"Live for today but hold your hands open to tomorrow.
Anticipate the future and its changes with joy.
There is a seed of God's love in every event,
every unpleasant situation in which
you may find yourself."
~ Barbara Johnson
Zoom Service
United Church of Ludlow
Anticipate the future and its changes with joy.
There is a seed of God's love in every event,
every unpleasant situation in which
you may find yourself."
~ Barbara Johnson
Zoom Service
United Church of Ludlow
Although we will not be together in person for our Service, we will be having a Zoom service complete with music on April 26, 2020 at 10:00 am. If you would like to participate in the service, please do not hesitate to call us at one of the numbers below before Sunday:
Linda: 802-558-9055
George: 802-558-9057
Home phone: 802-228-6275
The Bulletin for the service and the words to the hymns are at the end of the newsletter. They are also available as .pdf documents which you can download when you receive an invitation to the Zoom service.
Hopefully we will see you in church!
George and Linda
Linda: 802-558-9055
George: 802-558-9057
Home phone: 802-228-6275
The Bulletin for the service and the words to the hymns are at the end of the newsletter. They are also available as .pdf documents which you can download when you receive an invitation to the Zoom service.
Hopefully we will see you in church!
George and Linda
A warm welcome to all visitors to our church email newsletter or web page. If the Pastor or any member of the congregation may be of service to you, please contact the church office at 802-228-4211 or Rev. Harpster at 802-875-8895. His email is harpsterd@vermontel.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 pastor, Rev. Harpster.
Weekly Offerings
As always, please continue with your weekly offering by writing a check to The United Church and sending it in to Anne Oakes at 145 Merrill Rd., Ludlow, VT 05149. Thank you so much.
Prayer Concerns
We continue to keep people around the globe in our prayers as we all cope with COVID 19.
In our own community let us keep the following in our prayers:
James Almond, Terry DeYoung, Kathy Doyle, Pam Dundy, Judy Edwards, Carolyn Gauthier, Susan Kneebone, Ginny Kottkamp, Annie Oakes, Evelyn Tucker, Herb Van Guilder, and Evelyn Verro.
Continue to keep the family of Pat Liao in your prayers as they continue to adjust to life without her.
We know the power of prayer. If you have others to add to our prayer concerns, please email Thomson131VT@gmail.com
Russ Green is at home recovering from surgery
Cindi Cole is at DHMC following emergency surgery
As the unprecendented pandemic of COVID 19 is affecting our every day lives in ways we never could have anticipated, there will be many in our community who will need our help from picking up groceries or medications, taking out trash, a home cooked meal or even a phone call to brighten their day. If you or anyone you know of in our community needs help in any way, please contact:
Laura Lienhard laura_lienhard@hotmail.com (802) 236-7310 or
Linda Thomson Thomson131VT@gmail.com (802)-228-6275
Communion Next Week
You heard that right. Don will be providing a service of Communion during our Zoom service next week, May 3. It will be a little different, but we can do it. The Communion portion of the service will be condensed. Everyone in the Zoom service will serve themselves and be responsible for their own bread or crackers and beverage. At the appointed time we will partake together.
April 26, 2020 10:15 A.M.
SERVICE OF WORSHIP
THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER
PRELUDE Prelude in E flat major Op.41 No.1 Alexandre Guilmant.
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)
CALL TO WORSHIP
We come to hear the story of God’s faithfulness to past generations.
But we are looking to the future, not the past.
Our God is also God of the future, the God who was with our ancestors
will be with us as well.
Then we can go forward in hope. Whatever else fails, God remains faithful.
Nothing can separate us from the love of God! Praise be to God!
HYMN 312 Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise
Stanzas 1 & 2
PRAYER OF INVOCATION
READING OF SCRIPTURE
THE OLD TESTAMENT LESSON Psalm 16: 5-11
THE GOSPEL LESSON Luke 24: 13-35
SERMON “A Message for the Heart”
HYMN 168 At the Name of Jesus (Don announce)
Stanzas 1 & 2
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
PRAYER OF DEDICATION
HYMN 715 Rejoice, the Lord is King
Stanzas 1 & 2
BENEDICTION
BENEDICTION RESPONSE
POSTLUDE Troisieme Livre:I Grand Dialogue David Ponsford and Louis Marchand
Hymns for the service on April 26, 2020
Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise – page 312
Verses 1 and 2
Hail the day that seems him rise, Alleluia
To his throne above the skies, Alleluia
Christ a while to mortals given, Alleluia
Re ascends his native heaven, Alleluia
There the glorious triumph waits, Alleluia
Lift your heads, eternal gates, Alleluia
Christ hath conquered mortal sin, Alleluia
Take the King of glory in, Alleluia
At the Name of Jesus - page 168
Verses 1 & 2
At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow
Every tongue confess him King of Glory now;
‘tis the father’s pleasure, we should call him Lord,
Who from the beginning was the mighty Word.
