Order of Worship for Weekend of June 27 and 28, 2020

Community United Methodist Church

Quincy, CA

June 28, 2020/Fourth Sunday After Pentecost

 

WELCOME EVERYONE!!   We are happy you are worshiping online with us, wherever you are and whenever you are worshiping.  Please feel free to leave us a message or leave a comment in the video how we can best connect with you, even while physically apart.  We are a church where ALL are welcome!! 

 

Please participate as fully as you wish, or simply watch and take it all in.

 

Gathering Music                                                                       Blessed Assurance          

                                                                                                    Alice King, Piano

 

Welcome & Opening Thoughts                                                Rev. Andrew Davis

                         

Hymn of Praise:                                          Rock of Ages – UMH, 361 vs. 1 & 2

 

            Rock of ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee;

            Let the water and the blood, from thy wounded side which flowed,

            Be of sin the double cure; save from wrath and make me pure.

 

            Not the labors of my hands can fulfill thy law’s demands;

            Could my zeal no respite know, could my tears forever flow,

            All for sin could not atone; thou must save, and thou alone.                                            

Opening Prayer 

 

Bell Duet:                                                                       Morning Has Broken

                                            Dee Dee Driscoll & Alice King; Pastor Andrew, piano

 

Children’s Lesson                                                                      Grandma Susie

 

Gospel Lesson:                                                   Matthew 10: 40-42 (NRSV)

 

⁴⁰ “Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. ⁴¹ Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward; and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous; ⁴² and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.”

 

The Word of God for the People of God…Thanks be to God!

                                                      

Meditation:                                             “Open Our Eyes: Love All the People”

 

Questions for Reflection:

·      How are you seeing all the people, hearing all the people, and loving all the people?  

·      What challenges are there in seeing, hearing, and loving all the people?  

 

Response:                          Open My Eyes that I May See – UMH 454, vs. 3                  

Open my mouth, and let me bear gladly the warm truth everywhere;

Open my heart and let me prepare love with the children thus to share.  Silently now I wait for thee, ready my God, thy will to see.

Open my heart, illumine me, Spirit divine!               

 

Moment of Stillness/Pastoral Prayer/The Lord’s Prayer (Altogether):

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.  Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.  For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.  Amen.

 

Hymn:                      Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us With your Love – UMH 432, vs. 1, 2, 3

 

            Refrain:

            Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love, show us how to serve,

            The neighbor we have from you.

 

1.    Kneels at the feet of his friends, 

silently washes their feet,

                        Master who acts as a slave to them.

 

            Refrain

 

2.    Neighbors are rich and poor, 

neighbors are black and white,

                        Neighbors are near and far away.

 

            Refrain

            

3.    These are the ones we should serve, 

these are the ones we should love;

                  All these are neighbors to us and you.

 

            Refrain[1]

            

Blessing & Sending Forth

 

                                                  UMC Mission:                                   

To Make Disciples of Jesus Christ For the Transformation of the World

 

Community UMC Mission: 

We are a Christ-centered community, joyfully committed to being His ambassadors.  In the fellowship of His love and grace, we grow in Christ through the study of God’s word, prayer and worship; living out our faith in service to others.

 

P.O. Box 766, Quincy, CA 95971

Tel/Fax (530)283-1740

email:quincyumc@sbcglobal.net

Church Website: www.quincymethodist.org

Facebook: CommunityUnitedMethodistChurchQuincy

YouTube: QuincyUMC95971

Instagram: QuincyUMC95971

 

Please mail your tithes/offerings to the church office at the above address 

Please e-mail prayer requests to the church office or Pastor Andrew.  

 

Community UMC Office Hours:

Closed until further notice due to COVID-19 Precautions

 

Rev. Andrew Davis

Pastor Andrew’s E-mail: Andrew.davis@cnumc.org 

During the COVID-19 closure of our buildings, Pastor Andrew cannot meet in-person in most cases, but is available by phone, e-mail, or text between 10:00am-7:00pm Monday-Thursday and Saturday. He can also meet via Zoom by appointment.  Pastor Andrew will continue taking Friday off and is not available on Fridays except for emergencies.

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[1] “Jesu, Jesu,” Words by Tom Colvin; Ghana Folk Song; adapt. By Tom Colvin, 1969; harm by Charles H. Webb, 1988

                  ©1969, 1989 Hope Publishing Company, All Rights Reserved. 

                  Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE, License # 735696-A.  All Rights Reserved.  

