UJCC Sunday House Worship Service
September 27, 2020 * 17th Sunday After Pentecost
* Image: Dry Garden at UJCC
Blessings to you this holy Sabbath day! You are invited to use the following prayers & order of worship as we lift our hearts to God together from our respective homes!
Call To Worship
Leader: We come to worship and praise our God, and to learn more about the wonders of our God.
All: How great and wonderful is our Compassionate God.
Leader: We come, with ears and hearts open to God, ready to discover more of God’s mysteries and miracles.
All: How generous and caring is our Unchanging God.
Leader: We gather to share together in our common history, and to experience the enrichment which that brings us.
All: All praise and honour to God for past and present blessings, and for God’s merciful love and grace. Amen. (js)
Song of Centering Great Is Thy Faithfulness Becky Messer
We Humbly Adore and Receive
Children’s Time Nathan Nakamura
Scripture Reading in Japanese Exodus 17:1-7 Miwa and Nanami Jones
Sermon “Is The LORD Among Us or Not?” Rev. Sungrae Kim
Song of Reflection “Jubilate Deo, Come Worship The Lord” UJCC Choir
You are invited to continue your spiritual practice of giving to the church. Please either mail your offering to the church (136 N. Villa Ave., Clovis, CA 93612) or try our online giving option (LINK HERE). Thank you!
Doxology Youth Band
* Please join in our Zoom Fellowship & Prayer meeting at 11:30
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* Join in our Zoom Sunday school at 1 pm.
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* If you or your kids would like to contribute to our virtual worship by music, painting, photos, recipes or anything, please contact Rev. Rae: sungrae@ujcclife.com
Joys and Concerns & Time of Prayer
You are invited to share your joys and concerns with one another using our usual format:
Person lifting the prayer: “O God of Mercy;” everyone’s response: “This is our prayer.”
After you share your joys and concerns, go around the circle and offer prayer, praying freely or using this format:
“God, I thank you for…” and “God, I ask for…”
You are invited to close together with The Lord’s Prayer.
Worship Resource: (js) Joan Stott – "The Timeless Psalms" RCL Psalm Year A. Used with permission. https://re-worship.blogspot.com/2011/09/call-to-worship-psalm-78.html
Exodus 17:1-7
17From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the Israelites journeyed by stages, as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. 2The people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?” 3But the people thirsted there for water; and the people complained against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?” 4So Moses cried out to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.” 5The Lord said to Moses, “Go on ahead of the people, and take some of the elders of Israel with you; take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6I will be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink.” Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7He called the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled and tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”