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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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Upcoming Worship Plans!
November 7 is National Jr. High Sunday. Our Middle School Youth will help lead worship around the theme”Build Wisely,” based on Matthew 7:24-27. Come support the youth and join in worship together!
We will continue to meet for one service at 11:00AM through November 7, when our Junior High youth will be leading us in Worship. Children’s Sunday School will also resume on November 7, at 9:50AM.
If you are not vaccinated, our Church Board asks that you please wear a mask in the building. Given the current prevalence of Covid-19 infection in our area, I personally request that we all wear masks when we are in groups indoors. Thank you for your cooperation and care.
- Our next Church Board meeting will be held at 12:15 following our worship service on November 7.
- We will be hosting a CROP Hunger Walk starting at our church on November 13 at 1:00PM. CROP raises funds to help provide food for the hungry both locally and around the world. We will be joined by other churches in our community as we walk together to make a difference! Online registration is available at https://events.crophungerwalk.
org/2021/event/weyerscaveva. CROP Hunger Walks are community-based walk events held in cities and towns across the United States, raising funds to support the global mission of Church World Service, a faith-based organization transforming communities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty displacement and disaster. Twenty-five percent of the funds raised will go to support our local food pantries.
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Backpack Pals are accepting donations of Pudding Cups and Ramen Noodles! Please leave any donations in the blue bin located in the Narthex. Thank you!
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Our Shenandoah District Conference will be held on November 6 at the Rockingham County Fairgrounds. This will be a very different conference than we had originally hoped for, due to adjustments because of the continuing Covid-19 Pandemic. Please be in prayer for a successful conference and for Pastor Daniel as he serves as Moderator for the conference.
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We are excited to share a fundraising opportunity to support the Church of the Brethren Haiti Medical Project. The Haiti Medical project is a ministry of the Church of the Brethren in Haiti, providing basic health care to their neighbors. The project began with Mobile Medical Clinics, and has now expanded to community development work, including building clean wells and latrines to help with sanitation.
This year, a matching grant has been given to the Haiti Medical Project to help fund the building of latrines in Haiti. Additionally, we have secured another $5,000 matching grant from Karis, to help with this project. This means that the first $5,000 we raise, will send $20,000 to build latrines in Haiti! Funds beyond our first $5,000 will continue to be matched as available from the Haiti Medical Project grant.
We hope to share the invitation to contribute beyond our congregation as well. Our music leadership has just completed production of an album of hymns and praise songs, entitled “While I Run This Race.” We will be distributing this album with an invitation to make donations to the Haiti Medical Project.
Donations can be given to the church office, or placed in the designated donation box on Sunday morning. Checks can be written to “Pleasant Valley COB” with “Haiti” on the memo line.
This weekend children all over are celebrating at the prospect of going door-to-door to beg for candy. I have always thought giving out candy to trick-or-treaters to be good Christian practice. After all, Jesus told the disciples to give to everyone who begs from you!
But there is a deeper tradition in All Hollows Eve and All Saints Day, that remembers how much God has given to us. Tombstones are a popular part of Halloween decorations, but I would like to transform them from a symbol of fright to a symbol of promise. Our cemetery outside the church is full of saints who have gone before us, who have received love and grace from God, and who have sought to share that grace with us, their spiritual children, in turn.
They have preached. They have served. They have told stories. They have served meals. They too have dug graves. And they have taught us to turn to God in thanksgiving and hope. In God’s grace, we will all receive our reward!
10,000 Reasons
Chorus
Bless the Lord O my soul
O my soul
Worship His holy name
Sing like never before
O my soul
I’ll worship Your holy name
Verse 1
The sun comes up it’s a new day dawning
It’s time to sing Your song again
Whatever may pass and whatever lies before me
Let me be singing when the evening comes
Chorus
Bless the Lord O my soul
O my soul
Worship His holy name
Sing like never before
O my soul
I’ll worship Your holy name
Verse 2
You’re rich in love and You’re slow to anger
Your name is great and Your heart is kind
For all Your goodness I will keep on singing
Ten thousand reasons for my heart to find
Chorus
Bless the Lord O my soul
O my soul
Worship His holy name
Sing like never before
O my soul
I’ll worship Your holy name
Verse 3
And on that day when my strength is failing
The end draws near and my time has come
Still my soul will sing Your praise unending
Ten thousand years and then forevermore
Chorus
Bless the Lord O my soul
O my soul
Worship His holy name
Sing like never before
O my soul
I’ll worship Your holy name
Worship Your holy name
Lord I’ll worship Your holy name
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Before we come to you, O God, you come to us.
