Sunday Services

Sunday School - 9:30 am

Holy Communion - 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sundays, 10:30 am

Morning Prayer - 2nd and 4th Sundays, 10:30 am

Thursday Services

Evening Prayer/Bible Study, 7 pm

Reaching out to the least, the lonely, and the lost

Holy Communion Service at Friendship South

2nd and 4th Sundays, 2:30 pm

Thoughts from the Lectionary for Pentecost, commonly called Whitsunday

From the Gospel Lesson: St. John 14:15–31

Vss. 25-26 "These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you."

Before His crucifixion Christ spent some time in the Upper Room instructing His disciples. He then tells them that He will eventually go to be with the Father and the disciples would be without His bodily presence. He tells them, however, not to be dismayed by this because the Father would be sending the Holy Ghost to fill and empower them to preach and walk in the Word of God. Eventually, after Christ’s crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples and filled them with power and boldness to minister in the name of Jesus. Their sorrow and perplexity gave way to Joy in the Lord and confidence in the Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Today, we who are in Christ still have the presence of Christ with us by the power of the Holy Ghost. May we, relying on Him, be empowered to minister powerfully to those around us in the Jesus’s name.

Blessings,

Fr. Duane+