VERDUGO COMMUNITY CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE MARCH 3, 2024

We open our service with song. Pastor Gail welcomies all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. Pastor Gail and Luisa Fernandez call us to worship with a responsive reading Psalms 95 and 100. Luisa centers us with an opening prayer. Nick Baltazar and Ed Manacop lead us in our praise singing, and Greg Hart takes up the praises and concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.

 

In her sermon, “Following Jesus to the Mountaintop,” Pastor Gail uses the story of the Transfiguration in Mark 9 where Jesus takes Peter, John, and James to a mountaintop. There they see Jesus conversing with Moses and Elijah, who both had encounters with God on Mt. Sinai. The disciples are overwhelmed and uncertain what to make of this revelation, but Jesus reassures them not to fear. But as happened with Moses and Elijah, this mountaintop experience is followed by the hard work of doing what God wants us to do. In Jesus’s life this meant the crucifixion. Yet because of the Resurrection, we too can be transformed and empowered to follow God’s direction in our lives and show his love to others.

 

Pastor Gail then leads us in the sacrament of communion, and you are invited to participate as well.

 

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.

 

Worship service copyright 2024 by Verdugo Community Church. Sermon copyright 2024 by Gail Whitcome Linstrom and Verdugo Community Church.