VERDUGO COMMUNITY CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE OCTOBER 29, 2023

We open our service with song. Pastor Gail Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family, and then calls us to worship along with Nick Baltazar who reads from Psalm 145. 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, “Living Faith – Living Hope – Living Love,” Pastor Gail looks at Paul’s letter to the Ephesians 1 as well as numerous examples in the Old and New Testaments and in recent history such as Mother Teresa to affirm that all believers are saints, not just those who have gone before us, or only those who do spectacular things. As we celebrate All Saints’ Day this year, we should remember that God loves all the saints and has given us the opportunities to love and care for others and to mentor them in their spiritual journey.

 

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 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.

 

Worship service copyright 2023 by Verdugo Community Church. Sermon copyright 2023 by Gail Whitcome Linstrom and Verdugo Community Church.