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november 8 | NOT AGAIN | Pastor elvery
evelyn dixon | Karen maurer | tim vannasdale

november 1 | WEBSTER III DOES THE BEATITUDES | Pastor Elvery
Joyce Anders | Jill otto | Tim vannasdale

october 25 | TWOFER | twenty first sunday after pentecost | Pastor elvery
Jan bunker & earl anker | tim vannasdale

october 18 | FAIR TAX | twentieth sunday after pentecost | Rev Jane tuma
Kim Hamilton | melanie Hamilton | Tim Vannasdale

october 11 | AMATEUR HOUR \ nineteenth sunday after pentecost  | pastor elvery
Kathleen o'hanlon | michael bonthron | kathie hazlett | tim vannasdale

october 4 | QUALITY CONTROL | EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST | PASTOR ELVERY
JANET AND EARL WAHL | TIM VANNASDALE | 

september 27 | GRUMBLE GRUMBLE | SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST | PASTOR ELVERY
NANCY BEAUDOIN | SUSAN ZORNS | TIM VANNASDALE 

september 20 | TOO BIG, TOO LITTLE OR JUST RIGHT? | SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST | PASTOR ELVERY

september 13 | HOW MUCH? | FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST | pASTOR ELVERY
KATHIE AND JERRY HAZLETT | TIM VANNASDALE 

septeMber 6 | PROTO-PRESBYTERIAN? | FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST | PASTOR ELVERY
GLENNA ELVERY | jOYCE ANDERS | TIM VANNASDALE

august 23 | THEY RESISTED | TWELFTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST | rEV jANE tUMA
LEE AND EMMANUEL HILARIO | TIM VANNASDALE

august 16 | SHE PERSISTED | ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST | REV JANE TUMA
KAREN MAURER | pHIL dILLMAN | TIM VANNASDALE

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Healing and Wholeness

Virtual Service of Healing and Wholeness at 7:00 pm | november 8 2021
ZOOM VIRTUAL PRAYER AT 7:15-7:45. iNSTRUCTIONS BELOW

There are two ways to experience the first presbyterian church of homewood's VIRTUAL SERVICE OF HEALING AND WHOLENESS. 

1.enjoy viewing them in a YOUTUBE PLAYLIST-- One-Video-At-A-Time or "Play All" or

2. Click the video below for the november 8 2021 | Virtual Service [14:51]

TONIGHT WE ARE also OFFERING A VIRTUAL PRAYER table, between 7:15-7:45, using the ZOOM program.  For those who have zoom, CLICK ON THE image of the PRAYER TABLE below. follow the instructions | When system dialog prompts, click Open link.the message will say "please wait for the host to start this meeting." wait. Laurie will be there.  

the prayer table photo below IS A LINK THAT WILL virtually TAKE YOU TO laurie WHO WILL BE ABLE TO PRAY FOR YOU.

Prayer Table Link

Thank you for joining us this evening.  It is our prayer that you were able to feel comfort and hear encouragement with this service. Please call 708 471 3626  for further information about this service or First Presbyterian Church of Homewood. 

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Calendar of Upcoming Virtual & in-Person Meetings .... as we move through May toward June

SPECIAL AND ONGOING EVENTS

    • SPECIAL 

      • The combined choirs of Calvary and FPCHW-Homewood are below (click on photo to enlarge)

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    • ONGOING
    1. Sunday Worship at 11:00 a.m.  Access to our Live Streaming Service can be found on the "Worship Page" | Post Sunday Streaming Worship Meet-up (aka Heavenly Perks) which also meets, in person. 
    2. Combined Worship Service at 10:00 a.m.  Join us on Pentecost Sunday for the combined worship service of First Presbyterian Church of Homewood and Calvary United Protestant Church on Sunday, May 19th, 10:00 a.m. will be held at Calvary (425 N. Orchard Drive, Park Forest, IL).
    3. Tuesdays: 10:30 a.m. every Tuesday Morning  at a Zoom meeting. Our new book is: "Acts For Everyone" by N.T. Wright, Feb. 13, 2024 | Acts 5:1-11.
    4. Healing & Wholeness Service date is: TBD.  We offer access to a Healing & Wholeness Service online  at any time.  This service is a time of reflection, prayer, and meditation.  This service can help us to experience anew God’s healing, peace-giving grace or refuel us for becoming agents of healing and reconciliation.  Taking time for this mimics a pattern for Jesus and his disciples.  They would be out in the thick of a clamoring multitude and then retreat to a quiet place to reconnect, recharge, and clarify their mission.  Our quiet place awaits us in this service online.  (Watch for an announcement for maybe private prayer time on Zoom after this service.) | Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for prayer needs request.

