ANNOUNCEMENTS
July 3, 2016 11am Service
The Trustee Chief-of-Watch for the week (July
3rd-July 9th) is Karen Smith (678) 274-7187.
Please contact Ms. Smith for any matters that
require Trustee assistance. Also, if you have
cancelled your ministry meeting or event for the
week, please inform the Chief-of-Watch.
Join us for Shaw Temple’s “Morning Glory”
Prayer Line every Monday from 6:00 a.m. to
6:20 a.m. led by Pastor Crenshaw. Please dial
(712) 775-7000 and the access code is 863472.
You may also send prayer requests to the
intercessory
prayer
team
at
[email protected]. All requests are
kept confidential.
The 50th General Conference of The A.M.E.
Zion Church will convene this July in
Greensboro, NC. The specific dates are July 2026, 2016 and it promises to be a truly historic
and memorable occasion and global Church
comes together to enact important decisions
relevant to our present and our future. Let us
be in prayer for Zion!
Premarital Counseling is Back! Classes I & II
will be held on Monday, July 11, 2016 from
6:30-8:30pm. Class III will be held on Thursday
August 11, 2016 from 6:30pm-8pm.
WOMEN’S MONTH SNEAKER DRIVE!
7/3/16 TO 8/31/16
Please donate new or gently used sneakers. All
sizes for all age (Men, Women and Children)
You may place the donations in the designated
areas AND, be advised that monetary donations
are
also
appreciated.
For
additional
information, contact Pamela Branch at: (917)
532-3368
or
via
email
at:
[email protected].
ATTENTION WOMEN OF SHAW: Please plan
to be a part of the August 2016 Women’s
Month Mass Choir! Rehearsals have already
started.
The schedule is as follows:
MONTH OF JULY, WEDNESDAYS AT 7PM
MONTH OF AUGUST, THURSDAYS AT
7PM
E-GIVING
Share your treasure through E-Giving. Download the
QR reader app to your smart phone and scan the code
For additional information please see: Dorothy
Williams, Women’s Month Chairperson or
Reverend Dade, Women’s Choir Director.
Sign your children up for the Shaw Temple
Learning Center Summer Camp!!! Children
ages 4-12 years old are eligible to attend. The
Camp is still in session until July 22nd, 2016,
Monday-Friday between the hours of 8:00am5:30pm. This year’s camp will be the best one
yet and will include: Family Fun Festival,
Tacky Day, Pajama Day and so much more!
The cost of camp is $180/week and this includes
trip expenses. T-shirts will be available for the
low cost of $7. Please stop by the Learning
Center office and pick up your enrollment
packet.
Prayer Focus for July 2016
(Please use this prayer in your prayer time)
PRAYER for “GREATER”
Oh Lord, we pray that you will stir faith in
The Transportation Ministry is back, offering
its services for 11am Worship! Please contact
Bro. Mark Austin at (203) 645-8499 for
assistance.
ALTAR FLOWERS: We welcome all members
to commemorate birthdays, anniversaries, and
memorials
by
purchasing
live
floral
arrangements for placement on the altar.
These arrangements must be purchased
through the church office. For additional
information contact Belinda Woodard at (770)
745-0108.
our hearts to accomplish greater things
than we could imagine in and
through our lives this year. You said in
your Word, that "greater things you will
do." Empower us to do greater.
Encourage us when we retreat from the
greater things. Thank you for calling us
to a higher level of living. This greater
may not be material things, but we thank
you for greater spiritual growth. Greater
works we shall do in our community!
In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Hymn of Praise & Adoration
“America The Beautiful”
No. 545
1. O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed His
grace on thee, And crown thy good
with brotherhood From sea to
shining sea.
2. O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thorough fare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America! God mend thine
every flaw, Confirm thy soul in selfcontrol, Thy liberty in law.
3. O beautiful for heroes proved In
liberating strife, Who more than self
their country loved, And mercy
more than life! America! America!
May god thy gold refine, Till all
success be nobleness, And every
gain divine.
4. O beautiful for the patriot dream
That sees, beyond the years,
Thine alabaster cities gleam,
Un-dimmed by human tears!
America! America! God shed His
grace on thee, And crown thy good
with brotherhood, From sea to
shining sea. AMEN.
7th Sunday Morning after Pentecost
(Acts 17:21-31)
For the Athenians and the foreigners who
were there spent their time in nothing else
but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
Then Paul stood in the midst of the
Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I
perceive that in all things you are very
religious:
“For as I was passing through and
considering the objects of your worship, I
even found an altar with this inscription:
TO THE UNKOWN GOD.
Therefore, the One whom you worship
without knowing, Him I proclaim to you:
“God, who made the world and everything
in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth,
does not dwell in temples made with hands.
“Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands,
as though He needed anything, since He
gives to all life, breath, and all things.
“And He has made from one blood every
nation of men to dwell on all the face of the
earth, and has determined their
preappointed times and the boundaries of
their habitation.
“So that they should seek the Lord, in
the hope that they might grope for Him
and find Him, though He is not far from
each one of us:
“For in Him we live and move and have our
being, as also some of your own poets have
said, “For we are also His offspring.”
“Therefore, since we are the offspring of
God, we ought not to think that the
Divine Nature is like gold or silver or
stone, something shaped by art and
man’s devising.
“Truly, these times of ignorance of God
overlooked, but now commands all men
everywhere to repent, because He has
appointed a day on which He will judge the
world in righteousness by the Man whom He
has ordained.
He has given assurance of this to all, by
raising Him from the dead.”