Good morning. Morning
I'd like to welcome all of you to
our worship service here at Red United Methodist
Church. We welcome those who are joining with
us. In person, we welcome those who are
joining with us online. We are so glad
that you are here with us whether you
are a member or a visitor.
My name is Steven Coleman. I'm 1 of
the associate pastors here at Rev.
Our lead pastor, the reverend doctor Pete Moon
is preaching this morning. We are continuing once
again with our Sermon series someone at the
table with Jesus, We will be hearing some
stories about Jesus having a meal with
2 women this morning,
and we will,
hear some lessons about this meal.
And, also want to, highlight,
couple of announcements.
First of all, beginning next Sunday, we will
be having what we call our,
mission in the middle. So at 09:30,
in our welcome center, we will be having
a mission project,
and we invite all of you to join
us for that project.
Also, as part of that, we will be
having a doughnut
challenge.
So there will be doughnuts from, different places
every week and you'll have an opportunity to
find out what who has the most delicious
doughnut in the town of Richmond. So, come
and join us for submission and Donuts beginning
next Sunday.
Also, at the end of July, we'll be
having our vacation bible school taking place.
And if you can help, volunteer.
With that vacation Bible school, we invite you
to talk with Karen Rios, our, director of
children's
ministries.
All the other announcements you will find and
the inside of your Bulletin and also on
our website, and we invite you to check
that out and all that is happening in
the life of our church.
Let us now prepare our hearts and minds
for the worship of the living god. The
lord be with you.
Yeah.
I invite you to stand now and embody
or in spirit and join me for our
call to worship.
Sing to the Lord, a new song, sing
to the Lord, all the earth to
declare the Lord's glory among the nations. The
lord's marvelous works among all the peoples,
for all the gods of the peoples are
idol, but the Lord made the heavens.
Honor and majesty
are before the lord.
In whose sanctuary
our strength and beauty.
Honor and majesty are indeed before the Lord
and so let us hail the power of
Jesus. Name by singing together him number 01:54
selected stan.
If the lord should mark our sins too
could stand, but with the Lord, there is
great forgiveness. Trusting
in the forgiveness and grace of God, let
us now confess our ends with our prayer
of common confession, and then our silent personal
confession. Let us pray.
Ends God of tender mercy.
We admit that sometimes
we don't know what to do with ourselves.
We anger at the slightest
insult
and imagine great vengeance
upon those who wrong us.
We lays about in the good news of
our faith
and do not consider the deep commitment of
faith.
We... Prepare for ourselves,
but not for others.
Forgive us we pray.
Forgive us,
help us to repent
and make us full.
Here now the good news.
Hope in the Lord. For with the lord,
there is steadfast love. With the lord, there
is power to redeem. Hope in the Lord
for dis God, who redeem all of our
sins. In the name of Jesus Christ, you
are forgiven.
Laurie to god.
Man. I'd invite she now to share sides
of peace with those around you.
She
Good morning, revel. If there are any children,
we invite you to come forward.
And if there any children visiting with us
online, please move a little closer to your
screen because this is your time as well.
It's nice seeing all of you come forward.
And I can tell you it is hot
and humid out there
So I decided to bring something with me?
What do you think that I have in
this bag?
Somebody like to tell me what you think
I have in this bag.
What do you think it is Kindle?
Okay. You're close. It is like a water
bottle, but
I brought
Yeah. Yes. Asher like a juice bottle. I
bought some gatorade this morning, but it was
so hot that I needed to just
quench my thirst. And did you know that
gatorade, the slogan used to be, Gatorade is
the thirst quench.
You love that. He loves that. I do
too.
Well, let me say that. 1 of the
things that I love is how many of
you guys use sports.
Perfect. And by the way, dance is a
sport too.
Oh, okey. Good job. So when we do
sports we exert ourselves, and we get a
little bit thirsty, Right? How many of you
take water bottles with you wherever you go?
Good.
Alright? I know that I take my water
bottle because it's always good to stay hydrated,
and especially on a day like this.
