Sunday Service - May 3, 2020

May 3, 2020 – Gary Johnson & Verna Kocski

Let us worship together as we read!

You can follow along with today’s sermon with Gary & Verna on Unity United Church and Evesham Community Church page:
https://www.facebook.com/Unity-United-Church-and-Evesham-Community-Church-233687243347894/
or Gary Johnson's page:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1654663852

Hello and how are you doing? How are you coping, how are you managing? If we can be of any help phone us, if we don’t answer the phone, please leave a message and we will get back to you. We think of you often and hold you in our prayers.

The grace of Christ, the love of God and the Power of the Holy Spirit be with you.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

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OPENING PRAYER:

God of love and peace and hope and joy, we thank you for your grace at every twist and turn in life. With surrendered hearts and minds we come to be refreshed and renewed by your spirit. We know this morning you are for us, so who can be against us. It is in you we live and breathe and find meaning for our lives. Amen.

OPENING HYMN: VU #356 “Seek Ye First the Kingdom”

SCRIPTURE READING: Romans 8:31-39 

REFLECTION: “Listen For the Facts…You Are Enough”

CLOSING HYMN: VU #766 “As the Deer Pants for the Water”

CLOSING PRAYER:

Let us pray.

Thank You Lord for the freedom to practice our belief and trust in You. Thank you for this community of faith that stretches out across the miles. Thank you that when you made us, you said, “It is good”. May the word, “If my God is for me, who can be against me be a pillar of strength for us when we feel the pressures of the world. Give us wisdom to be more at ease with ourselves when we are told to perform and act a certain way.  We thank you that your amazing grace overrides all competition and need for wealth and power.

At times Lord when we don’t feel good enough, help us to remember that you are continually working in us and through us. Help us to recognize our true value when others put us down. As we are being molded and shaped into

No matter what we are facing, illness, uncertainty, fear, death, loneliness and isolation you are always close by.

We lift up to you those who are struggling with addictions and loneliness. We pray for those who live with fear and uncertainty of what lays ahead. May they experience peace and hope in this time of suffering.

We pray for the elderly, the shut-in, the sick and the dying. May they receive good care and nurturing love.

Open our ears and our eyes to calling of your people, the cries for help, for food, for clean water, and spiritual awakening.

We pray for peace and healing for our country, our nation and the world.

Give us patience and kindness, love and understanding to hang in and adhere to what the healthcare officials are directing us to do.

We pray to you who is our mother and 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, the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.

CLOSING WORDS:

The Lord bless you and keep you:
The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you:
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.

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