Sunday Worship Bulletin, Sep 21 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!”

September 21, 2025

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10:20 Gathering and Prelude

Wayne Shull, Music Director

Charlie Salt, AV

Tom Cuilla, Usher Coordinator

Joe McSwain, Usher

Jerry Brines, Usher

Naomi, Scripture Reader

Diane, Candle lighter

Gregg G, Fellowship Set-up

_________, Fellowship Clean-up

__________, Liturgist

Scotty Patton, Zoom Monitor

Rev. Gen Heywood, Pastor now with sisters in Maine

10:30am Welcoming the Light of Christ Liturgist

Land Acknowledgement Gregg Glisson

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 Liturgist

God finds us all the time! All the time...God finds us!

Service and Fellowship Opportunities Liturgist

Next Sunday: Naomi Hanvey brings our message

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

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

Sing-A-Lings practice starts Wednesday, Sept 6:30pm

 Community giving this month: Farm and Food

Go out to a fair, a farmers’ market, learn to preserve food and bring back a story of your experience. (3-4 sentences)

Farm and Food Show and Tell Liturgist

Reports

Opening Hymn

*Hymn: “In the Midst of New Dimensions” 391 (NCH)

In the midst of new dimensions, in the face of changing ways. Who will lead

the pilgrim peoples wandering in their separate ways?

 [Refrain] God of rainbow, fiery pillar, leading where the eagles soar, We

your people, ours the journey now and ever, now and ever, now and ever

more.

Through the flood of starving people, warring factions and despair, Who will

lift the olive branches? Who will light the flame of care?

As we stand a world divided by our own self seeking schemes, Grant that

we, your global village might envision wider dreams

We are man and we are woman, all persuasions, old and young, Each a

gift in your creation, each a love song to be sung.

Should the threats of dire predictions cause us to withdraw in pain, May

your blazing phoenix spirit, resurrect the church again.

Community Prayer Liturgist

105 (Sing Book)

Ferry our prayers across the water, kindle our hopes a lighthouse

flame. Amazing grace is most amazing, praying for those we cannot

name.

Prayers of Gratitude 

Amazing grace is most amazing, praying for those we cannot name.

Prayers of Concern

Amazing grace is most amazing, praying for those we cannot name.

Prayers in Silence

Amazing grace is most amazing, praying for those we cannot name.

 Lord’s Prayer

Response 812 (NCH)

Amen. Amen. Amen.

A Time of Offering Liturgist

An Invitation to Share 

Dedication Hymn: “The Steadfast Love of the Lord” RB 306

Dedication Prayer

How blessed we are! With thankful hearts we offer of our time, talent,

and treasure to the work of Jesus now and always. Amen

Listening for God

Scripture to be announce by Don Young.

Maybe Amos 8:4-7

  Hear this, you who trample on the needy,

    and bring to ruin the poor of the land,

5  saying, “When will the new moon be over

    so that we may sell grain,

and the Sabbath,

    so that we may offer wheat for sale?

We will make the ephah smaller and the shekel heavier

    and practice deceit with false balances,

6  buying the poor for silver

    and the needy for a pair of sandals

    and selling the sweepings of the wheat.”

7  The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob:

Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.

and/or Luke 16:1-13

Then Jesus [a]  said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a

manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was squandering

his property.  2  So he summoned him and said to him, ‘What is this that I

hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management because you

cannot be my manager any longer.’  3  Then the manager said to himself,

‘What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me? I

am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.  4  I have decided

what to do so that, when I am dismissed as manager, people may welcome

me into their homes.’  5  So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he

asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’  6  He answered, ‘A

hundred jugs of olive oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly,

and make it fifty.’  7  Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’

He replied, ‘A hundred containers of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill

and make it eighty.’  8  And his master commended the dishonest manager

because he had acted shrewdly, for the children of this age are more

shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of

light.  9  And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of dishonest

wealth [b]  so that when it is gone they may welcome you into the eternal

homes. [c]

10  “Whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much, and whoever is

dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much. 11  If, then, you have not

been faithful with the dishonest wealth, [d]  who will entrust to you the true

riches?  12  And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another,

who will give you what is your own?  13  No slave can serve two masters, for

a slave will either hate the one and love the other or be devoted to the one

and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”

Message from Don Young

Meditation in Music

Announcement Reminder Liturgist

Our Light moves into the World God Loves Liturgist

Closing Hymn: Hymn: Blessed Assurance 473 NCH

1 Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! O what a foretaste of glory divine!

Heir of salvation, purchase of God, born of the Spirit, washed in Christ's

blood.

Refrain: This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day

long; This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long.

2 Perfect submission, perfect delight! Visions of rapture now burst on my

sight; Angels descending, bring from above echoes of mercy, whispers of

love. [Refrain]

3 Perfect submission, all is at rest, I in my Savior am happy and blessed;

Watching and waiting, looking above, filled with God's goodness, lost in

Christ's love. [Refrain]

Benediction Don Young

Communal Blessing

Be Yourself.

Grow in Christ.

Live with Compassion