Road,
Arroyo Grande, CA 93420
805-481-2692 fumcag@yahoo.com
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April 13, 2025 10:30 a.m.
Palm Sunday
PRELUDE “I Will Praise Him” Margaret J. Harris
INTROIT Hosanna! Hosanna! TFWS #2109
*CALL TO WORSHIP
With songs of thanksgiving, we sing praise to God.
With shouts of hosanna, we welcome the presence of Christ.
Come and worship the one who comes in the name of the Lord
With prayers of blessing, we call out to the Spirit of God.
*OPENING HYMN Hosanna, Loud Hosanna No. 278
WELCOME/ANNOUNCEMENTS
OPENING PRAYER.
Blessed Jesus, you humbled yourself as you entered Jerusalem in lowly
estate. Teach us the joys of servant ministry and move us to dance and
sing our hosannas with the children of Jerusalem. To such belongs the
Kingdom of Heaven. Amen
PALM SUNDAY READING Mark 11: 1-11
CHILDREN’S MOMENT
A TIME OF PRAYER
Choral Call to Prayer O How He Loves You and Me TFWS #2108
Prayers of the People
Choral Response O How He Loves You and Me TFWS #2108
CHOIR ANTHEM Let the Veil Down ---Stone/Dudly
SCRIPTURE Philippians 2:5-11
HYMN (remain seated) Tell Me the Stories of Jesus No. 277
SERMON POWERFULLY LONELY, YET NEVER ALONE
OFFERING
Call to Stewardship and Mission
Offertory ‘I Stand Amazed in the Presence Charles H. Gabriel
*Doxology/Prayer of Dedication ---John Purifoy
*HYMN All Glory, Laud and Honor No. 280
*BENEDICTION
CHORAL RESPONSE Be Glorified TFWS #2150
POSTLUDE “Yours is the Kingdom” Cindy Berry
* Please stand as able.
Assisting in today's service: Pastor: Rev. Mary Birgelaitis,
Liturgist: Tim Stewart, Interim Choir Director: Tricia Stewart,
Piano/Keyboard: Dennis Eiler, Organist: Brad Bettencourt
Mark 11: 1-11
When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives,
he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and
immediately as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden; untie it
and bring it. If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ just say this, ‘The Lord needs it and
will send it back here immediately.” They went away and found a colt tied near a door, outside
in the street. As they were untying it, some of the bystanders said to them, “What are you
doing, untying the colt?” They told them what Jesus had said; and they allowed them to take it.
Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their clocks on it; and he sat on it. Many people
spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the
fields. Then those who went ahead and those who followed were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed
is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor
David! Hosanna in the highest heaven!” Then he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple:
and when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany
with the twelve.
Philippians 2: 5-11
Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the
form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form he humbled
himself and became obedient to the point of death-even death on a cross. Therefore, God also
highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of
Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue
should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
HOSPITALITY: Today hosted by: Staff Parish
April 20 will be hosted by Communications
ATTENDANCE
WEEK
8:30
10:30
IN-
PERSON
VIDEO
TOTAL
Mar16
41
69
110
48
158
Mar 23
31
57
88
31
119
Mar 30
38
57
95
17
112
Apr 06
33
67
100
3
103
Weekly offering needed: $9,053 Easter Offering: $346
Budgeted: $249,240 Easter Budgeted: $5,500
Fiscal Year to Date: Received $266,632