"Living Lent Prayerfully" Sunday Worship March 3, 2024
This Sunday we gather for worship at 10:00 am in our Sanctuary with our service also available online. We continue our journey into the wild through Living Lent with the Rev. Diann Bailey "Living Lent Prayerfully". We partake in the Sacrament of Communion this Sunday. Last Sunday we explored "Living Lent Creatively" while our congregation was given colorful clay to shape and mold into a small prayer stone. Every prayer stone was beautifully crafted with our touch, no two are alike, and each is flawless for there is no "perfect" prayer stone. This week we will be using the prayer stones created as part of our worship service. Thank you to everyone who participated in crafting a prayer stone last week. Our Lent journey continues... There will be a Message for All Ages this Sunday and our youth will remain in worship with their families. Wherever you are on life's journey, you are welcome here. Come as you are, for this is God’s house—a house of prayer for all people, and God welcomes each one who comes. First Church of Christ is an Open & Affirming Congregation of the United Church of Christ. Open and Affirming (ONA) is the United Church of Christ’s designation for congregations which make a public covenant of welcome into their full life and ministry to persons of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions. In keeping with the life and teaching of Jesus, we joyfully and unconditionally welcome all people of any age, gender, sexual orientation, race, culture, ability or social or economic status into our community of faith. We affirm the humanity of all people as unique individuals made in God’s image. Our Worship services are every Sunday at 10:00am in our Sanctuary, and can be viewed on YouTube live or any time after; on your own schedule, at your own pace. Connect with us! Subscribe to our newsletter: https://www.firstchurchsuffield.org/n... Follow us on Instagram: / firstchurchofchristsuffield Like us on Facebook: / first-church-of-christ-suffield-ct-ucc-195... Support our Ministries: http://www.firstchurchsuffield.org/co... Our Lenten Offering this season, and Extra Mile Mission Offering for March, is once again Heifer International. Heifer International is a global nonprofit working to eradicate poverty and hunger through sustainable, values-based holistic community development. Heifer International distributes animals, along with agricultural and value-based training, to families in need around the world as a means of providing self-sufficiency. Head to our Online Giving page to donate to our Extra Mile Mission Offering: https://secure.myvanco.com/YJQ1/home First Church of Christ, Congregational United Church of Christ (UCC) 81 High Street, Suffield CT 06078 860-668-7223 [email protected] http://www.firstchurchsuffield.org/ Works Cited: Call to Worship: Rev. Mindi, Rev-o-lution. http://rev-o-lution.org/ Prayer of Invocation: Psalm 100 from Eugene Peterson’s The Message. Copyright © 2003 Eugene Peterson. Confession: Adapted from The Abingdon Worship Annual 2009, © 2008 Abingdon Press. Posted on the Ministry Matters website. http://www.ministrymatters.com/ Pastoral Prayer: Rev. Karla Miller, Minister for Community Life at the Old North Church in Marblehead, MA. Posted on RevGalBlogPals. https://revgalblogpals.org/2017/09/23... Offering: Rev. Quentin Chin. United Church of Christ website.http://uccfiles.com/pdf/FeedmySheepEa... Thanksgiving Prayer: Ben Steward, Web of Creation website. http://www.webofcreation.org/ Cover Image: https://flic.kr/p/LQSx7a Ajay Goel, "A Bouquet of Prayers"photograph Photo New Century Hymnal © 1995 Pilgrim Press, All right reserved. Reprinted/Streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE A-739199. Pilgrim Hymnal © 1931, 1935, 1958 Pilgrim Press, All right reserved. Reprinted/Streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE A-739199.