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MORNING PRAYER MINISTRY Wednesdays @ 7:00 AM Dial: 425-585-7852 TITHES AND OFFERING Tithes and offerings may be mailed in or brought to the church and placed in our secure mailbox. Thank you for being faithful stewards.

SMALL GROUP/PERSONAL STUDY Visit the United Methodist Church Discipleship Ministries website for small group studies, or just your own personal study. umc.discipleship.org

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FOOD PANTRY DISTRIBUTION Saturday, May 8th from 9:00-11:00 AM Our Food Pantry serves the community on the second Saturday of each month. If there is ever an emergency need for food, please contact the church office Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. @ 757-628-6543, and we will make arrangements with our Food Pantry Ministry for you to pickup food.

A BIG thank you to Mrs. Valerie Santiful and our Food Pantry Ministry for your tireless efforts and hours put in to a much needed ministry.

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NORFOLK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 6870 N. Military Highway ~ Norfolk, VA 23518 757.628.6543 (telephone) 757.628.8181 (fax) Office Hours Tuesday-Thursday, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

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Jesus is trying to ground the disciples’ faith in the reality of his presence, in the concreteness of his being. He told them to touch him; he ate in front of them. He was announcing that he was real. What can we provide; what hands-on proof can we give that Jesus is alive among us? Of course, we have been in a pandemic and touching is still not something we want to engage in; but we can still give examples of lives being touched, hearts being touched.

Norfolk United Methodist Church 6870 N. Military Highway Norfolk, VA 23518

Dr. Sherry L. Daniels, Senior Pastor Rev. Carolyn Graves, Associate Pastor Rev. Finley O. Jones, Minister of Visitation

www.facebook.com/NorfolkUMC PLEASE CONTINUE TO PRACTICE GOOD SAFETY PRECAUTIONS AND BE WELL!

Email

officenorfolk@gmail.com

Text-Giving BLESSINGS TO ALL!

757.230.2125

April 18, 2021 9:00 AM

“Enter Into His Gates with Thanksgiving & Praise”

Dr. Sherry L. Daniels

April 18, 2021

CONGREGATIONAL SINGING

PRAYER

“Leave It There”

OPENING “I’ll Meet You In the Morning”

By: Tim Woodson & The Heirs of Harmony

CALL TO WORSHIP “Psalm 4

Response: There is a balm in Gilead, to make the wounded whole.

Leader: People:

Answer me when I call, O God of my right!

You have given me room when I was in distress.

Be gracious to me, and hear my prayer.

Leader: People:

How long, O people, shall my honor suffer shame?

How long will you love vain words, and seek after lies?

Leader:

But know that the Lord has set apart the righteous as God’s own; the Lord hears when I call.

People:

By: Charles A. Tindley Arr. By: Nolan Williams, Jr.

Verse 1 If the world from you withhold of its silver and its gold, And you have to get along with meager fare, Just remember, in His Word, how He feeds the little bird— Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there.

Verse 4 When your youthful days are gone and old age is stealing on, And your body bends beneath the weight of care, He will never leave you then, He’ll go with you to the end— Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there.

Refrain Leave it there, leave it there, Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there; If you trust and never doubt, He will surely bring you out.

Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there.

(Verses 2 & 3 omitted.)

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ THE WORD FOR TODAY

Dr. Sherry L. Daniels, Senior Pastor

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INVITATION TO CHRISTIAN DISCIPLESHIP MINISTRY THROUGH TITHES AND OFFERINGS By: Rev. Dr. Ken Sloane Director of Stewardship & Generosity, Discipleship Ministries, The United Methodist Church

Mighty God who brings life and hope out of death and despair, help us hear the invitation Christ offered to the disciples, “Touch me and see!” Make us bold to grab hold of the risen Christ, not for this day, but for all our days. May we offer our gifts this morning not to the church historical; the church that was; but to a church that is becoming, that is still being born, that Christ will bring into the future.

May our eyes and ears and hearts continue to hold on to him as we help Christ lead his church forward! In his name, we pray. Amen.

(Luke 24:36b-48)

BLESSING AND SENDING FORTH Go in peace.

“I Found A Friend”

By: The Brooklyn Allstars

Response: There is a balm in Gilead, to make the wounded whole.

Leader: People:

Be angry, but do not sin; commune with your own hearts in your beds, and be silent.

Leader: People:

Offer right sacrifices, and put your trust in the Lord.

Leader: People:

There are many who say, “O that we might see some good!

Lift up the light of your countenance upon us, O Lord!”

Leader:

You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.

In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me lie down in safety.

THE OLD TESTAMENT READING Psalm 4

“Depart To Serve”

THE NEW TESTAMENT READINGS

People:

Response: There is a balm in Gilead, to make the wounded whole.

Acts 3:12-19 1 John 3:1-7

THE GOSPEL READING Luke 24:36b-48

MINISTRY THROUGH MUSIC

TODAY’S WORSHIP PARTICIPANTS

“I Love Jesus”

Worship Leader Mr. Carlton Bacon

Music By: The O’Jays Lyrics: Russell Perkins

Musician Mr. William A. L. Brown, II - Director of Music Choir The Mighty Men of NUMC