VERDUGO COMMUNITY CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE OCTOBER 30, 2022

We begin our service in song. Pastor Gail Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. Dale Reynolds and Pastor Gail call us to worship with a responsive reading from Psalms 90 and 100. The Praise Team of Nick Baltazar, Jessica Jimenez, Mike Minasyan, and Derrick Adams leads us in praise and worship music. Greg Hart takes up the concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People. Pastor Moises Bejarano of Sunrise Church in Rialto looks to John 4 for his sermon. He notes that Jesus did not use the usual route from Judea to Galilee, but instead knew he had to go through Samaria to meet the woman at the well and bring salvation to her and her village, just as he had to go to the Cross to provide salvation for all. When after that Jesus meets a government official whose son is dying, Jesus looks beyond the crowd’s desire for spectacular signs to the man’s simple faith and heals his son with a word. The Samaritan woman, her fellow villagers, and the government official were marginalized and rejected by the society Jesus lived in. Nevertheless he showed them mercy and rewarded their faith. God calls us to take roads we would not choose, to meet people and situations we would avoid, to do his will here on earth. We, too, should look beyond our social divisions and extend God’s grace and mercy to all.

 

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 is again meeting in person but 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.

Sermon copyright 2022 by Moises Bejarano and Verdugo Community Church.