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Central United
Methodist Church

Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost
November 8, 2020
10:45 a.m.

Our Vision:

Making Christ known by extending hospitality,
serving the community, and embracing all.

201 - 3rd Avenue Knoxville, TN 37917
www.knoxcentralumc.org

Welcome! We’re glad you are here. Keeping in mind our call to do no harm, please remember the five core
practices: Wear a cloth face covering, physically distance of at least 6ft, wash your hands,
disinfect frequently used surfaces and stay at home if you feel sick.

We Gather to Praise God

Prelude We Shall Behold Him arr. Hayes
Rev. Jimmy Sherrod
Welcome Christ be with you! And also with you!
Jernigan
Opening Prayer Rev. Sherrod

A Call to Worship

We are pulled in many directions.
Many duties and tasks seek to lay claim on our lives.

This day, in this place, let service to God be your choice.
This day, in this place, we open our hearts and spirits to God.

Blessed be the God of creation who has called us here.
Praise be to God who sustains and nurtures our lives. Amen.

Opening Song Holy Ground

Scripture Reading We Listen to Hear God’s Voice
Musical Offering
Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25
Great is the Lord Almighty

This is the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God!

Sermon

We Respond to God’s Great Love

The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

Offering our Gifts
We will not be receiving an offering during the service, however, we invite you to give your offering
and God’s tithes using the plates as you exit the sanctuary.

*Dedication of Gifts The Doxology UMH 95

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise God, all creatures here below;

praise him above, yet heavenly host; praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.

We Are Scattered to Serve God In Our World

Musical Offering I Have Decided to Follow Jesus

Benediction

Postlude How Great Thou Art arr. Hayes

The flowers today are given by David Roberts To the Glory of God and in honor of the Builder’s Sunday School
Class.

November 29 is a Fifth Sunday. Please remember to give to Holston Home for Children.

Sunday, November 8, 2020

Dick Bales (friend and classmate of Carolyn Cottrell) is having serious medical problems. Remember him and his sis-
ter, Phyllis Severance, who is his caretaker.

Jabette Carlson fell and fractured a bone in her elbow October 29.

Will King (son of Kanoa King and Denford King) fractured his foot and broke two toes in a bicycle accident on October
26. He will see an orthopedist Wednesday.

Valerie Lawrence (cousin of Susie Knable) is 36 weeks pregnant and having problems. She wants to carry the baby a few
more weeks.

Gary Sherlin had more biopsies of his cancer, which have been sent to Johns Hopkins Medical Center for further evalua-
tion. Decisions on treatment are waiting on those results.

Eleanor Thurman (friend of Carolyn Cottrell) has moved from rehab to her daughter's home. Her medical problems, in
addition to her broken leg, will require long term care.

Irene Turner (former secretary at CUMC) broke two bones in her ankle (not her leg) on September 21. She had surgery
and has been at Diversicare in Oak Ridge. She is scheduled to go home (207 Shipes Rd, Powell, 37849) this Wednesday.

Charles Parham is being treated for COVID-19 at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center.

Charlotte Phillips (neighbor of Bill and Marjorie Rose) is hospitalized with COVID-19 and pneumonia.

Bill Rose will have a minor cardiac procedure at Tennova Turkey Creek on November 24.

Everyone dealing with illness or complications from the COVID-19 pandemic and for those working to find a vaccine and
treatments.

Please continue to remember Clara Hagaman (1412 Tipton Station Rd, 37920), Sancy Hail (7545 Thunder Ct, Powell,
37849), Allen Knable (4371 Lifespring Ln, Room 303, 37918), Barbara Marks (1315 Snowdon Dr., 37912), Richard
Moon (7655 April Cross, Corryton, 37721), Doris Jean Moore (7404 Kentfield Dr, 37919), and Billy Varnell (4121 River-
stone Ln, 37918).