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This Weekend
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Friday, August 27, 2021
10:00 a.m. - Vision Advisory Team
Saturday, August 28, 2021
8:00 a.m. - Iglesia Adventista Shalom
1:30 p.m. - Texas Heat
Sunday, August 29, 2021
9:15 a.m. - Open Circle Sunday School Class (via ZOOM)
9:30 a.m. - Explorers Sunday School Class (via ZOOM) Link HERE
11:00 a.m. - Worship Service (in person and via ZOOM) Link HERE
12:00 p.m. Lunch Bunch after Worship Service (GattiTown)
3:00 p.m. - Ministerio Internacional Manantial de Vida
Zoom Meeting Links and events are available
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This Sunday in Worship -- August 29, 2021 11:00 a.m.
The Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost
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"The Things that Come Out"
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You can also connect with the online service manually at zoom.us/join
using the following meeting ID and password:
Meeting ID: 864 8287 2175
Password: 273770
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Report from the Re-Opening Task Force
Reopening Task Force Communications
for the week of August 8, 2021
A. The RRCC Reopening Task Force held its 15th meeting August 3, 2021 to discuss current Covid levels and to determine whether the current "Gathering Guidelines" for use of the church facility need to be modified. There was consensus that with Covid cases increasing and Austin-Travis County having moved into "Stage 5" guidelines, we need to conduct weekly communications to stay abreast of current changes and determine whether current practices need to be revised. Memo for the week of 8/8/21:
B. Government data/recommendations:
i. Local data 8/9: The 7 day hospitalization average for Austin-Travis County is 83 and for 8/9 is 74. The 7 day confirmed cases average is 383 and as of 8/9 is 445. The percentage testing positive is 14.5%
ii. CDC data: Masking is encouraged for all activities for both vaccinated and un-vaccinated
iii. RRCC "Gathering Guidelines": The task Force voted to modify current "Gathering Guidelines" to be in sync with changes made last week by the local health authorities. This should be in place as of the August Guiding Board meeting. The Task Force also had consensus to continue to provide "in person" worship, with all wearing masks.
C. The following remains in place until the Task Force and/or Guiding Board announces otherwise:
i. Sunday morning Worship Service (wearing masks)
ii. Use of the building by sister congregations (wearing masks)
iv. Use of the building by groups renting facilities (wearing masks)
D. Initial plans to open the building for Sunday School Classes effective August 22 are being postponed for the time being, as are any small group meetings. Decisions regarding church fellowship lunches and other gatherings in the building will be made on a week-to-week basis and communicated in the weekly church newsletter.
Members of the Task Force/Guiding Board and Ministries Council are encouraged to share suggestions and ideas to assist in improving the combined "zoom" and "in-person" worship experience as well as changes needed to meet the needs of the changing environment. Please communicate your individual ideas to any of these members, to help in providing the best possible worship experience:
Reopening Task Force:
Perry Mouser, Chair; Mildred Adair, Linda Glover, Jennifer Kienzle, Pam Knight, Amy Osteen, Tara Pollock, Randy Preston, Amy Tucker, Gary Tucker, Dan Knight (ex-officio), and Mitch Maxted (ex-officio)
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The Order of Worship for This Sunday
Sunday, August 29, 2021
The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Worship Leader: Tasha York
Elders: Tasha York and Barbara Barnett
O R D E R O F W O R S H I P
- Prelude
- Praise Song: "We Believe"
- Welcome and Announcements
- Passing of the Peace "Let There Be Peace on Earth"
- Call to Worship
- Invocation
- Congregational Hymn: #517 "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling"
- Joys & Concerns
- Pastoral Prayer and Lord's Prayer
- Gloria Patri
- Choir Anthem (video)
- Scripture: Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
- Message: "The Things that Come Out"
- Hymn of Discipleship: #578 "I Need Thee Every Hour"
- Offering Meditation
- Doxology
- Offering Prayer
- Invitation to Communion
- Words of Institution
- Communion Prayer
- Receiving the Loaf and the Cup
- Benediction
- Praise Song: "Our God"
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Scripture Readings
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Mark 27:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
(New Revised Standard Version)
1Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, 2 they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. 3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; 4 and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.) 5 So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?" 6 He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written,
'This people honors me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me;
7 in vain do they worship me,
teaching human precepts as doctrines.'
8 You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition."
14 Then he called the crowd again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand: 15 there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile."
21 For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, 22 adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride
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RRCC Online Giving
Other ways to give are:
- use your bank's electronic bill pay system feature to have a check mailed directly from your bank to RRCC
- mail your check directly to RRCC.
Address your envelope to:
 Financial Secretary Round Rock Christian Church 22 Chalice Way Round Rock, TX 78665
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RRCC Email Addresses:
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info@rrdisciples.org (Molly)
rrcc-office@rrdisciples.org (Molly)
pastormitch@rrdisciples.org (Mitch)
bookkeeper@rrdisciples.org (Gary C.)
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Lunch Bunch
Everyone is invited to this week's Lunch Bunch gathering at GattiTown after service....if you're worshiping in person or via zoom, all are invited! Text or call Tasha York (512-567-8770) for more information.
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Prayer Updates
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Mary Acree -- now in Assisted Living at Franklin Park (Teravista)
Katherine Cratin -- has been experiencing some shortness of breath
Gwen Jackson -- brother Patrick had successful back surgery this week
Bob and Irene Jenkins -- Bob's sister Janet undergoing cancer treatments
Judy Jocoy -- at home; immunotherapy treatments have begun
Jim Kessler -- home from the hospital; receiving new antibiotic treatment
Paul and Liz Maybaum -- Paul's sister-in-law Nancy has moved to a new long-term rehab facility
Mary Murray -- her step-grandson Griffin is dealing with some significant intestinal issues
Steve & Amy Osteen -- brother-in-law Mike Murphy has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer
Charles and Rilda Scarborough -- Rilda has been released from her oncologist--Praise the Lord!
Amy Tucker -- hip replacement scheduled for 8/24
Garvid Wilson family -- funeral services for Garvid were held at Austin-Peel & Son in Austin on Wednesday, August 18th. Prayers for wife Phyllis, and for daughters Terri, Kimberly, andTamara
Tasha York -- continued prayers for Tasha's mother, Peggy Massey
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