Calvary Moravian Church

THIRD SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY JANUARY 24, 2016

600 Holly Avenue Winston-Salem, NC 27101-2716 Broadcast live over WEGO 980 AM Witnessing to the love of God in the heart of Winston-Salem since 1893.

Third Sunday after the Epiphany January 24, 2016

11:00 a.m.

Watchword for the Week – Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. Psalm 19:14

Preparation for Worship PRELUDE – Pastorale

Alexandre Guilmant

GREETINGS AND NEWS OF THE CONGREGATION

The Praise of God +HYMN OF PRAISE 555 – Come Now, Almighty King T. ITALIAN HYMN (579 B) +GENERAL LITURGY 1

pp. 1-4

The Worship of God with Our Tithes and Offerings ANTHEM – Shout the Glad Tidings

George Frideric Handel

The Chancel Choir +DOXOLOGY AND OFFERTORY PRAYER

T. OLD HUNDREDTH (22 E)

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below; praise him above, ye heav’nly host; praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

All who are able, please stand.

The Proclamation of the Word of God THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

Matt Nance, Lay Reader

OLD TESTAMENT: Psalm 19 +GOSPEL: Luke 4:14-21

p. 473 p. 892

Lay Reader: The Gospel of the Lord. Congregation: Thanks be to God. MOMENTS WITH THE CHILDREN

The Right Reverend Lane A. Sapp

(The children are invited to join Bishop Sapp in front of the sanctuary. Following the prayer, children ages 3 through first grade will be dismissed to W.O.W. [“Worship our Way”] while the congregation sings the following hymn stanza:)

T. TERRA BEATA [Hymn 456] This is my Father’s world: he shines in all that’s fair; in rustling grass I hear him pass – he speaks to me ev’rywhere. This is my Father’s world: why should my heart be sad? The Lord is King, let heaven ring! God reigns; let earth be glad.

QUIET MEDITATION AND PRAYER HYMN OF PREPARATION 508 – To God Who Gave the Scriptures T. NYLAND SERMON – The LORD of the WORD

Bishop Sapp

+HYMN OF DEDICATION 503 – God’s Word Alive and Active T. AURELIA (151 L) BENEDICTION AND CHORAL RESPONSE – In the Name of Jesus Moravian Liturgies (539 B) POSTLUDE – Psalm 19: The Heavens Declare

Benedetto Marcello

 PRAYER OF MEDITATION  Third Sunday after the Epiphany

In you, O Lord our God, we find our joy, for through your law and your prophets you formed a people in mercy and freedom, in justice and righteousness. Pour your Spirit on us today, that we who are Christ's body may bear the good news of your ancient promises to all who seek you. Amen.

The Moravian Church Third Sunday after the Epiphany January 24, 2016

“The Spirit of God is upon me” Jesus declares in front of his home audience: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim the good news.” That alone is a powerful statement. But it seems to be the second part of the declaration that sets off a storm. Jesus is going to give priority to the poor, the prisoners, the blind, and the oppressed. He declares a jubilee for this audience of the least, the last, and the forgotten. The filters of his listeners cause them to be deeply offended and reject the message! But why? We can get off track trying to figure out the rejection. The most important thing is the message. Jesus is declaring an essential truth about the presence of God. For the individual and the community to hear it demands the ability to lay all filters aside. To accept it requires a radical investment in the presence of God. Sadly, much energy can be spent avoiding it—for the individual, the faith community, and the neighborhood. Throughout Luke’s Gospel we hear and see this theme repeated: the Good News of God is for everyone but comes alive when we let go of our filters and fear, in order to let it touch us at every level of our lives and identity. Today God invites us to consider how we remain poor, imprisoned, blind, and captive to our illusions of control and power. The Spirit of God invites us again to let go and let God have complete presence in us.

