Before Church – Sunday school will not meet before church this Sunday and will adjourn for the summer. We will start planning next year’s study program. We are open to Suggestions.
Welcome to #YourHeartChrist’sHome
May 17, 2020 – 10:30 a.m.
The Sixth Sunday of Easter
Beverly Hills United Presbyterian Church, Upper Darby
St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lansdowne
This week’s Scripture: St. Luke 5.12-35
Music: “Here I Am, Lord”
“Amplify 2020” Online Evangelism Conference – Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings, 10-1:30. Information: Art Tung – http://www.amplifyconference.tv/
Honor the Lord with your stewardship offerings to sustain our worship and work in our community and world.
By mail: Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church, 500 Midvale Road, Upper Darby, PA 19082
Online: You may now also choose to contribute through an online giving form.
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Meeting ID: 860 0274 0088
Today’s Text
Luke 5:12-35
Jesus Heals a Man With Leprosy
12 While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy.[a] When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the ground and begged him, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”
13 Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.
14 Then Jesus ordered him, “Don’t tell anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”
15 Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. 16 But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.
Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man
17 One day Jesus was teaching, and Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. They had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with Jesus to heal the sick. 18 Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. 19 When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
20 When Jesus saw their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”
21 The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, “Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
22 Jesus knew what they were thinking and asked, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? 23 Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? 24 But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.” 25 Immediately he stood up in front of them, took what he had been lying on and went home praising God. 26 Everyone was amazed and gave praise to God. They were filled with awe and said, “We have seen remarkable things today.”
Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners
27 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, 28 and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.
29 Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. 30 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
31 Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Jesus Questioned About Fasting
33 They said to him, “John’s disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking.”
34 Jesus answered, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? 35 But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast.”
Footnotes:
- Luke 5:12 The Greek word traditionally translated leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Celebration of the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper – Ascension Sunday, May 24. Yes, online – each household to prepare the elements (bread and wine/juice) on its own!
Adult Sunday School is completed for the year – Please send your study ideas for the Fall to Ken Miller —> Suggestions.
Please post your music suggestions in the Chat window.
You are welcome to contact Pastor Tung directly for pastoral needs. Tel. 610.246.8240 • Email – arttung@gmail.com
Pastors Nancy Haigh Ross and LoisAnn Furgess-Oler are also assisting in visitation. Pastor Ross: 267.254.0187 pastor.nancy@yahoo.com • Pastor Furgess-Oler: 410.239.1515 lafodav@aol.com
Loving our neighbors
FOOD HELP
Continuing our Life Center Ministry – Monetary donations are needed to continue providing meals for the Life Center.
For the past three decades, churches and groups have been preparing a hot meal to serve at the Life Center at 63rd Street every single day. What a miraculous ministry! Though this practice cannot continue in the same way because of the COVID-19 crisis, you can still help by making a monetary donation to keep this ministry alive. Mail a check – payable to Community Outreach Project (or COP for short) – to:
COP Meals COP Meals
c/o Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church c/o St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
500 Midvale Road 50 East Plumstead Avenue
Upper Darby, PA 19082 Lansdowne, PA 19050
And if any organizations/businesses can donate a case or more of plastic utensils, napkins, paper/plastic cups and plates, please email the details to copmeals@gmail.com.
The Upper Darby Emergency Food Cupboard, 7766 Wayne Avenue, is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10:00-Noon. (Tel. 610.853.2481).
Philabundance distributes food at multiple locations in Upper Darby. https://www.philabundance.org/find-food/food-map/
At First Presbyterian Church of Lansdowne (140 N. Lansdowne Avenue), families in the William Penn School District (Aldan, Colwyn, Darby, East Lansdowne, Landowne and Yeadon) can call the Interfaith Food Cupboard (tel. 610-622-0800, x 4). The church is also a pickup site for Grab-and-Go Meals for children of William Penn District, Mondays through Fridays.
Needed donations include:
Canned chicken, tuna, or salmon Pasta sauce
Peanut butter, jelly Crackers
Powdered milk Canned vegetables, fruit
Canned chili with meat Canned soup (especially chunky, with meat)
Items may be dropped off on Mondays and Wednesdays, 4-6 p.m. at the door closest to the playground.
Voting Deadlines –
- Tomorrow, May 18 – to register to vote in the June 2 primary
- May 26 – to apply for a mail-in or absentee ballot.
VotesPA.com — 1-877-VOTESPA (1-877-868-3772)
Note: Beverly Hills Church will not be a polling place for the primary.
2020 Census
• Online at https://2020census.gov/en/ways-to-respond.html
• By phone at 844-330-2020
ASCENSION SUNDAY – MAY 24
10:30 a.m. – Service of Holy Communion“The Life of Prayer” — Pastor Tung
1 Thessalonians 5.12-28