Welcome Message
HELLO! WELCOME TO WPC
Sunday, March 13, 2022
Good morning, Thank you for choosing to join Westminster in our Zoom Worship service on the 2nd Sunday of March, March 13, 2022. This is Transfiguration Sunday. Would you bow your heads as I pray our Opening Prayer.
(Please keep yourselves muted.)
REMINDER: DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME – SPRING FORWARD
Shhh, Virtual Worship is Starting
Opening Prayer:
This house of worship is a place of healing for those who enter broken by life and in need of repair. This house of worship is a place of faith for those who come full of overpowering doubt. This house of worship is a place of prayer, offering stillness and words of faith when our own beliefs lack a voice. All you who gather here, come with gratitude. Enter into this sanctuary with thanksgiving and open your hearts to the possibility of a life restored and made new, for God’s love makes all things new. Thanks be to God! Let us lift our voices in praise! Amen.
Opening Praise:
“Total Praise”
(Richard Smallwood)
CHURCH NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
Next FELLOWSHIP COFFEE HOUR via Zoom
on Sunday, March 13th at 12:00 p.m. / Noon
Fellowship with your Westminster Family. Let’s join one another for a check in and fellowship following the morning virtual worship service via zoom. Join the Zoom Coffee Hour Meetings – Let’s Chat! – CLICK HERE
Attention Westminster Family
~ WEEKLY REMINDERS ~
- Wednesday Bible Study online 1:00 pm
- Prayer Meeting via phone 5:30 pm
- Thursday Food Give Away in Parking Lot 11:00 am
- 1st Sunday worship 10:00 am in the Parking Lot
INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS
Sunday, March 13th
This Sunday we will also have the installation of New Officers during the service. Elders: Karen Heads, Sally Evans, Pamela Thigpen; Deacon Philura Williams.
PRAYER MEETING:
Wednesdays at 5:30pm
Please join us for the via conference call.
Phone: (339) 209-4324 – (no code is needed)
BIBLE STUDY
Wednesday at 1:00 p.m.
As of Wednesday, September 9th, we will meet for our Bible Study at 1pm as to not conflict with the food giveaway ministry. Join Pastor Rhoden for our weekly zoom virtual Bible Study. – CLICK HERE
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BIBLE STUDY & PRAYER:
Wednesdays at 12 Noon
Interaction Based discussions/Scripture Translation will continue until the end of the summer. – GET DETAILS!
*** FOOD GIVE AWAY ***
Thursdays at 11:00 a.m.
We know that times are tough. Thanks to our partnership with Immanuel Presbyterian Church, we’re giving away FREE FOOD to the community. Come and get your free box of food in the parking lot of Westminster Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles on Thursdays.
LEARN MORE ~ Click Here
——— Break Out Rooms for meet and passing of the peace ——–
Prayers of the People:
Most gracious God, we come to this place of prayer ever grateful that You offer us a safe refuge … if we would but remember. Remind us that it is our choice always to be restored … renewed … and recreated through the power of Christ, who is love made manifest. Grant us the wisdom and the courage to release the things that separate us from You … like our willingness to let second best be good enough or our readiness to be less than honest in our schoolwork and our business … or our tendency to treat others in a manner that is less than fair. Fill us instead with integrity and honesty in our dealings with others — and with ourselves. Grant us the grace to treat each person we meet as we would want to be treated. We know that to bear the cross is to bear witness to a commitment to a way of life. Grant us the grace to carry the cross proudly as a people restored … renewed … and recreated in the love of the one we follow to Jerusalem.
Jesus the Christ who taught us to say when we pray …. Our Father, who is 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 debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
GIVING
Offering Song:
“If We Ever Needed The Lord Before”
(Take 6)
Offering Prayer:
Generous God, as we travel this Lenten journey, allows us to walk beside Jesus as he makes his journey into Jerusalem. As we offer our gifts this morning, may it be our way of saying we won’t turn away from the problems and conflicts of this world; but like Jesus, we will walk toward them. All we take for the journey is the compassion, mercy, and sacrifice that he carried—moving toward what waited in the Holy City. We journey in Christ’s steps and pray in Christ’s holy name. Amen.
Tithes and offerings:
SERMON MESSAGE
Sermon Song:
“You’ll Never Walk Alone”
(Wintley Phipps)
Sermon:
“A House is not a Home“
~ Luke 13:31-35 ~
Closing Song:
“Psalm 23”
(People and Songs)
CLOSING PRAYER
Like an eagle lifting up her weary children, God will carry you.
Like a mother hen gathering her brood, Jesus Christ will shelter you.
“Like the murmur of the dove’s song,” the Holy Spirit will dwell with you.
Do not be afraid. Go forth in God’s peace.
Amen.
We hope you enjoyed Virtual Sunday Worship.
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JOIN US FOR OUR NEXT COFFEE HOUR on ZOOM at NOON, Sunday, March 13th.
MEET PASTOR RHODEN
Rev. Carlton A. Rhoden
Westminster Presbyterian Church / Los Angeles
Rev. Carlton A. Rhoden became the Pastor/Head of Staff of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in April, of 2014. Rev. Rhoden comes with a wealth of experience, having formerly served as Senior Minister of the First Baptist of Los Angeles from 2006 until 2013. Rev. Rhoden earned a Masters of Divinity from the American Baptist Seminary of the West in Berkeley California in 2005. Upon graduation Rev. Rhoden was awarded “The J. Alfred Smith Sr. Award for Outstanding Ministry in the Black Church”. He is also a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School Summer Leadership Program class of 2005. Rev. Rhoden received a Bachelor of Science in Social Work with a minor in African American Studies from the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey in 1999. While at Stockton, Rev. Rhoden was a member of the Men’s Basketball team, a member of Student Government, and pledged Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc.
He is also active in community organization, most recently with Oakland Community Organizations. He is nationally recognized for his expertise in this field and has provided advice and consulting for community organization groups from coast to coast.
Carlton is married to Nikki Thomas-Rhoden. Nikki holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration. They have two children, CJ and Maya. Nikki is a Social Worker who has a great concern for children in need. She is a graduate of Richard Stockton College of N.J. (B.A.), and a Master’s of Public Administration from Cal State Hayward. She is currently employed at Penny Lane Centers as a Site Director of Wrap Around. She is devoted to her family and the ministry of Westminster Presbyterian Church Los Angeles. Most importantly she is the best wife and mother a man and his children (Maya and C.J.) can have.
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