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United Church of Ludlow Weekly eNewsletter - February 28, 2021

2/26/2021

 
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 wish to thank Christine Boardman for leading our worship service,
​this morning and throughout Lent and Easter Sunday.

 
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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 or 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, March 24, 7:00 pm
 
 
Weekly Offerings
 
          Offerings and other cash receipts for the week ending February 21, 2021,
          were $1550.  The costs for each week are $1,320 (derived by dividing the
          annual budget by 52 weeks).
 
          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 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
 
          Marge Macintyre celebrates a birthday on February 28th
          Susan Kneebone celebrates a birthday on March 5th
          Jean Eggleston celebrates a birthday on March 11th
 
 
          In honor of Susan Kneebone’s birthday, we want to ensure she has lots and
          lots of Birthday Cards to mark the day.  There's still time to get a card and put
          ​it in the mail - all you need is her mailing address, which is:
 
                                        Attention Susan Kneebone
                                        Cedar Hill Continuing Care Community
                                        49 Cedar Hill Drive
                                        ​Windsor, VT 05089
 
          ​The rest is up to you.
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​February 28, 2021                                                                                                 10:00 AM

                                                          Service of Worship
                                                      Second Sunday of Lent
 
PRELUDE
          (All are encouraged to use the prelude as a quiet time of meditation in
          preparation for the worship service which follows.)
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND GREETING
 
          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)
 
          “Walk before me, and be blameless,” said God to Abram, “And I shall
          make my covenant between me and you.” Quite openly, we’ve measured
          that distance.

          Quite openly, we’ve stayed away.
          Quite openly, we’ve distanced ourselves.

          Quite openly, we didn’t want to be closer.
          Quite openly, we are not blameless.

          Quite openly, we are here. We are here to open ourselves to our
          In-between God.
 
HYMN 560*                                                                         Help Us Accept Each Other
 
INVOCATION (Unison)    
 
          We gather to worship, O God, under the shadow of the cross, sign of
          human shame and divine wisdom.  Like Jesus, we would follow faithfully
          in your covenant way; like Jesus we would live to you and die to you. 
          We are your people; we belong to you. We offer you our worship and our lives. 
          Amen.
 
PRAYER OF CONFESSION               
 
          We are quite open about our successes.
          ​We feel free to boast when we have done well,
          but we are not quite so open when things have gone wrong.
          We do not praise God anyway. Instead, we recognize the distance
          between me and you, between you and God, between God and me.
          Let’s be quite open about it as we open ourselves
          to our Living God in silence.
                        This is the time for our prayerful silence.
 
WORDS OF ASSURANCE

READING OF SCRIPTURE
 
OLD TESTAMENT                                                   Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16
 
PSALM 22:25–31                                                               pp. 752-753 Response 2  
 
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.
 
THE GOSPEL LESSON                                            Mark 8:31-38
 
SERMON                              “Covenant: From Generation to Generation”
 
HYMN 266*                                                 Heal Us, Emmanuel, Hear Our Prayer
 
SHARING OUR JOYS AND CONCERNS                                    
 
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
 
            The Lord be with you.
            And also with you.
            Let us pray.

THE 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
 
OFFERTORY SENTENCE
 
OFFERTORY
 
DOXOLOGY
 
          At the Presentation, Hymn 95*                         Old 100th
          Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
          Praise him, all creatures here below;
          Praise him above, you heavenly host;
          Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
 
PRAYER OF DEDICATION*
 
          In-between God,
          Bless these gifts with your love
          So that we might share them quite openly
          ​With all who need your change. Amen.
 
HYMN 133*                                                            Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
 
BENEDICTION AND BLESSING*
 
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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Lyrics to the Hymns and
Responsive Reading
for the February 28 Service
 
HYMN 560                           Help Us Accept Each Other
 
Help us accept each other as Christ accepted us;
teach us as sister, brother, each person to embrace.
Be present, Lord, among us, and bring us to believe
we are ourselves accepted and meant to love and live.
 
Teach us, O Lord, your lessons, as in our daily life
we struggle to be human and search for hope and faith.
Teach us to care for people, for all, not just for some,
to love them as we find them, or as they may become.
 
Let your acceptance change us, so that we may be moved
in living situations to do the truth in love;
to practice your acceptance, until we know by heart
 
Lord, for today's encounters with all who are in need,
who hunger for acceptance, for righteousness and bread,
we need new eyes for seeing, new hands for holding on;
renew us with your Spirit; Lord, free us, make us one!
 
HYMN 266               Heal Us, Emmanuel, Hear Our Prayer
 
Heal us, Emmanuel, hear our prayer; we wait to feel thy touch;
deep-wounded souls to thee repair, and Savior, we are such.
 
Our faith is feeble, we confess we faintly trust thy word;
but wilt thou pity us the less? Be that far from thee, Lord!
 
Remember him who once applied with trembling for relief;
"Lord, I believe," with tears he cried; "O help my unbelief!"
 
 She, too, who touched thee in the press and healing virtue stole,
was answered, "Daughter, go in peace: thy faith hath made thee whole."
 
Like her, with hopes and fears we come to touch thee if we may;
O send us not despairing home; send none unhealed away.
 
HYMN 133               Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
 
What a fellowship, what a joy divine, leaning on the everlasting arms;
what a blessedness, what a peace is mine, leaning on the everlasting arms.
 
Refrain:
Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms;
leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms.
 
O how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way, leaning on the everlasting arms;
O how bright the path grows from day to day, leaning on the everlasting arms.
(Refrain)
 
What have I to dread, what have I to fear, leaning on the everlasting arms?
I have blessed peace with my Lord so near, leaning on the everlasting arms.
(Refrain)
 
PSALM 22:25–31                                                     pp. 752-753 Response 2
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25 From you comes my praise in the great congregation;
     my vows I will pay before those who worship the Lord.
26 The poor shall eat and be satisfied;
      those who seek the Lord shall praise the Lord.  May your hearts live forever!
27 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord;
     and all the families of the nations shall worship before the Lord.
28 For dominion belongs to the Lord who rules over the nations.
29 All who sleep in the earth shall bow down to the Lord.
     All who go down to the dust shall bow before the Lord, and I shall live for God.
30 Posterity shall serve the Lord;
    each generation shall tell of the Lord,
31 and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn.

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