Community United Methodist ChurchQuincy, CAJuly 26, 2020/Eighth Sunday After Pentecost WELCOME EVERYONE!! We are happy you are worshiping with us today, wherever and whenever you are worshiping. Please feel free to leave us a message or leave a comment in the video and let us know how we can best connect with you and pray for you.
We are a church where ALL are welcome!!
Please participate as fully as you wish, or simply watch and take it all in.
FWS – The Faith We Sing (Black Hymnal)
UMH – The United Methodist Hymnal (Red Hymnal)
Gathering Music: Alice King, Piano
Deep River, played to honor the late Civil Rights Leader, John Lewis.
Arranged by Barbara J. Heastings.
Welcome & Opening Prayer Rev. Andrew Davis
Hymn of Praise: Sweet Hour of Prayer – UMH 496
1. Sweet hour of prayer! Sweet hour of prayer!
That calls me from a world of care, and bids me at my Father’s throne
Make all my wants and wishes known.
In seasons of distress and grief; my soul has often found relief,
And oft escaped the tempter’s snare by thy return, sweet hour of prayer!
2. Sweet hour of prayer! Sweet hour of prayer!
The joys I feel, the bliss I share of those whose anxious spirits burn
With strong desires for thy return!
With such I hasten to the place where God my Savior shows his face,
And gladly take my station there, and wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer.
3. Sweet hour of prayer! Sweet hour of prayer!
Thy wings shall my petition bear to him whose truth and faithfulness
Engage the waiting soul to bless.
And since he bids me seek his face, believe his word, and trust his grace,
I’ll cast on him my every care, and wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer.
Lesson for Children & Young at Heart: Grandma Susie
Scripture Lesson: Romans 8: 26-39 (The Message)
26-28 Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.
29-30 God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him. After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun.
31-39 So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God’s chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:
They kill us in cold blood because they hate you.
We’re sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.
None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.[i]
The Word of God for the People of God…Thanks be to God!
Meditation: “Nothing Can Separate Us: More than Conquerors”
Questions for Reflection this Week:
· What prayer practice do you find most meaningful?
· What expectations do you put on prayer?
Response: Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying – FWS 2193
Lord, listen to your children praying,
Lord send your Spirit in this place;
Lord, listen to your children praying,
send us love, send us power, send us grace.[ii]
CCLI#22829
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.
Closing Hymn: Goodness is Stronger than Evil – FWS 2219
Goodness is stronger than evil, love is stronger than hate;
Light is stronger than darkness, life is stronger than death.
Victory is ours, victory is ours, through him who loved us.
Oh, victory is ours, victory is ours, through him who loved us.[iii]
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.
Mission Opportunity: The PIumas Crisis Intervention Resource Center (PCIRC) and Portola Wellness Center have a need for around 200 face masks, including kids sizes. If anyone would like to make masks, they can be dropped off on the front porch of the church office, at Our Savior Lutheran Church, or PCIRC. Please see Pastor Andrew, Pastor Kendrah, or Sandra for more information.
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. You can also set up automatic bill pay through your bank for tithes/offerings.
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
Pastor Andrew’s Google Voice Number: 530-238-5723
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.
[i] Scripture taken from The Message. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.
[ii] “Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying” words and music by Ken Medema
©1973 Hope Publishing Company
Used by Permission. CCLI License #20665172
[iii] “Goodness is Stronger than Evil” words by Desmond Tutu, Music by John Bell. Words ©1995 Desmond Tutu, administered by Doubleday (a division of Random House) and Hodder and Stoughton Limited; Music ©1996 WGRG The Iona Community (Scotland), admin. By GIA Publications, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENCE, License # A-735696. All Rights Reserved.
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