United Trinity Parish – LeRoy and Humeston, Iowa
"Through the Seasons"
Sunday December 8
LeRoy Worship at 9:00am
(Sunday School follows worship.)
Humeston Worship at 10:30am
(Children's Christmas Pageant)
Online Worship December 8
at approximately 10:30am
Bulletins for December 8 Services
This Week's Message
"Reviving Isaiah"/"The True Meaning of Christmas"
Malachi 3: 1-4 & Luke 3: 1-6
Malachi 3: 1-2
"I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the LORD Almighty.
But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears?
For he will be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap.
Prophets shared God's message to prepare for the coming of the Lord.
When the snow gets deep,
show me your path of HOPE.
When the path is steep,
give me strength to climb your path of HOPE.
When the path is dark,
light the way for me and for other believers
on your path of HOPE.
Lord, let us rejoice with all
as we prepare to celebrate your birth.
CALL TO WORSHIP FROM TODAY’S SERVICE:
One: Children of God, pay attention!
All: The days are coming when God’s peace will reign.
One: Children of God, prepare your hearts!
All: The days are coming when God will be near.
One: Children of God, be alert and listen!
All: The days are surely coming and are, in fact, already here.
1 Thessalonians 3: 12
May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone…”
WE ARE NOT ALL THE SAME.
BUT, UNITED (FOLLOWING JESUS),
WE ARE THE POWER OF GOD.
Sunday, January 19
Worship at LeRoy at 9:00am
Sunday school follows worship.
Worship at Humeston at 10:30am
The "Traveling Messengers" will share music.
DOC will hold it's annual meeting after worship.
NO Online Worship January 19
Bulletins for January 19 Services
This Week's Message
"Learning to Fly Again"
Lamentations 1:1-4 (Jeremiah told the people that there will be bad times.)
Romans 5: 1-11 (Paul reminds struggling Christians that faith brings, grace, and grace brings hope.)
Isaiah 40: 27-31 (The Lord will give strength to the weary. "They will soar on wings like eagles . . . .")
We will suffer loss—
fear, anxiety, grief.
Through faith in Christ we will persevere.
Through Christ there is GRACE.
There is HOPE.
We will find solutions.
WE WILL FLY AGAIN.
Call to Worship January 12
One: Do you know? Have you heard?
All: Our God is from everlasting to everlasting.
One: Come to know. Come to listen.
All: Our God gives powers to the weak.
One: Are you tired? Are you faint?
All: Our God will renew your strength.
One: Come. Lift up your weary arms.
All: Rise up like eagles on the wings of God!
WE ARE NOT ALL THE SAME.
BUT, UNITED (FOLLOWING JESUS),
WE ARE THE POWER OF GOD.
Affirmation of Faith – Apostle’s Creed
We believe in God the Father, infinite in wisdom, power, and love, whose mercy is over all his works, and whose will is ever directed to his children’s good.
We believe in Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of man, the gift of the Father’s unfailing grace, the ground of our hope, and the promise of our deliverance from sin and death.
We believe in the Holy Spirit as the divine presence in our lives, whereby we are kept in perpetual remembrance and find strength and help in time of need.
We believe that this faith should manifest itself in the service of love as set forth in the example of our blessed Lord, to the end that the kingdom of God may come upon the earth. Amen.