Verdugo Community Church Worship Service for December 19, 2021

We begin our service by singing Christmas hymns. Pastor Gail Whitcome Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. A reading from Psalm 33 by Dale Reynolds is our Call Worship. Pastor Gail lights the Fourth Advent Candle, the Candle of Love, and Andrew Mumm opens us in prayer. Music Director Heidi Sandoval then leads us in praise and worship music. Albert Ramseyer focuses us on the concerns and praises of the congregation in the Prayers of the People. Andrew Mumm looks at the interactions of Elizabeth and Mary to the news of Jesus’s pending birth and their roles in this miracle in Luke 1 to remind us that God can use each of us to spread his love and accomplish his will in his sermon, “The Fruits of Love in Our Life.”’ 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 Andrew Mumm 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.