We are a

covenant
community,

making disciples
who

light the world.

WELCOME!
Thank you for coming to First Presbyterian Church of
Orlando this morning! So glad youre here. We worship
together as a church family in four services on Sundays:
Traditional worship in the Sanctuary at 8:30 and 11am, and
Genesis worship in Lee Fellowship Hall at 9:45am and 11am.
If youd like to connect and learn more about this church,
visit our Legacy Room adjacent to the Sanctuary, or you can
visit fpco.org/guest.

NEXT STEPS
One of the ways we become more like Jesus is by
learning more about Him. Our School of Discipleship
begins today and offers a variety of ways to grow in your
life and leadership. Dr. Case Thorps Casket Empty class
teaches clear ways to remember the Biblical narrative,
at 9:45am in Room 310 of the Edington Ministry Center.
Also this morning, Heart of the City Foundation is hosting
a one-time Estate Planning Seminar to help you start the
new year with peace of mind, at 9:45 in Room 320 of the
Edington Ministry Center. And registration is open for First
Connections, a 7-week seminar on life and ministry at First
Pres, starting February 1. fpco.org/first

COMING UP
The Christ School will be
hosting an Open House
on Thursday, January
22 at 9am for interested
parents of elementaryaged students. Housed
on the church campus,
The Christ School partners
with families to provide
an academically rigorous
and Christ-centered K8
experience. To learn more,
visit thechristschool.org.

Weekday School is our

half-day preschool serving
children 2 1/2 to 5 years
old, and is a great place to
build an educational and
spiritual foundation for the
future. Learn more about
their unique environment at
their Open House, January
27 at 7pm. To sign up, visit
weekdayschoolorlando.org.

Registration is open for our Women Engaged Winter

Bible Study, which begins January 26. If your resolution
in the New Year is to grow your relationship with the One
who created you, join us for Margaret Feinbergs study,
Wonderstruck. There will be three different times offered:
Monday morning, Monday evening and Thursday morning.
$30 covers the study guide. Learn more at fpco.org/we.

January 11, 2015

CONGREGATIONAL CARE
As a caring body of believers, please remember in your
prayers those recently hospitalized or recuperating at
home: Una Redwine and Faye Agoes.
Sympathy to the family and friends of Lettie Motl who died
December 28.
Sympathy to Gloria Sales on the death of her mother, Sara
Norris. Mrs. Norris was the grandmother of Jonathan Sales,
and Grayson & John Merritt, and great-grandmother of
Jack, Tristan, & Aiden Merrit.
Also, sympathy to Charlene Larney on the death of her
mother, Sallie Garrett, December 29.
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.

GENEROSITY
Stewardship Report as of January 4, 2015.

Tithes & Offerings

Budgeted
Received
Surplus/(Deficit)

This Week
Fiscal YTD
$358,391
$3,334,942
$485,599 $3,412,160
$127,208
$77,218

Give easily and securely online from your smartphone at

fpco.org/mobile.

SAVE THE DATE

JANUARY 18:

New Sermon Series Begins - A Covenant People
JANUARY 22:

Kingdom Business Luncheon (beorlando.com)

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ORLANDO

address
phone
online

106 East Church St., Orlando Florida 32801

407.423.3441
fpco.org /firstpresorlando /fpcorlando

GENESIS WORSHIP

Welcome Video
Biblical Entrepreneurship Testimony

David Witter

Introduction of New Members (11:00)

To Hear Gods Word
Prayer for Illumination
*Scripture Reading

Dr. William E. Dudley

Colossians 4:12

Wrestling for the Kingdom

Ordination/Installation of Officers (11:00)

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

Assisting in Worship: Dr. Dan Sharp and Wil Brown.

The Reverend Dr. William E. Dudley

The Reverend Dr. William E. (Bill) Dudley is Pastor Emeritus
of Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church in Signal Mountain,
TN. A native of Opelika, AL, and a covenant child of First
Presbyterian Church of Opelika, graduate of Auburn University
and has received both his Master of Divinity and Doctor of
Ministry degrees from Columbia Theological Seminary. Bill has
served as: Associate Pastor of Memorial Presbyterian Church
in Montgomery, AL; Pastor of Newnan Presbyterian Church in
Newnan, GA; and, again at Memorial Church in Montgomery as
Senior Pastor for fourteen years prior to his call to the Signal
Mountain Church.
Dr. Dudley served as the 33rd Moderator of the EPC during
2013 and actively serves on the General Assemblys Committee
on Administration and the Ministerial Committee of the
Presbytery of the Southeast.
He currently is serving as pastor of pastors throughout the
EPC and consults with congregations in stress or conflict; he
will soon begin an Interim Pastor relationship with ChristChurch
in Dalton, GA whose congregation has suffered the grief of the
sudden death of their senior pastor.
He is married to Julia Lake Vass (Jakie); the Dudleys have three
children and three grandchildren.

