Verdugo Community Church Worship Service for December 12, 2021

We begin our service with an instrumental and then singing Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee. Pastor Gail Whitcome Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. Dale Reynolds calls us to Worship with a reading from Micah 4. Pastor Gail lights the Third Advent Candle, the Candle of Joy, and Andrew Mumm opens us in prayer. Music Director Heidi Sandoval then leads us in praise and worship music. Greg Hart focuses us on the concerns and praises of the congregation in the Prayers of the People. Pastor Daniel Whipple, from Rose City Church, looks at the way John the Baptist in Luke 3 called for his listeners, and us, to repent and begin living the right way so that we are ready for the coming of Jesus, in his sermon “The Joy of Advent.” Pastor Gail leads us in Communion, so you are invited to have bread or crackers and a beverage ready to participate in this sacrament.

Verdugo Community Church is again having in-person Sunday services at 10:00 a.m., but continues to make its Sunday service available to you online at this site.

Verdugo Community Church, a Free Methodist congregation serving the Glassell Park, Eagle Rock, and Glendale areas in Los Angeles, is located at 4300 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA 90065.

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

Sermon copyright 2021 by Daniel Whipple and Verdugo Community Church. An audio copy of the sermon is also posted on this podcast site and a video copy will be posted on our Facebook site.