In-Person Worship
Saturdays at 5:00pm.
Sundays at 8:00 and 10:30am. (9:00am Memorial Day through Labor Day weekends)
Online Worship: Alive: He Lives to Pour Out His Spirit
Sunday, May 24
Watch the livestream beginning at 9 a.m. on Sunday. After the livestream is finished, the video will be available to watch at any time.
Welcome! Thank you for joining us for worship today. In our services we gather before our almighty God to receive his gifts and to offer him our worship and praise. Through God’s powerful Word and Sacraments he renews our faith and strengthens us to serve in joy.
When the disciples were distressed about Jesus ascending into heaven, he assured them, “It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you” (John 16:7). That Advocate is the Holy Spirit. If Jesus had stayed in the grave, the Holy Spirit would have had no reason to enter the lives of disciples. But Jesus lives, and it makes a difference. The Spirit provides faith and purpose for life. Pentecost, the celebration of the special arrival of the Holy Spirit, is the third great festival of the Church, along with the Nativity and the Resurrection. Pentecost closes the fifty-day period after Easter and ends the festival half of the church year. The Church dresses in red on this day to commemorate the tongues of fire that marked the Spirit’s gift as well as the blood of the martyrs.
Music:
- Hymn: CW 588 “Come, O Come, Life-Giving Spirit”
- Hymn: CW 898 “Send, O Lord, Your Holy Spirit”
- Hymn: CW 669 “In This Holy, Blest Communion”
- Hymn: CW 593 “Holy Spirit, Light Divine”
TV Services
Our full weekend worship service is broadcast on Valley Access – Channel 18. Contact Valley Access at vactv.org for broadcast times.