Looking forward | scripture readings for sUNDAY, May 12 -- Acts 1:1-11 and luke 24:44-53

Acts 1:1-11 ||| New Revised Standard Version

In the first book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning 2until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. 3After his suffering he presented himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. 4While staying with them, he ordered them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for the promise of the Father. “This,” he said, “is what you have heard from me; 5for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” 6So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7He replied, “It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority. 8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” 9When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. 10While he was going and they were gazing up toward heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them. 11They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

 

Luke 24:44-53 ||| New Standard Version

44Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.” 45Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, 46and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, 47and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48You are witnesses of these things. 49And see, I am sending upon you what my Father promised; so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.” 50Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, he blessed them. 51While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven. 52And they worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy; 53and they were continually in the temple blessing God.

 

Sunday Morning Services

2018 Sunday Services

Ready, Set, Go!
August 26, 2018 | Prayer for Illumination, Psalm 84, Ready, Set, Go! [21 minutes] |
August 26, 2018 | [to be added] Click on this link to hear the whole service.  It will play as if you were present. [One Hour Sixteen Minutes]

Called to the Cusp
June 3

  • Click on this link to hear the whole 1:10 service.  It will play as if you were present. 
  • Or to begin with the Prayer for Illumination followed by: 
    • The FIRST SCRIPTURE READING Mark 2:23 - 3:6 
    • ANTHEM   I Surrender, Lord
    • SECOND SCRIPTURE READING 1 Samuel 3:1-10 p. 236 / 306 OT
    • SERMON Called to the Cusp By Pastor Dudley Elvery

Watch and Wait?
June 10
06-10 Click on this link to hear the sermon portion of First Presbyterian Church of Homewood, "Watch and Wait?"  by Pastor Dudley Elvery [28 minutes]

Palm Sunday - March 25, 2018 | Complete Service

Video Below: Congregational Response 820, "Nothing Can Trouble" | Prayer for Illumination | Scripture Readings (Psalm 118:19-29) and (Philippians 2:5-11)

Cantata | Portraits in Grace | Joseph M. Martin

PART One: 

  1. Prelude - Musicians [0-2:56]

    Narration 1 - The Beauty of Jesus, the Creator [2:57-4:51]
  2. Portrait  [4:55 - 8:15]

    Narration 2 - The Beauty of Jesus, the Savior [8:17 - 9:07]
  3. Fairest Lord Jesus [9:07 - 12:05]

    Narration 3 - The Beauty of Jesus, the Healer [12:06-13:00]
  4. The Healer [13:00-16:17]

    Narration 4 - The Beauty of Jesus, the King [16:18 - 17:41]
  5. Behold the King [17:42  - 21:35]

    Narration 5 - The Beauty of Jesus, the King  [21:35 - 22:35]
  6. We Remember  [22:36 - 26:03]

    Narration 6 - The Beauty of Jesus, the Man of Sorrows [26:06 - 26:52]
  7. A Sacred Garden  [26:53 - 31:19]


    INTERMISSION

    Narration 7 - The Beauty of Jesus, the Redeemer [0:00 - 1:46]
  8. Let Us Gather in the Shadow of the Cross [1:47 - 4:41 ]

    Narration 8 - The Beauty of Jesus, the Grace-Giver [4:42 - 6:21]
  9. Portrait of the Cross [6:22 - 11:50]
  10. Recessional of Shadows [11:55 - 14:16]



    Portraits in Grace A Cantata for Holy Week, by Joseph M. Martin
    Directed by Tim VanNasdale
    Narrator, Pastor Dudley Elvery
    Musicians, Pianist Tim VanNasdale;  Flautist, Tricia Hentschel;  Cellist: David Keller
    Choir, Janet Wahl, Li Hilario, Jan Bunker, Kathleen O'Hanlon, Laurie Ulrich, Kathie Darman
    Verne Moore, Paul Gerrish, Rod Dunlap, Emmanuel Hilario, Evelyn Dixon, Melodee Leimnetzer

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