VERDUGO COMMUNITY CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE MARCH 12, 2023

We open our service with song. Pastor Gail Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. We are called to worship with a reading from Ezekiel 37 by Dale Reynolds, who then leads us in the opening prayer. Kim Cox, Jessica Jimenez and Mike Minasyan lead 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 “Living Water Brings Living Faith” Pastor Gail uses the interactions of Jesus and a Samaritan woman at the well in Matthew 4 to illustrate how any person can meet Jesus where they are. We must put aside the unsubstantiated criticisms of this women added by others after the Gospel was written and read what actually happened in this, the longest conversation with Jesus in the Bible. Jesus breaks with his society’s norms regarding who he can talk with and shows her that he knows who she really is and what her circumstances are. In response to her questions, he reveals to her that he is the promised Messiah. She in turn carries this Good News to her fellow villagers, who also meet Jesus and come away with faith in him as the savior of the world.

 

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.