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United Church of Ludlow Weekly eNewsletter - February 14, 2021

2/12/2021

 


CHURCH SERVICES
at the 
UNITED CHURCH of LUDLOW

are shared ELECTRONICALLY
Contact unitedchurch@tds.net
or call 802-228-4211
for more information.

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​If you are comfortable attending in person, please join us.
The doors open at 9:45 am, and worship begins at 10:00 am.
We follow procedures to minimize the risk of exposure.
Please read and follow those procedures for the safety of all.

If you are not able to attend in person, a simultaneous Zoom stream is available.
Send an email to unitedchurch@tds.net to get Zoom access.  ​
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

We thank Chris Heintz for leading our worship service this week.

& 

Happy Valentine's Day
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A Warm Welcome to All Visitors.

        If any member of the congregation may be of service to you, please contact the
        church office at 802-228-4211  to leave a message or send an email to
        unitedchurch@tds.net.


Regarding Individuals in the Hospital or Sick at Home

        It would be greatly appreciated if you know of individuals or family members in
        the hospital or sick at home, to kindly inform the church office at 802-228-4211
        or unitedchurch@tds.net.

Upcoming Meetings/Events
 
        Executive Board Meeting - Wednesday, Feb. 24, 7:00 pm
 
Weekly Offerings

        Please continue to mail your offerings to our Receiver of Offerings, Anne Oakes, at
        145 Merrill Road, Ludlow, Vermont  05149.

 
Altar Guild
 
        Linda Alexander and Carol Wu provide our Altar Guild services.
 
Prayer Concerns

        Please keep Bob Kottkamp in your prayers as he recovers at home from surgery.
 
        We ask that you keep David and Beth Almond's son, James, in your
        prayers as he continues his recovery at home.

 
        We continue to keep the following in our prayers:
 
                James Almond, Terry DeYoung, Arthur Marin, Kathy Doyle,  Judy Edwards,
                Jean Eggleston, Carolyn Gauthier, Sheila Kafer, Susan Kneebone,
                Ginny Kottkamp, Anne Oakes, Evelyn Tucker, Herb Van Guilder, 
                ​and ​Evelyn Verro.
 
Celebrations

      Lee Potter celebrates a birthday on February 25th
      Linda and Lee Potter celebrate an anniversary on Feb 26th
      Marge Macintyre celebrates a birthday on February 28th
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​This Week's Service continues our journey to define who we are in the 21st Century.  We will seek to answer the following:
  1. What will be the most important needs for ministry in and around the church that will claim our new pastor’s abilities, gifts and time?
  2. Identify the five most important and how they might be met by the new pastor.
  3. What will be the most important needs for ministry that will be met by the ministry of the congregation?
  4. Identify the five most important and how they might be met by members of the church.
Please consider these points as we gather for this week's service.
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February 14, 2021                                                                                    2:00 P.M.
 
                                                    SERVICE OF WORSHIP
                                          SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY
 
PRELUDE
            (All are encouraged to use the prelude as a quiet time of meditation in preparation
            for the worship service which follows.)
 
            Innumerable times a whole Christian community has been shattered because it
            has lived on the basis of a wishful image. Christians…will often bring with them
            a very definite image of what Christian communal life should be and will be
            anxious to realize it.  But God’s grace quickly frustrates all such dreams …
            Every human idealized image that is brought into the Christian community is a
            hindrance to genuine community and must be broken up so that genuine
            community can survive.  Those who love their dream of a Christian community
            more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian
            community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest,
            earnest and sacrificial.
                                                                                   Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
 
WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS
 
THE GATHERING OF THE PEOPLE
 
            The grace of our LORD Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of
            the Holy Spirit be with you all.   (2 Corinthians 13: 13)
 
            And also with you.

CALL TO WORSHIP* (Please stand)
 
            Pastor:  We are together today because Christ has claimed us.  We are called to
            be the body of Christ in today’s world.
 
            People: Who are we to make such a claim?  Who would see Jesus Christ
            when they look at us?
 
            Pastor: It is not our claim that brings us together.  The church is not our private club.
 
            People:  We are not here just for ourselves, for our own needs.  We are
            drawn together by a larger purpose.
 
            Pastor:  We are called by Christ for a mission.  The gathered community is sent
            out into the world.
 
            People:  We are here to be equipped for ministry.  We have been chosen
            as apostles of good news.
 
HYMN 421*   (see insert)                                            We Gather Together
 
HOLY SCRIPTURE                                                     Acts 1: 15, 21-26 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CONVERSATION
 
            Pastor: The time came, for those who knew Jesus, to choose another to join
            them in their witness to the resurrection.
            All:       O Lord, You know our hearts.
            Pastor: And so they prayed.
            All:       O Lord, You know us inside and out.  Help us to know who you
            send to us, to walk among us, to witness to the living love of Christ.

GLORIA 70*
 
            Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
            and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the
            beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
            world without end.  Amen.  Amen.         
 
HYMN 451*                                                                     Be Now My Vision
 

            You will be placed into small groups in Zoom Break Out Rooms to discuss
            each of the following questions.  Then we will gather again to hear what has
            been discussed.
  1. What will be the most important needs for ministry in and around the church that will claim our new pastor’s abilities, gifts and time?
  2. Identify the five most important and how they might be met by the new pastor.
  3. What will be the most important needs for ministry that will be met by the ministry of the congregation?
  4. Identify the five most important and how they might be met by members of the church.
  
A CONFESSION OF WHO WE ARE  (Romans 12:4-8)
 
            Pastor:   For as in one body we have many members, and not all the members
            ​have the same function, 
            ALL:   …so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we
            are members one of another. We have gifts that differ according to the
            grace given to us: 
            Pastor:   …prophecy, 
            All:    …in proportion to faith; 
            Pastor:   …ministry, 
            All:   …in ministering; 
            Pastor:   …the teacher, 
            All:   …in teaching; 
            Pastor:   …the exhorter, 
            All:   …in exhortation;
            Pastor:   …the giver, 
            All:   …in generosity; 
            Pastor:   …the leader, 
            All:   …in diligence; 
            ​Pastor:   …the compassionate, 
            All:   …in cheerfulness.
 
PERSONAL REFLECTION
 
            During these sessions we have been seeking how we might become the most
            faithful body of Christ we can be as we lean forward into God’s Kingdom. 
 
            Now take a few moments of silence to contemplate what gifts of God do I think
            I am bringing to this work in progress?
 
            One:      And one was chosen.
            All:        And was counted along with the rest.  Thanks be to God!
            Together in this place, by the grace of God may we be committed to
            becoming 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 we also are built together spiritually into a dwelling
            place for God.  Thanks be to God!  Amen
 
JOYS AND CONCERNS
 
PASTORAL PRAYER
 
LORD’S PRAYER (“trespasses”)
 
PRAYER RESPONSE                           Hymnal, No. 473
 
            Lead me, Lord, lead me in thy righteousness;
            ​Make thy way plain before my face.
            For it is thou, Lord, thou, Lord only,
            That makest me dwell in safety.

WE OFFER OURSELVES & OUR GIFTS
 
OFFERTORY
 
PRAYER OF DEDICATION
 
HYMN 398 *                                                      Shadow and Substance

BENEDICTION
 
BENEDICTION RESPONSE
 
DISMISSAL
 
            Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.
            Thanks be to God.
 
POSTLUDE
 
* All who are able may stand.
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