Church Service on Sunday, May 2nd, 2021

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Please note that due to the COVID-19 lockdown and situation in Vientiane, CHS will not be holding services this Sunday at ARDA.

Instead, you are encouraged to use the
Worship Service Resources provided here*
 (click on this link) in your homes. 

*Resources will be updated later in the week.

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Welcome to the website of the Church of the Holy Spirit, an international group of believers and seekers from many different backgrounds, sharing together the Good News of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We look forward to seeing you on Sunday. Please go to our Visitor's Information page for service details including information about our Sunday School program and Child Protection Policy.

If you aren't able to join us face to face, you are encouraged to use the Worship Service Resources provided here* (click on this link) in your homes.

*Resources will be updated later in the week.

Dear friends, let us love one another,

for love comes from God.

Everyone who loves has been born of God

and knows God.

Whoever does not love does not know God,

because God is love.

This is how God showed his love among us:

He sent his one and only Son into the world

that we might live through him.

This is love: not that we loved God,

but that he loved us and sent his Son

as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Dear friends, since God so loved us,

we also ought to love one another.

No one has ever seen God;

but if we love one another,

God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

1 John 4:7-12

The readings for this fifth Sunday of Easter:

Psalm: Psalm 22:25-31
First Reading: Acts 8:26-40
Second Reading: 1 John 4:7-21
Gospel: John 15:1-8

Collect:

Almighty God,
your Son Jesus Christ
is the way, the truth, and the life.
Give us grace to love one another
and walk in the way of his commandments,
who lives and reigns
with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.

Church Service on Sunday, April 25th, 2021

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Please note that due to the COVID-19 lockdown and situation in Vientiane, CHS will not be holding services this Sunday at ARDA.

Instead, you are encouraged to use the
Worship Service Resources provided here*
 (click on this link) in your homes. 

*Resources will be updated later in the week.

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Welcome to the website of the Church of the Holy Spirit, an international group of believers and seekers from many different backgrounds, sharing together the Good News of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We look forward to seeing you on Sunday. Please go to our Visitor's Information page for service details including information about our Sunday School program and Child Protection Policy.

The readings for this fourth Sunday of Easter:

Psalm:  Psalm 23

First Reading:  Acts 4:5-12

Second Reading:  1 John 3:16-24

Gospel:  John 10:11-18

Collect:

God of peace,

who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus,

the great Shepherd of the sheep,

through the blood of an eternal covenant,

make us perfect in goodness

so that we may do your will;

and create in us what is pleasing to you;

through the same Jesus Christ our Lord.

Church Service on Sunday, April 18th, 2021

Welcome to the website of the Church of the Holy Spirit, an international group of believers and seekers from many different backgrounds, sharing together the Good News of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We look forward to seeing you on Sunday. Please go to our Visitor's Information page for service details including information about our Sunday School program and Child Protection Policy.

If you aren't able to join us face to face, you are encouraged to use the Worship Service Resources provided here* (click on this link) in your homes.

*Resources will be updated later in the week.

Attribution:  Duccio, di Buoninsegna, d. 1319. Christ Appears to the Disciples at the Table after the Resurrection, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=49184 [retrieved April 11, 2021]. Original source: www.yorckproject.de.

"Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things."
Luke 24:45-48

The readings for this third Sunday of Easter:

Psalm:  Psalm 4

First Reading:  Acts 3:12-19

Second Reading:  1 John 3:1-7

Gospel:  Luke 24:36b-48

Collect:

God of life and love,

your Son made himself known to his disciples

in the breaking of bread.

Open the eyes of our faith,

that we may see him in his redeeming work,

who is alive and reigns

with you and the Holy Spirit,

one God, now and for ever.

Church Service on Sunday, April 11th, 2021

Welcome to the website of the Church of the Holy Spirit, an international group of believers and seekers from many different backgrounds, sharing together the Good News of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We look forward to seeing you on Sunday. Please go to our Visitor's Information page for service details including information about our Sunday School program and Child Protection Policy.

If you aren't able to join us face to face, you are encouraged to use the Worship Service Resources provided here* (click on this link) in your homes.

*Resources will be updated later in the week.

Again Jesus said,

“Peace be with you!

As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”

And with that he breathed on them and said,

“Receive the Holy Spirit.

If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven;

if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”

John 20:21-23

The readings for this second Sunday of Easter:

Psalm:  Psalm 133

First Reading: Acts 4:32-35

Second Reading:  1 John 1:1-2:2

Gospel:  John 20:19-31

Collect:

Almighty and eternal God,

the strength of those who believe

and the hope of those who doubt,

may we, who have not seen, have faith

and receive the fullness of Christ’s blessing,

who is alive and reigns

with you and the Holy Spirit,

one God, now and for ever.

Easter Church Service on Sunday, April 4, 2021

 Welcome to the website of the Church of the Holy Spirit, an international group of believers and seekers from many different backgrounds, sharing together the Good News of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We look forward to seeing you on this Easter Sunday for our All-Age Communion Service.

Please go to our Visitor's Information page for service details including information about our Sunday School program and Child Protection Policy.

If you aren't able to join us face to face, you are encouraged to use the Worship Service Resources provided here* (click on this link) in your homes. 

*Resources will be updated soon.

Jesus said to her, “Mary.”

She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, 

“Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).

John 20:16

The readings for this Easter Sunday:

Psalm:  Psalm 118:1-2, 18-24

First Reading: Acts 10:34-43

Second Reading:  1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Gospel:  John 20:1-18

Collect:

Lord of life and power,

through the mighty resurrection of your Son,

you have overcome death

and opened the gate of everlasting life.

Grant that we, being dead to sin

and alive to you in Jesus Christ,

may reign with him in glory,

who with you and the Holy Spirit is alive,

one God, now and for ever.