Percival Community Church: Sunday, September 28, 2025

Blessings

Farewell, September-- your days have gone too swiftly.

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Sunday, September 28th, 2025
Courage for the Journey

Call to Worship and Prayer: Isaiah 15:1-9

Hymn #323, “Holy, Holy, Holy”

Offering and Doxology

Hymn #325, “All Hail The Power of Jesus' Name”

Praise and Prayers

Responsive Scripture: Isaiah 16:1-13

1 Send the lamb to the ruler of the land, From Sela to the wilderness,
To the mount of the daughter of Zion.

2 For it shall be as a wandering bird thrown out of the nest; So shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.

3 “Take counsel, execute judgment; Make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day; Hide the outcasts, Do not betray him who escapes.

4 Let My outcasts dwell with you, O Moab; Be a shelter to them from the face of the spoiler. For the extortioner is at an end, Devastation ceases, The oppressors are consumed out of the land.

5 In mercy the throne will be established; And One will sit on it in truth, in the tabernacle of David, Judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness.”

6 We have heard of the pride of Moab—He is very proud— Of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath; But his lies shall not be so.

7 Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab; Everyone shall wail. For the foundations of Kir Hareseth you shall mourn; Surely they are stricken.

8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, And the vine of Sibmah; The lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants, Which have reached to Jazer And wandered through the wilderness. Her branches are stretched out, They are gone over the sea.

9 Therefore I will bewail the vine of Sibmah, With the weeping of Jazer; I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; For battle cries have fallen Over your summer fruits and your harvest.

10 Gladness is taken away, And joy from the plentiful field; In the vineyards there will be no singing, Nor will there be shouting; No treaders will tread out wine in the presses; I have made their shouting cease.

11 Therefore my heart shall resound like a harp for Moab, And my inner being for Kir Heres.

12 And it shall come to pass, When it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, That he will come to his sanctuary to pray; But he will not prevail.

13 This is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning Moab since that time.

Hymn #337, “Praise To The Lord the Almighty”

Special Music:
“Out Of My Hands” by Jeremy Camp

Sermon “Moab”

Hymn #18, “The Love Of God”

Prayers:

Mary Sherwood - sign book if visiting, Gary Sherwood, Wava and Mike Shipley -Rockport, Don Shipley, Betty Booker - health concerns,
Sandra and Chase - Nancy’s family, Sherrie Thompson, cancer, Jan’s friend Glenda Wright - cancer, Davie Warren - back, falling issues, Lynn Handy - physical therapy weekly 3x, Barb Handy - caregiver, Bev Powles - procedures this month, Joan Tiemeyer - back, Rich Hobbfast - Jan’s friend, not well, Lucy Roth - lymphatic leukemia, Beth’s friend, Linda and Ray Hendrickson - alzheimers, Don’s ministry, Unspoken and personal prayers

Praises:

Penny’s Jesse and Wyatt’s first anniversary, Donna’s lunch with Nancy, Mindy’s family gathering, Barb H. didn’t have stroke, crops look great.

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Mary Z. requests the congregation to collect for her empty plastic milk jugs, gallon size or half gallon. She needs about 30 of them for a Halloween craft at our Fall Festival.

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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