Percival Community Church: Sunday, June 8, 2025

Blessings

Reminder for June: Pull out your Percival Church cookbook and put it to good use! Those time-tested recipes are too good to be forgotten.

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Sunday, June 8th, 2025

Call to Worship and Prayer

Hymn #594, “Anywhere With Jesus”

Offering and Doxology

Hymn #601, “Savior Like A Shepherd Lead Us”

Praise and Prayers

Responsive Reading: Jonah 1:1-16

1 The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai:
2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”
3 But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord.
4 Then the Lord sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up.
5 All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.
6 The captain went to him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us so that we will not perish.”
7 Then the sailors said to each other, “Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity.” They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.
8 So they asked him, “Tell us, who is responsible for making all this trouble for us? What kind of work do you do? Where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?”
9 He answered, “I am a Hebrew and I worship the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”
10 This terrified them and they asked, “What have you done?” (They knew he was running away from the Lord, because he had already told them so.)
11 The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, “What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?”
12 “Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” he replied, “and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you.”
13 Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before.
14 Then they cried out to the Lord, “Please, Lord, do not let us die for taking this man’s life. Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man, for you, Lord, have done as you pleased.”
15 Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm.
16 At this the men greatly feared the Lord, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows to him.

Hymn #598, “All The Way My Savior Leads Me”

Special Music: “The Commission” by Cain

Sermon: “Great Commission” Part 2By Adrian Rogers (start 14.48)

Hymn #18, “The Love Of God”

Benediction

Prayers:

Mary Sherwood, Wava, Don and Mike Shipley, Sherrie Thompson, cancer, Davie Warren - cancer, back, Randy Snapp - hospice, Dr. Woltemath - cancer, Harley Niles, kidney disease, Penny Warren - shoulders, hairline fracture, Lynn Handy - The Ambassador, broken back, Barb Handy - caregiver, Phyllis Layman, Joan Tiemeyer, Bob Geiger - heart surgery, rehabilitation, Bev Powles - very bad back, Rich Hobbfast - Jan’s friend, not well, Lucy Roth - lymphatic leukemia (Beth’s friend), Betty Booker - beloved puppy is very sick, Carolyn Maher - Madonna, Lincoln

Praises:

Barb’s great-grandson Sully celebrates his fourth birthday,
Penney’s great-grand twins Waylon and Wade are doing well after
premature birth, Bob Geiger is recovering nicely, Donna Glenn is happy to be back at church.

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Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by passing on their life to others and releasing their offspring to form new congregations. ~ unknown