So what if I told you
that
this 1 gatorade
would keep you from getting thirsty
again. Would you believe me?
Okay. They're shaking their heads up here. I
want you to know that. Okay. You would
be exactly correct. This 1 gatorade is not
gonna keep me from getting thirsty.
As a matter of fact, we're told to
keep on drinking water, right? Because we need
it.
But today, Pastor Pete is gonna talk about
a woman at the well.
And when she meets Jesus,
she gets so excited
because Jesus
tells her that she will never be thirsty
again.
So we know that physically,
we will have to drink. We're gonna have
to continue to drink water. We're gonna have
to continue to stay hydrated.
But when we come to Jesus Christ,
we know that our spiritual thirst
will be fulfilled. And we will never be
thirsty ever again. Isn't that pretty cool?
She got so excited that she went told
all of her friends, and they all came
to the well
to hear about Jesus and learn about how
to make sure that they could never be
thirsty.
That's pretty cool isn't it?
So the next time you drink a gatorade.
Remember that we might be physically thirsty, but
with Jesus, we will never thirst.
Let's pray.
And Dear Jesus.
Thank you for being.
Our living water.
That when we drink
drink from your cup.
We will never
thirst again. 30
Amen. Amen Alright. You guys can go back
to your seats.
Please join me in praying the prayer of
illumination.
Gracious God,
as we turn to your word for us,
may your spirit rest upon us,
help us to be steadfast in our hearing,
in our speaking
in our believing
and in our living.
Amen.
Today's first scripture is from the book of
Mark,
chapter 7
verses 24
through 30.
You may find this in your Pew bible
on page 819.
Jesus journeys into a foreign.
Known today as Lebanon.
From there he set out, and he went
away to the region of Ty.
He entered a house,
but he didn't want anyone to know. He
was there.
Yet, he could not escape notice.
But a woman with an with a little
daughter had an uncle unseen spirit and she
immediately heard about him.
She came down and she bowed at his
feet.
Now the woman with a gentile
of sa
ar.
She begged him to cast the demon out
of her daughter.
He said to her,
let the children be fed first.
Ford's not fair to take the Children's food
and throw it to the dogs.
But she answered him
sir,
even the dogs under the table eat the
children's crumbs.
And then he said to her
for saying that,
you may go
The demon has left your daughter.
So she went home
and she found her child lying on the
bed.
And the demon was gone.
The word of God for the people of
God,
thanks be to God.
Our second reading for the morning comes from
the book of John reading in the fourth
chapter versus 27
through 38. And we invite you once again
to listen for the word of god.
Just then his disciples came, they were astonished
that he was speaking with a woman.
But no 1 said what do you want
or why are you speaking with her?
Then the woman left her water jar and
went back to the city?
She said to the people come and see
a man who told me everything I have
ever done.
He cannot be the messiah. Can he
They left the city and were on their
way to him and meanwhile.
The disciples were urging him rabbi eat something.
But he said to them I have food
to eat that you do not know about.
So the disciples said to 1 another, surely
no 1 has brought him something to eat.
Jesus said to them. My food
is to do the will of him who
sent me and complete his work.
Do you not say 4 months more then
comes the harvest, but I tell you look
around you and see how the fields are
ripe
for harvesting?
The reaper is already receiving wages and is
gathering fruit for eternal life so that the
sow and reaper may rejoice together.
For here the saying holds true.
1 sow and another reap, I sent you
to reap that for which you did not
labor.
Oh, they're labor
and you have entered into their labor.
This is the word of God for the
people of God.
Thanks speed to god.
Let us pray.
Lord God is your word is read, offered
and pro proclaimed this stay. It is our
prayer.
That you would speak to us that you
would give in us hungry hearts that would
year for your hope, your word, and your
power and your possibility.
It is in the name of Jesus that
we pray this day.
I'm amen.