"Hear All the People" - Sermon for June 21, 2020

Community UMC, Quincy

“Open Our Eyes: Hear All the People”

Rev. Andrew Davis

June 21, 2020

Matthew 10: 24-39

 

         This week, we continue our series “Open Our Eyes” as we think about what it means to open our eyes in order to see all the people, hear all the people, and love all the people around us.  While I was not here earlier in the month and we didn’t get to hear it, Jesus gave the Great Commission at the end of Matthew’s gospel to “¹⁹ Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age” (Matthew 28: 19-20, NRSV).  Last week in Matthew 10, Jesus sends the disciples out into the mission field and giving them similar authority to him by saying in chapter 9: 37 that “the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few” (NRSV).  Despite not being able to worship together face to face, we can still consider what it means to be in mission with the world and outside the walls and doors of our church, as the harvest is very plentiful out there and we have a great mission field before us and even online.  By being in mission with the world, it gives us the opportunity to open our eyes and ears to see and hear the needs of the people around us, and to share God’s transforming love with the community, both personally and online.  

         As we look at today’s text and think about hearing all the people, it’s a bit of a challenge picking out the part about hearing all the people, much less trying to unpack Jesus’ use of hyperbole (or exaggerated statements to make his point).  In today’s lesson, Jesus is ultimately talking about who we listen to; students listening to their teachers, children listening to their parents, listening to experts in their field, to Jesus.  When we hear all the people, are we going to hear ALL the people, or only those we want to hear?  As series write Rev. Dr. Derek Weber explains, 

 

 

 

 

Too often, we only listen to ourselves; that’s the disciples being greater than the master part of the proverb.  To listen to a master, an expert, takes humility – which is in short supply these days.  And if that self is the head of a house, the leader of a community, and takes on the role of the Lord of the Flies, then self becomes the center of existence for the whole household and brokenness results.[i]

 

         When Jesus is saying in verses 32-39 that he should be placed above everyone, he is using these statements to show the importance of following him and how he has come to bring the truth of God here to earth.  Just like the disciples and us today,

The center of our worship is always Jesus Christ and the call placed on our existence as disciples seeking transformation of the world…we are asking for the spirit to open our ears to the voices striving to be heard, the voices of truth that God is sending us through what have become the most unlikely of sources.  So, how do we hear those voices?[ii]

 

         How do we hear “those who cry for justice…or those who work for justice from a different perspective?”[iii] When we think of Jesus bringing the sword, setting family members against each other, or taking up our own cross to follow him, it doesn’t necessarily paint a rosy picture, although perhaps this is why Jesus is using such hyperbolic statements…to get the disciples and others to listen carefully, to open their eyes and ears to see and hear all the people.  It’s “a call to listen and discern” as we “can hear the voice of God in the voice of the people around us, then we proclaim it.  Or when we hear a cry from the people that is a call to God, then we bring it into the light.”[iv] It’s not easy work in any way, as voices are varied and crises are real, along with differences.  One of the things my mission project in January by shadowing the PCIRC staff was to see all the people and hear all the people, as there is a lot that happens around us we may not hear or see.  

         Even as we think of what Jesus is saying when he comes to “bring the sword,” some might misinterpret this easily.  Just look at all of the division in the current climate we live in.  Derek Weber further explains that,

Sometimes, because of what we hear, we then cause problems.  We make divisions; we call out injustice and oppression.  We disturb the status quo.  That is the sword Jesus brought and now hands to us to wield, not to bring violence, not to destroy, but to bring truth and justice to a world sorely lacking both.  This is the result of this proclaiming the light thing.[v]

I think that’s where we really need to listen and listen carefully, maybe even pause before we create problems or divisions, or even pick up stones to throw, or wield a sword at those we don’t like because it’s very easy to do when we fail to listen to each other.  It’s like last week with the sheep and wolves, we can be sheep, but we can be wolves too.  

God is there when we hear each other and all the people around us.  When we hear all the people, “God is at work around us.  Sometimes the call is to catch up to what God is doing.  And how will we know what God is doing if we don’t listen to the people around us?”[vi] Especially when God’s voice may be coming through the people around us, which can be a pleasant surprise.  Hearing all the people is something to practice in everything we do, whether it’s face to face, on video conferencing, the phone, or social media (even though a lot on social media has caused some divisions as of late, hence why I’m disconnecting more).  When we listen to what Jesus is saying in this week’s Gospel lesson, it’s the same as listening to the truth from God.  Nevertheless, 

we must be confident in the truth that comes from God.  We have to be sure of what we proclaim.  Does it match the God Jesus presents to us?  Does it represent the truth Jesus came to proclaim?  Is the sword we wield a sword of our frustration and our anger and our prejudice, or is it the sword of Christ’s truth?[vii]

