VERDUGO COMMUNITY CHURCH SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE APRIL 27, 2025

We begin our service with Pastor Gail Linstrom welcoming all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. Dale Reynolds and Pastor Gail lead us in a Responsive Call to Worship, and Dale continues this with a reading of Psalm 32. Michael Blanco opens us in prayer. Nick Baltazar, Ed Manacop, and Caroline Sandoval lead us in our joyous singing. Ed Manacop gave us a report on the dinners he and Albert Ramseyer serve to the unhoused families through HomeAgain Los Angeles. Greg Hart takes up the praises and concerns of the church, our city, and our world in the Prayers of the People. Pastor Gail concludes our service by leading us in Communion, and you are invited to participate.

 

In her sermon, “Believing and Trusting,” Pastor Gail looks at Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus in Acts 9, and how Ananias’s faith and trust in God’s instructions to care for Paul in his blindness so that he could be healed and complete his mission to spread the Word to the gentiles and beyond. We likewise need to affirm our faith by not only believing and trusting but by listening and hearing and obeying God’s leading us to help others.

 

Verdugo makes its Sunday sermons and select worship services available to you on Facebook at https://facebook.com/verdugochurch and posts audio copies of the service and sermon at https://verdugochurch.podbean.com. Please note that video copies will be deleted after 90 days under Facebook rules.

 

Prayers of the People have been edited to respect the privacy and confidentiality of those participating or mentioned.

 

All song titles, lyrics, and music are used with permission. CCLI license # 2486815.

 

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.

 

Worship service copyright 2025 by Verdugo Community Church. Sermon copyright 2025 by Gail Whitcome Linstrom and Verdugo Community Church.