VERDUGO COMMUNITY CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE OCTOBER 9, 2022

We begin our service in song. Pastor Gail Whitcome Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. Dale Reynolds calls us to worship with a reading from Psalm 66, and Mike Minasyan opens us with prayer. Nick Baltazar and Mike Minasyan lead us in praise and worship music. Albert Ramseyer takes up the concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People. Pastor Gail considers the story of Jesus healing ten lepers in her sermon “ … And Then There Was One” from Luke 17:11 – 19. Jesus told the group to go to the priest to verify they were cured. As they went, they were cured. Only one leper, a Samaritan. came back praising God and kneeling to thank Jesus for his healing. Jesus told him that his faith had cured him and made him whole. Are we ready to respond to God’s passionate love for us by leaving the crowd to tell others about what he has done for us, and become not just cured but made whole?

 

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 Gail Whitcome Linstrom and Verdugo Community Church.