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!”
November 10, 2024
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10:20 Gathering and Prelude
Wayne Shull, Music Director
Joe McSwain, Usher
Louise Tajuddin, Usher
Tom Cuilla, Usher Coordinator
Marvin Wilson, Scripture reader
Naomi Hanvey, Candle lighter
Charlie Salt and Sue Ferrozzo, Fellowship Set-up
Naomi Hanvey, Fellowship Clean-up
Scotty Patton, Zoom Monitor
Rev. Gen Heywood, Pastor
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 is with us ...all the time! All the time...God is with us!
Service and Fellowship Opportunities
Next Sunday: The Song of Hannah, 1 Sam 1:4-20 and 1 Sam 2:1-10
Worship Team today after Fellowship
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
Bling-A-Lings and Ding-A-Lings
Community giving this month: Salish School Fund Raiser
Welcoming the Light of Christ
*Hymn: “Lead us from Death to Life” 581 NCH
Refrain: Lead us from death to life, from falsehood to truth,
from despair to hope, from fear to trust. Lead us from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our hearts, let peace fill our world, let peace fill our universe.
Still all the angry cries, still all the angry guns, still now your people die, Earth’s sons and daughters. Let justice roll, let mercy pour down. Come and teach us your way of compassion. (Refrain)
So many lonely hearts, so many broken lives, longing for love to break into their darkness. Come, teach us love, come, teach us peace. Come and teach us your way of compassion. (Refrain)
Let justice ever roll, let mercy fill the earth. Let us begin to grow into your people. We can be love, we can bring peace. We can still be your way of compassion. (Refrain)
Recognition of Veterans
Hymn: “How Beautiful, Our Spacious Skies” 594 (NCH)
How beautiful our spacious skies, our amber waves of grain; our purple mountains as they rise above the fruitful plain. America! America! God’s gracious gifts abound, and more and more, we’re grateful for life’s bounty all around.
Indigenous and immigrant, our daughters and our sons; O may we never rest content till all are truly one. America! America! God grant that we may be a sisterhood and brotherhood from sea to shining sea.
How beautiful, sincere lament, the wisdom born of tears, the courage called for to repent the bloodshed through the years. America! America! God grant that we may be a nation blessed with none oppressed, true land of liberty.
How beautiful, two continents, and islands in the sea that dream of peace, nonviolent, all people living free. America! America! God grant that we may be a hemisphere where people here all live in harmony.
Community Prayer
Love, love, love , love, Christians this is your call. Love your neighbor as yourself for God loves us all. (one time)
Prayers of Gratitude: Refrain
Prayers of Concern: Refrain
Silent Prayer: Refrain
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: 759 (NCH)Glory to the Creator, the Christ, the Holy Spirit, three in One. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen.
A Time of Offering and blessing of Pledge Cards
An Invitation to Share and Collection of Pledge Cards
Dedication Hymn : Give thanks with a grateful heart. Give thanks to the Holy One. Give thanks because God’s given Jesus Christ, the Son. (repeat)
And now let the weak say, “I am strong!” Let the poor say, “I am rich because of what the Lord has done for us!” (repeat)
Give thanks. Give thanks.
Dedication Prayer: Holy One, we give to the ministry we share here at Veradale United Church of Christ. Bless our offerings of time, talent, and treasure. Bless our pledges for the year 2025. It is an act of faith and hope. My this be found pleasing in your sight. Amen.
Listening for God
Ruth 3:1-5 and 4:13-17 (NRSV)
Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, I need to seek some security for you, so that it may be well with you. Now here is our kinsman Boaz, with whose young women you have been working. See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor. Now wash and anoint yourself, and put on your best clothes and go down to the threshing floor, but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking. When he lies down, observe the place where he lies; then go and uncover his feet and lie down, and he will tell you what to do.” She said to her, “All that you say I will do.”
So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When they came together, the Lord made her conceive, and she bore a son. Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without next-of-kin; and may his name be renowned in Israel! He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age; for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has borne him.” Then Naomi took the child and laid him in her bosom, and became his nurse. The women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” They named him Obed; he became the father of Jesse, the father of David.
Mark 12:38-44 (NRSV)
As he taught, he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets! They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.” He sat down opposite the treasury and watched the crowd putting money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums. A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which are worth a penny. Then he called his disciples and said to them, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the treasury. For all of them have contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”
Message: A Widow’s Offering
Meditation in Music
Announcement Reminder
Our Light moves into the World God Loves
*Closing Hymn God of Change and Glory 177 (NCH)
God of change and glory, God of time and space, when we fear the future, give to us your grace. In the midst of changing ways give to us the grace to praise.
Refrain: Many gifts, one Spirit, one love known in many ways. In our difference is blessing, from diversity we praise, one Giver, one Word, one Spirit, one God known in many ways, hallowing our days. For the Giver, for the gift, praise, praise, praise!
God of many colors, God of many signs, you have made us different, blessing many kinds. As the old ways disappear, let your love cast out our fear. Refrain
Freshness of the morning, newness of each night, you are still creating, endless love and light. This we see, as shadows part, many gifts from one great heart. Refrain.
Benediction
Communal Blessing
Be Yourself.
Grow in Christ.
Live with Compassion
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