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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
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.
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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.
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 .... moving through March toward April
SPECIAL AND ONGOING EVENTS
- ONGOING
- Tuesdays: 10:30 a.m. every Tuesday Morning at a Zoom meeting. We are thoroughly enjoying the book, "From Widows to Warriors: Women's Stories from the Old Testament". The author is Lynn Japinga. March 21, we will continue discussion, this time talking about "Jezebel" Always a great conversation! Best book ever! There are many ways to order the new book. --(In fact, I have been reading the weekly lessons to share with those who might not have the bool If you want to hear a section, please call me, Kathie Hazlett. If you have questions, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.
- First Mondays April 3 and May1: Book Study | Kathleen O'Hanlon | Discussion of PBS Special, "The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song" narrated by Henry Louis Gates | available on Amazon Prime Video or PBS Passport | Call Kathie Hazlett 708-471-3626 if you need more info about access.
Zoom Link: 7 pm-8:30 (Central time) Our next meeting is: First Monday in April (the third). - Thursday, March 16 at 6:00: Men's Fellowship Gathering || Join us at Paulie's Pub ||| 2736 Chicago Rd, South Chicago Heights, for a few pops, a devotion, and Christian fellowship. Hope to see you there. ||| Upcoming Men's Fellowship
dates April 13, May 18, June 15 - Sunday: Worship with us in person or live streaming, (11 a.m.) (Mask optional for all in live service. Streaming? no masks necessary)
Access to our Live Streaming Service can be found on the "Worship Page" | Post Sunday Streaming Worship Meet-up (aka Heavenly Perks) began, in person, on May 22. - 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, March 26 -- Ezekiel 37:1-14, Psalm 130, Romans 8:6-11, John 11:1-45
Ezekiel 37:1-14 ||| New Revised Standard Version
The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. 3He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?” I answered, “O Lord God, you know.” 4Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 5Thus says the Lord God to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. 6I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord.” 7So I prophesied as I had been commanded; and as I prophesied, suddenly there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them. 9Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath: Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.” 10I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood on their feet, a vast multitude. 11Then he said to me, “Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.’ 12Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people. 14I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken and will act,” says the Lord.
Psalm 130 ||| New Revised Standard Version
1Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord.
2Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!
3If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?
4But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be revered.
5I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;
6my soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning, more than those who watch for the morning.
7O Israel, hope in the Lord! For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is great power to redeem.
8It is he who will redeem Israel from all its iniquities.
Romans 8:6-11 ||| New Revised Standard Version
6To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law—indeed it cannot, 8and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you.
John 11:1-45 ||| New Revised Standard Version
Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. 3So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” 4But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness does not lead to death; rather it is for God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” 5Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, 6after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. 7Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” 8The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and are you going there again?” 9Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Those who walk during the day do not stumble, because they see the light of this world. 10But those who walk at night stumble, because the light is not in them.” 11After saying this, he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to awaken him.” 12The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be all right.” 13Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was referring merely to sleep. 14Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead. 15For your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” 16Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.” 17When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. 18Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles away, 19and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother. 20When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home. 21Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him.” 23Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” 24Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” 25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, 26and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” 27She said to him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world.” 28When she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, and told her privately, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.” 29And when she heard it, she got up quickly and went to him. 30Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. 31The Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary get up quickly and go out. They followed her because they thought that she was going to the tomb to weep there. 32When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. 34He said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” 35Jesus began to weep. 36So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” 37But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?” 38Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. 39Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead four days.” 40Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?” 41So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you for having heard me. 42I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me.” 43When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.” 45Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.
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:
- Prelude - Musicians [0-2:56]
Narration 1 - The Beauty of Jesus, the Creator [2:57-4:51] - Portrait [4:55 - 8:15]
Narration 2 - The Beauty of Jesus, the Savior [8:17 - 9:07] - Fairest Lord Jesus [9:07 - 12:05]
Narration 3 - The Beauty of Jesus, the Healer [12:06-13:00] - The Healer [13:00-16:17]
Narration 4 - The Beauty of Jesus, the King [16:18 - 17:41] - Behold the King [17:42 - 21:35]
Narration 5 - The Beauty of Jesus, the King [21:35 - 22:35] - We Remember [22:36 - 26:03]
Narration 6 - The Beauty of Jesus, the Man of Sorrows [26:06 - 26:52] - A Sacred Garden [26:53 - 31:19]
INTERMISSION
Narration 7 - The Beauty of Jesus, the Redeemer [0:00 - 1:46] - 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] - Portrait of the Cross [6:22 - 11:50]
- 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