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Good morning! This page is intended to both serve as a continuing worship option for those participating in our worship service from home, and to serve in place of print resources during our in-person worship. Following the worship service on Sunday, one or more video recordings from the service will be placed on this page, including the sermon. This may take several hours, due to the time needed to process the videos. We will email the congregation when the recordings have been posted. If you would like to be added to our congregational email list, please contact pvcob.alive@gmail.com.
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If you have previously ordered weekly giving envelopes, your box of envelopes for 2022 is in the church narthex. If you do not wish to continue with the weekly envelopes, or, if you have not previously used these pre-assigned envelopes for tracking your giving and would like to start, please contact Sharon Reich.
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Backpack Pals are accepting donations of Pudding Cups and Ramen Noodles! Pudding cups are especially needed. Please leave any donations in the blue bin located in the Narthex. Thank you!
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LIFE Groups are beginning! Leaders will be contacting those who have already signed up to set up first meetings. To join a group, sign up sheets are available in the Fellowship Hall, or visit www.pleasantvalleyalive.org
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The Church Board will meet for our annual Church Board Retreat in the Fellowship Hall on December 15 at 7:45AM.
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Most of the Christmas Decorations have been taken down around the church. There are a few that still need to be put away, mostly in the Narthex. If you are familiar with how to pack those up, please contact the church office. Your help will be appreciated.
- Get your high-tops and Jordans laced back up! Pleasant Valley is back at it again for 2022 – an Adult Men’s Basketball Team. Games will be played twice (2x) a week from March through May at Eastern Mennonite High School. If interested, please contact James Hall by February 1st, 2022 at the following: jehall8084@gmail.com or call/text (540) 569-6263.
Good morning! As we gather together today, I invite you to hear these word’s from Psalm 147
Praise the Lord!
How good it is to sing praises to our God;
The Lord builds up his children
he gathers the outcasts.
He heals the broken-hearted,
and binds up their wounds.
He determines the number of the stars;
he gives to all of them their names.
Great is our Lord, and abundant in power;
his understanding is beyond measure.
Now, there may be things that you don’t understand this week. You may be swimming in joy, and you may be struggling with grief. But here is what I want to invite you into today, either way. Know that wherever you are, God has come to be with us in Jesus, with all of his mercy and love and power. Know that you are not alone. You are held up. And God wants you to know his joy love and grace. So lets stand and sing together this morning!
Praise the Lord!
How good it is to sing praises to our God;
The Lord builds up his children
he gathers the outcasts.
He heals the broken-hearted,
and binds up their wounds.
He determines the number of the stars;
he gives to all of them their names.
Great is our Lord, and abundant in power;
his understanding is beyond measure.
Praise the Lord!
How good it is to sing praises to our God.
God of us all,
We come before you today as the one who has shaped us and formed us;
The one who has bound us together in humility and grace,
The one who calls us each in love and redemption,
reforming us in your new creation.
Refresh our hearts in your love, O God.
Help us to join hands at manger and cross
finding in you our new life, Amen.
Isaiah 43:1-7 NRSV
Thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in exchange for you. Because you are precious in my sight, and honored, and I love you, I give people in return for you, nations in exchange for your life. Do not fear, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you; I will say to the north, “Give them up,” and to the south, “Do not withhold; bring my sons from far away and my daughters from the end of the earth– everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”
Jesus comes to us as the grain of life,
Fallen to the earth to die,
yet risen again in the sun to bear the fruit of God’s grace.
We come as followers of Christ,
To respond to God’s invitation
To share from what we have been given
Believing that the substance of this world can embody God’s love among us.
We give our gifts to God this morning
Praying that they would rise and bloom
to spread God’s glory throughout our lives.
May the work of our days be God’s work.
May the blessings we share bear God’s grace.
We are blessed by God’s welcome of love. In Jesus, we are invited to new life that sets aside the fearfulness and brokenness that keeps us apart and frees us to share together in God’s love. We share in our giving, in our serving, and in our prayers for each other. What do we have to share today, both in thanksgiving, and for prayer for God’s healing?
Almighty, Loving God,
you have told us that we are precious in your sight,
yet we often forget that we are your beloved.
We confess that our love is fickle and inconstant.
We follow selfish goals
and deny that our way of life harms others and
hurts your world.
We are sorry and we want to change.
Create in us a clean heart,
strengthen our resolve,
reconcile us one to another,
and bless us with your peace.
May your word spark beauty in our lives with truth and joy
as we serve one another.
May your justice provoke us to shape a peaceful world
where all work for the common good.
May your goodness of your creation inspire us to preserve it for others
May your tender presence abide with us and hasten our healing.
May your righteousness raise us up to walk together
with respect and dignity for all.
May your steadfast love may shelter us all in the peace of your eternal light.
O God, you have made us, formed us,
and called us by name,
and you have redeemed us in Christ.
Receive our prayers this day,
and prepare us all to come home with you. Amen.
-Feasting on the Word, adapted.
The Lord is our Shepherd and our Way
Jesus guides us and lead us in love
To drink from still waters
and rest in green pastures.
Let’s go, knowing that the rails are set for us in good places, Amen.