Humbled for a season, to receive a name
From the lips of sinners unto whom he came,
Faithfully he bore it, spotless to the last,
Brought it back victorious when from death he passed.
Rejoice, the Lord is King – page 715
Verses 1 & 2
Rejoice the Lord is King! Your Lord and King above;
Mortals, give thanks and sing, and triumph ever more
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice;
Rejoice; again I say, rejoice
Jesus the savior reign, the God of truth and love;
When he had purged our stains, he took his seat above.
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice;
Rejoice; again I say, rejoice
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 pastor, Rev. Harpster.
Weekly Offerings
As always, please continue with your weekly offering by writing a check to The United Church and sending it in to Anne Oakes at 145 Merrill Rd., Ludlow, VT 05149. Thank you so much.
Prayer Concerns
We continue to keep people around the globe in our prayers as we all cope with COVID 19.
In our own community let us keep the following in our prayers:
James Almond, Terry DeYoung, Kathy Doyle, Pam Dundy, Judy Edwards, Carolyn Gauthier, Susan Kneebone, Ginny Kottkamp, Annie Oakes, Evelyn Tucker, Herb Van Guilder, and Evelyn Verro.
Continue to keep the family of Pat Liao in your prayers as they continue to adjust to life without her.
We know the power of prayer. If you have others to add to our prayer concerns, please email Thomson131VT@gmail.com
Russ Green is at home recovering from surgery
Cindi Cole is at DHMC following emergency surgery
As the unprecendented pandemic of COVID 19 is affecting our every day lives in ways we never could have anticipated, there will be many in our community who will need our help from picking up groceries or medications, taking out trash, a home cooked meal or even a phone call to brighten their day. If you or anyone you know of in our community needs help in any way, please contact:
Laura Lienhard laura_lienhard@hotmail.com (802) 236-7310 or
Linda Thomson Thomson131VT@gmail.com (802)-228-6275
Communion Next Week
You heard that right. Don will be providing a service of Communion during our Zoom service next week, May 3. It will be a little different, but we can do it. The Communion portion of the service will be condensed. Everyone in the Zoom service will serve themselves and be responsible for their own bread or crackers and beverage. At the appointed time we will partake together.
April 26, 2020 10:15 A.M.
SERVICE OF WORSHIP
THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER
PRELUDE Prelude in E flat major Op.41 No.1 Alexandre Guilmant.
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)
CALL TO WORSHIP
We come to hear the story of God’s faithfulness to past generations.
But we are looking to the future, not the past.
Our God is also God of the future, the God who was with our ancestors
will be with us as well.
Then we can go forward in hope. Whatever else fails, God remains faithful.
Nothing can separate us from the love of God! Praise be to God!
HYMN 312 Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise
Stanzas 1 & 2
PRAYER OF INVOCATION
READING OF SCRIPTURE
THE OLD TESTAMENT LESSON Psalm 16: 5-11
THE GOSPEL LESSON Luke 24: 13-35
SERMON “A Message for the Heart”
HYMN 168 At the Name of Jesus (Don announce)
Stanzas 1 & 2
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
PRAYER OF DEDICATION
HYMN 715 Rejoice, the Lord is King
Stanzas 1 & 2
BENEDICTION
BENEDICTION RESPONSE
POSTLUDE Troisieme Livre:I Grand Dialogue David Ponsford and Louis Marchand
Hymns for the service on April 26, 2020
Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise – page 312
Verses 1 and 2
Hail the day that seems him rise, Alleluia
To his throne above the skies, Alleluia
Christ a while to mortals given, Alleluia
Re ascends his native heaven, Alleluia
There the glorious triumph waits, Alleluia
Lift your heads, eternal gates, Alleluia
Christ hath conquered mortal sin, Alleluia
Take the King of glory in, Alleluia
At the Name of Jesus - page 168
Verses 1 & 2
At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow
Every tongue confess him King of Glory now;
‘tis the father’s pleasure, we should call him Lord,
Who from the beginning was the mighty Word.
Humbled for a season, to receive a name
From the lips of sinners unto whom he came,
Faithfully he bore it, spotless to the last,
Brought it back victorious when from death he passed.
Rejoice, the Lord is King – page 715
Verses 1 & 2
Rejoice the Lord is King! Your Lord and King above;
Mortals, give thanks and sing, and triumph ever more
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice;
Rejoice; again I say, rejoice
Jesus the savior reign, the God of truth and love;
When he had purged our stains, he took his seat above.
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice;
Rejoice; again I say, rejoice
