April 3, 2022, Fifth Sunday of Lent

Moscow United Methodist Church Digital Bulletin April 3, 2022

Prelude Ringing of the Bells Schedule This Week: Monday 7:00 p.m. District Bishops’ Gathering CSUMC District Laity Gathering (MLUMC) Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Morning Crew Wednesday 9:00 a.m. SPRC Meeting Wednesday 7:00 p.m. NPM Lenten Service (SEP) Thursday 7:00 p.m. UMW Soup Sale Pick Up Friday 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Office Hours This Week - 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 5th 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 6th 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Thursday, April 7th Services for Holy Week: Palm Sunday 10:00 a.m. Maundy Thursday Maple Lake UMC 7:00 p.m. Good Friday Tenebrae Service 7:00 p.m. Easter Sunday 10:00 a.m.

Easter Flowers: We are selling the following flowers for Easter: Hyacinths, Tulips, and Lilies. Flowers are $12 each, the deadline for ordering is Monday, April 11. If anyone would like to order flowers you can contact Lois Linko at (570)689-9808. Vision Team: The Vision Team had its first meeting and will meet again in April. If anyone would like to participate in the Vision Team, please contact Pastor Lori. North Pocono Ministerium Presents “A Call to Lent”, every Thursday, March 10-April 7, at 7 PM. This last week of the Lenten services is at St. Eulalia’s Parish with the theme “A Call to Unity”. You can find more information 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 April we will be having a special collection for Ukraine. The full list will be available in the Narthex as well as on our website. Some of the needed items include personal hygiene items, baby food in plastic containers, and first aid kits.

Soup Sale: The soup sale pick up is this Friday, 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, Cis Lyon, Carole Burnett. *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, sharing in devotional discussions from “24 Hours That Changed the World”. The MUMC Learning Tree Preschool spots for the 2022-2023 school year are filling fast. If you or someone you know would like to enroll their child, applications as well as other information can be found on our website under the “Ministries” section. They will be hosting an Open House on Sunday, April 10th, from 12-2.

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: When we are lost in the wilderness; People: God’s steadfast love endures forever. Leader: When questions loom and faith falters; People: God’s steadfast love endures forever. All: In this time of worship, God, may we release our disappointments and rest in your love. *Opening Hymn UHM#269 “Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days” Lord, who throughout these forty days, For us didst fast and pray, Teach us with thee to mourn our sins, And close by thee to stay. As thou with Satan didst contend, And didst the victory win, O give us strength in thee to fight, In thee to conquer sin.

As thou didst hunger bear and thirst, So teach us, gracious Lord, To die to self, and chiefly live By thy most holy word. And through these days of penitence, And through thy Passion-tide, Yea evermore, in life and death, Jesus, with us abide. Abide with us that so, this life Of suffering over past, An Easter of unending joy We may attain at last! Children’s Time Old Testament Reading Isaiah 43:16-21 This is what the Lord says— he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick: “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. The wild animals honor me, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland, to give drink

to my people, my chosen, the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise. Special Music Carol Hess Gospel Reading John 12:1-8 Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. Here a dinner was given in Jesus’ honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, “Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.” He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it. “Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial. You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.” Leader: The Word of God for the people of God. People: Thanks be to God. Message 20/20 Mindset

*Hymn of Response UMH#355 “This Is a Day of New Beginnings” This is a day of new beginnings, Time to remember and move on, Time to believe what love is bringing, Laying to rest the pain that’s gone For by the life and death of Jesus, God’s mighty Spirit, now as then, Can make for us a world of difference, As faith and hope are born again. Then let us, with the Spirit’s daring, Step from the past and leave behind Our disappointment, guilt, and grieving, Seeking new paths, and sure to find. Then let us, with the Spirit’s daring, To show and share what love can do. This is a day of new beginnings; Our God is making all things new. In faith we’ll gather round the table To taste and share what love can do. This is a day of new beginnings; Our God is making all things new.

TIME OF PRAYER Circle of Prayer Churches: Balls Mills UMC, Cogan Station CrossPoint UMC, Harrisburg Maboleh UMC, Maboleh - Sierra Leone Meshoppen UMC, Meshoppen Spry UMC, York Wells Valley UMC, Three Springs Evansville UMC, Berwick Dorranceton UMC, Kingston Bendersville UMC, Bendersville Maple Hill UMC, Montgomery Osceola Mills UMC, Osceola Mills Sky Lake Camp & Retreat Center, Windsor, NY Concerns- Corona Virus Pandemic, Our United Methodist Denomination, Our Country and Leaders, All Military Troops, War in Ukraine, Maple Lake/Daleville UMCs & Pastor Eric Luczak, Geoff Walker, Helen Jolly, Eric Schilling, Sandy Krisler, Frank Ciero, Sr., Sandy Avery, Dominic Acalotto Family, Susan Santarsiero, Barbara McCullough, Dana Nelson and Family, Alice Roese, Unspoken Requests, Those Suffering in Silence Joys – Silent Prayer Pastoral Prayer

CELEBRATION OF 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 Leader: 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! People: In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven! All: 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. 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 names 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 here, 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 “Grace Alone” TFWS#2162 Every promise we can make, Every prayer and step of faith, Every difference we will make Is only by his grace. Every mountain we will climb, Every ray of hope we shine, Every blessing left behind

Is only by his grace. Grace alone which God supplies, Strength unknown he will provide Christ in us our Cornerstone; We will go forth in grace alone. Every soul we long to reach, Every heart we hope to teach, Everywhere we share his peace Is only by his grace Ever loving word we say, Every tear we wipe away, Every sorrow turned to praise Is only by his grace. Grace alone which God supplies, Strength unknown he will provide Christ in us our Cornerstone; We will go forth in grace alone. *Benediction Postlude