Neil Routh, Moravian pastor, Rural Hall, North Carolina Calvary Moravian Church Church Office: 336.722.3703

E-mail address: [email protected] Website: www.calvarymoravian.org The Rt. Rev. Lane A. Sapp ([email protected]) Pastor The Rev. Dallas W. Prestwood ([email protected]) Pastoral Assistant The Rev. Ramona C. Prestwood ([email protected]) Pastoral Assistant Mrs. Amanda Schumpert ([email protected]) Director of Music and Christian Education Mr. Mark DeCoste ([email protected]) Youth Director Mrs. Mary Louise Kapp Peeples Organist Mr. Paul F. Knouse, Jr. ([email protected]) Administrative Assistant Ms. Sabrina Maksi ([email protected]) Financial Secretary Mr. Brian C. Lott ([email protected]) Band Director

Calvary Moravian Church Third Sunday after the Epiphany January 24, 2016 We welcome all members and guests to our service today! We are glad that you have come to worship at Calvary! We hope you will feel welcome in the Lord’s house. Please make a special effort to greet those around you in the spirit of Christian fellowship. As the red Ritual of Friendship pad is passed, kindly take a moment to write down your name, address and phone number. If you are our guest today, please fill out a visitor card and place it in the offering plate and pick up one of the visitor’s bags in the narthex! During the prelude, you are invited to enter a spirit of reverence and quiet reflection as we prepare to worship the Lord. We kindly request that you silence all phones and pagers. Hearing aid devices are available in the narthex; one of the ushers will be happy to assist you. ANNOUNCEMENTS The Raleigh Camerata will present a concert in Calvary’s sanctuary on Sunday, January 31, at 3:00 p.m. This group is one of the premier Baroque music ensembles in North Carolina, and they will present a concert of selected chamber music works by Moravian composers. The Moravian Music Foundation is partnering with Calvary and the Carolina Winter Music Festival to present this concert. Everyone is cordially invited to attend this free concert. The Winter/Spring season for Calvary @ The Table begins on Wednesday, February 3! Dinner will be held at 5:00 p.m. in Fellowship Hall. A variety of programs will begin at 6:00 p.m. Additionally, Weekly Bible Study will also begin on February 3 at noon in the Burke Room, led by The Reverend Ramona C. Prestwood. Everyone is invited to attend these seasonal events beginning on February 3. See the enclosed color insert for details! Beginning today, Lenten devotionals are available in the narthex and outside the church office. These year we have several different devotional options from which to choose. The children’s devotionals are available in each of their respective classrooms. Be sure to pick up a Lenten devotional prior to the Ash Wednesday which is February 10! Both the Greeters and Flower Reservations notebooks for 2016 are available for sign-ups. The books are located on the lectern near the Sanctuary piano. Be sure to sign up for available dates at your convenience!

The Women’s Fellowship has begun making those wonderful chicken pies! Pies from the January 13-14 making are available now in the freezer room on the first floor. Additional “making” and “available” dates are as follows: this week, January 27-28 [available January 31]; and February 10-11 [February 14]. This year, you can request your pies using individual order forms which are now available. They are located on the Women’s Fellowship bulletin board to the right of the church office, as well as on the table next to the church office door. To order your pies, please plan to use one individual form per person. You may place your completed forms in the indicated boxes; deliver directly to the church office; or mail them to the church. The annual “Music on the Mountain” weekend at Laurel Ridge’s Higgins Lodge will be held the weekend of February 19-21, and registration is now open! This year’s music leaders will be Randy Gibbs, choral conductor; Randy is the Director of Music at the First Moravian Church of Dover, OH; and Jeff Whitsett, band conductor; Jeff is Director of the Moravian Easter Band. The worship leader will be The Reverend Lisa Mullen. For more information or to register, contact Laurel Ridge at 336.359.2951; 888.831.5922 (toll-free); or [email protected]. The 2014 Synod of the Moravian Church, Southern Province, called for conversations regarding homosexuality in the church. A number of conversation sessions were held in 2015, and the next phase of these events continues this month. You are invited to attend one of three sessions where a meal will be shared and there will be opportunities for further conversation: This evening at 5:30 p.m. at Rural Hall Moravian Church; next Saturday, January 30, at noon at Kernersville Moravian Church; and next Sunday, January 31, at 5:30 p.m. at New Philadelphia Moravian Church. Advance reservations for these events are required! Information describing these events and how to sign up to attend are available now in the narthex. It is hoped that the province may benefit from the participation of everyone who would like to be a part of these conversations. Unless someone like you or me decides to do it, it won’t get done! Paul Marceau, Calvary’s Overflow Homeless Shelter representative, requests that you consider helping the emergency Overflow Homeless Shelter this year. There are many ways to help. We also have a collection bin for basic necessities and a sign-up sheet for serving hot meals, both located outside the church office. For more information or to sign-up go to: http://citywithdwellings.org. Just click “Our Shelters”; scroll down and click “Augsburg Lutheran.” If you have questions or need help, please contact Paul Marceau at [email protected] or call 336.582.2430.

