 If this is your first time visiting, we welcome you! Please fill out a visitor card located on the table in lobby.  Cal Palmer will be offering a class, “How to Study the Bible” Time and dates to be determined. Email Cal at [email protected]  Do you wish to join a small group bible study? Or maybe….  You are interested in starting a small group bible study? We will have leadership training on Saturday, August 28th from 8AM to Noon, here at the church. Please contact Nancy Gordon at 559-679-4270  Mark your calendars: Fall Simulcast with Priscilla Shirer will be held at the church Saturday, October 16th. More info to come. Please see Yvonne LaFleur or Debbie Stewart after church if you are interested.  Lemon Cove Outreach food pantry distributes food to needy families every 4th Wednesday. The next date is August 25th. Volunteers are always needed for Tuesday preparation at 9 a.m. and/or Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m. To volunteer, please contact Diane Mehrten, 559-561-1200.

 Prayer for Mary, Connie’s mom, who was exposed and their cousin who is in the hospital with COVID.  Happy Birthday to Wesley  Prayer for healing for Jonathan who is running a mystery fever.  Prayer for healing for Julie Harrell, Diane’s daughter, who has a blood disorder and could not get the vaccine but has contracted COVID.  Praise that the Cairns’ family was here on Sunday and all last week to visit. Prayer for safe travels as they return home and to on France.  Praise George Claulson’s biopsy on his nose came back as benign.  Prayer for healing for Karen, Kathy’s niece, who got Covid as well as both Margaret and Delmer.  Prayer for Kathy’s husband’s country that has been in lockdown with only a small percentage of population who have been able to get vaccinated.  Praise that Cal’s grandnephew is back home and doing better.  Continued prayer for Patty, Cal’s sister in law, for her ALS and that she would know the Lord.

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As your church, we have at times chosen our own spiritual satisfaction to the neglect of being the body of Christ to our community. Lord, as we are confronted by our sin, pour out on us again the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, won for us at great cost by his death and resurrection. And by this grace, let us not be overwhelmed by failure, but encouraged by the possibilities that your grace and mercy bring about in our individual lives, and in Prelude our life together as your church. Hear our prayer, Lord, for we pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and with his blessing. Welcome to Worship! GATHERING AROUND THE WORD Assurance of Pardon Call to Worship: Psalm 16 Liturgist: Keep me safe, O God, for I have come to you for refuge. (Following the Children’s message young people through age 12 are dismissed to Sunday school) Congregation: I said to the LORD, “You are my Master! Every good thing I have comes from you.” Liturgist: The godly people in the land are my true heroes! I take PROCLAIMING THE WORD pleasure in them! Troubles multiply for those who chase after other Hymn of Preparation - Hymn #184: “Thy Word” gods. I will not take part in their sacrifices of blood or even speak the names of their gods. Scripture Reading: Joel 2:12-17 Congregation: Troubles multiply for those who chase after other gods. I Message: “The Day of the Lord: Part 3” will not take part in their sacrifices of blood or even speak the names of their gods. LORD, you alone are my inheritance, my cup of blessing. You RESPONDING TO THE WORD guard all that is mine. * Hymn: Did You Feel the Mountains Tremble? Liturgist: The land you have given me is a pleasant land. What a wonderful inheritance! Receiving New Covenant Partners!

Congregation: I will bless the LORD who guides me; even at night my Moment for Mission heart instructs me. I know the LORD is always with me. I will not be Prayers of the People shaken, for he is right beside me. Choral Response: Hymn #641: “Hear Our Prayer, O Lord” Invocation & 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 BEARING THE WORD INTO THE WORLD us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive * Hymn: To God Be the Glory #56 our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. Benediction For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen. * “Threefold Amen” Hymn #225 “Come, Christians, Join to Sing” * Please stand if you are able  Prayer of Confession - Lord, we thank you for redeeming us, and Pastor: Ian Hodge Liturgist: Ray James making us part of your church. But as we look upon who you call Pianist: Dottie Barsoon us to be in Christ, and what you desire your church to be as the body of Christ, we have not yet become. As individuals, we have not fully loved God and our neighbor, thus breaking your law.