VERDUGO COMMUNITY CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE JULY 28, 2024

We begin our service with song. Pastor Gail welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. Laura Vasquez calls us to worship with a reading from Psalm 27. Michael Blanco opens us in prayer. Marvin Juan and Ed Manacop lead us in our praise singing. Albert Ramseyer takes up the praises and concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.

 

In her sermon, “God Has Not Forgotten You,” Pastor Nikki Ramage, from the Santa Barbara Free Methodist Church looks to Isaiah 40 to remind us that God does not forget his people, but is loving and compassionate toward them, whatever hard and challenging times they go through Isaiah knows that the Israelites have been in Exile for fifty years and question whether God has forgotten them. In response, God sends the prophet as a herald to announce that his people should be comforted, that their sins have been forgiven, and that they will be rescued from exile by him just as a shepherd leads his flock home. In the Gospels, Jesus is identified as our great shepherd, savior and deliverer. God does not abandon us but sends the Holy Spirit to comfort and empower us to share this Good News with others.

 

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 have been edited to respect the privacy and confidentiality of those participating or mentioned. All CCLI songs are performed under Verdugo Community Church’s CCLI license # 2486815.

 

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, or by email at pastorgail50@yahoo.com or our church email set out above.

 

Worship service copyright 2024 by Verdugo Community Church. Sermon copyright 2024 by Nikki Ramage and Verdugo Community Church.