 

         We need to be attentive to what we hear, and not let our biases or prejudices cloud our judgment over the truth that Jesus brings from God into the light.  That’s what it means to be fully committed to Christ and in mission with the world.  The voices we hear around us, the needs people have, or crises people experience are real.  That’s why it’s crucial that we respond in love and humility first, regardless of whether we agree with each other or not.  That’s part of taking up our crosses in order to follow Jesus and be comitted to Jesus.  Just as we are working on re-launching in-person ministries, we need to listen to each other’s needs, as some are not ready to return in-person yet.  As our bishop, Minerva Carcaño said in this past Wednesday’s webinar, “God is everywhere” and even while staying home and saving lives, God is there.[viii] When we hear all the people, we can respond with God’s transforming love, even when it may feel like being sheep in the midst of wolves, or taking up our cross to follow Jesus.  Don’t let the sword of violence or prejudice be the one you carry, but instead carry the sword of truth and justice, even though this is hyperbole and not literal, and can easily be misinterpreted and make us uncomfortable with this language.  As we approach the new week and have some time to reflect,

1.   How will you hear all the people, even those you disagree with?  

2.   Where do you hear the truth of God through Jesus Christ?

 

That’s the work we have ahead of us today and beyond today.  Let’s open our eyes and open our ears this week and beyond as we see all the people, hear all the people, and love all the people.  

Offered to you in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  Amen!

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[i] Derek Weber, “Hear All the People” in Open Our Eyes Worship Series (Nashville: Discipleship Ministries of The United Methodist Church), Accessed 17 June 2020, https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/worship-planning/open-our-eyes/third-sunday-after-pentecost-year-a-lectionary-planning-notes/third-sunday-after-pentecost-year-a-preaching-notes

[ii] Ibid.

[iii] Ibid. 

[iv] Ibid.

[v] Ibid.

[vi] Ibid.

[vii] Ibid.  

[viii] Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño, “Wednesday Webinar on Re-Launching In-Person Ministries,” 17 June 2020 

Order of Worship, June 21, 2020

Community United Methodist Church

Quincy, CA

June 21, 2020

Fourth Sunday After Pentecost/Father’s Day

 

WELCOME EVERYONE!!   We are happy you are worshiping online with us, wherever you are and whenever you are worshiping.  Please feel free to leave us a message or leave a comment in the video how we can best connect with you, even while physically apart.  We are a church where ALL are welcome!! 

 

Please participate as fully as you wish, or simply watch and take it all in.

**All Scriptures are from the New Revised Standard Version

**All hymns are from the Public-Domain

 

Welcome & Opening Thoughts                                                  Rev. Andrew Davis

                         

Hymn of Praise:                                           Jesus Calls Us – UMH 398, vs. 1, 3, 5

 

Jesus calls us, o’er the tumult of our life’s wild, restless sea;

Day by day his sweet voice soundeth, saying “Christian, follow me!”

 

Jesus calls us from the worship of the vain world’s golden store,

From each idol that would keep us, saying, “Christian, love me more!”

  

Jesus calls us!  By thy mercies, Savior, may we hear thy call,

Give our hearts to thine obedience, serve and love thee best of all.

 

Opening Prayer 

 

Gospel Lesson:                                                          Matthew 10: 24-39 (NRSV)

 

²⁴ “A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master; ²⁵ it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household!

²⁶ “So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known. ²⁷ What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops. ²⁸ Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. ²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. ³⁰ And even the hairs of your head are all counted. ³¹ So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.

³² “Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven; ³³ but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven.

³⁴ “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

³⁵ For I have come to set a man against his father,
and a daughter against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
³⁶ and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household.

³⁷ Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; ³⁸ and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. ³⁹ Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.

The Word of God for the People of God…Thanks be to God!

                                                      

Meditation:                                                   “Open Our Eyes: Hear All the People”

 

Response:                                 Open My Eyes, That I May See – UMH 454, vs. 2

 

Open my ears, that I may hear voices of truth thou sendest clear;

And while the wave-notes fall on my ear, everything false shall disappear.

Silently now I wait for thee, ready my God, thy will to see.

Open my ears, illumine me, Spirit divine!  

 

Pastoral Prayer and The Lord’s Prayer (Altogether):

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.  Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.  For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.  Amen.

 

Hymn:                                               I Have Decided to Follow Jesus – FWS 2129

 

            I have decided, to follow Jesus;

            I have decided, to follow Jesus;

            I have decided, to follow Jesus;

            No turning back, no turning back.