Hi, Steven mentioned this morning, we are continuing
our Sermon series about meeting Jesus at the
table. We recognize all the time. What happened
when somebody sat down with the meal with
Jesus
incredible, transfer transforming things happened. And as we
continue that, Let me ask you to ponder
and consider a time when you were just
intensely
hungry.
And I don't mean physical hunger.
Think about a time where there is something
that you just wanted and wanted badly.
Wanted intense. You're gonna do whatever it took
to get to that place.
Now for me,
I think about my teenage years when I
was
yearning to fly. I... My dad, we were
on vacation in Michigan 1 summer. And my
dad saw 1 of those signs on the
side of the road it said,
flight go flying, 5 dollars.
And my dad sprung 5 dollars, and he
and I got a little Ces nun and
took off. It was 1 of those 15
minute flights.
But the I was sitting in the front,
the pilots said, won't don't you fly for
a while, showed me how to fly, and
I will tell you when out those controls
were in my hands, I got the bug.
At 13 years old.
And I was gonna fly.
But the problem was flying is exorbitant
expensive. My parents didn't have any money. My
sisters were in college, but I went talk
to people. I talked to folks at airports.
I talked to people who are flight instructors.
And they'll all heads kind of a similar
theme to by young heart. They said something
like this. If you wanted bad enough, you'll
find a way.
And sure enough the years progressed, and I
sold just a year or 2 after I
got my driver's license is 16 years old.
Now to be fair, there are many people
around the world who are hungry.
Some physically,
some spiritually, hungry for something
And the truth is that all the hunger
in the world won't work if there is
not some sem
of resource.
In your reach. I I think of the
words of Larry Branch,
pastor Love Center Unity, 1 of our partner
churches it we had conversations throughout the years.
So 1 of the things I always remember
he said is, you know, you can't pull
yourself up by your own bootstrap.
If you don't have any boots.
And that's a whole another sermon and more...
And more to go there and there's truth
there.
But the truth also is that that when
there is some resource available to you,
some possibility.
It is amazing
the power of being hungry
to drive you and drive me towards our
goal.
Well, Opening up the scriptures this morning, there
are 2 stories
of hunger,
hunger
that was ultimately sat
in the person of Jesus
himself.
And we just read the stories of 2
foreign women.
Women who are outside the realm of faith
and culture
outside of the land. Now in our in
our first reading from the gospel of mark.
Jesus seems to be taking a break from
all the religious folks
in Jerusalem and in the region.
He's going international.
Intentionally leaving the area, and he's trying to
hide out in a home,
but there is a Greek woman or a
ser
woman it says in some translations.
Who is hungry.
And she tracks Jesus down in this house.
And she finds him because her daughter is
possessed by an imp
imp spirit.
And and she falls at his feet he
begs him for healing.
And then Jesus, and she enter into what
into right bible scholar, Into wright calls a
teasing
banter
as they talk about dogs and crumbs under
the table.
But even, but in all of that, she
demonstrates her hungry, her hunger.
You know, every
parent has understood the hunger for healing of
a child.
You're gonna do whatever takes.
But you see the conversation with Jesus reveals
a deeper yearning within her soul.
She's not there fighting for her rights
She's not speaking of her entitlement.
There is something deeper within her. Jesus sees
it and acknowledges it.
As she says, even a crumb left over
from the table of Jesus
will be enough.
And it is. You see she leaves full,
and she leaves satisfied. She lives fulfilled and
oh by the way, her daughter is also
healed.
And then we
move forward a couple chapters to the gospel
of John,
and there is the story of the Samaritan
woman. Now the metaphor here is not as
much hunger as it is thirst, but the
theme
is generally the same.
And she too has this witty
smart,
well informed
conversation pointed
conversation with Jesus.
And while she is at the well, but
Jesus and the conversation, it fills her. She
leaves her water jar there and that she
leads the whole town of samaritan, The hated
Samaritan
leads his whole town
to see Jesus. You see as such she
is 1 of the first if not the
first evangelist
in the scriptures.
You see, you have these 2 women,
both foreigners
who are acute examples of the power of
hunger and thirst
the crumbs under the table.
