welcome

Thank you for coming to First Presbyterian

Church of Orlando this morning! We worship
together as a church family in four services
on Sundays: Traditional worship in the
Sanctuary at 8:15am and 11am, and Genesis
worship in the Sanctuary at 9:45am and in
Lee Fellowship Hall at 11:00am. Check
in and let us know you’re here: visit
our Legacy Room for a cup of coffee
and say hello, or text “FPCO” to the
number 313131.
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congregational care
As a caring body of believers, please remember in your
prayers those who have recently been hospitalized or are
recuperating at home: Mary Blaker.
Our sympathy to Suzanne and Keith Rhodes on the death
of her mom, Marti Brant, December 27.
Loni and Matt Hurbanis on the death of her mother,
Charlotte Ledbetter on Dec 21.

Sympathy to the family and friends of Dr Robert Tim Kellam

who died Dec 21.

To be added to our prayer list call the Pastoral Care office

at 407.423.3441 x1455, or submit an online prayer request at
fpco.org/prayerrequest.

PARTICIPATION
IN GIVING

generosity 39.1%
NOVEMBER 2017

Stewardship Report as of December 31, 2017.

Thank you for your faithful generosity.
Because we believe participation (and not a dollar amount)
is key in our giving, we are now reporting our church’s
giving participation percentage weekly. ö
Our financial numbers will appear on a monthly basis for
continued transparency in budgeting.
Give easily and securely online from your smartphone at
fpco.org/mobile.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ORLANDO

address 106 East Church St., Orlando Florida 32801
phone 407.423.3441
online fpco.org /firstpresorlando /fpcorlando
save the date
• TODAY: Ordination of New Elders & Deacons, 11am.
• January 8: Women's Spring Bible study begins.
Register at fpco.org/register.
• January 14: Year of the Book sermon series and
church-wide reading plan begins! fpco.org/year
• January 14: Second Sunday. Take a few minutes to
make new friends after worship. Join us under the
Angel Wing (between the Sanctuary and Allen Hall).
• January: If you are interested in becoming a Stephen
Minister, you can learn more at fpco.org/stephen.
• January 15: Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Church Offices
Closed.
• January 17: Women’s Cancer Support meets, 12pm-
1pm with a light lunch provided. RSVP to Maddy Vilar
at 407.423.3441 x1159.
• January 21: Join us for lunch and learn more about
what is being done to end human trafficking in
Orlando. Register at fpco.org/faithserve.
• January 21: Embark. Designed as a follow-up to
Journey of Generosity. Register by January 15 at
fpco.org/register.
• January 24: Missional Motherhood Bible Study
begins. Register by January 10 at fpco.org/register.

year of the book

Year of the Book - a year-long sermon series and church-
wide reading plan begins January 14! We're encouraging
everyone to follow along with our sermon series using
our study questions in their small groups. They will be in
each Sunday's bulletin. Commit to reading the Bible daily
in 2018 using the free Read Scripture app or reading plan.
Download the app and learn more at fpco.org/year
genesis worship

Welcome

The Sacrament of Baptism (9:45)

S Landry Maclaine Wiborg, born May 25, 2017,
daughter of Callie and Chris Wiborg.

Charge to Congregation
Song of Commitment
Take Her Life and Let It Be hendon

Prayer for Illumination Dr. David Swanson

*Scripture Reading Luke 6:40-42
pew bible p. 729

At the conclusion of our Scripture reading, the leader will

say, “This is the word of the Lord.” The congregation is
invited to respond, “Thanks be to God.”

Message The Speck, The Log, and The Cross

* All who are able are invited to stand.

Ordination/Installation of Officers (11:00)

Questions of Faith for Officers
Questions to Congregation
Prayer for Ordination/Installation

Assisting in Worship: Scarlett Broughton and Wil Brown.

(Give securely on your smartphone at fpco.org/mobile)

Our Genesis services utilize an environmental lighting effect

called haze, a theatrical humidifier to thicken the air to enhance
lighting. Both Lee Fellowship Hall and Sanctuary hazers are
water-based and safe.
traditional worship

We begin a new year singing the Scriptures. The

opening hymn, O God, Our Help in Ages Past, is a setting
by Isaac Watts of Psalm 90. In fact, if you take the pew
Bible and compare the first several verses of the Psalm
with the verses in the hymnal, you’ll see how Watts
shaped the hymn. He actually wrote nine verses, but
six is the most you’ll find in this hymnal. Later in the
service we sing a setting of Psalm 23 in The Lord Is My
Shepherd. The closing hymn, May the Mind of Christ My
Savior, sings of the significance of using the mind in
matters of faith and practical living. In this coming
Year of the Bible not only do we focus our attention on
the Scriptures, but we sing the faith as well. Hymns
that are based on specific Scripture passages have
done a great deal to shape faith through the centuries.
Such is the case with these hymns. When I went to
Wheaton College, the tradition was, and still is, that
at graduation, the closing hymn was, May the Mind of
Christ My Savior. The senior class would sing verses
five and six acappella in parts, a tremendous text for
graduates as they entered the next chapter in their
lives. A hymn well worth memorizing! -Dr. Dan Sharp

(Please silence all phones and electronic devices.)