Address for Internet Livestreaming of Calvary’s services: http://custlogin.audiovideoweb.com/lnks/play/8c3flslive2171 (Livestreaming begins 15 minutes prior to the service.)  REMEMBER IN PRAYER

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MEMBERS: Pam Goforth; Ann Coogler; Misty and John Hayes; Megan and Kayla Roser; Eddie Johnson; Grady Shelton; Donna Nixon; Hanna Cheek; Amanda Crabtree; Fay Davis; Mel Stocks; Patrick Biggam and Felicia Shaw; Logan and Lily Shaw; Margaret Higgins; Doris Hansley; Emily Cheek; Elaine Pace; Judy Middleton; John Boner; Penny Hege; Mary Hampton; Laura Blackburn; Sandra Davis; Shirley Miller; and Berletta Walker. FAMILY AND FRIENDS: Becky Kelly (Craig Cagle’s friend); Maude Booker (Sandra Davis’ mother); Jeanne Underwood (Wesley Davis’ sister); April Ashby (Frances Swing’s friend); Tracy Harmon (Dee Brown’s friend); Evelyn Fritts (Linda Smith’s mother); Blake Johnson (Vickey Pitts’ cousin); Kathleen Alderman (Judy Ludwick’s friend); Mike (Lilyann Sapp’s friend); Blake and Angie Johnson (Brandi Stone’s friends); Juanita Fulp (Patsy Lineback’s mother); Dr. Tad Lowdermilk (Adrienne Polychron’s friend); Jennifer Howe (Catherine Breaux’s daughter and Berletta Walker’s granddaughter); Carla Rymal (Cheryl Sorensen’s sister); Haley Ray (Lilyann Sapp’s friend); Etta Young (Bob Snyder’s friend); Maegan Simms (Ursula Pierce’s granddaughter); Angie Cranor (Shannon Lineback’s sister); Nola Fulcher (Joeann Settle’s mother); Audrey Ham (Patsy Lineback’s aunt); Buddy Hiatt; Robert Blakemore; Lindley Ball; Colin Whiting (grand nephew of Pam Goforth); Cliff Cagle (cousin of Cheryl Weaver); Jacob Alexander Gentry (great nephew of Alex Helsabeck); Joe Wright (Rameth McKnight’s father); Shannon Buckner (Dee Jones’ granddaughter); James Carl Church (Carloyn Peddycord’s father); Bob Segal (husband of Alethea Segal); Stella Boles (Doug Boles’ mother); and David Taylor (Jan Bullins’ brother).

CHURCH SERVANTS: JANUARY 24-31, 2016 In Ministry TODAY (January 24, 2016) Greeters..............................................................Bill Burke and Judy Ludwick Ushers...............................................Craig Cagle, Robert Caudle, John Davis ....................................................Jack Messick, Chese Trivette and J. Trivette Lay Reader.....................................................................................Matt Nance Nursery Attendants................................................Candy Fix and Lacey Trull W.O.W. Leader................................................................................Lisa Davis

In Ministry NEXT SUNDAY (January 31, 2016) Greeters......................................................................Dawn and Frank Martin Ushers................................................Craig Cagle, Odell Cheek, Sonny Davis ...................................................................Spencer Davis and Robert Stafford Lay Reader...............................................................................Alex Helsabeck Nursery Attendants................................................Pam Stone and Lacey Trull W.O.W. Leader......................................................................Jessica Childress CALENDAR: JANUARY 24-31, 2016 TODAY (January 24) 9:45 a.m. 11:00 a.m. MONDAY (January 25) 6:30 p.m.