You know, this week, I was reading a
timely
story about some contemporary, but foreign
for hungry
seekers.
I was reading the story of a man
named Omar S,
and he is an immigrant who now serves
as missionary with a Missouri Baptist
convention. Number years ago, he became a Us
citizen, and now he works from the Southern
Baptist church. He works. As a missionary to
the immigrants
who are now coming across the border.
And, you know I recognize recognized especially this
week,
It is very difficult to speak about immigration
without raising all sorts of political
flags, but his point,
as he described his word,
as he reminded us that there is this
deep
spiritual hunger for the gospel
of the people who are coming across our
borders. And it's in part due to the
suffering that they have experienced
from their homes of origin that have driven
them to this point. And again, my point
is not policy nor is it politics.
But to name this fascinating
reality.
Because the point is that lots of spiritually
hungry people apparently
are entering into our nation rapidly.
I was also reading a a book this
week or next excerpt from a book of
by Doctor Robert Chow Romeo. He's a professor
of Chic in Chic chicago studies at Ucla.
He's in a book that's entitled Brown Church.
And he's there in that book and other
articles and blogs.
He says he reminds us as an established
church,
capital c,
that due to our decline in growth,
and due to the decline in birth rates
that we may very well could be replaced
by these folks and their children and their
grandchildren and their great grandchildren.
We could argue the point, but it does
make sense,
especially when you think about our text.
Foreigners,
who are spiritually hungry,
have a way of elicit the the passion
of Jesus
even when they're seeking crumbs under the table?
But what about us and you and me
and what about our hunger?
How do you and I compare with these
2 foreign women
who are at the table?
You know, lots of people have written about
this and and spoken about this.
And many if not most of the theologian
of the bible scholars would say, that you
and I really are hungry. We're born hungry
that our hunger is an innate thing inside
our souls.
Augustine famously said this
in a prayer to God. He said you
have made us for yourself o lord.
And our heart is restless
until it rests in you.
Founder of the Methodist Church John Wesley said
very much the same thing, although in a
different language.
He said that all of us have a
built in innate hunger, within us. Because that's
what it means to be made in the
image of God.
You were made
to have a relationship with God. That's part
of being God's image.
And so when that hunger rises up inside
of you for something more,
Wesley would say that's God's speaking. He would
say that's god's grace,
driving you. No a better word is God's
grace inviting you.
Into what you were meant to have in
the first place.
His point is that all of us were
born hungry
and only a relationship with God
can fill us in a sustained
way in this life and in the life
to come.
But here's problem.
We spend our time and effort trying to
sat
that holy hunger.
With lesser things in this life.
Pastor author John Piper said it this way.
He said, and I quote, the greatest enemy
of hunger for God
is not poison,
but Apple pie.
It's not the banquet of the wicked that
dole are appetite for heaven,
but endless n.
At the table of the world.
It's not the x rated video, but the
prime time dr dr of trivial.
We drink in every night.
He can continues to say, the greatest
adversary of love
to God
is not his enemies,
but his gifts.
Now we have spoken with some regular as
we should
about this about idol tree.
That idol tree is... Not the worship of
wood or stone statues so much.
Idol tree instead
is when good things.
It's become
ultimate things.
When good things become ultimate things.
Politics,
country,
relationship,
sex,
power,
money. The list goes on of things that
are innate neutral or good,
but things which
ultimately become ultimate for us.
And as such you see what happens,
our pursuit of those things are desire for
those things, they remove they discount the in
bread hunger for God within our souls, which
we are born with.
But we take just enough to get us
through the... Another day.
I don't know if you've been following news
in the last couple of weeks, but the
city of Los Angeles
has now approved a a policy
where students will not have access to their
cell phones
during the day.
Students are panicking parents are panicking even more.
But teachers and others have recognized that they...
The students simply can't focus on their learning
with all the just distractions which are on
the screen and are at their immediate
disposal.
Well, you and I know as all of
snow know that it's not just the students.
That's what we do.
