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CHURCH SERVICES at the UNITED CHURCH of LUDLOW are shared ELECTRONICALLY Contact [email protected] or call 802-228-4211 for more information. _________________________________________________________________________ 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 [email protected] to get Zoom access. _________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENTS We wish to thank Christine Boardman for leading our worship service, this morning and throughout Lent and Easter Sunday. _________________________________________________________________________ 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. Upcoming Meetings/Events Executive Board Meeting - Wednesday, March 24, 7:00 pm Weekly Offerings Offerings and other cash receipts for the week ending on February 28 were $1225. 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 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 Jean Eggleston celebrates a birthday on March 11th Lee and Sheila Kafer celebrate an anniversary on March 18th ECCO Lenten Bible Study in March Diane Holme invites you to a Lenten Bible Study organized by the ECCO group, starting this Sunday, and continuing the following three Sundays at 12:30 pm. (March 7, 14, 21, and 28) To join the Bible Study Group click the following link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82274055795?pwd=UVZJRzlhcXVoYWdvbmFJREJTSDNEZz09 or join the meeting using your Zoom App with Meeting ID: 822 7405 5795 and Passcode: 810856 or using your phone, the one tap mobile number is +13017158592,,82274055795#,,,,*810856# _________________________________________________________________________ March 7, 2021 10:00 AM Service of Worship Third Sunday of Lent Communion Sunday PRELUDE (All are encouraged to use the prelude as a quiet time of meditation in preparation for the worship service which follows.) ANNOUNCEMENTS SHARIING OUR JOYS AND CONCERNS 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) We gather this day to worship our God, whose words and ways challenge us. God invites us to lose our selfishness to find ourselves. God calls us to be fools in the world to show forth the wisdom of Christ. God urges us to empty ourselves to discover life’s fullness. God bids us to be obedient to a divine will so we might know true freedom. We come to worship our Creator, seeking to have our faith challenged into growth. We root our faith in worship, seeking to find nourishment for our spirits in this growing season of Lent. HYMN 368 * My Hope Is Built INVOCATION (Unison) Thankful are we for all the blessings of this life; love, freedom, bounty and beauty. We celebrate the many ways you have come to us sharing our common life. We celebrate this day our spiritual ancestors and the teachings of Jesus. Be close to us as we seek to follow Jesus in the shadow of the cross and as we commune with you and your whole human family. May your divine care for us always empower us to care for all of Creation. Keep close as we walk in the way that brings life. Amen. PRAYER OF CONFESSION: In this season of Lent we reflect on those things that lead us away from the life we desire. We focus on whatever we do that oppresses and enslaves others who, like us, are created in the image of the divine. And now we seek the grace that frees us to live in faithfulness to holy love. SILENCE ASSURANCE OF PARDON The God of who brought the Israelites out of Egypt, is the power that frees us from our sin. Live in the grace of God’s love as you walk in the way of Jesus and surely you shall find mercy at the end of that road. Amen. READING OF SCRIPTURE OLD TESTAMENT Exodus 20: 1-17 PSALM 19 pp. 750-751 Response 1 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 John 2:13-22 SERMON “Captured by Sin” INTRODUCTION TO OUR OFFERING Our tokens offered here are but symbols of our lives of sacrifice lived every day. May we give ourselves to the world as a holy offering acceptable to you, O God, our rock and our redeemer. Amen. 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 * Receive these gifts, Holy One. Sanctify them by your Spirit and drive away any ill motives. Accept, we pray, our humble offering. Amen. COMMUNION HYMN 617 * I Come with Joy A CALL TO COMMUNION THE EUCHARISTIC PRAYER THE LORD’S PRAYER (trespasses….) THE WORDS OF INSTITUTION SHARING THE BREAD AND WINE PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION CLOSING HYMN 670 * Go Forth for God 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. _________________________________________________________________________ Lyrics to the Hymns and Responsive Reading for the March 7 Service HYMN 368 * My Hope Is Built My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name. Refrain: On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand; all other ground is sinking sand. When darkness veils his lovely face, I rest on his unchanging grace. In every high and stormy gale, my anchor holds within the veil. (Refrain) His oath, his covenant, his blood supports me in the whelming flood. When all around my soul gives way, he then is all my hope and stay. (Refrain) When he shall come with trumpet sound, O may I then in him be found! Dressed in his righteousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne! (Refrain) COMMUNION HYMN 617 * I Come with Joy I come with joy to meet my Lord, forgiven, loved and free, in awe and wonder to recall his life laid down for me, his life laid down for me. I come with Christians far and near to find, as all are fed, the new community of love in Christ's communion bread, in Christ's communion bread. As Christ breaks bread and bids us share, each proud division ends. The love that made us makes us one, and strangers now are friends, and strangers now are friends. And thus with joy we meet our Lord. His presence, always near, is in such friendship better known; we see and praise him here, we see and praise him here. Together met, together bound, we'll go our different ways, and as his people in the world, we'll live and speak his praise, we'll live and speak his praise. CLOSING HYMN 670 * Go Forth for God Go forth for God; go to the world in peace; Be of good courage, armed with heavenly grace, In God's good Spirit daily to increase, Till in his kingdom we behold his face. Go forth for God; go to the world in peace. Go forth for God; go to the world in love; Strengthen the faint, give courage to the weak, Help the afflicted; richly from above God's love supplies the grace and power we seek. Go forth for God; go to the world in love. Go forth for God; go to the world in strength; Hold fast the good, be urgent for the right, Render to no man evil; Christ at length Shall overcome all darkness with his light. Go forth for God; go to the world in strength. Go forth for God; go to the world in joy, To serve God's people every day and hour, And serving Christ, our every gift employ, Rejoicing in the Holy Spirit's power. Go forth for God; go to the world in joy. _________________________________________________________________________   Comments are closed.
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