Sunday Worship Bulletin, July 13 2025

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!”

July 13, 2025

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10:20 Gathering and Prelude

Wayne Shull, Music Director

Charlie Salt, AV

Joe McSwain, Usher

Jerry Brines, Usher

Maureen Carroll, Scripture Reader

Heidi Fowler, Candle lighter

Sue Ferrozzo, Fellowship Set-up

Naomi Hanvey, Fellowship Clean-up

Scotty Patton, Zoom Monitor

Rev. Gen Heywood, Pastor

10:30am Welcoming 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 listens ...all the time!  

All the time...God listens!

Service and Fellowship Opportunities 

Next Sunday “Amos Declares God is Angry ”

No Bible Study Monday

Silent Prayer, Tuesday 9:00 to 9:30am

String-A-Lings practice Wednesday, 5:30pm 

 Community giving this month: School Supplies

Welcoming the Light of Christ

Hymn: Make a Gift of Your Holy Word 317 (NCH)

1.   Make a gift of your holy Word, let it pour on my head and heart like your rain, sovereign and loving God. Let it fill my life each day, touch my hunger and my thirst, the deep suffering that I know on life’s lonely, wandering way.

2.    Let your Word come into our lives, as your winds blow o’er all the Earth, we pray. God of salvation, come, that we shall be fully free from the sins that keep us bound, made pure by your Spirit’s gift of the resounding victory.

3.   Grant all people your holy Word. Quench the thirsty Earth as the first morning dew, O gracious God of life. Let it teach love’s healing way, in our war-torn suffering world. Let it bind us one to one toward a just and peaceful day.

Community Prayer

Hymn: “Glory to the Lamb” RB 143

Holy, holy, holy is the Lamb. 

Holy, holy, holy is the Lamb.

Prayers of Gratitude

Holy, holy, holy is the Lamb. 

Holy, holy, holy is the Lamb.

Prayers of Concern 

Holy, holy, holy is the Lamb. 

Holy, holy, holy is the Lamb.

Prayers in Silence 

Holy, holy, holy is the Lamb. 

Holy, holy, holy is the Lamb.

 Lord’s Prayer

Response: “His Name is Wonderful” RB 108

His name is wonderful. His name is wonderful. His name is wonderful. His name is wonderful, Jesus my Lord. He is Mighty King, Master of Everything. His name is wonderful, Jesus my Lord. He’s the Great Shepherd, The Rock of all ages, The Almighty God is he. Bow down before him. Love and adore him. His name is Wonderful, Jesus my Lord.

A Time of Offering

 An Invitation to Share 

Dedication Hymn 780 (NCH) Praise God from whom all blessing flow. Praise God all creatures here below. Praise God for all that love has done; Creator, Christ, and Spirit, One.  Amen

 Dedication Prayer

Holy One, as you are one in justice, love, and mercy, make us one. Bless these gifts and make them pleasing in your site. May the day soon come when sharing by all will mean scarcity to none. Amen.

Listening for God

Luke 10:25-37

 Just then a religion scholar stood up with a question to test Jesus. “Teacher, what do I need to do to get eternal life?”

He answered, “What’s written in God’s Law? How do you interpret it?”

He said, “That you love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and muscle and intelligence—and that you love your neighbor as well as you do yourself.”

“Good answer!” said Jesus. “Do it and you’ll live.”

Looking for a loophole, he asked, “And just how would you define ‘neighbor’?”

Jesus answered by telling a story. “There was once a man traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho. On the way he was attacked by robbers. They took his clothes, beat him up, and went off leaving him half-dead. Luckily, a priest was on his way down the same road, but when he saw him he angled across to the other side. Then a Levite religious man showed up; he also avoided the injured man.

 “A Samaritan traveling the road came on him. When he saw the man’s condition, his heart went out to him. He gave him first aid, disinfecting and bandaging his wounds. Then he lifted him onto his donkey, led him to an inn, and made him comfortable. In the morning he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take good care of him. If it costs any more, put it on my bill—I’ll pay you on my way back.’

“What do you think? Which of the three became a neighbor to the man attacked by robbers?”

“The one who treated him kindly,” the religion scholar responded.

Jesus said, “Go and do the same.”

Message: Go and Do

Meditation in Music

 Announcement Reminder

 Our Light moves into the World God Loves

*Closing Hymn:  Micah 6:8 RB250

He has shown thee, O, man, what is good and what the Lord require of thee?

But to do justly, and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God.

Benediction 

Communal Blessing

Be Yourself.

Grow in Christ.

Live with Compassion