Pentecost Sunday Service, 31 May 2020
Welcome and Announcements
Though we cannot be together in person, we can be together in spirit! Please note the following announcements:
*Teri is on holiday until the 3rd of June. If you have a pastoral emergency, please call and leave a message and she will get back to you. Otherwise, she’ll be responding when she returns, but if you have a question you can contact Cameron.
* This summer we are taking a Church Family summer trip! We’ll be journeying together from Shore to Shore — the shores of the Clyde to the shores of the sea of Galilee, to the hometown of St. John the Evangelist. Keep track of how much time you spend in prayer, reading the Bible, serving others, or going for a walk. For every 10 minutes, you move us 1km along the journey! Then each week send Teri a note, text, or phone call saying how far you “traveled” this week. So far we have made it to Manchester, and we know that when everyone starts participating, we’ll make good progress on the journey together!
*Children’s Time happens each Sunday morning at 11am on Zoom. If you would like the login details, please contact Teri.
*Churches across Scotland are calling people to join together in prayer on Sunday evenings at 7pm, placing a lit candle in the window and spending time in prayer for others. Tonight, we hope you will light your candle and use the prayer offered for this purpose on the Church of Scotland website. Beginning next week, our Sunday evening prayer services will be shared across our “Fuzzy Parish” (now called CONNECT), so watch this space!
*Feel free to share this with others, with the attribution information at the top. If you know someone who does not have access to the internet and who also does not receive the tape ministry, you can either print this service out and share it with them, or let Teri know via email or phone call and we will be sure they receive a printed copy.
*Mid-week there is a devotional email that goes out, it will be printed and included with the following Sunday’s sermon distribution. You can subscribe to the email here.
*Also mid-week there is a facebook live video devotional or a Virtual Tea Break on the St. John’s Gourock Facebook page.
*We now have a youtube channel! You can subscribe there so you never miss a video. Don’t miss “wine and the word” — an occasional series during the 5pm hour that helps us transition from one part of the day to the next, via reflections similar to those that would normally have been in the “God’s Story, Our Story” take home inserts given out each week.
*If you or a church member you know is in need of friendly phone calls or help with anything while they self-isolate, please contact Teri. Elders are already in contact with people in their districts as well, and you can pass information to them! We are hoping to continue and even deepen our connections to one another, building up the Body of Christ even when we can’t be in the building.
*Parklea has plants for sale! While we can’t have our usual plant sale in the church hall, you can still support this community organisation and get your spring and summer plants by visiting their website.
*Visit our Holy Spirit Selfie Station near the front gate of the Church by Wednesday, 3 June! Stop and take a selfie, or have someone take a photo, and send it to Teri so we can put together a slideshow —both to see each other and to celebrate the Church’s birthday….and to remember that the Church is the people, not the building.
Today’s service is led by the Right Rev. Dr. Martin Fair, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
You can find the service live at 10am, or via recording anytime after that, here:
On the Church of Scotland Website (includes options for captions and BSL interpretation)
