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.
- The Deacons are planning for Communion during worship on Sunday morning, October, 2nd. Following a brief worship service in the sanctuary, we will gather in the fellowship hall for Love Feast and Communion with optional feet/hand washing stations. We hope you will join us for this very special service as we celebrate World Communion Day.
- The following week, on October 9, we will have our Congregational Business Meeting. We hope you will be present to hear how we have been working together to continue the work of Jesus, to discuss our budget, and to confirm our leadership for next year.
- Backpack Pals are in need of pudding cups, ramen noodles, and we ask that you continue to donate your plastic grocery bags. Thank you!
Call to Worship
One: We are the community of faith
that has been created by the love of God.
All: We are people who have been set free
by the word of forgiveness in Jesus Christ.
One: We have come not to parade our own goodness
but to praise the holiness of God.
All: We have come not to boast of what we have done
but to proclaim the redeeming work of Jesus Christ.
With all our being, we will praise God,
and tell of all God’s kindness toward us.
Matthew 18:21-35
Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.
“Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.So the servantfell on his knees, imploring him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’ And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred hdenarii, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay what you owe.’ So his fellow servant fell down and pleaded with him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you.’ He refused and went and put him in prison until he should pay the debt. When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their master all that had taken place. Then his master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?’ And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers,until he should pay all his debt. So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.”
The sermon, “ “ Grace in Community”,” will be posted soon.
Sharing Our Gifts
In response to God’s forgiveness and great love for us, we joyfully and gratefully offer the fruits of our labor and our lives in these gifts. We give, knowing God’s power to bless and multiply them, so that the transformative power of the grace shown through Christ will be a reality in our neighborhood, community, and around the world. Will the ushers please come forward to collect our offerings.