We fill our bandwidth with all sorts of
things
and as we do. You see what happens?
We miss the crumbs under the table.
But in this we can also... We also
will be reminded in just a moment or
2.
Through a classic song, we're gonna sing about
this. In a in a minute or 2,
we're gonna sing that song seek first. You
know the Lyrics. Seek first, the kingdom of
God and his righteousness and all these things
will be given unto you, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
We have sung that song for years, but
you know that song?
It's just
disciples ship 01:01. It's just Christianity 01:01.
We all have to do that song.
To find satisfaction
to our hunger.
We have to seek first the kingdom of
God.
And when we do that all these other
things fall into place. And so you know
what I we do. We talk about this
every week.
We develop patterns in our lives.
Habits in our lives, prayer, worship, bible study,
mission.
We do all these things. And what happens
is, we organize our lives, our patterns are
disciplined so that we are seeking the kingdom
first
and not letting all these other things fill
our available bandwidth. For
But we all have to do that. Right?
We all have to find ways in life
to make sure we're avoiding the drive throughs
of life.
So that we can sit down and enjoy
steak dinner or other with Jesus.
Because all this matters
because the story doesn't end with our hunger.
It certainly is themed around the women's hunger
for Jesus.
But don't forget.
These 2 stories are also
about Jesus is,
hunger
for them,
And by the way, for you and for
me.
It's fascinating to see how Jesus
applauded the wit
of these 2 women,
and her desire for the Crumbs under the
table,
But even more, look how Jesus spoke with
our disciples
in the second reading. Again, let me cast
the scene for you.
This woman is leading this crowd of Samaritan
perhaps up a hill towards Jesus. Remember these
are the hated samaritan, Either the foreigners, either
the outsiders.
And this woman at the well is leading
this whole... This whole group of people is
coming towards Jesus. And if you turn the
other side, there's a disciples next to Jesus.
And saying, rabbi, why don't you eat something?
And Jesus looks at these disciples in so
many words he says, are you kidding me?
Do you see what's happening here? The fields
are ripe for the, This crowd of people
that are coming our way?
The point is
that Jesus is telling them that this is
my food.
If I can do the will of God
and complete his work.
I am filled when hungry people come to
me, Jesus hunger is satisfied in a holy
way. When your hunger comes to him when
our hunger comes to him. And he says
that's enough to hold me.
See, that's a message. Jesus Christ loves
hungry
people,
both physically
and spiritually.
Jesus
holy hunger is satisfied
when you bring your heart, when you bring
your soul. When you bring your desire to
know him in a deeper way.
But we don't always see it that way,
Dewey. I mean, many of us perhaps grew
up with the wrong narrative, the wrong image
of God.
God would dis disappear. I could never please
him. God is not that interested in whatever
I have to bring to him.
But let me tell you a story to
which I'm praying and hoping that all of
you can relate
because 2 weeks ago was... Father's day. And
after Father's day, last son... 2 Sundays ago,
we all went out with my family, and
we were at there at a restaurant having
lunch is a great time and people gave
me cards, but I I will tell you
my favorite cards
came from my 3 grandchildren that happened to
be there for our lunch.
And you... I open up their cards. Is
very clear. My grandkids kids, they had spent
a good bit of time
doing writing these cards and drawing pictures.
In moving to think about how much time
they invested in all that. And when I
open up those cards and saw all the
time they put into it. And how excited
they were to give me those cards.
You know what? I didn't say?
I didn't look at these cards and all
the pictures that they had on there. Oh,
you know what?
I didn't say, oh those stick fingers are
a little too long.
I look at this card. I didn't look
at it's saying, oh, you know, those stick
figures the... The arms are out of proportion
to the legs. I didn't say that. Right?
I didn't open up those cards and say,
you know what, I really don't have blue
hair.
I didn't say that. Right?
But sometimes that's what you and I think
about God.
When we we see those samaritan coming up
the hill towards Jesus.
That God it's gonna be saying to samaritan...
Oh, that's not good.
