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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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Indoor seating is available in the sanctuary with the live stream of the service on the screen.
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Wind and Word Bible study will be continuing through the month of September. We will continue meeting at 7:00 PM in the Pavilion. We will be starting with Acts 19 this coming Tuesday.
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Adjustments are being made to our plans for Worship in the Grove on September 12, due to the current Covid-19 outbreak in our neighborhood. We will still be welcoming Jeff Carter, president of Bethany Theological Seminary, to share with us at 10:30AM in the grove. However, we will not be having a meal together afterwards.
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The LIFE Group committee has met and we recommend that groups not begin meeting in person at this time. Later this fall, we will revisit when to begin groups.
In the meantime, if you signed up for a group, your group leader will be contacting you regarding ways we can communicate and lift each other up.
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We are holding a Kids Connection at 9:00 am, each Sunday- continuing until children’s Sunday School restarts – Children can meet at the playground for some activities and social interaction for the half hour before worship.
We are also resuming inviting children to come forward to participate in the Children’s Time during worship. Children’s Bulletins and crayons will also be available during worship each Sunday.
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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!
- Thank you all for your submissions to our September Newsletter. The deadline for including items in the October Newsletter will be September 24.
Psalm 139 reminds us of the depth of God’s knowledge of us.
Lord, you have searched me out and known me;
you know my sitting down and my rising up;
you discern my thoughts from far away.
It also declares the depth of God’s love for us;
You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
The psalm reminds us of God’s faithfulness
If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
Even there your hand will lead me
and your right hand hold me fast.
And also of God’s power to save us
If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me,
and the light around me turn to night,”
Darkness is not dark to you;
the night is as bright as the day;
darkness and light to you are both alike.
Let us praise our God!
For it was you who formed my inward parts;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made!
Friend of God
Verse
Who am I that You are mindful of me
That You hear me when I call
Is it true that You are thinking of me
How You love me it’s amazing
Chorus
I am a friend of God
I am a friend of God
I am a friend of God
He calls me friend
Verse
Who am I that You are mindful of me
That You hear me when I call
Is it true that You are thinking of me
How You love me it’s amazing
Chorus
I am a friend of God
I am a friend of God
I am a friend of God
He calls me friend
Bridge
God Almighty Lord of Glory
You have called me friend
Chorus
I am a friend of God
I am a friend of God
I am a friend of God
He calls me friend
You call me friend
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Lord Jesus,
You have called us your own
and given yourself, so that we may know the trueness of life;
so we may know the fullness of joy in following you.
So we ask now, that you would open us to your Spirit.
Help us to hear with ears and hearts
so your word will bear good fruit in our lives
and we will see your glory alive today. Amen.
Ephesians 2:11-22 NRSV
So then, remember that at one time you Gentiles by birth, called ‘the uncircumcision’ by those who are called ‘the circumcision’—a physical circumcision made in the flesh by human hands— remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us.
He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, so that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it.
So he came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near; for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father.
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.
In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling-place for God.
Come To the Table
Verse 1
The outside looking in
This is where grace begins
We were hungry we were thirsty
With nothing left to give
Oh the shape that we were in
Just when all hope seemed lost
Love opened the door for us
Chorus
He said come to the table
Come join the sinners who have been redeemed
Take your place beside the Savior
Sit down and be set free
Come to the table
Verse 2
These liars and these thiefs
There’s no one unwelcome here
So that sin and shame that you brought with you
You can leave it at the door
Let mercy draw you near
Chorus
He said come to the table
Come join the sinners who have been redeemed
Take your place beside the Savior
Sit down and be set free
Come to the table
Bridge
To the thief and to the doubter
To the hero and the coward
To the prisoner and the soldier
To the young and to the older
All who hunger all who thirst
All the last and all the first
All the poppers and the princess
All who fail you’ve been forgiven
All who dream and all who suffer
All who loved and lost another
All the chained and all the free
All who follow all who lead
Anyone who’s been let down
All the lost you have been found
All who have been labeled right or wrong
To everyone who hears this song
Chorus
He said come to the table
Come join the sinners who have been redeemed
Take your place beside the Savior
Sit down and be set free
Come to the table
CCLI #1699256
God desires to build new among us, to build new with us. God declares his intention in Revelation 21, to wipe away every tear, heal every sorrow and pain, and make all things new. But for us to be part of this, we have to be willing to bend before God’s will. We have to confess, repent, and allow ourselves to be changed. Let us pray together
Merciful God,
day by day we have failed to believe
in your presence and your promised forgiveness.
We have not trusted in your power
to give the riches we cannot see.
We have not honored our sisters and brothers
as heirs of your desired peace.
We have not forgiven others or ourselves.
Give us the wisdom and faith to be your body on earth,
that we may rejoice in your saving bounty,
to the glory of your Son. Amen.
-Feasting on the Word, adapted.
God knows our hearts, hears our prayers, and holds us in love.
Know that it is in the power of Christ’s grace that the Holy Spirit is given
and we are set free.
In God’s power and love, we are reconciled and healed, and God’s kingdom will be built among us.
You, O God, love us from the moment of our conception,
You know us and you love us in the womb,
You love us and you call us from before the moment of our first breath,
and you love us when we first see the light of day.
As a mother/father loves her/his child before she/he ever sees it,
and then embraces it gently from the moment of its birth,
so you love us—and we thank you.
Help us dear God to love one another in this way….
Lord hear our prayer.
You love us, O God from the time of our naming
You love us in our growing and hold us as we take our first steps.
You love us and walk beside us
as we explore the world with eager hands and eyes
As a mother/father loves her/his child as she/he sees it grow and develop
so you love us—and we thank you.
Help us dear God to love one another in this way….
Lord hear our prayer…
You love us, O God, as we mature and seek our way,
You love as we become aware of the world around us,
You love us as we smile and play,
you even love us when we say no and when we begin to stray.
As a mother/father loves her/his child as she/he sees it become proud and tall,
so you love us even when we sin and fall..
Help us dear God to love one another in this way….
Lord hear our prayer…
We thank you God for loving us when we are unloving
for caring for us when we are uncaring,
and for calling to us when we go far away….
Help us dear God to love one another in this way…
Lord hear our prayer…
Lord hear our prayers of love this day for those around us,
for those we have held before you in our time of sharing,
and for those we have thought of in our moments of caring:
(add your own prayers)
Lord hear our prayer….
We ask all these things in the name of Christ Jesus,
who is our Lord and our brother. Amen
~ written by Rev. Richard J. Fairchild (adapted slightly), and posted on Kir-shalom.
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For We are Strangers No More
Refrain
For we are strangers no more, but members of one family;
Stangers no more, but part of one humanity;
Strangers no more, we’re neighbors to each other now;
Strangers no more, we’re sisters and we’re brothers now.
Verse
A love that seeks the last, the lost, the least.
One day that love will bring us all togehter
In Christ from South and North, from West and east.
Refrain
For we are strangers no more, but members of one family;
Stangers no more, but part of one humanity;
Strangers no more, we’re neighbors to each other now;
Strangers no more, we’re sisters and we’re brothers now.
CCLI #1699256
May God’s word always be a lamp to your feet.
May Christ’s love always be a light in your darkness.
May the Spirit shine through us for all to see.
Go in Christ, Amen.