VERDUGO COMMUNITY CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE DECEMBER 11, 2022

Pastor Gail Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family on this Third Sunday in Advent. Dale Reynolds calls us to worship with a reading from Isaiah 35, and we light the third Advent Candle signifying Joy and sing a carol. Luis Fernandez opens us with prayer. Nick Baltazar, Jessica Jimenez, Derrick Adams and Mike Minasyan lead us in praise and worship music. Greg Hart takes up the concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.

 

In her sermon, “Why I Celebrate Christmas,” Pastor Adjua Adams from Light and Life West in Long Beach, reminds us that the manner and importance of Jesus’ birth was prophesied centuries earlier in Isaiah, and its fulfillment set out in Matthew 1. This fulfillment at Bethlehem brings all people hope and salvation.

 

Pastor Gail then leads us in Communion, so you are invited to have bread or crackers and a beverage ready to participate in this sacrament.

 

Verdugo is again meeting in person but 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.

 

Verdugo is online at www.facebook.com/verdugochurch and www.verdugochurch.org.

Sermon copyright 2022 by Adjua Adams and Verdugo Community Church.