VERDUGO COMMUNITY CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE AUGUST 6, 2023

We open our service with song. Pastor Gail Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. Linda Kozik calls us to worship reading from Psalm 36, and Mike Minasyan opens us with prayer. Nick Baltazar, Ed Manacop, and Mike Minasyan 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, “Not Your Ordinary Church Picnic,” Pastor Gail looks at the miracle of the Feeding of the 5,000 which is found in all four Gospels, comparing it to similar miracle involving the prophet Elisha found in 2 Kings 4. In both situations the skeptics cannot see how they can do what God wants done. Only by responding in faith do they find out how God will provide. God calls us all to bring what we have to the task, and trust him to use it to accomplish more than we could ever do alone.

 

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.

 

Sermon copyright 2023 by Gail Whitcome Linstrom and Verdugo Community Church.