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May 8, 2022 – Christ the Good Shepherd Sunday
Happy Mother’s Day!
Everlasting thanks to all mothers and all who have been like mothers. We really appreciate you and are grateful to God for you. May God bless you al!
Midweek Meeting for Prayer – Tuesday or Wednesday at 7 pm
We meet weekly for prayer, in person and on Zoom. You are invited!
Tue, May 10 Wed, May 25 Wed, June 8
“Grapes on the Vine” Christian Fellowship and Education
We are studying the third section of David Teague’s Godly Servants: Discipleship and Spiritual Formation for Missionaries.
Lord’s Day Schedule through End of June
Service – 10 am; Christian Fellowship and Education – 11 am
Holy Communion celebrated every 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month
New Church Email: wardhillchurch@gmail.com
May 15 5th Sunday of Easter with the Lord’s Supper
May 22 6th Sunday of Easter
May 29 Ascension of Christ Sunday (Memorial Day weekend)
June 5 Pentecost with the Lord’s Supper
June 12 Trinity Sunday (Children’s Day)
June 19 2 Pentecost (Father’s Day) with the Lord’s Supper
June 26 3 Pentecost
Church Calendar & Lectionary
Season: Eastertide – 50 days of from Easter Sunday to Pentecost (April 17 – June 5, 2022)
Color: White – for the glory of Christ’s resurrection life
This Sunday: Christ the Good Shepherd Sunday (Mother’s Day)
Sun, May 15: Fifth Sunday of Easter
Lectionary: Acts 11:1-18; Ps 148; Revelation 21:1-6; John 13:31-35
Hymns: 283 – Alleluia! Alleluia!; 424 – Shepherd of Souls, Refresh and Bless; 124 – Praise the Lord Our God; 125 – Let All Things Now Living
Monthly Prayer Focus for May
Local Church Focus: West Congregational Church – Chris Ziegler, pastor
Missions Focus: CCCC – Micronesia and World Relief
Community Resources – Food, Clothing, Shelter, & Other Help
www.communityactioninc.org/phocadownload/resource_guide_english_october_2017.pdf National Suicide Hotline: 1-800-273-8255
Refugee Ministries: Interserve USA (interserveusa.com); Emmanuel Gospel Center’s Greater Boston Refugee Ministry (http://www.egc.org/refugee)
Global Crisis Help: World Relief – worldrelief.org
Information on Persecuted Christians: Open Doors USA – opendoorsusa.org
Monthly Scripture Memory for May
Ephesians 2:8-10 (ESV) – 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Catechism: An Outline of the Faith
Q. What is Ordination?
A. Ordination is the rite in which God gives authority and the grace of the Holy Spirit to those being made Ministers of Word and Sacrament, through prayer and the laying on of hands by the congregation and other ordained ministers.
Q. What is Holy Matrimony?
A. Holy Matrimony is Christian marriage, in which the woman and man enter into a life-long union, make their vows before God and the Church, and receive the grace and blessing of God to help them fulfill their vows.
Q. What is Unction of the Sick?
A. Unction is the rite of anointing the sick with oil, or the laying on of hands, by which God’s grace is given for the healing of spirit, mind, and body.
Q. Is God’s activity limited to the sacraments and these other ordinances?
A. God does not limit himself to these rites; they are patterns of countless ways by which God uses material things to reach out to us.
Q. How are the sacraments and other ordinances related to our Christian hope?
A. Sacraments and other ordinances sustain our present hope and anticipate its future fulfillment.
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