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from WPC on Communion Sunday, October 3rd – Get Sermon
Westminster Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles invites you to experience Virtual Worship. Scroll the page to participate in Virtual Sunday Worship and join us on Sunday’s at noon for the Video Chat Coffee Hour on Zoom. See you soon.
Shhh, Virtual Worship is Starting
Opening Prayer:
You, gracious God, are love itself, and perfect love casts out fear. Come to us in merciful patience, we pray, to love us from fear to trust, from anger to grace, from doubt to faith. Love us from our self-centeredness to hearts that willingly give themselves in selfless sacrifice and service. Love us out of our scarcity to hearts overflowing with generosity. Love us from brokenness to wholeness, from resentments and forgiveness withheld to forgiveness freely offered just as it has been freely offered to us. Come to us, Lord, overwhelming us with your love that we might love as you have first loved us.
Amen.
Opening Praise:
“I Need You Now” by Smokie Norful
CHURCH NEWS & GIVING
Announcements:
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
Drive-in Sunday Worship: October 3rd
at 10:00 a.m.
PLEASE ARRIVE 9:30-9:45 A.M.
Next FELLOWSHIP COFFEE HOUR via Zoom
on Sunday, October 10th at 12:00 p.m. / Noon
No Fellowship, Sunday, October 3rd due to Sunday Drive-In Worship
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
~ WORSHIP SERVICE SCHEDULE ~
- Sunday, October 3 ~ 10:00 a.m. = DRIVE IN WORSHIP
- Sunday, October 10 ~ 11:00 a.m. = LIVE STREAM WORSHIP
- Sunday, October 17 ~ 11:00 a.m. = LIVE STREAM WORSHIP
- Sunday, October 24 ~ 11:00 a.m. = LIVE ZOOM WORSHIP
- Sunday, October 31 ~ 11:00 a.m. = LIVE STREAM WORSHIP
PLEASE ARRIVE 9:30-9:45 A.M. for Drive In Worship Services
PREVIEW DRIVE-IN COMMUNION SERVICE
~ Click Here ~
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
Prayers of the People:
O Lord, we recognize that in this gathering of people, in a place like this, in times like these, there are those who are wounded, who are hurting and who are struggling with hopelessness. Lord Jesus, as you touched the hurting and healed the wounded, we pray that you would touch and heal us today. We pray for your healing of physical needs. We pray for your healing in emotional and spiritual brokenness. We beg your healing touch on fractured relationships. Mostly, though, we pray for faith … faith to wait and faith to stand up under the deeper hurt that often comes with your healing. Give us faith to trust your healing.
Amen.
Offering Song:
“We’ve Come This Far By Faith” by Rev. Milton Biggham
Offering Prayer:
Gracious God, even in times of hardship we recognize that you have given us so much to be grateful for. We return these tithes and offerings to you, knowing that all we have is ours through grace alone. Even when we have little to give, we possess everything in You. Help us to find ways to be generous every day, following the lead of your open-handed love that has withheld nothing from us, not even your only Son. Amen.
Tithes and offerings:
SERMON MESSAGE
Sermonic Songs:
“Blessings” by Laura Story
Sermon:
“Just Out and About“
~ Job 1:1; 2:1-10 ~
SCRIPTURE READING
SERMON
SERMON by Pastor Carlton Rhoden
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HOLY COMMUNION
Call to Reconciliation:
We are good at rules: making them and then breaking them. Paul reminds us that, when we gain Christ Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we receive exactly what we need – forgiveness, grace, hope. Let us confess our sins to God, that we might know God’s healing love for us!
Prayer of Confession:
If we were to name all the gods we have before you, Rock of Redemption, we would be here a very long time. We elevate politicians into saviors, though they are as broken as we are. We misuse your name so much during the day, we have trouble speaking to you in prayer at night. We are so busy, we do not notice how creation witnesses to your goodness and grace.
Forgive us, God our Hope. Help us to let go of what we value most, so we may open our emptiness, our hearts, our lives to the healing and loving presence of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.
Assurance of Pardon:
Persistently, patiently, lovingly, God pours out grace and joy into our lives,
healing our brokenness, forgiving our sin.
Loved, we are sent to love;
forgiven, we are freed to forgive;
graced, we can offer our gifts to everyone we meet.
Thanks be to God. Amen.
Communion Song:
“Thank You Jesus For The Blood” – Charity Gayle
Communion:
Communion with Westminster Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles
CLOSING PRAYER
With the Lord, one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day. The Lord is not slow about his promise, but is patient with you. As you go from God’s house today, be resolved to share God’s promises, be messengers of the Lord in all you say and do. And may God our Creator, Jesus the Christ, and the love of the Holy Spirit be with you always.
Amen.
We hope you enjoyed Virtual Sunday Worship.
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& JOIN US FOR OUR NEXT COFFEE HOUR on ZOOM at NOON on Sunday, October 10th.
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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