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.
- We are looking forward to the Houff Dinner on September 9! We are in need of volunteers for the event. For information on how you can help, please contact Pastor Rebecca House.
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Youth & Parent Meeting – please keep your eyes open for communication about an upcoming
meeting for youth and their parents. It is time to jump back into Youth Gatherings, Late Night Fun,
and other activities. - The Fellowship Team invites you to gather at the picnic pavilion (weather permitting- in case of rain we will be in the fellowship hall) for a pot luck luncheon following the Worship in the Grove service on Sunday, September 11th. We will provide table service & drinks. Please join us even if you are not able to bring a dish- all are welcome at God’s table!
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Worship in the Grove will be Sunday, September 11. We are looking forward to a wonderful time
of fellowship and worship with Kyle Remnant followed by a potluck in the church pavilion. - ALL DEACONS: There will be a special Deacons meeting following the potluck on Sunday,
September 11! - Backpack Pals are in need of pudding cups, ramen noodles, and we ask that you continue to donate your plastic grocery bags. Thank you!
Invocation
God our Creator, Savior, and Guide,
we come together to learn about your life giving ways.
Help us to hear, and see, and experience your love that binds all your followers together, so it might overflow from our lives to all people.
In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.
One: In the midst of a world of meaninglessness,
All: God calls us to meaning.
One: In the midst of divisiveness,
All: God calls us to community through Christ.
One: Out of our brokenness,
All: God calls us to wholeness and new life in the Spirit.
One: In praise and thanksgiving,
All: let us worship God.
Ephesians 4: 1-13 NRSV
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.
But each of us was given grace according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore it is said,
‘When he ascended on high he made captivity itself a captive;
he gave gifts to his people.’
(When it says, ‘He ascended’, what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is the same one who ascended far above all the heavens, so that he might fill all things.) The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.
The sermon, “Unity,” will be posted soon.
