LoveJoy United Presbyterian Church Online Worship February 14, 2021 10:15 AM Sunday School at 9:00 AM

Watch/Participate online: lovejoyupc.org/live and click ‘Connect Via Zoom’ Participate by phone: +1 (312) 626-6799 and enter the meeting ID: 611 784 858#

Gathering ❧ Thy sovereign majesty may we in glory see, Call to Worship and to eternity The glory of God shines love and adore. like a consuming fire. We have seen the glory of God Prayer of Confession in the face of Jesus Christ. God of all glory, beauty, and grace, The voice of God thunders we have tried to hide from you— like a mighty storm. to hide our faces, to hide our sin— Out of the cloud, God speaks: yet you have never hidden your love for us. This is my beloved Son; listen to him! We have tried to search for you— in temples, in clouds, on mountaintops— Prayer of the Day yet you have already revealed yourself to us Hymn - 2 - Come, Thou Almighty King in the face of Jesus Christ. Forgive us, and transform us 1 Come, thou almighty King, so that our lives may shine help us thy name to sing; with your glory, beauty, and grace; help us to praise: through Jesus Christ our Lord. Father, all glorious, o'er all victorious, Silent Prayers come, and reign over us, Ancient of Days. Assurance of Forgiveness 2 Come, thou incarnate Word, Word merciful, mighty Lord, ❧ our prayer attend. Time with the Children Come, and thy people bless, and give thy word success; Prayer for Illumination Spirit of holiness, Psalm 50:1-6 on us descend. 1 The mighty one, God the Lord, 3 Come, holy Comforter, speaks and summons the earth thy sacred witness bear from the rising of the sun to its setting. in this glad hour. 2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, Thou who almighty art, God shines forth. now rule in every heart, 3 Our God comes and does not keep silence, and ne'er from us depart, before him is a devouring fire, Spirit of power. and a mighty tempest all around him. 4 4 To thee, great One in Three, He calls to the heavens above eternal praises be, and to the earth, that he may judge his hence evermore! people: 5 “Gather to me my faithful ones, we rejoice that nothing in life or in death who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!” can separate us from the love of God in 6 The heavens declare his righteousness, Christ Jesus our Lord. for God himself is judge. Selah Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Amen. Mark 9:2-9 Offering 2 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and Though we cannot “pass the plate” at this time, James and John, and led them up a high we invite you to continue your giving. Our mountain apart, by themselves. And he was congregation’s ministries and expenses transfigured before them, 3 and his clothes continue during this time when we cannot meet became dazzling white, such as no one on together in-person. If this situation has earth could bleach them. 4 And there appeared impacted your finances, please be assured that to them Elijah with Moses, who were talking it is ok to adjust your giving. Consider what with Jesus. 5 Then Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, other ways you can make an offering to God: it is good for us to be here; let us make three calling a neighbor, running an errand for a dwellings, one for you, one for Moses, and one friend, praying for our world, etc. Give: for Elijah.” 6 He did not know what to say, for https://lovejoyupc.org/give they were terrified. 7 Then a cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud there Sharing of Joys and Concerns came a voice, “This is my Son, the Beloved; Prayers of the People and The Lord's 8 listen to him!” Suddenly when they looked Prayer around, they saw no one with them anymore, but only Jesus. 9 As they were coming down the mountain, he ordered them to tell no one about ❧ Sending what they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead. Hymn - 192 - Shine, Jesus, Shine 1 Lord, the light of your love is shining, Homily in the midst of the darkness, shining; Jesus, Light of the World, shine upon us; Responding set us free by the truth you now bring us. ❧ Shine on me; shine on me. Affirmation of Faith Refrain Shine, Jesus, shine; We trust in Jesus Christ, fill this land with the Father’s glory. Fully human, fully God. Blaze, Spirit, blaze; Jesus proclaimed the reign of God: set our hearts on fire. preaching good news to the poor Flow, river, flow; and release to the captives, flood the nations with grace and mercy. teaching by word and deed Send forth your word, Lord, and blessing the children, and let there be light. healing the sick and binding up the brokenhearted, eating with outcasts, 2 Lord, I come to your awesome presence, forgiving sinners, and calling all to repent from the shadows into your radiance; and believe the gospel. by the blood I may enter your brightness. Unjustly condemned for blasphemy and Search me; try me; consume all my darkness. sedition, Jesus was crucified, Shine on me; shine on me. (Refrain) suffering the depths of human pain 3 As we gaze on your kingly brightness, and giving his life for the sins of the world. so our faces display your likeness; God raised this Jesus from the dead, ever changing from glory to glory, vindicating his sinless life, mirrored here may our lives tell your story. breaking the power of sin and evil, Shine on me; shine on me. (Refrain) delivering us from death to life eternal. With believers in every time and place, Announcements testifying, autonomy and freedom, solidarity and speaking truth to power. Charge & Benediction Virtual Coffee Hour - Stay online and enjoy Roommate Wanted - Jennifer Hooker conversation with one another! If you or someone you know is in need of a housing with roommate, Jennifer Hooker is ❧ Announcements looking for a roommate: Available mid-March: Large upstairs Ash Wednesday Service, February 17 at 7 bedroom, second bedroom currently being PM via Zoom used as an office/sitting room. 2 baths--1 large with shower, 1 smaller with tub and Join us as we repent and turn again to God shower. Private washer/ dryer with laundry this Lenten Season in preparation for chute. Ample closets and storage in Easter. Traditionally, we receive ashes on basement. Access to kitchen with our heads as a sign of our mortality and microwave, dishwasher etc. Attached sinfulness. If you signed up for the Lenten garage with opener for 1 vehicle. All in a Spirituality Kit, you will receive a small lovely quiet wooded setting with abundant portion of ashes. You may also mark your birdsong. head with soil, or simply make the sign of the cross on your forehead. Connect to all services and events by phone / online. Adult Education Continues this Winter We continue to worship on Sundays Adult Sunday School meets on Sunday together via Zoom and Phone! Join Zoom mornings at 9:00 AM, using the same Meeting: go to https://lovejoyupc.org/live information as worship to dial in via phone and click ‘connect via zoom.' or internet. Our Sunday School is covering our Confessions of Faith. For Regular phone Dial: +1-312-626-6799 and enter the Meeting ID: 611 784858# Lectionary Bible Study meets on Wednesdays at 10:15 AM via Zoom and Youth Quest packets Phone to study the scripture for the Continue to be sent to our children by Ken upcoming Sunday. Participation is open to Webster. Youth Quest Story videos are now anyone, and our conversations are always available online for the Spring. Children and lively, often fun, and seldom boring. families can access the online videos here:

