2/13/22 Worship Service Bulletin

Moscow United Methodist Church Digital Bulletin

Prelude Ringing of the Bells Schedule This Week: Tuesday 6:15 p.m. Christian Connections Wednesday 9:00 a.m. Wednesday Morning Crew Wednesday 7:00 p.m. SPRC Meeting Office Hours This Week – 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 15th 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Thursday, February 17th 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Thursday, February 17th Vision Team: If anyone would like to participate in the Vision Team, please contact Pastor Lori. We need 5-6 people, the meetings will begin in March. Ash Wednesday: Lent begins this year on March 2nd. We will start our Lenten journey of repentance and inner renewal with a time of worship and reflection at 7:00 in the evening. Please come as we center ourselves spiritually for this holy period before Easter.

North Pocono Ministerium Presents “A Call to Lent”, every Thursday, March 10-April 7, at 7 PM. The first service will be Thursday, March 10th at St. Catherine’s, with the theme “A Call to Faith”. 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. Christian Connections Virtual Bible Discussion Group will meet again this Tuesday evening, February 15th at 6:15. We will be discussing The Lord’s Prayer. CPR/AED Class: Thank you everyone who attended the CPR Class last week. 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 bulletin boards in the hallway by the offices. *** MUMC DONATION STATION *** The MUMC Donation Station is located in the narthex of the church building: For the month of February we are collecting items for the North Pocono Food Pantry and Dry Goods Pantry. Their requested items are: Pasta, pasta sauce, soup, tuna, canned pasta, dish soap, cleaning products, and tissues

*Food Pantry & Dry Goods Pantry – Most Needed Items of the week: Food Pantry- tuna and hot chocolate 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. TODAY is Souper Bowl Sunday – We are supporting the nationwide youth movement of the “Souper Bowl of Caring” by collecting items for the food pantry and taking a special collection. The “Souper Bowl of Caring” was started to help restock neighborhood food pantry shelves after the holidays. Also, we will have a time of “Soup Fellowship” for our congregation at the conclusion of worship. Following the “Soup Fellowship”, we will be hosting a drive through donation for the North Pocono Food Pantry and Dry Goods Pantry from 12-2pm.

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 Canticle of Love UMH#646 Leader: Let love be genuine and live in harmony; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good. Outdo one another in showing honor; be humble and never conceited; People: Love is stronger than death and jealousy is cruel as the grave. Floods cannot drown love and wealth cannot buy it. Leader: Put love above all else; let Christ’s peace rule your hearts. Always be forgiving, as Christ has forgiven you;

People: Love is not jealous or boastful, arrogant, rude, or stubborn, irritable, resentful, or possessive. Love is patient and kind. Leader: Do not love in word or speech only; love also in deed and truth. Receive each other in sincerity, find mercy and grow old together; People: Do not love in word or speech only; love also in deed and truth. Receive each other in sincerity, find mercy and grow old together. Leader: Love rejoices in the right; it bears, believes, hopes, and endures all things, for love is faithful and endless; People: When the Lord builds the house, the labor is never in vain. All: Happy are those who take refuge in God; those who serve the Lord are redeemed. *Opening Hymn UMH#422 “Jesus, Thine All Victorious Love” Jesus, Thine all-victorious love Shed in my heart abroad;

Then shall my feet no longer rove, Rooted and fixed in God. Oh, that in me the sacred fire Might now begin to glow; Burn up the dross of base desire, And make the mountains flow. O that it now from heaven might fall and all my sins consume! Come, Holy Ghost, for thee I call, Spirit of burning, come! Refining fire, go through my heart, Illuminate my soul; Scatter Thy life through every part, And sanctify the whole. Children’s Time Epistle Reading 1 Corinthians 13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have

love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. Special Music Bob Reynolds Gospel Reading Luke 6:17-23 He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coastal region around Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. Those troubled by impure spirits were cured, and the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all. Looking at his disciples, he said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. Blessed are you when people

hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets. Leader: The Word of God for the people of God. People: Thanks be to God. Message The Evolution of Love *Hymn of Response UHM#156 “I Love to Tell the Story” I love to tell the story of unseen things above, of Jesus and his glory, of Jesus and his love. I love to tell the story, because I know 'tis true; it satisfies my longings as nothing else can do. I love to tell the story, 'twill be my theme in glory, to tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love. I love to tell the story; more wonderful it seems

than all the golden fancies of all our golden dreams. I love to tell the story, it did so much for me; and that is just the reason I tell it now to thee. I love to tell the story, 'twill be my theme in glory, to tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love. I love to tell the story; 'tis pleasant to repeat what seems, each time I tell it, more wonderfully sweet. I love to tell the story, for some have never heard the message of salvation from God's own holy Word. I love to tell the story, 'twill be my theme in glory, to tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love. I love to tell the story, for those who know it best seem hungering and thirsting to hear it like the rest. And when, in scenes of glory,

I sing the new, new song, 'twill be the old, old story that I have loved so long. I love to tell the story, 'twill be my theme in glory, to tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love. *Affirmation of Faith UMH#887 Leader: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress, or persecution or famine, or nakedness or peril or sword? People: No! In all things we are more than conquerors through the One who loved us. We are sure that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Thanks be to God! Amen. TIME OF PRAYER Circle of Prayer Churches: Calvary UMC, Bellwood Brick UMC, Duryea *Trinity UMC, Jersey Shore *Boajibu UMC, Boajibu - Sierra Leone Carlisle UMC, Carlisle First UMC, Mercersburg

Faith UMC, Selinsgrove Amberson UMC, Spring Run Faxon-Kenmar UMC, Williamsport Farrandsville UMC, Farrandsville Saginaw Community UMC, Mount Wolf Concerns - Corona Virus Pandemic, Our United Methodist Denomination, Our Country and Leaders, All Military Troops, Eric Schilling, James Bradshaw, Ken Reuther Family, Lucille Wombacker family, Carolyn Parise Family, Tom Griffith Family, Francis Terboss Family, Frank Ciero, Sr., Dana Nelson and Family, Sharon DeLucy, Ray Roese, Darin Caputo, Unspoken Requests, Those Suffering in Silence Joys – The celebration of Valentine’s Day, Souper Bowl of Caring Donations Silent Prayer Pastoral Prayer 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.

Weekly Reminders Tithes and Offering The Week Ahead *Hymn of Sending Forth UMH#384 “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (v 1-3)” Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heaven, to earth come down, fix in us thy humble dwelling, all thy faithful mercies crown. Jesus, thou art all compassion, pure, unbounded love thou art. Visit us with thy salvation; enter ev'ry trembling heart. Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit into ev’ry troubled breast. Let us all in thee inherit, let us find that second rest. Take away our bent to sinning; Alpha and Omega be. End of faith, as its beginning, set our hearts at liberty. Come, Almighty, to deliver, let us all thy life receive.

Suddenly return, and never, nevermore they temples leave. Thee we would be always blessing, serve thee as thy hosts above, pray, and praise thee without ceasing, glory in thy perfect love. *Benediction Postlude