Sunday Worship Bulletin, June 22, 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 22, 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 

Heidi Fowler, Scripture reader 

Diane Smith, Candle lighter

Scotty Patton, Zoom Monitor

Gregg Glisson, 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 with us...all the time!  All the time...God is with us!

Service and Fellowship Opportunities  

Next Sunday, Jesus says, Follow Me

Bible Study Monday 7pm

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

Wednesday String-A-Lings 5:30pm 

 Community giving: Birthday Kits

*Hymn: “Jesus, Lover of My Soul ”  546 (NCH)

Jesus, lover of my soul, let me to your bosom fly, while the nearer waters roll, while the tempest still is high; hide me, O my Savior, hide, till the storm of life is past; safe into the haven guide, O receive my soul at last!

Other refuge have I none; in your hands, my destiny; leave, O, leave me not alone, still support and comfort me. All my trust on you is stayed, all my help from you I bring; cover my defenseless head with the shadow of your wing.

Plenteous grace with you is found, grace to cover all my sin; let the healing streams abound; make and keep me pure within. Fount of life, your love impart; fill my cup abundantly, spring up now within my heart, rise to all eternity.

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: 

Healing and loving God, bless these gifts of time, talent, and treasure. May they be multiplied to strength the work of your Spirit through us.  Amen

Listening for God

Galatians 3:23-29 Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be reckoned as righteous by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian, 26 for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. 27 As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise.

Luke 8:26-39 Then they arrived at the region of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee. 27 As he stepped out on shore, a man from the city who had demons met him. For a long time he had not worn any clothes, and he did not live in a house but in the tombs. 28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him, shouting, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me,” 29 for Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many times it had seized him; he was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into the wilds.) 30 Jesus then asked him, “What is your name?” He said, “Legion,” for many demons had entered him. 31 They begged him not to order them to go back into the abyss.

32 Now there on the hillside a large herd of swine was feeding, and the demons begged Jesus to let them enter these. So he gave them permission. 33 Then the demons came out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd stampeded down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.

34 When the swineherds saw what had happened, they ran off and told it in the city and in the country. 35 Then people came out to see what had happened, and when they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they became frightened. 36 Those who had seen it told them how the one who had been possessed by demons had been healed. 37 Then the whole throng of people of the surrounding region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned. 38 The man from whom the demons had gone out begged that he might be with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying, 39 “Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you.” So he went away, proclaiming throughout the city how much Jesus had done for him.

Message:  No Longer Separated

Meditation in Music 

Announcement Reminders 

Our Light Goes Into the World 

Hymn: “Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior” 551 (NCH)

Pass me not, O gentle Savior, hear my humble cry; While on others you are calling, do not pass me by.

Refrain: Savior, Savior, hear my humble cry, while on others you are calling, do not pass me by.

Let me at your throne of mercy find a sweet relief;Kneeling there in deep contrition, help my unbelief. Refrain

Trusting only in your merit, would I seek your face; Heal my wounded, broken spirit, save me by your grace. Refrain

Be the Spring of all my comfort, more than life to me,Not just here on Earth beside me, but eternally. Refrain

Benediction 

Communal Blessing 

Be Yourself.

Grow in Christ.

Live with Compassion