Digital Bulletin, March 20, 2022

Moscow United Methodist Church Digital Bulletin March 20, 2022

Prelude Ringing of the Bells Schedule This Week: Christian Connections Tuesday 6:15 p.m. Wednesday Morning Crew Wednesday 9:00 a.m. NPM Lenten Service (MUMC) Thursday 7:00 p.m. Office Hours This Week - 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 22nd 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 23rd 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Thursday, March 24th The Newsletter deadline for March is today. Please send any information or articles you would like included in the newsletter to the church office. Vision Team: If anyone would like to participate in the Vision Team, please contact Pastor Lori. The first meeting of the Vision Team is scheduled for Wednesday, March 30th at 6:30.

North Pocono Ministerium Presents “A Call to Lent”, every Thursday, March 10-April 7, at 7 PM. This week the service is here with the theme “A Call to Rescue”. Please join us as we explore different ideas each week leading up to Easter. You can find the full schedule on the bulletin board outside the offices, as well as on our website under the “Events” tab. CPR/AED Class: If anyone would like to sign up for a future class, please contact Jennie in the office, or add your name to the list on the table in the Narthex. *** MUMC DONATION STATION *** The MUMC Donation Station is located in the narthex of the church building: For the month of March we will be collecting items for the Griffin Pond Animal Shelter. After the collection is over, the Sunday School students will be invited to deliver the items. Their wish list can be found on the sign by the Donation Bins in the Narthex as well as on our website. They are always in need of unopened bags of dog and cat food, litter, and cleaning supplies. Special Call to Giving: Each cluster in the SWB District is collecting items that will be sent to Mission Central to prepare medical kits and send them on to the people of Ukraine. Our North Pocono Cluster Churches are collecting adhesive dressings. Monetary donations can be made to the United Methodist

Committee on Relief’s (UMCOR) International Disaster Response and Recovery through Advance #982450. Soup Sale: Mark your calendars for a soup sale, April 8th from 3- 6pm. The soups for sale will be New England Clam Chowder for $8/quart, and Cream of Potato for $6/quart. Preorder your soup through Paulette Fotta. *Food Pantry & Dry Goods Pantry – Most Needed Items of the week: Food Pantry- cereal, soup, canned pasta, and tuna Dry Goods Pantry –any type of cleaning products, toothpaste, and toothbrushes Sunday School continues to meet Sundays at 9AM for all ages. The children meet in the sanctuary. The kids are having a blast playing games, making crafts, and even cooking! Contact Barbara Havenstrite for more information. The Adults are currently meeting in Pastor Lori’s office. The MUMC Learning Tree Preschool still has a few openings for the Spring semester. Applications are also being accepted for the 2022-2023 school year.

MUMC Power of Prayer Network – If anyone is in need of prayer, please contact Cis Lyon, Pastor Lori, or Jennie, so your requests can be given to the Power of Prayer Network. Opening Prayer *Call to Worship Leader: In this season of Lent, a time of preparation; People: We are called as disciples to worship, to pray, to ponder, to listen for God's voice. Leader: As we walk with Jesus on the road to Jerusalem; People: We see looming before us a cross, a shadow on the horizon. Leader: We gather, near and far, united as fellow travelers to the city, the cross, and what lies beyond; People: God has called us to follow Jesus, so we worship, we pray, we praise, we listen. *Opening Hymn “Amazing Grace (v1-4)” UHM#378 Amazing grace! How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found; Was blind, but now I see. Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, And grace my fears relieved; How precious did that grace appear The hour I first believed.

Through many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come; Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home. The Lord has promised good to me, His word my hope secures; He will my shield and portion be, As long as life endures. Children’s Time Old Testament Reading I Job 1:1-12 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. He had seven sons and three daughters, and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East. His sons used to hold feasts in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular custom. One day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them. The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the Lord, “From

roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.” Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.” “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied. “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.” The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord. Special Music Ashley Greening Old Testament Reading II Job 42:1-17 Then Job replied to the Lord: “I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted. You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know. “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.’ My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you. Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.” After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has. So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray

for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.” So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer. After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before. All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring. The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. And he also had seven sons and three daughters. The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch. Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers. After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. And so Job died, an old man and full of years. *Hymn “Spirit Song” UMH#347 O let the Son of God enfold you With His Spirit and His love Let Him fill your heart and satisfy your soul O let Him have the things that hold you And His Spirit like a dove Will descend upon your life and make you whole.