You give sun to fill our days
and give us breath to stand and sing.
We lift to you our voices in praise!
Open our hearts this morning, O God.
Cleanse us of all that is broken and lifeless.
Welcome us as your children!
Guide us in the beauty of your communion of grace!
Fill our lives with your mercy and justice.
Your love is our hope, promise, and joy every day!
Build your new creation in us. In Jesus we pray!
Amen.
Matthew 13:31-34 NRSV
He put before them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.’
He told them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.’
Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables; without a parable he told them nothing.
This is My Father’s World
Verse 1
This is my Father’s world
And to my list’ning ears
All nature sings and around me rings
The music of the spheres
This is my Father’s world
I rest me in the thought
Of rocks and trees of skies and seas
His hand the wonders wrought
Verse 2
This is my Father’s world
The birds their carols raise
The morning light the lily white
Declare their maker’s praise
This is my Father’s world
He shines in all that’s fair
In the rustling grass I hear him pass
He speaks to me ev’rywhere
Verse 3
This is my Father’s world
O let me ne’er forget
That though the wrong seems oft so strong
God is the ruler yet
This is my Father’s world
The battle is not done
Jesus who died shall be satisfied
And earth and heav’n be one
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We revel in your creation, O God! For you have placed the grain of the field and the fruit of the forest into our hands. We watch the corn rise from the earth and the apples form on the trees, and know that your blessing is present. So make us fruitful in the same way, warmed by your grace, sustained by your love, and blooming in your calling. In Jesus name, Amen.
Lord of Creation and Redemption,
The trees remind us today,
that there is a promise of your beauty
even when growth and production are done.
You have created seasons to gather in,to harvest,
remembering and giving thanks for what you have blessed us with.
Sun, rain, earth, and seed;
all are gifts from your hand.
You have blessed us to be part of,
and recipients of your growth.
In you we sow.
In you we reap.
In you we give thanks, eat, and rest.
Teach us to look to you in all things, O God.
Remind us that out hands are limited.
Help us to worry less about what we build
and to consider more what your grace is building among us.
Give is wisdom to be able to judge
To see that even mountains eventually fall
and to remember that your grace is what blesses forever.
Make us ambassadors of your grace today.
Remove our self-righteusness.
Guide our hearts to teach, rather than scold.
Stir the compassion of Jesus within us,
to heal, forgive, and invite to new life.
Let us never lose track of the preciousness
of the invitation that we have received.
Hear our prayers for our brothers and sisters today
Hear our prayers for strangers across the world
who hunger and thirst
who are lost and alone
who hurt and anger.
Unite us with the need of others
so your spirit will bear the fruits of love between us.
And may our lives,
our world and our living,
soon look like a garden,
planted by your hand,
once gain.
In your resurrection power we pray, Amen.
More Than Conquerors
Verse 1
When my hope and strength is gone
You’re the One who calls me on
You are the life
You are the fight that’s in my soul
Verse 2
Oh Your resurrection pow’r
Burns like fire in my heart
When waters rise
I lift my eyes up to Your throne
Chorus
We are more than conquerors through Christ
You have overcome this world this life
We will not bow to sin or to shame
We are defiant in Your name
You are the fire that cannot be tamed
You are the power in our veins
Our Lord our God our conqueror
Verse 3
I will sing into the night
Christ is risen and on high
Greater is He
Living in me than in the world
Verse 4
No surrender no retreat
We are free and we’re redeemed
We will declare
Over despair You are the hope
Chorus
We are more than conquerors through Christ
You have overcome this world this life
We will not bow to sin or to shame
We are defiant in Your name
You are the fire that cannot be tamed
You are the power in our veins
Our Lord our God our conqueror
Bridge
Nothing is impossible
Ev’ry chain is breakable
With You we are victorious
You are stronger than our hearts
You are greater than the dark
With You we are victorious
Chorus
We are more than conquerors through Christ
You have overcome this world this life
We will not bow to sin or to shame
We are defiant in Your name
You are the fire that cannot be tamed
You are the power in our veins
Our Lord our God our conqueror
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More Than Conquerors
Now, as we leave this place
Anticipating what God will put before us next
May what is before us,
Never outshine what God has planted within us.
May it continue to give light and warmth
and lead us in Christ’s love, back together again. Amen.