Special Note: In order to ensure the safety of all attendees, all in-person activities on hold. Ministries are still moving forward. There is a lot of need in the world right now and we are ready to help.
The office will be closed, but Pastor Joanne is available by phone or email.
Immanuel is providing alternative virtual resources for worship and prayer. Be sure you are on the email mailing list to get the latest updates and access to all of the amazing worship and prayer activities going on virtually. Check out the link below “Online Worship” for the latest sermons and videos.
Worship for July 5
Come, Holy Spirit, Come
We long for your shalom — for the healing, wholeness, and restoration of your people and your world. We long to know your abundance and your peace.
Yet many of us participate and uphold the systems of evil, injustice, and oppression that are established to privilege some and hinder the breath of others.
These systems are unveiled and exposed in this season…
…whether it is in the rampant spread of COVID-19 that has stolen the breath of life from more than 100,000 people, disproportionately people of color,
…or hospitals discounting COVID-19 symptoms in African Americans, who are denied testing and proper treatment until after it is too late and they take their last breath,
…or a police officer using excessive force, while ignoring George Floyd’s pleas for his life until he could breathe no more,
There are so many names to recount whose lives were lost unjustly.
Breathe on us, Holy Spirit
may the fire of righteous indignation burn in our hearts so that we might be refined, transformed, and renewed by its flame each day.
Breathe on us, Holy Spirit
so that we might be emboldened to interrupt the sinful systems of evil, injustice, and oppression all around us. That we might root it out of ourselves and our laws and our institutions.
Breathe on us, Holy Spirit
so that we might be agents of your shalom.
Come Holy Spirit, Come.
Amen.
Bread for the World, www.bread.org
Backpack Ministry
With schools closed due to COVID-19, the food distributed with our Backpack Program has no way of getting to kids and families. This does not mean the need has gone away. In fact, it is quite the opposite. It is recommended that you bring the food you would normally donate to the Backpack Program to the Little Panty at Immanuel (found in the parking lot) or Hope House. Use the link below to find out more about supporting Hope House.
Evening Reflection-May 18, 2020
Dear Friends, This Thursday marks the Church's celebration of Jesus' Ascension when Jesus met with his followers on the Mount of Olives and was taken up into heaven. The disciples then entered into that period I often call "in-between time." In-between time is that...