TUESDAY (January 26) 6:00 p.m.

Third Sunday after the Epiphany Sunday School Worship

Joint Board (Fellowship Hall) Elders and Trustees meetings to follow

Stephen Ministers

WEDNESDAY (January 27) 10:00 a.m. February 2016 Newsletter Assembly Team 7:00 p.m. Chancel Choir Rehearsal NEXT SUNDAY (Jan. 31) 9:45 a.m. 11:00 a.m. 3:00 p.m.

Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany Sunday School Worship Raleigh Camerata Concert (Sanctuary)

Calvary Moravian Church Third Sunday after the Epiphany January 24, 2016

ADDITIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

Scriptural watchwords for 2016 were distributed during worship on January 3. If you were unable to obtain your watchword, you may find additional watchwords in the narthex. The 2016 watchword selected for the Calvary congregation is as follows: “For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light — for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true.” (Ephesians 5:8-9).

Current Sunnyside needs for January include canned fruit, canned meat and macaroni and cheese. Standard food items needed each month include peanut butter, saltine crackers and dry pasta noodles. Standard non-food items needed are: toilet paper, soap, laundry detergent, shampoo, tooth brushes and toothpaste. Please place your donations in the blue “Weekly Giving Baskets” in the narthex or in the white Sunnyside box on the first floor. The 250th Anniversary of Salem (1766-2016) is being celebrated this year. Please be sure to read the information on pages 3 and 4 of this insert regarding key developments of 1766 as well as some of the events being planned for this anniversary year.

UPCOMING SERVICES AND EVENTS Sunday, January 31 Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany Worship – 11:00 a.m. Raleigh Camerata Concert in Calvary’s Sanctuary – 3:00 p.m. 

Wednesdays, February 3, 17, and 24 Calvary @ The Table Dinner – 5:00 p.m.; Programs – 6:00 p.m. 

Sunday, February 7 Transfiguration Sunday “Souper Bowl” Day of Caring Worship – 11:00 a.m. 

Wednesday, February 10 Ash Wednesday Pancake Supper – 5:00 p.m. Ash Wednesday Communion & The Imposition of Ashes – 6:30 p.m. 

Sunday, February 14 First Sunday in Lent Holy Communion at Calvary – 11:00 a.m. Day of Prayer Lovefeast – 2:00 p.m. at Christ Moravian

Salem’s 250th Salem’s 250th. The year 2016 offers us opportunity to celebrate a special occasion in the life of the Moravian Church, Southern Province — the 250th anniversary of Salem. Indeed, by extension it is also the 250th anniversary of the city of WinstonSalem as well as the church community that grew to be Home Moravian Church and Salem Congregation of Moravian churches — Ardmore, Bethesda, Calvary, Christ, Fairview, Fries Memorial, Home, Immanuel New Eden, Konnoak Hills, Messiah, Pine Chapel, St. Philips, and Trinity. Even in 1753, when we purchased 100,000 acres — almost the entirety of today’s Winston-Salem — in colonial North Carolina, church leaders in London had envisioned a business and administrative city in its center. That site was finally selected on February 14, 1765, with the Daily Text reading: “Let thine eye be opened toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there” (1 Kings 8:29). Work on the new town began the next year, 1766, with the felling of the first trees on Epiphany, January 6. The Text for that day was auspicious: “I will defend this city” (Isa. 37:35). Then on February 19, 1766, eight Single Brethren moved from Bethabara to occupy the builders’ cabin and become the first permanent residents of Salem. Events quickly followed as the new town was carved out of wilderness: 

February 20: A preliminary survey is made for Salem Square, the heart around which the town’s principal buildings would be constructed — Brothers House, Gemein Haus, Community Store, Sisters House, Boys School, church, Girls Boarding School.

