VERDUGO COMMUNITY CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE JANUARY 8, 2023

We open our service in 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 from Jeremiah 31 and Jessica Jimenez opens us in prayer. Our 2023 praise team of Kim Cox, Jessica Jimenez, Mike Minasyan and Ed Manacop are introduced and Kim, Jessica and Ed leads 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 “The Gift of Light,” Pastor Gail alerts us that God works in unexpected ways and in his own timing. She shows how the prophecies in Isaiah 60:1 – 6 which foretell the restoration of Israel’s people to Jerusalem and the birth of Jesus are linked to Matthew 2:1 – 12 when the Wise Men worship Jesus as the newborn king. This is Epiphany: God’s light shines to bring hope and salvation through Jesus Christ, the Lord.

 

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.

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