Berean Community Church

- All right, good morning. Welcome to Bruin Community Church. Let me get started with a few announcements. As you can see, we have a communion service today. And so I'll give a little bit of instruction, but again, the gluten-free table is on to your left, my right. So if you need to be participating in the gluten-free, you need to go to that table. India Pastor Support, if you are planning to do that, please do so sooner than later, and this month is the beginning of that. VBS sign-up is still happening outside, so as you're walking out, you'll run into the table, so please sign up for that. And then Family Ministry Summer Retreat. Today is the last day for early registration. So if you signed up but you weren't able to pay yet, you need to pay to be fully registered, okay?

So if you signed up and you haven't done that, please do so. Today is the last day for early registration. Then afterwards, it's going to be regular registration, meaning that the cost is going to be going up from this point on. So please do so as soon as you can. And then for Bible study, we have, obviously, about three weeks off-- not three weeks, three months off, almost three months off. So if you can sign up for the Bible study, whether it's home group or whether it's small group on Wednesday, so that we'll be able to better prepare, whether it's small group leaders or we need to add more home groups. If sooner you do that, it'll help us to be able to prepare during the summer, okay? All right, I think that's it for the announcement for me.

Again, let me pray for the offering. Again, if you have a physical offering, again, we have a box in the back that you can visit on the way out. All right, let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for the privilege to be able to come and worship you. We pray that you would continue to guide us and lead us and allow your word to be our anchor, that we would know Christ, to love Christ, to adore Christ. In every way, Father God, that Christ would be established as a head over our lives and over our church. We pray that the offering that we give, that it may be given with thanksgiving as an act of worship, and again, that we may give it to you as an act of allegiance, thanksgiving, and gratitude for all that you've given us.

May it be multiplied for the sake of your kingdom. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

Church family, let's all stand together. While we're doing that, why don't we say hello to those around you. Introduce yourself if you have someone unknown.

- Let's pray. Psalm 119, one and two. How blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord. How blessed are those who observe his testimonies, who seek him with all their heart. I pray that this will be true of our church. This will be true throughout this week, that we would seek you with all our heart. Help us, Lord God, to be listeners of your word, to allow your light to shine so brightly in us, that all the world will know that we are your disciples. I pray as that wickedness of evil is growing darker and darker in our generation. Help us, Lord God, to not to follow suit, but that our light will become brighter and brighter for the sake of your name, wherever you send us this week.

In Jesus' name we pray, amen.