Welcome – Pastor Gayle
Greeting:
L: God is love and those who abide in love abide in God and God abides in them.
All: If we love one another, God lives in us and God’s love is perfected in us.
Hymn – In the Garden – UMH 314
I come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the roses,
and the voice I hear falling on my ear; the Son of God discloses.
Refrain
And he walks with me and he talks with me
and he tells me I am his own;
and the joy we share as we tarry there, none other has ever known.
He speaks and the sound of his voice is so sweet
the birds hush their singing; and the melody that he gave to me
within my heart is ringing.
Refrain
I’d stay in the garden with him though the night around me be falling,
but he bids me go; through the voice of woe his voice to me is calling.
Refrain
Opening Prayer – Almighty God, through your only Son you overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life. By the power of your Holy Spirit, open our hearts and minds as the Scriptures are read and your Word proclaimed so that we may hear with joy what you say to us today. Amen
Scripture Reading – John 15:1-10
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.
Anthem
Message – Pastor Gayle
Sharing Joys and Concerns
Pastoral Prayer
Offering – We offer our gifts of time, resources, abilities
Hymn – Seek Ye First – UMH 405
Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness,
and all things shall be added unto you. Allelu, alleluia!
Ask, and it shall be given unto you; seek and ye shall find,
knock, and the door shall be opened unto you. Allelu, alleluia!
Doxology – UMH 95
Announcements
Hymn – You are the Vine
You are the vine, we are the branches, keep us abiding in you.
You are the vine, we are the branches, keep us abiding in you.
And we’ll go (and we’ll go) in your love (in your love);
in your name (in your name) that the world will surely know
that you have power to heal and to save.
Danny Daniels and Randy Rigby CCLI# 52538
Benediction
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Please pray for: Ed, Barbara, Mary, Erin and family, Laura, Millie, Kyle, Gordon and Joan, Judy S., Israel, Palestinians, Barbara H., Bob and Kathy, Wenona, Mark Y. Requests will be kept on the list for 4 weeks and then may be re-submitted. Place prayer cards in offering plate or email cokesburyumc@gmail.com
Happening Today
Small Group Study: Pauses for Pentecost
Weekend food packing in fellowship hall
This Week at Cokesbury
Men’s Breakfast Saturday, May 4th, 8:30am at Cokesbury
Choir practice Saturdays at 12 noon adults. 1pm children.
Coming up:
Community Garden: garden plots for seasonal lease. $15/plot/growing season. CommunityGarden@cokesburyumc.church
Monthly
Men’s Breakfast First Saturday of Month 8:30am
Welcome Table Potluck every second Sunday at 11:30 am.
Friday with Friends every Third Friday at 11 am. Bring a bag lunch. Food and conversation.
Connect with Cokesbury:
703.494.5400
Gmail : CokesburyUMC@gmail.com
Website : CokesburyUMC.church
Facebook : facebook.com/cokesburywoodbridge
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Contact Pastor Gayle: 703.980.1029. Mondays are her sabbath.