VERDUGO COMMUNITY CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE NOVEMBER 26, 2023

We begin our service with song. Pastor Gail Linstrom opens the service by welcoming all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. Linda Kozik calls us to worship with a reading from Psalm 95, and Luisa Fernandez opens us in prayer. Nick Baltazar 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, “Jesus Among the Least of These,” Pastor Liz Cornell explores Jesus’s description of the Last Judgment in Matthew 25 to show what God expects everyone, believer or not, to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, welcome the stranger and immigrant, care for the sick and pursue justice for the oppressed. Jesus chose to come and live among us as an ordinary human, as one who would know the same obstacles and challenges in doing these things as we face. We are to recognize Jesus in the “least of these.” These questions also show how God’s Kingdom will be one of justice and love. When we do these things, we are showing the world what the Kingdom of God looks like.

 

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 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.

 

Worship service copyright 2023 by Verdugo Community Church. Sermon copyright 2023 by Liz Cornell and Verdugo Community Church.