VERDUGO COMMUNITY CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE FEBRUARY 5, 2023

We open our service with a gospel song. Pastor Gail Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. Dale Reynolds calls us to worship with a reading of Psalm 112, and Jessica Jimenez opens us in prayer. Kim Cox, Jessica Jimenez, Mike Minasyan and Ed Manacop lead us in our praise singing. Albert Ramseyer takes up the concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People. In her sermon “Being Individuals and a Community of Faith,” Pastor Gail has us consider the link between keeping Sabbath and service. God’s consistently reiterates the need to keep the Sabbath throughout Scripture, not to look pious and righteous but to hear God’s voice reveal his heart to us – that we act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with him. This link between Isaiah 58 and Matthew 25 calls us to help bring the Kingdom of Heaven to earth by caring for the hungry, homeless, vulnerable, and oppressed among us.

 

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.