Jesus, O Jesus Come and fill Your lambs. Jesus, O Jesus Come and fill Your lambs. O come and sing this song with gladness As your hearts are filled with joy Lift your hands in sweet surrender to His name O give Him all your tears and sadness Give Him all your years of pain And you'll enter into life in Jesus' name. Jesus, O Jesus Come and fill Your lambs. Jesus, O Jesus Come and fill Your lambs. Gospel Reading Mark 15:33-39 At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”). When some of those standing near heard this, they said, “Listen, he’s calling Elijah.” Someone ran, filled a sponge with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink. “Now leave him alone. Let’s see if Elijah comes to take him down,” he said. With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last. The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to

bottom. And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how he died, he said, “Surely this man was the Son of God!” Leader: The Word of God for the people of God. People: Thanks be to God. Message Suffering Presence *Hymn of Response UMH#377 “It Is Well with My Soul (v1-3)” When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll; Whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say, It is well, it is well with my soul. It is well with my soul, It is well, it is well with my soul. Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come, Let this blest assurance control, That Christ has regarded my helpless estate, And hath shed his own blood for my soul. It is well with my soul, It is well, it is well with my soul. My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious though! My sin, not in part but the whole, Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul! It is well with my soul, It is well, it is well with my soul. TIME OF PRAYER Circle of Prayer Churches: LaAnna UMC, Cresco Spring Run UMC, Spring Run Valley UMC, Muncy Valley Hetlerville UMC, Nescopeck St. Mary’s UMC, Newville Upper Strasburg UMC, Upper Strasburg Snow Shoe UMC, Snow Shoe Gouldsboro UMC, Gouldsboro Beavertown UMC, Beavertown Albert Margai Memorial UMC, Gbambatoke - Sierra Leone Mt. Pisgah Trinity UMC, York Wesley Forest Camp & Retreat Center, Weikert Concerns - Corona Virus Pandemic, Our United Methodist Denomination, Our Country and Leaders, All Military Troops, War in Ukraine, Geoff Walker, Helen Jolly, Eric Schilling, Sandy Krisler, Frank Ciero, Sr., Dana Nelson and Family, Alice Roese, Unspoken Requests, Those Suffering in Silence Joys – Pastoral Prayer

Prayers of Lament HOLY COMMUNION INVITATION Christ our Lord invites to his table all who love him, who earnestly repent of their sin and seek to live in peace with one another. Therefore, let us confess our sin before God and one another. CONFESSION AND PARDON Merciful God, we confess that we have not loved you with our whole heart. We have failed to be an obedient church. We have not done your will, we have broken your law, we have rebelled against your love, we have not loved our neighbors, and we have not heard the cry of the needy. Forgive us, we pray. Free us for joyful obedience, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Silent Confession Hear the good news: Christ died for us while we were yet sinners; that proves God’s love toward us. In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven! In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven! Glory to God! Amen.

THE GREAT THANKSGIVING The Lord be with you. And also with you. Lift up your hearts. We lift them up to the Lord. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right to give our thanks and praise. It is right, and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks to you, Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth. You formed us in your image and breathed into us the breath of life. When we turned away, and our love failed, your love remained steadfast. You delivered us from captivity, made covenant to be our sovereign God, and spoke to us through your prophets, who looked for that day when justice shall roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream, when nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven we praise your name and join their unending hymn: Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

Holy are you, and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ. By the baptism of his suffering, death, and resurrection, you gave birth to your church, delivered us from slavery to sin and death, and made with us a new covenant by water and the Spirit. On the night in which he gave himself up for us, he took bread, gave thanks to you, broke the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said: \"Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.\" When the supper was over he took the cup, gave thanks to you, gave it to his disciples, and said: \"Drink from this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant, poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.\" And so, in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ's offering for us, as we proclaim the mystery of faith. Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again. Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered together, connected in grace near and far, and on these gifts of bread and cup. Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ, that we may be for the world the body of Christ, redeemed by his blood.

By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world, until Christ comes in final victory, and we feast at his heavenly banquet. Through your Son Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in your holy Church, all honor and glory is yours, almighty Father, now and forever. Amen. And now, with the confidence of children of God, let us pray: THE LORD’S PRAYER 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, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen. SHARING IN THE BREAD AND CUP The Body of Christ given for you. The Blood of Christ shed for you.

PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING Eternal God, we give you thanks for this holy mystery in which you have given yourself to us. Grant that we may go into the world in the strength of your Spirit, to give ourselves for others, In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. Weekly Reminders Tithes and Offering The Week Ahead *Hymn of Sending Forth UMH#707 “Hymn of Promise” In the bulb there is a flower; in the seed, an apple tree; in cocoons, a hidden promise: butterflies will soon be free! In the cold and snow of winter there's a spring that waits to be, unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see. There's a song in every silence, seeking word and melody; there's a dawn in every darkness bringing hope to you and me. From the past will come the future; what it holds, a mystery,

unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see. In our end is our beginning; in our time, infinity; in our doubt there is believing; in our life, eternity. In our death, a resurrection; at the last, a victory, unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see. *Benediction Postlude