 

            The world behind me, the cross before me…

            

            Though none go with me, still I will follow…

 

            Sing glory-glory, and hallelujah!...

 

Blessing & Sending Forth

 

 

 

                                                                 UMC Mission:                                   

To Make Disciples of Jesus Christ For the Transformation of the World

 

Community UMC Mission: 

We are a Christ-centered community, joyfully committed to being His ambassadors.  In the fellowship of His love and grace, we grow in Christ through the study of God’s word, prayer and worship; living out our faith in service to others.

 

P.O. Box 766, Quincy, CA 95971

Tel/Fax (530)283-1740

email:quincyumc@sbcglobal.net

Church Website: www.quincymethodist.org

Facebook: CommunityUnitedMethodistChurchQuincy

Please mail your tithes/offerings to the church office at the above address and e-mail any prayer requests to the church office or Pastor Andrew.  

 

Community UMC Office Hours:

Closed until further notice due to COVID-19 Precautions

 

Rev. Andrew Davis

Pastor Andrew’s E-mail: Andrew.davis@cnumc.org 

During the COVID-19 closure of our buildings, Pastor Andrew is available by phone, e-mail, or text between 10:00am-7:00pm Monday-Thursday and Saturday or can meet via Zoom by appointment.  Pastor Andrew will continue taking Friday off and will not be available on Fridays except for emergencies.

Online Order of Worship, June 14, 2020

Community United Methodist Church

Quincy, CA

June 14, 2020

Third Sunday After Pentecost

 

WELCOME EVERYONE!!   We are happy you are worshiping online with us, wherever you are and whenever you are worshiping.  Please feel free to leave us a message or leave a comment in the video how we can best connect with you, even while physically apart.  We are a church where ALL are welcome!! 

 

Please participate as fully as you wish, or simply watch and take it all in.

**All Scriptures are from the New Revised Standard Version

 

Welcome & Opening Thoughts                                                  Rev. Andrew Davis

                         

Gospel Lesson:                                                                    Matthew 9: 35-10:23

 

³⁵ Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every sickness. ³⁶ When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. ³⁷ Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; ³⁸ therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”

Then Jesus summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to cure every disease and every sickness. ² These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon, also known as Peter, and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John; ³ Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; ⁴ Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed him.

⁵ These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans, ⁶ but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ⁷ As you go, proclaim the good news, ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’ ⁸ Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers,^[d] cast out demons. You received without payment; give without payment. ⁹ Take no gold, or silver, or copper in your belts, ¹⁰ no bag for your journey, or two tunics, or sandals, or a staff; for laborers deserve their food. ¹¹ Whatever town or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy, and stay there until you leave. ¹² As you enter the house, greet it. ¹³ If the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. ¹⁴ If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that house or town. ¹⁵ Truly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.

¹⁶ “See, I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. ¹⁷ Beware of them, for they will hand you over to councils and flog you in their synagogues; ¹⁸ and you will be dragged before governors and kings because of me, as a testimony to them and the Gentiles. ¹⁹ When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given to you at that time; ²⁰ for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. ²¹ Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death; ²² and you will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. ²³ When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next; for truly I tell you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

 

The Word of God for the People of God…Thanks be to God!

                                                      

Meditation:                                                     “Open Our Eyes: See All the People”

 

Pastoral Prayer and The Lord’s Prayer (Altogether):

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.  Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.  For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.  Amen.

 

Blessing & Sending Forth

 

                                                                 UMC Mission:                                   

To Make Disciples of Jesus Christ For the Transformation of the World

 

Community UMC Mission: 

We are a Christ-centered community, joyfully committed to being His ambassadors.  In the fellowship of His love and grace, we grow in Christ through the study of God’s word, prayer and worship; living out our faith in service to others.

 

P.O. Box 766, Quincy, CA 95971

Tel/Fax (530)283-1740

email:quincyumc@sbcglobal.net

Church Website: www.quincymethodist.org

Facebook: CommunityUnitedMethodistChurchQuincy

Please mail your tithes/offerings to the church office at the above address and e-mail any prayer requests to the church office or Pastor Andrew.  

 

Community UMC Office Hours:

Closed until further notice due to COVID-19 Precautions

 

Rev. Andrew Davis

Pastor Andrew’s E-mail: Andrew.davis@cnumc.org 

During the COVID-19 closure of our buildings, Pastor Andrew is available by phone, e-mail, or text between 10:00am-7:00pm Monday-Thursday and Saturday or can meet via Zoom by appointment.  Pastor Andrew will continue taking Friday off and will not be available on Fridays except for emergencies.