GATHERING
Prelude
In Thee is Gladness arr. dale wood

Welcome

Call to Worship
How Firm A Foundation arr. dan bIrd

*Processional Hymn of Praise no. 78

O God, Our Help in Ages Past st. anne

*Ascription of Praise Psalm 113

Pastoral Report

*Passing of the Peace of Christ

Call to Prayer (8:15)
O Lord Hear My Prayer taizé

Pastoral Prayer and Lord’s Prayer

Scripture Ezekiel 34 and John 10

Hymn of Care no. 330

The Lord’s My Shepherd crimond

THANKSGIVING
Thanksgiving Through Tithes and Offerings

*Doxology no. 809

*Prayer of Commitment

(Give securely on your smartphone at fpco.org/mobile)

Anthem of Trust
Find Us Faithful arr. jack schrader
The Chancel Choir

PROCLAMATION OF GOD’S WORD

Prayer for Illumination Dr. David Swanson
*Scripture Reading Luke 6:40-42
pew bible p. 729

At the conclusion of our Scripture reading, the leader will say,

“This is the word of the Lord.” The congregation is invited to
respond, “Thanks be to God.”

Message The Speck, The Log, and The Cross

Ordination/Installation of Officers (11:00)

Questions of Faith for Officers
Questions to Congregation
Prayer for Ordination/Installation
RESPONSE
*Hymn of Commitment no. 560
May the Mind of Christ My Savior St. Leonards

*Invitation and Charge

*Benediction

*Choral Response
Amen on St. Anne eugene butler

Postlude
Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart! (Marion) arr. robert a. hobby

* All who are able are invited to stand.

Assisting in Worship: Rev. Becky Davis, guest conductor,

Franklin Jennings, and guest organist, Alan Trapp.

NOTES
 Class of 2018
Officer Ordination & Installation
Elders
Barbara Clayton (installed)
Bob Emeott (ordained/installed)
Bob Francis (ordained/installed)
Deacons
Maribeth Ball (ordained/installed)
Meredith Carpenter (ordained/installed)
Walt Chambers (installed)
Melissa Crabtree (ordained/installed)
Julie Eastwood (ordained/installed)
Sarah Elerick (ordained/installed)
Shari Elmer (installed)
Evangelical Presbyterian Church
Covenant Ordination Questions
1. Do you reaffirm your faith
in Jesus Christ as your own
personal Lord and Savior?
2. Do you believe the Scriptures
of the Old and New
Testaments to be the Word of
God, totally trustworthy, fully
inspired by the Holy Spirit,
the supreme, final, and the
only infallible rule of faith and
practice?
3. Do you sincerely receive
and adopt the Westminster
Confession of Faith and the
Catechisms of this Church,
as containing the system of
doctrine taught in the Holy
Scriptures?
4. Do you promise that if at any
time you find yourself out
of accord with the system
of doctrine as taught in the
Scriptures and as contained in
the Westminster Confession
of Faith and the Catechisms
of this Church you will on your
own initiative make known
to your Church Session the
change which has taken
place in your views since the
assumption of this ordination
vow?
5. Do you affirm and adopt
the “Essentials of Our Faith”
without exception?
6. Do you subscribe to the
government and discipline of
the Evangelical Presbyterian
Church?
To the Congregation: Do you, the members of this congregation, continue
to receive these persons as Ruling Elders & Deacons, and do you
continue your promise to yield them, and all your officers, all that honor,
encouragement, and obedience in the Lord to which the ordination as an
officer entitles them, according to the Word of God and the Constitution of
the Evangelical Presbyterian Church? fpco.org/leaders
Jim Hardy (ordained/installed)
Quino Martinez (installed)
Rick Pullum (ordained/installed)
Sue Fulford (installed)
Jim Hadlock (ordained/installed)
Denver Martin (ordained/installed)
Julie Spencer (ordained/installed)
Donna Whelchel (installed)
Suzy Wilson (installed)
7. (Ruling Elders) Do you
promise subjection to your
fellow presbyters in the Lord?
(Deacons) Do you promise
subjection to your fellow
officers in the Lord?
8. Have you been induced, as
far as you know your own
heart, to accept the office of
(Ruling Elder, Deacon) from
love of God and sincere desire
to promote His glory in the
Gospel of His Son?
9. Do you promise to be zealous
and faithful in promoting
the truths of the Gospel and
the purity and peace of the
Church, whatever persecution
or opposition may arise to you
on that account?
10. Will you seek to be faithful and
diligent in the exercise of all
your duties as (Ruling Elder,
Deacon), whether personal or
relative, private or public; and
to endeavor by the grace of
God to adorn the profession
of the Gospel in your manner
of life, and to walk with
exemplary piety before this
congregation of which God will
make you an officer?
11. Are you now willing to take
responsibility in the life of
this congregation as a (Ruling
Elder, Deacon), and will you
seek to discharge your duties,
relying upon the Grace of God,
in such a way that the entire
Church of Jesus Christ will be
blessed?