TRADITIONAL WORSHIP

The Concealment of Worship: Some of you might be

wondering as you are reading this, what do we mean by
the concealment of worship. We live in a material, physical
world; often we evaluate and make decisions based on
what we observe, hear, or even make choices based on
how we feel. It is relatively easy to do the same thing when
we come to a worship service. There are all the outward
and visible indications that worship is happening. We can
see words; hear voices and music. We observe people
around us singing or praying. It is possible that all the
outward signs are occurring, yet no worship is happening.
In true worship, the Holy Spirit moves about the two or
three (or more) gathered in Jesus name unseen, unheard
with no outward physical evidence of His presence. Our
work of worship (literally liturgy) is done by Jesus in the
power of the Holy Spirit, all of which is accomplished in our
midst unseen and unheard by human senses. Let us never
be lulled into thinking that the worship we observe is all
there is. There is another whole unseen world in our midst
this morning inhabited by the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
May our hearts unite in faith with the divine activity of the
Trinity. - Dr. Dan Sharp
(Please silence all phones and electronic devices.)

GATHERING
Prelude

Adagio in E major
Frank Bridge

Welcome Video
Organ Meditation

*Call to Worship

Improvisation
Josiah Armes

Sing and Rejoice

Will James

*Processional Hymn of Praise

Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above
Hymn No. 56

*Ascription of Praise
Organ Praise
Introduction of New Members (11:00)
*Passing of the Peace
Psalm 116:1-2
Congregation
I love the Lord, for he heard my voice: he heard my cry
for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call
on him as long as I live.
Call to Prayer

I Love the Lord

Traditional

Prayer of Confession
Lord God, we confess before You that we are so prone
to sin and so little inclined to obedience. Were attached
to pleasures of the senses; to gratification of our many
appetites; so eager to get and so reluctant to give; so
full of good intentions and so poor at fulfilling them; so
eager to share our opinion and so unwilling to listen to
the opinion of others. Lord, in Your mercy forgive us and
bring wholeness to our wayward souls.
Pastoral Prayer and The Lords Prayer
Biblical Entrepreneurship Testimony

David Witter

THANKSGIVING
Thanksgiving Through Tithes and Offerings
*Doxology with alleluias
*Prayer of Commitment
Anthem of Prayer

Open Prayer
Pepper Choplin

PROCLAMATION OF GODS WORD

To Hear Gods Word
Prayer for Illumination
Scripture Reading

Dr. Wlliam E. Dudley

Colossians 4:12
Pew Bible p. 835

Wrestling for the Kingdom

Ordination/Installation of Officers (11:00)

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

RESPONSE
*Hymn of Response

I Am Thine, O Lord
Hymn No. 408

*Invitation and Charge

*Benediction
*Choral Response

Postlude

Lantz Amen
Daniel Sharp

Toccata in E minor
Joseph Callaerts

* All who are able are invited to stand.

Assisting in Worship: Dr. David Swanson, guest choir

conductor Franklin Jennings, and organist Josiah Armes.

Class of 2017

Officer Ordination & Installation

Elders
Norton Baker
Kevin Burkett

Steve Cahill
Jeremiah Jenkins

Fred Langston
Kenneth Uncapher

Jon Ippel
Rhonda Jones
Amy Mims
Robin Simpson
Marnie Waldrop

Linda Williams
Vicky Williams
Billy Wilson

Deacons
Linda Ammerman
Syd Brown
Alan Chen
Rachel de Guia
Nancy Hawblitzel

Evangelical Presbyterian Church

Covenant Ordination Questions

1.
2.

3.

4.

5.
6.

Do you reaffirm your faith

in Jesus Christ as your own
personal Lord and Savior?
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?
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?
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?
Do you affirm and adopt
the Essentials of Our Faith
without exception?
Do you subscribe to the
government and discipline of
the Evangelical Presbyterian
Church?

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?

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?