VERDUGO COMMUNITY CHURCH EASTER SUNDAY SERVICE APRIL 23, 2023

We open our service with song. Pastor Gail Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. Dale Reynolds leads a responsive call to worship followed by a reading from Psalm 16. Kim Cox then centers us in prayer. Kim Cox, Jessica Jimenez, and Ed Manacop lead us in our praise singing. Greg Hart takes up the praises and concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.

 

In her sermon Pastor Gail continues the Easter story with the Luke 24 account of Jesus seeking out the larger group of his disciples on Easter evening. He affirms that he is truly alive (not a ghost) and that they are to continue to have a living relationship with him. Jesus again reminds them of the Scriptural prophesies about the Messiah and assures them that the story is not ending, only beginning. Jesus came to give them – and us – a new and abundant life in the here and now. “Our Witness is love” if we live in relationship with Jesus and spread the Good News of his love by reaching out to others and inviting them to experience the Living Lord’s presence and his salvation.

 

Pastor Gail then leads us in the sacrament of communion and you are invited to participate as well.

 

Verdugo makes its Sunday sermons available to you on Facebook and posts audio copies of the service and sermon at https://verdugochurch.podbean.com.

 

Prayers of the People has been edited to respect the privacy and confidentiality of individual prayer requests. All CCLI songs are performed under Verdugo Community Church’s license with CCLI.

 

Verdugo Community Church is a Free Methodist congregation serving the Glassell Park, Eagle Rock, and Glendale areas in Los Angeles. It is located at 4300 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA 90065. Our email address is verdugofmc@gmail.com. Contact Pastor Gail at (323) 500-3343.