Percival Community Church: Sunday, August 17, 2025

Blessings

I enjoy snapping a picture of the church now and then. Notice the two rays of light at the window. Interesting.

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Good Morning!

Sunday, August 17, 2025

Call to worship and prayer Isaiah 4: 2-6

Hymn #98 "Great is Thy Faithfulness"

Offering and Doxology

Hymn #107 "Amazing Grace"

Praise and Prayer

Responsive Scripture Isaiah 6:1-13 Isaiah’s Commission

1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple.2 Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.
3 And they were calling to one another:
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”
4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.
7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”
8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
9 He said, “Go and tell this people:
“‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never
perceiving.’
10 Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
11 Then I said, “For how long, Lord?” And he answered: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged,
12 until the Lord has sent everyone far away and the land is utterly forsaken.
13 And though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste.
But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down,
so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.”

Hymn#112 "He Giveth More Grace"

Special Music: "I've Just Seen Too Much" - Big Daddy Weave

Sermon

Hymn#18 "The Love of God"

Benediction

Prayers:

Mary Sherwood, Don and Mike Shipley, Sherrie Thompson, cancer, Davie Warren - cancer, back, Dr. Woltemath - cancer, , Lynn Handy - at home, Barb Handy - caregiver, Bev Powles - back surgery, Betty Moyer-procedure, Rich Hobbfast - Jan’s friend, not well, Lucy Roth - lymphatic leukemia (Beth’s friend) Mindy’s Dad, Zane Burge - looking for employment, Damon Birkby - Hungary for work (4 months), Unspoken prayers, personal prayers, Penny-a lot of shoulder pain, Linda and Ray Hendrickson - alzheimer's, Chris Auten- health concerns, the Art Smith family (Diane Birkby's dad)

Praises

Lisa and Jeff's donation of Phyllis's memorial for new church basement door, caregivers, Health workers, Doctors, Nurses, family, Employment, Thomas (Beth's son-in-law) training in Germany

Rootbeer and Orange Floats today after church!

PCC Borard Meeting today after church.

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Looking Ahead...

August 23rd: Percival Hometown Pride, Saturday picnic in the park, including Cow Pie event

September 7th: Sunday School starts back up

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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