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Sunday Worship Bulletin, Jan 19 2025

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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 19, 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

Kelly Cuilla, Scripture reader

Diane Smith, Candle lighter

Scotty Patton, Zoom Monitor

Gregg Glissen, Fellowship Set-Up

_______, 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 requires justice . . . all the time! 

All the time . . . God requires justice!

 

Service and Fellowship Opportunities 

Next Sunday: One Body in Christ

 Church Council meets after worship

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 this month: Venessa Behan Crisis Nursery

MLK March, January 20, 10am at Spokane Convention center

Rosa Parks Birthday Party, Sunday, Feb 2, 1:30pm

 

Opening Hymn

Arise, Your Light Is Come 164(NCH)

Arise, your light is come! The Spirit’s call obey; show forth the glory of your God which shines on you today. 

Arise, your light is come! Fling wide the prison door; proclaim the captive’s liberty, good tidings to the poor. 

Arise, your light is come! All you in sorrow born, bind up the broken-hearted ones and comfort those who mourn. 

Arise, your light is come! The mountains burst in song! Rise up like eagles on the wing, God’s pow’r will make us strong.

 

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 

Amazing grace is most amazing, praying for those we cannot name.

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, we offer of our time, talent, and treasure to the witness of this community. May these gifts be multiplied and your visions be fulfilled. Amen

 

Listening for God

Message to Young Hearts

Jesus was Mary’s kid even when he was grown.

 

1 Corinthians 12:1-11 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be ignorant.  You know that when you were gentiles you were enticed and led astray to idols that could not speak. Therefore, I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says “Let Jesus be cursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except by the Holy Spirit.

Now there are varieties of gifts but the same Spirit, and there are varieties of services but the same Lord, and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of powerful deeds, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.

 John 2:1-11 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what concern is that to me and to you? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” Now standing there were six stone water jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to them, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the person in charge of the banquet.” So they took it. When the person in charge tasted the water that had become wine and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), that person called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.”  Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee and revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

 

Message: The Wine Making Gift

 

Meditation in Music

 

Our Light moves into the World God Loves  

Hymn: We Yearn, O Christ, For Wholeness 179 (NCH)

We yearn, O Christ, for wholeness and for your healing touch; too long have we felt helpless; our burdens seemed too much. Forgetting all pretenses we make our pleadings heard, in hope and expectation await your gracious word. 

 

We long to have companions who travel by our side, strong friends to call and answer with whom we are allied; as we lift up each other when struggles lay us low, community will flourish; our faith and caring grow. 

 

We need your living presence, O Christ of Galilee, a presence that revives us and sets our spirits free. No longer are we fearful, your love pervades each place. Empower us with courage to claim your healing grace.

 

Benediction and Community Blessing

Be Yourself.

Grow in Christ.

Live with Compassion.

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