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Notes and Reminder
The Church Board will not be meeting this month, due to current Covid-19 restrictions. Any items that need to be addressed can be given to our new Board Chair, Jon Garber, to be handled via email.
The Church Office is beginning preparations for publication of the 2021 Church Directory. If you have updates for the directory, please submit them to the church office as soon as possible. Updates can be emailed to office@pleasantvalleyalive.org
Please remember in your prayers the many in and around our congregation who have been fighting illness.
Psalm 36:5-9
Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the clouds.
Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains,
your judgements are like the great deep;
you save humans and animals alike, O Lord.
How precious is your steadfast love, O God!
All people may take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
They feast on the abundance of your house,
and you give them drink from the river of your delights.
For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light.
Come Thou Fount
Verse 1
Come Thou fount of ev’ry blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
Praise the mount I’m fixed upon it
Mount of Thy redeeming love
Verse 2
Here I raise mine Ebenezer
Hither by Thy help I’m come
And I hope by Thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home
Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wand’ring from the fold of God
He to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood
Verse 3
O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be
Let Thy grace Lord like a fetter
Bind my wand’ring heart to Thee
Prone to wander Lord I feel it
Prone to leave the God I love
Here’s my heart Lord take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above
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Holy One, you have promised to be with us,
And long ago sent your Spirit to abide among us
and guide us to a future of goodness and hope.
We come seeking your truth, your justice, your kindness.
O God, you are with us this morning.
Let us feel your presence and
welcome you into our lives.
Come and fill these desires of our hearts.
~The Rev. Catherine Rolling.
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Genesis 40:1-14 NRSV
Some time after this, the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt. Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, and he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined. The captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he waited on them; and they continued for some time in custody. One night they both dreamed—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison—each his own dream, and each dream with its own meaning. When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were troubled. So he asked Pharaoh’s officers, who were with him in custody in his master’s house, ‘Why are your faces downcast today?’
They said to him, ‘We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them.’ And Joseph said to them, ‘Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me.’ So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, ‘In my dream there was a vine before me, and on the vine there were three branches. As soon as it budded, its blossoms came out and the clusters ripened into grapes. Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.’ Then Joseph said to him, ‘This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days; within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office; and you shall place Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer. But remember me when it is well with you; please do me the kindness to make mention of me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this place.
. . . . . . .
Sing Me To Heaven
In my heart’s sequestered chambers lie truths stripped of poet’s gloss,
Words alone are vain and vacant and my heart is mute.
In response to aching silence memory summons half heard voices,
And my soul finds primal eloquence and wraps me in song.
If you would comfort me, sing me a lullaby.
If you would win my heart, sing me a love song
If you would mourn me and bring me to God,
Sing me a requiem, sing me to heaven.
Touch in me all love and passion, pain and pleasure,
Touch in me grief and comfort, love and passion, pain and pleasure.
Sing me a lullaby, a love song, a requiem.
Love me, comfort me, bring me to God: Sing me a love song, sing me to heaven.
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In Prayer for Others
O God,
we take so much for granted:
a roof over our heads,
water whenever we want it,
air-conditioning when it is too warm
and furnace heat when it is too cold.
How precious is your steadfast love, O God!
O God,
we confess that too many times we believe
that people are poor because they do not work hard enough,
that they suffer because they make bad choices
or they do not act responsibly.
How precious is your steadfast love, O God!
O God,
we pray to be part of your love
make us part of your protective grace for all.
Use us to shelter your children from the cold outside
and cold hearts within.
Deliver us from thoughtlessness
Guard the innocent from recklessness.
Remind us of our common search
for healing, solace, and peace.
How precious is your steadfast love, O God!
Send us,
with what you have provided us.
Help us to be mindful of others
who need the warmth and provision
that we have to share.
May our hearts and actions
bring relief to those who suffer.
Make your joy complete, O God!
How precious is your steadfast love! Amen.
Adapted from a prayer by Chris Suerdieck
http://www.roanokeumc.org/
I Will Follow
Verse 1
All Your ways are good
All Your ways are sure
I will trust in You alone
Higher than my sight
High above my life
I will trust in You alone
Chorus
Where You go I’ll go
Where You stay I’ll stay
When You move I’ll move
I will follow You
Whom You love I’ll love
How You serve I’ll serve
If this life I lose
I will follow You
Verse 2
Light into the world
Light into my life
I will live for You alone
You’re the One I seek
Knowing I will find
All I need in You alone
In You alone
Chorus
Where You go I’ll go
Where You stay I’ll stay
When You move I’ll move
I will follow You
Whom You love I’ll love
How You serve I’ll serve
If this life I lose
I will follow You
Bridge
In You there’s life everlasting
In You there’s freedom for my soul
In You there’s joy
Unending joy
And I will follow
Chorus
Where You go I’ll go
Where You stay I’ll stay
When You move I’ll move
I will follow You
Whom You love I’ll love
How You serve I’ll serve
If this life I lose
I will follow You
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God has told us that the best way to express our live for him, is to share his love with others.
May God’s gracious care shape our hearts, and have life in the way we share.
Praying the Sermon on the Mount
(inspired by Matthew 5-7)
Lord and Creator,
let us embrace the costly blessings which you desire for us,
blessings that confound the wisdom and strength of this world.
Teach us to be your agents of preservation in a world touched by death,
and beacons of hope in a world shrouded in darkness.
Transform us into your image through the crucible of the cross,
writing your mandates upon our hearts, made pure by you perfect love.
Embolden us to be your ambassadors,
Living as representatives of your holy kingdom,
stirring in us your love for others,
especially for those who would seek to destroy us because of you.
Make us decrease so that you might increase,
as a watching world sees you, not us.
Daily we declare that your priorities are ours,
even before our own needs and desires.
Every moment we live, we live for your glory—
the glory of a loving Father and a just King.
Free us of any distraction, craving or anxiety
that would keep us from fully following you.
For we acknowledge that everything we could possibly need
is yours to give us.
Remind us of our sinful brokenness and your gift of grace
as we encounter brokenness in others.
You are the answer to our every question.
You are the treasure that we desperately seek,
and it is you who invite us into your salvation,
as prodigals returning to the Father’s embrace.
Keep us upon your path of righteousness and justice,
bearing the good fruit of your Spirit,
for it is on you, Lord Jesus, that all hope is built,
For all of creation, now and forever more. Amen
-Jamie Arpin-Ricci, in The Cost of Community
Come Now Is The Time To Worship
Chorus
Come now is the time to worship
Come now is the time to give your heart
Come just as you are to worship
Come just as you are before your God Come
Verse
One day every tongue Will confess You are God
One day every knee will bow
Still the greatest treasure remains
For those who gladly choose You now
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2 Thessalonians 2: 16-17
May our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father,
who has loved us
and given us unending encouragement
and unfailing hope by his grace,
inspire you with courage and confidence
in every good thing you say or do.
