VERDUGO COMMUNITY CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE MAY 5, 2024

We open our service with song. Pastor Gail welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. Luisa Fernandez and Pastor Gail call us to worship with a responsive reading based on Psalms 96 an 97, and Luisa then opens us in prayer. Nick Baltazar and Ed Manacop lead us in our praise singing. Greg Hart takes up the praises and concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.

 

Pastor Gail in her sermon, “Bearing Kingdom Fruit While Abiding in Love” continues her exposition of Jesus’s Farewell Address in John 15, where Jesus tells his followers that to remain in him and bear fruit, we must love each other. Jesus chooses each of us to be in a loving relationship with him as a friend, and to expand that love to the others we encounter. God seeks each person through what John Wesley called “prevenient grace,” and God wants us to be the instruments through which is shown. Thus each act of kindness, compassion, and sacrifice we do for others as a result of this love shows that we are abiding in Jesus, and brings more people into the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth.

 

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.