LGUMC live-stream worship service with Pastor Kate Conolly. Los Gatos, California. Also included: Gail Hybarger, Kevin McCullough, Ren Geisick, Mark Eastland, Greg Cook, Cindy Cook, and Pam Parisi. Thank you to the Flower Committee for altar and flower arrangements. www.LGUMC.org
News & Events
Pastor Kate’s message of recent Washington DC events
Pastor Kate has a message in light of the events in Washington on Wednesday. And she invites you to join her in prayer for our nation and our leaders.
Wednesday’s Catch-up, January 6, 2020
This Wednesday’s Catch-up is with our own Children’s Ministry Director Shelley Ahh-Wong. She is recently a received certified life coach (congratulations Shelley!) and will be leading a New Year’s Resolution seminar this Sunday, Jan. 10 from 2-4pm via zoom. Check out her video for more details.
For more information and to sign up for her presentation visit THIS link
Commit to your New Year’s Resolution
Do you find that you make resolutions easily but have difficulty in committing to them? If so, join this workshop by life coach Shelley Ahn-Wong to learn how you can not only keep your resolutions but create a vision for your life.
Sunday, January 10, 2021, 2-4pm via zoom
To sign up, please register in advance here:https://zoom.us/…/tJ0scO2vqjgqE9DJu-qcxDwzagMKJS8wg0-s
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
LGUMC live-worship, Sunday, January 3, 2021
LGUMC live-stream worship service with Pastor Kate Conolly. Los Gatos, California. Also included: Pastor Emeritus Dave Wolf, Pastor Gail Hybarger, Joyce Rhodes, Sue Livingstone, Ken Kasper, Greg Cook, Cindy Cook, and Pam Parisi. Thank you to the Flower Committee for altar and flower arrangements. www.LGUMC.org
Worship
Sunday, January 3, 2021
“Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.”
~ Harold S. Kushner
“I don’t want to live in the kind of world where we don’t look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cannot change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.”
~ Charles de Lint
“I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.”
~ Jana Stanfield
“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prelude
Joyce Rhodes, organ
“Impression on ‘We Three Kings’ ”~ arr. Alfred V. Fedak
“The March of the Wise Men” ~ transcribed by Charles Black
“We Three Kings” ~ arr. Andrew Fletcher
Call to Worship
We come, for God gathers us here,
with that community called faith:
where the hungry are served first,
where the thirsty drink life’s water.
We come, for God welcomes us here
into that home called grace:
where the naked are clothed in robes of hope;
where the stranger is embraced as the long-lost prodigal.
We come, for God reunites us here,
sisters and brothers in that family called love:
where the imprisoned model justice,
where the sick are cradled in God’s peace.
– written by Thom Shuman
Hymn
Sue Livingstone
“Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” ~ #UMH 384 vs. 1, 4
Time for Kids
Scripture
Ken Kasper, reader
Luke 10:25-37
Sermon
Pastor Dave Wolf, Pastor Emeritus LGUMC
“The two shall be one”
Offering Prayer
As we offer our gifts to you, Holy God, may we remember those who are forgotten by us too many times – the hungry, the lonely, the homeless, the vulnerable – yet are important citizens in your kingdom of grace, justice, and hope. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.
– written by Thom Shuman
Offertory
Joyce Rhodes, organ
“O Love, That Will Not Let Me Go” – tune – “St. Margaret”
~ arr. Sharon Elery Rogers
Sharing of Joys and Concerns
Pastoral Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer
Celebration of Holy Communion
Communion Prayer
Holy are you, God of Wonder,
and blessed is Jesus Christ your Son.
Your heart, your soul,
your mind, your strength,
he was willing to love you enough
to become one of us;
loving us as much as he loved himself,
he endured the battering of the world,
and stripped of his glory and grace,
he was left by the side of the world.
As we remember his life of great love,
we praise you,
that as we break the bread of life,
and drink from the cup of grace,
we know the risen Christ is among us.
We come to this Table
looking for answers to our questions
and for healing for our brokenness.
So, pour out your Spirit upon your children,
and upon the gifts of the bread and the cup,
that nourished and fed by you,
we might we strengthened
to serve our sisters and brothers around us.
Partaking of the elements
As we get up from our seats at your Table,
may we stand up for the rights of the lowly.
As you pour out your grace upon us,
may we wrap it around the orphans and weak;
as you whisper your dreams for us,
may we speak out on behalf of the poor;
as you offer us the bread and the cup from your hands,
may we reach down and lift up those
who have fallen through the cracks of our society.
Hymn
Sue Livingstone
“The Gift of Love” ~UMH #408 (all three verses)
Sending Forth
Go now and embrace the hope to which God has called us.
Recognize Christ in friend and stranger,
and as Christ has been gracious to you,
so be gracious to those in need.
We go in peace to love and serve the Lord,
……..In the name of Christ. Amen.
– written by Nathan Nettleton
Postlude
Joyce Rhodes, organ
“The Birthday of A King” ~ W. H. Neidlinger
“Partita on ‘O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright’ ”
– tune – “Wie Schon Leuchtet” ~ Phillipp Nicolai, sett. Michael Burkhardt
Wednesday Catch-up, December 30, 2020
As we close out this tumultuous year our wonderful Pastor Kate is leaving us with some words of wisdom in (very) chilly Oregon. May your hearts be blessed and your minds be at peace for what is to come. He will lead us into the new year.