[Sunday’s online worship service featured our Growing Tree Preschool and included a fun puppet skit about Easter surprises. Our church is so grateful for our Growing Tree Preschool children and families as well as our very dedicated teachers! Our preschool director and teachers have as much fun as the children! The online service also includes other fun videos along with the concluding sermon of “The Twelve Disciples of Jesus” featuring the disciple, Thomas. Click here to watch the online worship service.
God of the resurrection, we join the disciple, Thomas in naming our doubts. We know that doubts are what help us to grow deeper in our faith. In addition to Thomas, we think of the many Psalmists who shared there doubts with you. Thank you for giving us permission to share our doubts with you.
We pray for each other during this challenging time of distance learning, online worship services, wondering if we have washed our hands enough, adapting to a new way of using our time, getting used to wearing masks, living with the unknown of when life will get back to normal and what the new normal will look like. O God, we name our doubts that are on our hearts and minds as we worship this day.
God of the resurrection, during this unsettling time, we continue to lift up those who are feeling lonely and disconnected, those who are ill, those who have lost loved ones, those who are doing many different kinds of essential work on our behalf like medical personnel, nursing home staff, grocery workers, truck drivers, and researchers and scientists. We lift these persons to you for strength and protection.
As we conclude our eight-week series on the twelve disciples of Jesus, help us to hear you call each of our names to follow you and be your disciples. Teach us what it means to be in a growing relationship with you by having a loving faith, a learning faith, and a living faith.
And on this Growing Tree Preschool Sunday, we especially lift up to you all our preschool children, their parents, and our teachers. Thank you for this ministry, which has been blessing our church and community for over twenty years. Like a growing tree, help all of us to grow in our faith, to grow in our love of you and one another, and grow in being the people you have called us to be. May we all be a growing tree with deep roots of faith, hope, and love. We pray this in the name of Jesus who taught us to pray together saying…
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 forever. Amen.
[Our Growing Tree preschool children are always learning and growing!]
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