https://lovejoyupc.org/courses/youth-quest/ PBS Documentary on the Black Church - Should you need to enter the church Feb 16–17 at 8 PM on PBS building The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This During office hours, please ring the doorbell Is Our Song is a moving four-hour, two-part and someone will answer to assist you. If series from executive producer, host and you need to enter the building after hours - writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Alphonse even if you have a key - Please sign the Fletcher University Professor at Harvard sign-in/sign-out sheet for contract tracing University and director of the Hutchins purposes. Center for African and African American Research, that traces the 400-year-old Tech Deacons are available to help you story of the Black church in America, all the get connected via phone and computer. way down to its bedrock role as the site of Miracles are possible! Call the church office African American survival and grace, at 618.254.5880 to get connected with a organizing and resilience, thriving and Tech Deacon. Food Pantry and Good Samaritan Fund with one another. We will no longer have Our Food Pantry continues to help our Sunday Night Evening Prayer neighbors in need on the 2nd and 4th Giving Monday from 9–10 AM. We have a need for Please continue your giving by mail or Good Samaritan Fund donations right now, online at our website: lovejoyupc.org/give. If please designate an offering to the church your financial situation has been impacted or give online: https://lovejoyupc.org/give by this virus, please be assured that it is ok and choose the “Good Samaritan Fund” as to adjust your giving. the recipient. Evening Prayer by phone/online - LoveJoy United Presbyterian Church Wednesday nights at 7 PM 2550 Rock Hill Rd. Join Pastor Daniel as we lift up our Wood River, IL 62095 community, world, and ourselves during Evening Prayer using phone and Zoom. We will also have a brief chance to check in

PRAYER CONCERNS

JoAnn Moss, Scott Shelton’s Mother, Carol, & his sister, Tina, Mary Trudell, Pat Fletcher, Kate Trudell, Lexie Suerig (Debbie Suerig’s daughter), Jim White, Rachel, Ralph Thompson, Terry Allen, Judy Ballard, Alma Cooper, Judy Luck, Marilyn Twigg, Cheryl Strohbeck, Shelly Devore (Brenda & Debbie’s niece), John Lindquist, Herbert Peel, Terry Tiller (Leukemia), Glenna Donohoo, Katie Davis, Bill Meyers (Neighbor of Henson’s), Jama McPeak, Nancy Yarnell (friend of Slayden’s), Vickie Aldrige, Patrick Bone, Tollie Family, Jack Kleinert, Mary Ann Roney (Barb Roney’s mother), Glenda McDonald, Kathy Testori (Glenda McDonald’s sister), Vickie Hastings, Gayla Boehm, Debbie Goskie, Rebecca (Rev. Pam Laing’s daughter), Dorothy Kelley, Sam and Sue Taylor (friends of Tim and Nanette Cerny), Larry King, Laura Martin, Daniel (Friend of the Humbert’s), Edwin Ehlers (friend of the King’s), Dorothy Freeman (Joe Freeman’s mother), Annabel Gibson and Christine Cunningham (Annabel’s daughter), Dane (Kathi Cooper’s Grandson), Deborah (friend of Paula Blair), Maurice and Susie Musgrave. Food Pantry prayer list: Gary, Carolyn, Herbert, Cynthia, Stephanie, Marisa, Tonya

NURSING HOME RESIDENTS

Riverside Care Center, Alton Ron Franke. Highland Healthcare, Alma Cooper

RETIREMENT HOME RESIDENTS

Integrity Healthcare, Wood River – Herbert Peel The Cottages of Carlinville, Carlinville – Shirley Martin Villa Rose, Bethalto – Beth Forrester Aspen Creek, Troy – Susanne Randall Cedarhurst, Bethalto – Cliff & Mary Barnes, Shirley Burris.