ONLINE WORSHIP

Join us for online worship this Sunday, October 4, at 10:15 a.m. at https://vimeo.com/channels/1547852.

You can view and download the bulletin here.

Today is World Communion Sunday. You are invited to prepare your table for worship. You can us bread and grape juice or wine or perhaps simply a cracker or rice cake and water. Especially today you might use bread from a different country. You might want to add a cloth, a candle, or some natural object such as flowers, autumn leaves, or a branch.

We come to the table together—and what do we find?

Wheat ground down and made into bread.

Grapes crushed into wine.

Signs of suffering. Signs that in Christ, God has joined all of us in our sorrow and suffering and still promises to be faithful.

We come to the table, not because everything is all right, but because we hurt, because we know others suffer, because the summer is over and still we are not whole, the summer is over and still the world suffers. We come because at this table the anguish of God meets our human suffering.

So ,World Communion Sunday turns out to be far more important than we might ever have imagined.

 

SCRIPTURE LESSONS: Jeremiah 8:18-9:1; Galatians 6:1-10

SERMON       “Many Tables, One Household”

The Rev. Bill Lovin preaching

 

ANTHEM       “Alle, Alle, Alle          arr. Will Schmid

                        Virtual Choir

 

No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome to join us online.

World Communion Sunday