VERDUGO COMMUNITY CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE FEBRUARY 19, 2023

We begin our service with song. Pastor Gail Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. Dale Reynolds and Jessica Jimenez call us to worship with a responsive prayer based on Psalm 99 and 100. Jessica Jimenez, Mike Minasyan and Ed Manacop lead us in our praise singing. Greg Hart takes up the concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.

 

In her sermon “Thrice Upon the Mountain,” Pastor Gail looks at the Transfiguration story from Matthew 17 by recalling the prior mountaintop experiences of the two prophets who met Jesus there, Moses and Elijah. There God met them directly, but they then had to come down from the mountain to complete the work God gave them. In the Transfiguration, the disciples were given an affirmation of the divinity of Jesus, but they each had to return to the real world: Jesus to complete his ministry, suffer death, and then experience resurrection, and the disciples to carry the Good News throughout the known world. We may wish for the mountaintop experiences, but must remember that this is not the end of our journey with God.

 

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 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.

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