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June 6: The foundation stone for Salem’s First House is laid on Main Street.

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August 18: For the first time Moravian Sisters visit Salem from Bethabara, and while they are there the first lovefeast in Salem is held in the partially completed First House. (continued on the back page)

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October 10: The First House is far enough along that Br. Gottfried Praezel sets up his loom inside, which marks the beginning of industry in the city of Winston-Salem.

A number of events are being planned for the 250th. Some are tentative, so it is wise to check with sponsoring organizations to confirm dates and times: 

January 14: “Mapping Salem.” “Lunchtime Lectures” series sponsored by Moravian Archives and Moravian Music Foundation, 12:15-12:45 p.m. at the Davis Center in Salem.

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January 17: Samuel Cook in concert 3 p.m. at old St. Philips Moravian Church. Sponsored by Home Moravian Church Music@Home series.

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February 19: Walk from Bethabara to Salem commemorating eight Single Brethren’s move to Salem. Sponsored by Old Salem Museums & Gardens.

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February 19: Illumination of the Builders’ House site at dusk by University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Sponsored by Old Salem Museums & Gardens. (Rescheduled from January 6.)

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March 10: “Salem’s 250th in Music.” “Lunchtime Lectures” series.

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July 4: First Fourth of July, 1783: “Psalm of Joy” concert & lovefeast. Sponsored by Old Salem Museums & Gardens and Moravian Music Foundation.

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July 16: George Hamilton IV Music Festival 4-8 p.m. in Salem Tavern meadow. Sponsored by Old Salem Museums & Gardens.

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August 10-14: Illumination of Salem Square at dusk by University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Sponsored by Old Salem Museums & Gardens.

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August 13: Community Day in Salem, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Sponsored by Old Salem Museums & Gardens. Worship services and minirecitals at 10, 12, 2, and 4 at Home Moravian Church.

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August 14: Children’s Festival in Salem, 2-6 p.m. Sponsored by the Moravian Church.

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November 6: Moramus Chorale/Moravian Music Foundation anniversary concert featuring Salem composers.

Calvary Moravian Church Third Sunday after the Epiphany January 24, 2016

WINTER 2016

WEDNESDAY EVENINGS 5PM-7PM February 3 – March 16 NURSERY: Available each week from 5:45-7:15pm. KIDS:

Lord, Teach Us How To Serve Weekly service projects and fellowship.

YOUTH:

Lord, Teach Us To Learn An Inter-Faith Study.

ADULTS:

Lord, Teach Us How To Pray (w/Pastor Lane) Developing Spiritual Disciplines for Prayer.

Lord, Teach Us How To Support One Another Women's Study and Fellowship

Lord, Teach Us Your Word (w/Pastor Dallas) Men's Study and Fellowship

DINNER SPECIFICS & OPTIONS FEBRUARY: 3: Chicken Stew Youth Fundraiser (Youth Fundraiser! Purchase extra to take home!)

*10:

Ash Wednesday Pancake Breakfast *no charge for this meal.

17:

Baked Spaghetti and Salad

24:

Chili (Regular and Chicken & White Bean) Cornbread and Salad

MARCH: 2:

Potato and Salad Bar

9:

Chick-fil-A Night

16:

Moe's Fajita and Taco Night

This winter, we will continue with a flat rate for dinner as well as the option to prepay your meals all at once, or for a specific number of meals. We'll keep track of the meals you've purchased and used over the 7 weeks. If you do not use all your meals during the winter season, we can transfer them to the fall of 2016. Kids 4 and under eat free. All other meals are $4 per person. We will also have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches available each week (no charge) for children that prefer them instead of the planned meal. We hope knowing the menu and the options will help in planning for your family!