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UECF Program June 15, 2014

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Order of Worship

June 15, 2014 Worship Service

Welcome & Greetings:
*Call to Worship (Responsive Reading):

Leader: Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. People: Glory be to the Father who created the world and all that it is in it.

Leader: Hear O People of God, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.

People: Glory be to the Son, who was with God and was God and who took on flesh and dwelt among us full of grace and truth. Hear O Servants of God, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. Glory be to the Spirit, who comes from the Father and the Son, and dwells within us and guides us day by day.

*Opening Hymn ‘How Great Thou Art ’ RCH#4
*Opening Prayer(Unison): Lord God, Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer - we rejoice that you have chosen us to be your own and that you dwell with us and open to us the way to abundant life. Bring us closer to you and to one another and in our prayer and our thanksgiving, our hearing and our speaking, our giving and receiving make us more completely thine. We ask it in the name of Jesus, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forevermore. Amen! Old Testament Lesson: Psalm 8 Bro. Ravindra Bhaskar
Program Details

Epistle Lesson 2 Timothy 2 1-15 Mr. Ramesh Saripalli

Worship Songs in Telugu & English UECF Choir

Testimony(Mission Trip to India) Ms. Courtney Deacon

Testimony Mr. Anand Devi

Intercessory Prayer & Lord's Prayer Pastor Ravinder

Offertory

*Doxology

Offertory Prayer Pastor Ravinder

Gospel Lesson Matthew 7 7-12 Mr. Vijay Peyyala

Sermon ‘A Father’s Day Special’ Pastor Ravinder

Honoring Fathers

Special Program Sunday School Children

*Closing Hymn: ‘They’ll Know We are Christians by Our Love ’ RCH#284

*Closing Prayer & Benediction Pastor Ravinder

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Thanks to Rev. Dr. David Ravinder for ministering to us today.
  • Next week, Holy Communion will be celebrated. Rev. Dr. David Ravinder will bring the Word of God.
  • UECF visit to Old Age Home will be held on Saturday, June 21st.
  • UECF Annual VBS for Children & Teens will be held from Friday, June 20th to Sunday, June 22nd. For more information, please contact Mrs. Emily Myla.
  • UECF Monthly Men & Women Prayer Meetings will be held on Friday, June 27th at 7:00PM.
  • Last Sunday’s offering was $1377:00. We thank you for your support.
  • Today’s Fellowship Hour is hosted by UECF Women.
  • Please sign-up the Fellowship Roster if you would like to volunteer to host the Fellowship Coffee Hour.

June

1

UECF

8

UECF

15
UECF Women

22

29

July

6

13

20

27
UECF Families

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Aug

3

10

17

24
UECF Families

31

Birthdays:

    • Mrs. Shanthi Jammula 16th June
    • Mr. Reggie Rao 17th June
    • Mrs. Sujatha Mallepalle 20th June
    • Mr. Robert Mesa 21st June

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History of Father's Day 

Father's Day is a primarily secular holiday inaugurated in the early 20th century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and parenting by males, and to honor and commemorate fathers and forefathers. Father's Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide, and typically involves gift-giving to fathers and family-oriented activities.

In the United States, the first modern Father's Day celebration was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia. It was first celebrated as a church service at Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South, now known as Central United Methodist Church. Grace Golden Clayton, who is believed to have suggested the service to the pastor, is believed to have been inspired to celebrate fathers after the deadly mine explosion in nearby Monongah the prior December. This explosion killed 361 men, many of them fathers and recent immigrants to the United States from Italy. Another possible inspiration for the service was Mother's Day, which had recently been celebrated for the first time in Grafton, West Virginia, a town about 15 miles away. Father's day originates as far back as 1839 in celebration of the fathers that went to war in the Battle of Iransop in which 123 fathers lost their lives defending the outpost.

Another driving force behind the establishment of the integration of Father's Day was Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd, born in Creston, Washington. Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, as a single parent reared his six children in Spokane, Washington. She was inspired by Anna Jarvis's efforts to establish Mother's Day. Although she initially suggested June 5, the anniversary of her father's death, she did not provide the organizers with enough time to make arrangements, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June. The first June Father's Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910, in Spokane, WA.

Unofficial support from such figures as William Jennings Bryan was immediate and widespread. President Woodrow Wilson was personally feted by his family in 1916. President Calvin Coolidge recommended it as a national holiday in 1924. In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson made Father's Day a holiday to be celebrated on the third Sunday of June. The holiday was not officially recognized until 1972, during the presidency of Richard Nixon.

In recent years, retailers have adapted to the holiday by promoting male-oriented gifts such as electronics, tools and greeting cards. Schools and other children's programs commonly have activities to make Father's Day gifts.

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