Sunday Worship Bulletin, June 1 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!”

June 1, 2025

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10:20 Gathering and Prelude

Wayne Shull, Music Director

Charlie Salt, AV

Joe McSwain, AV and Usher

Jerry Brines, Usher

Tom Cuilla, Usher Coordinator 

Marvin Wilson, Scripture reader

Diane Smith, Candle lighter

Scotty Patton, Zoom Monitor

_______, Fellowship Set-Up

________, Fellowship Clean-up

Rev. Genavieve 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 is creating...all the time!  All the time...God is creating!

Service and Fellowship Opportunities 

Next Sunday, Pentecost!

Bible Study Monday at 7pm

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

Wednesday: String-A-Lings 5:30 

 Community giving: Birthday Kits

*Hymn: “You Walk Along Our Shoreline” 504 (NCH)

1. You walk along our shoreline where land meets unknown sea. We hear your voice of power, “Now come and follow me. And if you still will follow through storm and wave and shoal, then I will make you fishers but of the human soul.” 

2. You call us, Christ, to gather the people of the earth. We cannot fish for only those lives we think have worth. We spread your net of gospel across the water’s face, our boat a common shelter for all found by your grace. 

3. We cast our net, O Jesus; we seek your promised reign. We work for love and justice. We learn to hope through pain. You call on us to gather God’s daughters and God’s sons, to let your judgment heal us so that all may be one.

Community Prayer

Hymn: “Spirit, I Adore You” RB 151

Spirit, I adore you. Lay my life before you. How I love you.

Prayers of Gratitude 

Refrain: How I love you.

Prayers of Concern 

Refrain: How I love you.

Prayers in Silence 

Refrain: How I love you.

 Lord’s Prayer

Response: Sing Amen760 (NCH)

(Sing Amen) Amen, we praise your name, O, God

(Sing Amen) Amen, we praise your name, O, God

(Sing Amen) Amen, amen, amen, amen, 

amen, we praise your name, O, God

A Time of Offering

 An Invitation to Share

Dedication Hymn: “There Is a Balm in Gilead” 553 (NCH)

There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole;There is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin sick soul. 

If you cannot preach like Peter, if you cannot pray like Paul, you can tell the love of Jesus, who died to save us all.

There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole;There is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin sick soul.

Dedication Prayer: 

  Loving God, receive this offering of time, talent, and treasure. May these help our witness thrive in this time and place. May you be known in our actions and our words.  Amen

Listening for God

John 17:20-26 “I ask not only on behalf of these but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.  Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

“Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you, and these know that you have sent me.  I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them and I in them.”

Message:  One in Christ

Meditation in Music 

Sharing Holy Communion

Those at home have a little something to drink and eat. 

Pastor: Friends in Christ, we gather at our many tables mindful of the presence of God’s Spirit that is here with us. We seek to honor the request of Jesus given in the scripture. Of all the teachings Jesus gave to our ancestors, this he asked them and us to remember him. 

When Jesus and his friends sat together at a Passover meal, Jesus took bread; giving God thanks and praise, he broke the bread.  He gave it to his friends saying, “Take this all of you and eat of it.  This is my body that is broken for you.  Do this in remembrance of me.”

After the meal had ended, Jesus poured out the cup and again he gave God thanks and praise.  He gave the cup to his friends and said, “Take this all of you and drink from it.  This is the cup of the new covenant.  Do this as often as you drink of it in remembrance of me.”

Let us pray.

All: Come, Holy Spirit come.  Bless this bread and this cup and all who have gathered in your Spirit. Help us to remember that you have dwelt among us. Help us to dwell in the world today as living temples of your presence. Bless us to remember your teachings, commandments, and example. May we be renewed in this sharing.  Amen.

Silence

Prayer of Thanksgiving


All: We thank you, God, for your presence as we remember the Living Jesus. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, you are among us still, in each of us, and in all of your creation. Bless us to more fully live as your people. Amen.

Announcement Reminders

Our Light Goes Into the World

Hymn: Hymn: “Bless Be the Tie that Binds” 393 (NCH)

1.   Bless be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love. The sharing of a common life is like to that above.

2.   Before our God we come and pour our ardent prayers. Our Fears our hopes, our aims are one, our comforts and our cares.

3.   We share each other’s woes, each other’s burdens bear, and often for each other flows a sympathizing tear.

4.    When we are called to part it gives us inward pain, but we shall still be joined in heart and hope to meet again.

Benediction 

Communal Blessing

Be Yourself.

Grow in Christ.

Live with Compassion