Order of Worship for March 22, 2026: Know God, Know Yourself

Call to Worship - Those of you joining us from home are invited to light a candle to welcome the presence of the Holy Spirit

Love Divine, All Loves Excelling - Charles Wesley - El Dorado

Welcome - Rev. Dr. Mandy McDow

Our Salvation - Derek Johnson - El Dorado

Passing of the Peace: Through the act of passing the peace of Christ, we offer our sincere desire to love our neighbor.
You are invited to greet one another in the live stream chat on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. 

Church Council on Tuesday, March 24 at 5 pm via Zoom. Link to join is here!

Lent Book Study: The Way of Discernment

Wednesdays 10:00-11:00 am PT - Class resumes March 11 at 10 am PT.

Zoom link here

Eduardo Galeno - Funeral Service - Saturday, March 28 at 6 PM
HUNTINGTON PARK UMC - 2660 E Gage Avenue
Huntington Park, CA. 90255

Servicio Funeral en testimonio a la Resurrección de

EDUARDO GALENO
Abril 14, 1996 – Enero 31, 2026

Sábado 28 de Marzo, 2026 @ 6:00 PM

Pastor: Rubén Esponda

In American Methodism in the late 19th century, few women served as preachers and even fewer were ordained as clergy. Anna Oliver was the first woman among the Methodists to graduate from seminary and Stacey Yvonne Abrams is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017. Abrams founded Fair Fight Action, an organization to address voter suppression, in 2018. Her efforts have been widely credited with boosting voter turnout in Georgia.

The second of six siblings, Abrams was born to Robert and Carolyn Abrams in Madison, Wisconsin, and raised in Gulfport, Mississippi. In 1989, when Abrams was a junior in high school, the family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where her parents pursued graduate divinity degrees at Emory University. They became United Methodist ministers and later returned to Mississippi with their three youngest children while Abrams and two other siblings remained in Atlanta. 

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Abrams

UNITED WOMEN IN FAITH - Assembly 2026
May 15-17 in Indianapolis, IndianA

Keynote Speakers:
Stacey Abrams and Rev. Carolyn Abrams

Registration is now open at uwfaith.org/assembly!

Know Your Rights:

You have constitutional rights:

• DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR if an immigration agent is knocking on the door.

• DO NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS from an immigration agent if they try to talk to you. You have the right to remain silent.

• DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING without first speaking to a lawyer. You have the right to speak with a lawyer.

• If you are outside of your home, ask the agent if you are free to leave and if they say yes, leave calmly.

• GIVE THIS CARD TO THE AGENT. If you are inside of your home, show the card through the window or slide it under the door.

I do not wish to speak with you, answer your questions, or sign or hand you any documents based on my 5th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution.

I do not give you permission to enter my home based on my 4th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution unless you have a warrant to enter, signed by a judge or magistrate with my name on it that you slide under the door.

I do not give you permission to search any of my belongings based on my 4th Amendment rights.

I choose to exercise my constitutional rights.

These cards are available to citizens and noncitizens alike.

CALL TO PRAYER: The Whole Earth is Full of Your Glory - Mission House - El Dorado

Joys and Concerns: Prayers of the People We believe that the best way to bear our burdens is to share them with one another. You welcome to share your joys and concerns so that our community can hold these things in our hearts as we lift them to God together. 

You are invited to share your prayers in the Facebook Live Chat, or on the YouTube Live chat.

Epistle Lesson: Colossians 3:8-17, NRSV

But now you must get rid of all such things: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive language from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator. In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, enslaved and free, but Christ is all and in all!

Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

One: This is the word of God for us, the People of God.
All: Thanks be to God!

SERMON: Know God, Know Yourself - Rev. Dr. Mandy McDow, preaching

HOLY COMMUNION

Invitation to the Table: As we understand the Body of Christ to be inclusive, we understand God’s table of grace and fellowship can extend into our homes. As you’re able, bring your own elements to this time.
Bread, Juice, Coffee, Muffins… the Body of Christ is comprised of wonder and mystery. Today, we celebrate that God can reach us where we are, even if we are not together.

The Great Mystery of our Faith
All: Christ has died
Christ is risen. 
Christ will come again.

The Lord’s Prayer
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, 
for ever and ever. Amen.

CLOSING: Amen - Rita Springer - El Dorado
Benediction

And remember:
God is with you,
God is for you, 
God refuses to be God without you. 
And may all of God’s people say: Amen!

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