You're not right.
You're not doing it right.
But this story begs to differ with that
narrative, wherever it came from in your life.
God
loves
a hungry heart.
God loves a heart that's looking just for
crumbs onto the table.
God passionately seeks those who seek him.
And when you come to him, breaking your
hunger and say that's all I got is
a hungry heart. God's holy hunger is satisfied.
To hear that? Because our god is
good.
I invite you to consider that and and
think about these things and to them
throughout the summer
because I will I would invite you to
cast your image 4 to a date coming
at the end of the summer, August 20
fifth.
That's gonna be what we call our launch,
Sunday.
We're gonna our our many of our youth
and children are gonna be back. There's gonna
be a lot of folks. Schools are kinda
starting before and after that weekend,
and we're gonna take that opportunity to kinda
get us in gear
for the coming fall.
And there's gonna be all sorts of do
things coming out in the fall. There's gonna
be new bible studies. There's gonna be opportunities
to sign up for music and for mission
and for volunteer
opportunities. That are all gonna be there. We're
gonna try to put those out on the
20 fifth and invite you to prayer consider
being a part of it.
The point is if you're not in a
small group, if you're not, able to volunteer
in certain places right now. If you're not
in a sunday school class in the morning
to come on.
We would love to have you sign up,
and there'll be the opportunity to do that.
Particularly in the fall.
But in the meantime, I invite you throughout
the summer and as prepared for that day
to not forget what we have learned this
day.
You and I are given a hundred we're
born with a hungry heart that will only
find full satisfaction
in the person of Jesus Christ.
And Jesus
is also hungry, but hungry for you. And
for me to seek that deeper place with
him. As we used make our way through
these summer weeks and prepare for the fall.
Let us not forget that truth.
In the name of the father and the
son, and the holy spirit.
Oh amen.
In response to the word proclaimed, let us
seek first the kingdom of God through our
singing of him number 04:05.
Please stand and join in singing.
First
Let us remain standing and together let us
testify to that which we believe. Will use
the modern affirmation, which is number 885
of your H.
Where the spirit of the Lord is, there
is 1 true church
apostolic in universal, whose holy faith let us
now declare.
We believe in god father,
infinite in wisdom, power and love.
Whose mercy is over all his works.
And whose will is ever directed to his
children's good.
We believe in Jesus Christ
son of God and son of man,
the gift of the father's un grace,
the ground of our hope,
in the promise of our deliverance from sin
and death.
We you believe in the holy spirit
as the divine presence in our lives?
Whereby we are kept in perpetual remembrance
of the truth of Christ
and find strength and help in time of
need.
We believe that this faith should manifest
itself in the service of love,
set forth in the example of our blessed
lord.
To the end that the kingdom of God
become upon the earth,
amen.
Use
satisfy
the hungry,
reward,
with
k
the finest
weed
life.
Dear friends, let us close our eyes,
let us clear our minds
and go to the lord and prayer.
Lord God, first and foremost wolfe. If we
want thank you for this day. The beautiful
day that you have made. And for all
of us here who have come together yet
again to worship you and gather together in
Christian fellowship.
On this day, Lord, we thank you for
all that you do for us, for all
the way that you love us that you
see us.
And that you value us.
We thank you, Lord for seeing our areas
of hunger and thirst.
We thank you for seeing us for who
we are and shaping us into who you
are making us to be.
Lord, we would be remiss.
If we didn't mention those who have not
heard the good news of the gospel,
those who are still thirst and those who
are still hungry for your love for your
compassion,
for your truth, for your grace and for
your mercy,
for your justice and for your righteousness.
Help our neighbors lord, help our neighbors who
have yet to see you to hear you
to feel you and experience you and help
us as the church continue to find a
way to reach them and satisfy
their hungry hearts.
Do
Lord, we pray unto you,
and we give you thanks.
At this time, Lord, we wanna to take
a quick moment.
To share all the prayer on our heart's
mind and spirits on these days,
in silence,
Lord God
hear our prayers.
