Order of Worship for The First Sunday of Lent
8:15am-Early Worship Service with Communion
9:00am-Adult Sunday School in Memorial Hall
9:00am-Children's Sunday School-downstairs in the church
10:00am-Worship Service with Communion -live on Facebook and YouTube
11:00am-Refreshment's at Millstone Cafe
11:30am-Children's Playgroup downstairs in church
On Sunday, February 22nd we will have worship at 8:15am and 10am. We will begin a new Sermon Series meditating on the "I AM" statements of Jesus found in the gospel of John staring with "I Am the Bread of Life." We will celebrate communion during the services and the mission team will inform us about our Lenten Mission, raising funds for Church World Service's ministry of providing blankets to people experiencing homelessness, refugees, and survivors of natural disasters.
Below is the scripture which will be the focus of our sermon on Sunday.
Be well this week and may God continue to bless us and guide us,
In God's Peace, Pastor Jeff
This Week's Scripture: John 6:22-35 - "I Am the Bread of Life"
24 So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus.
25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” 26 Jesus answered them, “Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate your fill of the loaves. 27 Do not work for the food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set his seal.” 28 Then they said to him, “What must we do to perform the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” 30 So they said to him, “What sign are you going to give us, then, so that we may see it and believe you? What work are you performing? 31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ” 32 Then Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” 34 They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”
35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.”
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Honor the Lord with your possessions, and with the first fruits of all your increase;
So your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
- Proverbs 3:9,10