Sunday Service Digital Bulletin
“Boaz is Our Significance Coach”
-Ruth 2:2-9
NoHo FUMC is a community that practices the all-inclusive and transforming love of God as modeled by the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. We celebrate our diversity in race, ethnicity, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, gender, ability, citizenship, and socioeconomic status. Moved by the Holy Spirit, we welcome all people into the full participation of the life of the church.
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF NORTH HOLLYWOOD | |||||||||||||||||
| 10:30 A.M. | Ascension Sunday | May 21, 2023 | |||||||||||||||
| * Indicates to stand as you are able | |||||||||||||||||
| Prelude | Blest Be the Tie That Binds – Nageli/Mason More Secure is No One Ever – Swedish Melody His Loving Kindness – William Caldwell His Matchless Worth – Lowell Mason | Roger Eshleman | |||||||||||||||
| Lighting of Candles | Acolyte, Ashley Peat | ||||||||||||||||
| WE GATHER WITH GOD | |||||||||||||||||
| Welcome | Norman Kelsey | ||||||||||||||||
| *Opening Hymn #139 | Praise to the Lord, the Almighty vs. 1,3,5 | ||||||||||||||||
| * Invocation | Patty Kelsey | ||||||||||||||||
| *Call to Worship | Patty Kelsey | ||||||||||||||||
| Leader: | Today we come to worship and recall the story of Ruth. | ||||||||||||||||
| People: | The stranger in a strange land, who was welcomed. | ||||||||||||||||
| Leader: | A woman with no resources, who was provided for by the community. | ||||||||||||||||
| People: | We celebrate Ruth and pray that we will find welcome when we need it and extend it to others in need. Amen. | ||||||||||||||||
| * Gloria Patri #70 | |||||||||||||||||
| Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost! As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, Amen! | |||||||||||||||||
| (Congregation please be seated) | |||||||||||||||||
| WE RECEIVE FROM GOD | |||||||||||||||||
| AAPI Heritage Moment | Jonash Poyaoan | ||||||||||||||||
| Scripture Reading | Ruth 2:2-9 | Jesse Boone | |||||||||||||||
| Sermon | Boaz is Our Significance Coach | Pastor Christian Washington | |||||||||||||||
| Pastoral Prayer with The Lord’s Prayer | Pastor Christian Washington | ||||||||||||||||
| WE GO WITH GOD | |||||||||||||||||
| Choral Anthem | The Spirit Sends Us Forth to Serve – Delores Dufner | Chancel Choir | |||||||||||||||
| Announcements | Patty Kelsey | ||||||||||||||||
| * Benediction | Pastor Christian Washington | ||||||||||||||||
| Postlude & Recessional | Improvisation on Plain Chant: Come Rejoicing – Everett Titcomb | Roger Eshleman | |||||||||||||||
| * Indicates to please stand as you are able | |||||||||||||||||
4832 Tujunga Avenue, North Hollywood, CA 91601
e-mail: nohofumc@gmail.com facebook.com/nohofumc1
WiFi office – noho1949 Text to Tithe 844-954-1296
www.nohofumc.org (818) 763-8231
Every Sunday, we place bins out on the patio to collect non-perishable items for the Interfaith Food Pantry.
Sunday – May 21 – Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage
10:30 AM Worship led by Pastor Christian Washington Sanctuary
11:30 AM Coffee Fellowship Fountain Courtyard
(Stop by for our Taste of Asia POP UP and experience cuisine from the Philippines)
Wednesday – May 24
NO Choir Rehearsal
Sunday – May 28 – Pentecost & Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage
10:30 AM Worship led by Pastor Christian Washington Sanctuary
11:30 AM Coffee Fellowship Fountain Courtyard
(Stop by for our Taste of Asia POP UP and experience cuisine from Taiwan)
INTERIM PASTOR: Pastor Christian Washington
LITURGIST: Patty Kelsey
DIRECTOR OF MUSIC: Michael McKenzie
ORGANIST: Roger Eshleman
GREETER: Morenike Lake
DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT: Rev. Melissa Roux MacKinnon
BISHOP: The Reverend Dottie Escobedo-Frank
The Altar Flowers are given by Tonya and Scott Peat in honor of their
daughter Ashley’s birthday on May 25.
Lectionary Reading for May 21, 2023: Acts 1:6-14; Psalm 68:1-10, 32-
35; 1 Peter 4:12-14, 5:6-11; John 17:1-11; Ruth 2:2-9
