- Jan 26
- 5 min read
Veradale United Church of Christ
An Open & Affirming Congregation
Worshiping God in Christ – Welcoming All – Working for Justice & Peace
“No matter who you are, or where you are on life’s journey,
you are welcome here!”
January 26, 2025 • 10:30 a.m.
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10:20am Gathering and Prelude
Wayne Shull, Music Director
Charlie Salt, AV
Joe McSwain, AV and Usher
Jerry Brines, Usher
Tom Cuilla, Usher Coordinator
Diane Smith, Scripture reader
Sue Ferrozzo, Candle lighter
Scotty Patton, Zoom Monitor
Gregg Glissen, Fellowship Set-Up
________, Fellowship Server
Naomi Hanvey, Fellowship Clean-up
Rev. Genavieve Heywood, Pastor
10:30am Entrance of the Light of Christ
Land Acknowledgement
We worship on the unceded traditional territory of the Spokane, Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla, Coeur d’Alene, and other tribes. We acknowledge the history of indigenous genocide, removal, and erasure that continues to this day. We recognize the role that Christian communities played in these injustices, and we recommit ourselves to seeking more peaceful, just, and neighborly ways of sharing this land with all who call it home.
Community Affirmation
God is compassionate . . . all the time!
All the time . . . God is compassionate!
Service and Fellowship Opportunities
Next Sunday: Rosa Parks Birthday Party
Bible Study, Monday at 7pm
Silent Prayer, Tuesday 9:00 to 9:30am
String-A-Lings, Wednesday, 5:30pm;
Sing-A-Lings Wednesday, 6:30pm
Community giving next month: MLK Community Center
Rosa Parks Birthday Party, Sunday, Feb 2, 1:00 – 2:00pm
Opening Hymn God of Change and Glory 177 (NCH)
1.God of change and glory, God of time and space, when we fear the future, give to us your grace. In the midst of changing ways give to us the grace to praise.
Refrain: Many gifts, one Spirit, one love known in many ways. In our difference is blessing, from diversity we praise, one Giver, one Word, one Spirit, one God known in many ways, hallowing our days. For the Giver, for the gift, praise, praise, praise!
2. God of many colors, God of many signs, you have made us different, blessing many kinds. As the old ways disappear, let your love cast out our fear. Refrain
3. Freshness of the morning, newness of each night, you are still creating, endless love and light. This we see, as shadows part, many gifts from one great heart. Refrain.
Community Prayer
Ferry our prayers across the water, kindle our hopes a lighthouse flame. Amazing grace is most amazing, praying for those we cannot name.
Prayers of Gratitude
Prayers of Concern
Amazing grace is most amazing, praying for those we cannot name.
Prayers in Silence
Amazing grace is most amazing, praying for those we cannot name.
The Lord’s Prayer use the translation which is meaningful to you or
Our Father (Creator) 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, forever. Amen.
Response 812 (NCH) Amen. Amen. Amen.
A Time of Offering
An Invitation to Share
Dedication “Come into His Presence”
Come into his presence with thanksgiving in your heart and give him praise, and give him praise. Come into his presence with thanksgiving in your heart, your voices raise, your voices raise. Give glory and honor and power unto him, Jesus, the name above all names!
Prayer of Dedication (unison)
Beloved God, in Jesus you have shown us the way to live with compassion. Bless the gifts for the Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery. May the be filled with our compassion. Bless also our gifts of time, talent, and treasure for the strengthening of our witness. Amen
Listening for God
Message to Young Hearts
1 Corinthians 12: 12-31a For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot were to say, ‘Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body’, that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear were to say, ‘Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body’, that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many members, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I have no need of you’, nor again the head to the feet, ‘I have no need of you.’ On the contrary, the members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and those members of the body that we think less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our less respectable members are treated with greater respect; whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member, that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers; then deeds of power, then gifts of healing, forms of assistance, forms of leadership, various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
Luke 4:14-21 Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding country. He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by everyone.
When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:
‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free,
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.’
And he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. Then he began to say to them, ‘Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.’
Message: One Body of Compassion
Meditation in Music
Our Light moves into the World God Loves
Hymn: One Bread, One Body
(Refrain) One bread, one body, One Lord of all. One cup of blessing which we bless and we, though many throughout the earth, we are one body in this one LordGentile or Jew, servant or free, woman or man, no more. (Refrain)Many the gifts, many the works, one in the Lord of all. (Refrain)
Grain of the fields scattered and grown, gathered to one, for all.
Benediction and Community Blessing
Be Yourself.
Grow in Christ.
Live with Compassion.
