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 16, 2024
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10:20 Gathering and Prelude
Wayne Shull: Music Director
Joe McSwain, Usher
Jerry Brines, Usher
Don Young, Scripture Reader
Diane Smith, Candle Lighter
_________, Fellowship Set-up
_____________, Fellowship Clean-up
Scotty Patton, Zoom Monitor
Rev. Gen Heywood, Pastor
Naomi Hanvey, Message
10:30am Worship begins
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 loves us...all the time! All the time...God loves us!
Service and Fellowship Opportunities
Bible Study off for the Summer
Silent Prayer, Tuesday 9:00 to 9:30am
String-A-Lings practice Wednesday, 5:30pm
Sing-A-Lings (a.k.a.Choir) practice Sunday Mornings before Worship
Community giving this month: Birthday Kits
Welcoming the Light of Christ and Father’s Day Appreciations
*Hymn: God Made from One Blood 427 (NCH)
God Made from One Blood all the families of earth,
the circles of nurture that raise us from birth;
Companions who join us to work through each stage
of childhood and youth and adulthood and age.
We turn to you, God, with our thanks and our tears
for all of the families we’ve known through the years;
The intimate networks on whom we depend
of parents and partners and children and friends.
Through families we’ve tasted the value of trust
and felt what it means to be loving and just;
Yet families have also betrayed their best goals,
mistreating their members and bruising their souls.
Help families in all of their various forms
to face with integrity struggles and storms;
Grant peace to our homes that will nurture the bud
of peace for the families you made from one blood.
Community Prayer
(p.53, Green Book)
My peace I give unto you. It’s a peace that the world cannot give. It’s a peace that the world cannot understand. Peace to know. Peace to live. My peace I give unto you.
Prayers of Gratitude
My peace I give unto you. It’s a peace that the world cannot give. It’s a peace that the world cannot understand. Peace to know. Peace to live. My peace I give unto you.
Prayers of Concern
My peace I give unto you. It’s a peace that the world cannot give. It’s a peace that the world cannot understand. Peace to know. Peace to live. My peace I give unto you.
Prayers in Silence
My peace I give unto you. It’s a peace that the world cannot give. It’s a peace that the world cannot understand. Peace to know. Peace to live. My peace I give unto you.
Lord’s Prayer
Response: Sing Amen
(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
Special Music: Jan Young
Dedication Hymn (p.113 Red Book)
In moments like these, I sing out a song. I sing out a love song to Jesus. In moments like these, I lift up my hands, I lift up may hands to the Lord. Singing I love you, Lord. Singing I love you, Lord. Singing I love you, Lord. I love you.
Dedication Prayer
Holy One, bless the offerings of our time, talent, and treasure. Multiply these to fulfill the vision you have for our church and our lives. Amen
Listening for God
Gospel of John NRSUE
1:1-14 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life,[a] and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.
There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.[b]
He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own,[ and his own people did not accept him. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son,[d] full of grace and truth.
John 10:1-10 “Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. They will not follow a stranger, but they will run from him because they do not know the voice of strangers.” Jesus used this figure of speech with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
So again, Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who came before me[a] are thieves and bandits, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate. Whoever enters by me will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
John 20:30-31 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples that are not written in this book. But these are written so that you may continue[a] to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.
Message: The Gospel of John
Naomi Hanvey
Meditation in Music
Announcement Reminder
Our Light moves into the World God Loves
Hymn: “Bless Be the Tie that Binds” 393 (NCH)
Bless be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love. The sharing of a common life is like to that above.
Before our God we come and pour our ardent prayers. Our Fears our hopes, our aims are one, our comforts and our cares.
We share each other’s woes, each other’s burdens bear, and often for each other flows a sympathizing tear.
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
Opmerkingen