February 20, 2022 Digital 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 Office Hours This Week – 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 22nd 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 23rd Thursday, February 24th 10:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. 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 22nd at 6:15. We will be discussing The Lord’s Prayer. 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 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. 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: Those who revere God find joy in sacred

obedience; People: Those who follow God’s ways are generous and honest in all of their actions. Leader: Let us lean not on our own understanding; People: With steady hearts may we seek God’s wisdom. Leader: We are God’s people called to humble, holy living; People: We are God’s people who gather to offer praise and worship. *Opening Hymn UHM#390 “Forgive Our Sins as We Forgive” “Forgive our sins as we forgive,” You taught us, Lord, to pray; But you alone can grant us grace To live the words we say. How can your pardon reach and bless The unforgiving heart That broods on wrongs And will not let old bitterness depart? In blazing light your cross reveals

The truth we dimly knew: What trivial debts are owed to us, How great our debt to you! Lord, cleanse the depths within our souls, And bid resentment cease; Then, bound to all in bonds of love, Our lives will spread your peace. Children’s Time Old Testament Reading Genesis 45:3-11, 15 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living?” But his brothers were not able to answer him, because they were terrified at his presence. Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come close to me.” When they had done so, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt! And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you. For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping. But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. “So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt. Now hurry back to my father and

say to him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; don’t delay. You shall live in the region of Goshen and be near me—you, your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all you have. I will provide for you there, because five years of famine are still to come. Otherwise you and your household and all who belong to you will become destitute.’ And he kissed all his brothers and wept over them. Afterward his brothers talked with him. Special Music Ashley Greening Gospel Reading Luke 6:27-38 “But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you. “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that. And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be

children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” Leader: The Word of God for the people of God. People: Thanks be to God. Message *Hymn of Response UHM#549 “Where Charity and Love Prevail” Where charity and love prevail, There God is every found; Brough here together by Christ’s love, By love are we thus bound. With grateful joy and holy fear True charity we learn; Let us with heart and mind and strength Now love Christ in return

Forgive we now each other’s faults As we are faults confess; And let us love each other well In Christian holiness Let strife among us be unknown, Let all contention cease; Be Christ the glory that we seek, Be ours his holy peace Let us recall that in our midst Dwells God’s begotten Son; As members of his body joined, We are in him made one Love can exclude no race or creed If honored be God’s name; Our common life embraces All whose Maker is the same.

TIME OF PRAYER Circle of Prayer Churches: Maple Lake UMC, Spring Brook Township St. Matthews UMC, Magburaka - Sierra Leone Mount Carmel UMC, Three Springs Park Forest Village UMC, State College Lime Ridge UMC, Bloomsburg Canton Ecumenical UMC, Canton East Ararat UMC, East Ararat McKendree UMC, Airville Dellville UMC, Duncannon Trans Run UMC Bedford Trinity UMC, New Columbia Greene Hills Camp & Retreat Center, Alexandria Concerns - Corona Virus Pandemic, Our United Methodist Denomination, Our Country and Leaders, All Military Troops, Ken Reuther Family, Lucille Wombacker family, Carolyn Parise Family, Tom Griffith Family, Francis Terboss Family, Eric Schilling, James Bradshaw, Paul Guse, Frank Ciero, Sr., Dana Nelson and Family, Sharon DeLucy, Ray Roese, Darin Caputo, Unspoken Requests, Those Suffering in Silence

Joys – Successful Soup Sale 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#561 “Jesus, United by Thy Grace (v1-3)” Jesus, united by thy grace And each to each endeared, With confidence we seek thy face And know our prayer is heard

Help us to help each other, Lord, Each other’s cross to bear, Let all their friendly aid afford, And feel each other’s care. Up unto thee, our living Head, Let us in all things grow, Till thou hast made us free indeed And spotless here below. *Benediction Postlude