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Events This Week
Virtual Worship - Sunday 4/19, 10:00am
This sunday we will begin a new sermon series called Parting Words: Finding Hope in Jesus' Farewell Discourse. You may consider reading John chapters 14-17 every week throughout this series in preparation for worship. The worship service will be live-streamed on Facebook Live, and posted afterwards as a video on Facebook and YouTube. Please see the order of worship for this service printed below.
How To Connect:
Zoom Coffee Fellowship- Sunday 4/19, 11:30am
New This Week! Join us for a Zoom Coffee Fellowship on Sunday Morning at 11:30am. Hosted each week by Pastor Scott or Pastor Ben, this will include time for open-ended conversation, ice-breaker questions, and sharing prayer concerns. We look forward to connecting with each other and deepening relationships among our Faith Church and Roots of Faith congregants. Bring your own coffee & treat :-)
How To Connect:
- Join with computer audio & video by visiting this meeting link https://zoom.us/j/95035020713.
- To connect on your tablet or phone, download the Zoom App at www.zoom.us/downloads before clicking the meeting link above.
- You can also join with audio-only from your cell phone or home phone by dialing 1-646-558-8656 and then enter the Access Code 95035020713#.
Roots of Faith Virtual Ask-Event - Mon 4/20, 6:30pm
Come learn about the many ways Roots of Faith is serving and transforming our community and responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us for a VIRTUAL 1-hour presentation to learn more about how you too can serve our community! This event is intended as a way for church members & others already connected with Roots of Faith to invite other community members to support Roots of Faith. Church members are not asked to donate at this even, because you are already supporting Roots of Faith through tithes and offerings, but it is still a great opportunity to learn about what's going on at Roots. Click this link to RSVP for the event and receive a Zoom conference call invitation. Please invite friends, family, and neighbors to join us and learn more about Roots of Faith!
Zoom Bible Study- Wednesday 4/22, 7:00pm
Join us for a Zoom Bible Study on Wednesdays at 7:00pm. Hosted each week by Pastor Scott or Pastor Ben, this will include time for weekly updates, prayer concerns, and a bible study on a different text each week. We look forward to this time of spiritual connection and mutual encouragement!
How To Connect:
- Join with computer audio & video by visiting this meeting link https://zoom.us/j/95414635033.
- To connect on your tablet or phone, download the Zoom App at www.zoom.us/downloads before clicking the meeting link above.
- You can also join with audio-only from your cell phone or home phone by dialing 1-646-558-8656 and then enter the Access Code 95414635033#.
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Food Distribution At Roots of Faith
By Outreach Director, Kathleen Stanley
In my wildest dreams, I never expected that a worldwide pandemic would shut down life as we know it. Roots of Faith immediately asked, “what can we do to help”. We contacted our local partners (Sharpsburg Neighborhood Organization, Second Harvest, Sharpsburg Family Worship Center, St. Juan Diego parish, and the Sharpsburg food pantry) We quickly realized that getting food to those in the most need would be paramount. We started a facebook fundraiser and within a few days we had raised over $4,000. We held our first food distribution to the community on March 19th where we handed out 120 bags in 33 minutes. On March 26th we passed out 300 bags of groceries and on April 1st we passed out 400 bags of groceries to the community. We are focusing on getting food to senior citizens, those who are at high risk , and those who have lost their jobs. We have evolved in a very short time to delivering groceries to 5 local apartment buildings in the area and about 30 individual homes. We continue to hand out grocery bags at Roots of Faith as well. These pictures represent the hard work of volunteers from; Roots of Faith, Second Harvest, and community volunteers. We will continue food distributions until the end of April. We have applied for two COVID19 grants to help purchase food. One grant for $5,000 has already been approved.
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Announcements
Food Donations at Roots of Faith
Donations of non-perishable food items can be brought to Roots of Faith on Wednesdays from 10am-12noon.
Congregational Giving
Faith UMC is seeking to continue all staff compensation throughout this crisis. Therefore, we would ask all congregants to continue your faithful giving to Faith UMC if you are in a position to do so. Checks can be mailed to the church office at 261 W. Chapel Ridge Rd, Fox Chapel, PA 15238. Online giving is also available for Faith Church www.faithfoxchapel.org/give and Roots of Faith www.faithfoxchapel.org/rofgive.
Position Opening: Part Time Worship Leader at Roots of Faith
Roots of Faith is seeking a part-time Worship Leader. Roots of Faith in Sharpsburg, PA, is a location of Faith United Methodist Church in Fox Chapel. A guitarist and/or keyboardist is preferred with strong vocals, leadership skills, and a willingness to work with persons from a variety of ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Worship leader will be paid $100 per week for 8 hours of work. To apply, please send resume to Ben Phipps at pastorben@faithfoxchapel.org
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Order of Worship
4-19-20
Greeting
Opening Songs
Jesus Messiah
Holy, Holy, Holy
Sharing of Peace
Community Announcements
Offering
Scripture Reading—John 14:1-14
Sermon—Do not let Your Heart Be Troubled
Prayers of the People
Lord’s Prayer
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.
Closing Song
Defender
Benediction
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John 14:1-14
14‘Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. 2In my Father’s house there are many dwelling-places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also. 4And you know the way to the place where I am going.’ 5Thomas said to him, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?’ 6Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7If you know me, you will know my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.’
8 Philip said to him, ‘Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.’ 9Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, “Show us the Father”? 10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own; but the Father who dwells in me does his works. 11Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; but if you do not, then believe me because of the works themselves. 12Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father. 13I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14If in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it.
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