Welcome Message
HELLO! WELCOME TO WPC
from WPC on August 15th – 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:
Give thanks to God! We thank God for joy, for laughter,for abundant blessings of every kind. Give thanks to God at all times and for everything! We thank God, when we can and as we can, for struggles, for solitude, for fears.Give thanks to Godat all times and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.We thank God that, in Christ,our joys as well as our pain,our losses as well as our laughter,are in God’s heart and hands.
Amen.
Opening Praise:
“Majesty, Worship His Majesty” by Ron Kenoly
CHURCH NEWS & GIVING
Announcements:
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
Drive-in Sunday Worship Twice a Month: 1st Sundays and 3rd Sundays
~ 10:00 a.m. ~
Next FELLOWSHIP COFFEE HOUR via Zoom
on Sunday, August 22nd at 12:00 p.m. / Noon
No Fellowship, Sunday, August 15th 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
~ DRIVE-IN COMMUNION SERVICE ~
Sunday, September 5, 2021 at 10:00 a.m.
PLEASE ARRIVE 9:30-9:45 A.M.
On Sunday, September 5th we will be having our drive-in Communion Sunday Worship Service in our parking lot. Please pay close attention to upcoming emails this week about instructions for the service. We will also meet for a drive-in worship service on the third Sunday, August 15th. So mark your calendar dates and join us in the WPC parking lot for our Westminster drive-in Sunday service.
PREVIEW
DRIVE-IN COMMUNION SERVICE TODAY
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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:
Eternal God, we thank you today for your goodness. You have given us beautiful days. You bless us richly with goodness daily. We thank you and praise you. We live in a time of considerable confusion. We ask today for your wisdom as Solomon asked for wisdom. We are often fearful as was Solomon. We live in a time of peril, war, and world unrest. Different and competing interests strive for our attention and loyalty. Help us, O God, to pray for wise and discerning spirits.
Give us wisdom to know good from evil.
Give us wisdom to assess the clamoring voices and concerns with which we are daily bombarded.
Give us wisdom so that we might learn to be accepting of all the diverse people you have created.
Give us wisdom to be peacemakers and mediators of understanding where there is conflict.
Give us wisdom when we are in conflict to make it possible both for us and for those with whom we differ to save face and win and move forward hand in hand.
Give us wisdom not to violate any of your creatures by discriminating against them.
Give us wisdom to discern what is of ultimate value for our souls and to make wise choices.
O God, give us wisdom.
O God, give us discernment.
O God, give us the will to be faithful.
O God, give us the power to love.
Amen.
Offering Song:
“Hallowed Be Your Name” by Ron Kenoly
Offering Prayer:
Holy God, you have given us grace to discern the way we should go amid all the paths of the world. You have shown us wisdom and understanding and offered us the chance to choose good over evil. We haven’t always been as thoughtful in our discernment as we could be. We have sometimes let our path be chosen for us.
Teach us to have wise and understanding minds, so that we may be responsible members in community. Let us not focus on riches or possessions, but strive only to serve your people. Amen.
Tithes and offerings:
SERMON MESSAGE
Sermonic Songs:
“If God/Nothing But The Blood” by Jean
Sermon:
“What Did He Say?”
~ John 6:51-60 ~
SCRIPTURE READING
SERMON
SERMON by Pastor Carlton Rhoden
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Closing Song:
“Bread of Heaven” by Fred Hammond
CLOSING PRAYER
Remember we are a forgiven people, eternally loved, thoughtfully instructed, gratefully obedient. Go with God’s blessing to live each moment and to walk into God’s future. Go in peace.
Amen.
We hope you enjoyed Virtual Sunday Worship.
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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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