Hear our prayers and help us to seek
first your kingdom and help us to invite
others to do the same.
Help us to invite the foreigner.
Help us to invite the stranger,
help us to invite the poor to sick
the needy of the out cast and all
those to come and join us at the
table,
help us to grow more in our mission
of disciples ship and help us to continue
to grow your kingdom on earth as in
heaven. We lift up our voices and prayer
to you in the name of your son,
Jesus Christ the 1 who taught us to
pray and given us these words and said.
Our father,
who are in heaven,
hall b thy name,
that kingdom come,
thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day, our daily bread
and forgive us our tres passes
as we forgive those who tres against us
and lead us not in the temptation
but deliver us from evil,
for thin is the kingdom
and the power and the glory forever.
Amen. Friends let us continue in our time
of works together by giving our gifts back
to god.
Let us pray.
God, once again, we thank you for this
day, and we thank you for an opportunity
to give the gift that you've given unto
to us back to you.
Lord help us at revel church.
Help us with our partner churches and help
us all as the church universal.
2, discern how we can best seek your
kingdom first and invite others to do the
same. Remembering that all of us have a
seat at the table with Jesus.
Let the by prayers voice to you and
the name of your son Jesus just Christ.
And the people of god all said.
I'm amen Friends, please be seated, and I'd
love to invite our youth mission team to
come up to the front join me.
I
prayers ask for more prayers. And I also
want to thank everyone for the last 3
years. For their,
financial support, we have never had to worry
about making enough money or whether a or
not a certain student K k afford to
ago go. We've always been able to provide
for everyone, even students who sign up the
last minute, and that is such a blessing
I cannot tell you how much of a
blessing that is.
This year, we will be going to Charleston,
South Carolina, and we will be working with
several different groups of people. 1 will be
working in seniors,
in different capacities. Some of these seniors just
need a little bit of help
working doing some yard work, painting,
other projects that they weren't done around their
house that they could physically cannot do themselves,
we'll also be working with seniors in nursing
homes
through different types of social activity singing with
them, leading them in music.
Playing games with them, painting their nails,
playing Bingo,
just hanging out with seniors and being that
the hands and feet of Christ there, and
we'll also be helping out with different types
of V s style camps,
we'll be working out with,
other students in a sports camp,
which leads them to Jesus.
And we are just so excited for this
year's mission Trip. Again, thank you so much
for your prayers. We ask that you continue
to pray. For us, and thank you so
much for your support in all the different
ways that you have supported us and k
will continue to support us And I also
just wanna to thank my amazing leaders. Several
have been on several different trips such as
pastor moon,
Laura Lay.
Cj Str,
Abby Baker, and then a couple who could
not make it today, Tracy Forrest,
And am I missing someone?
No. That's good. And me.
I was like, there's 6 adults going. So
thank you so much for your support and
we are so excited to go in this
year's mission trip.
Please now join me as we
Please join me now as we say a
prayer and a blessing for this mission team.
Let us pray.
Gracious, God, we do give you thanks for
the youth mission team.
We pray that you would be with them
and watch over them.
Give them safe travels down to you Charleston,
give them safe travels back home
to us.
We pray that you would help them.
To be your love,
to be your hope,
to be your healing.
To the people and the community
of Charleston.
Bless their work, that it would make a
difference, a difference in their lives, and a
difference in the community of Charleston.
We praise you and glorify you and just
ask that you had help them, to be
your hands and feet.
In the world as they go forward, in
Christ's name we pray.
Amen. Amen
As they return to their seats, Sign I
invite you now to stand for our Final
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standing on the promises.
Man Friends. We are standing on the promises
of God. I invite you as you meet
the joys and challenges of your week to
remind, be reminded of that which we have
heard this day. Hey The living risen Jesus
Christ loves your hungry heart. As you come
and seek him as you seek his help,
as you seek his grace, he is there.
For you hold on that truth as we
go now in the name of the father
and the son and the holy spirit as
all god's people say,
I'm amen.