Loving and Learning in Lodi November 24 2019
When my daughter, Amanda, was a toddler, she
learned to say ‘thank you.’ However, it sounded like key-oh-koo. If I handed
her something to drink or gave her something to eat, her response was
“key-oh-koo mommy”.
This next week is our yearly “key-oh-koo”
week…Thanksgiving week, when we remember and give thanks for the many blessings
in our lives. We don’t have to think too long or too hard to find things to be
thankful for. Most of us have enough food on our tables, a roof over our heads
and clothes on our backs. We have our families and our friends. We have our
church home where we worship together and find loving encouragement as we seek
to follow Jesus.
We have the simple gifts of life that grace
our days: blue skies, crisp fall air, the crunch of leaves under our feet, the
warmth of turtle necks and sweaters. Our lives are rich and full.
I invite us to enjoy this next week of
‘key-oh-koo’ days…days where we pause to remember how blessed we are…how much we’ve
been given…how ‘rich’ we are…days when we whisper from deep in our hearts,
“Key-oh-koo, God…key-oh-koo”.
See
you Sunday! Pastor Diane
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Liturgist: Larry
Cray Greeter/s: Ron
& Faye Stewart
Hymns: We Gather Together verses 1 – 3 #131
Now Thank We All Our God verses
1 - 3 #102
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty verses
1 – 5 #139
“Therefore, I say
to you, don’t worry about your life, what you’ll eat or what you’ll drink, or
about your body, what you’ll wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more
than clothes? Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t sow seed or harvest
grain or gather crops into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t
you worth much more than they are? Who among you by worrying can add a single
moment to your life? And why do you worry about clothes? Notice how the lilies
in the field grow. They don’t wear themselves out with work, and they don’t
spin cloth. But I say to you that even Solomon in all of his splendor wasn’t
dressed like one of these. If God dresses grass in the field so beautifully,
even though it’s alive today and tomorrow it’s thrown into the furnace, won’t
God do much more for you, you people of weak faith? Therefore, don’t worry and
say, ‘What are we going to eat?’ or ‘What are we going to drink?’ or ‘What are
we going to wear?’ Gentiles long for all these things. Your heavenly Father
knows that you need them. Instead, desire first and foremost God’s kingdom and
God’s righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Therefore, stop worrying about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about
itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Leader: The word of God
for the people of God. People: Thanks be to God.
THE CHURCH IN ACTION
Choir rehearses on Thursday evenings at 7pm. Join us!
Our Men’s Group meets this Saturday at 9:00 a.m. in Fellowship
Hall. All
the men of the church are welcome to attend.
Saturday, Dec. 7 from 4pm-7pm. Winter Wonderland in Lodi. We will partner with the Village of Lodi on Dec. 7 to Welcome
Christmas to Lodi! We will have a live nativity, food, crafters/vendors, organ
music, caroling, nativities set up around the sanctuary, and much more! We need: your nativities to set up in the
sanctuary and plastic milk containers for luminaries. Please let Dottie know if you have a nativity
to share or would like to help in any way at mywifedot@aol.com
or lodiumcsec.dottie@gmail.com.
Bring your
nativities to the church on Friday, December 6th from 5-6pm or on
Saturday, December 7th at 2pm. Or…contact Dottie for other
arrangements.
Please save your plastic caps and lids for a “buddy bench” for
Sylvia Anderson’s great nephew, Braden’s school.
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