Order of Service / July 20, 2025 / Pentecost 6

 *Gathering Hymn God, Reveal Your Presence (#391 VU)

Welcome & Land Acknowledgement

Lighting the Christ Candle

Call to Worship

One: Called to this place…

  All: as people of God.

One: Called to this place…

  All: as friends in the Spirit

One: Called to this place…

All: as followers of the Christ

One: Called to this place…

All: to be renewed, to be refreshed, to be re-made!

One: Called to this place…

All: that we might go to all places to share the love of God!

*Richard Bott, Gathering Pentecost 1 2025. Page 40.

Opening Prayer

*Opening Hymn Great Is Thy Faithfulness (#288 VU)

Prayer of Confessional and Renewal (Unison)

Gracious God, we acknowledge and confess in your presence the smallness of our love, the narrowness of our concern, the denial of our true humanity. Through our careless hands have slipped opportunities not taken, people not cared for, days not celebrated. We are ashamed and sorry for the ways of our unfaithfulness, and ask for reassurance and forgiveness. (a time of silent confession) Amen.

*Celebrate God’s Presence. Page 39.

Words of Assurance

One: God’s love is greater than our failures.

  All: God’s mercy reaches beyond our shortcomings.

One: In Christ, we are forgiven and set free.

All: Thanks be to God, who makes all things new!

Announcements and Minute for Mission

Time for God’s Children (Know that God is God, #104 MV)

Know that God is love. Know that God is love.

Know that God is love. God is good, God is love.

Prayer for Illumination

Proclaiming the Scriptures

Colossians 1:24-28 Paul, the servant of the gospel

Psalm 52 (VU p. 777) Why do you boast of evil?

Luke 10:38:42 Jesus visits Mary and Martha

This is the Good News from the Bible.

  Thanks be to God.

Anthem

Sermon

*Hymn Dear God, Who Loves All Humankind (#608 VU)

*Offering

*Offertory Hymn (Tune: #374VU)

Acts of kindness, times for sharing; bringing Christ to human need.

Caring for the least among us; simple actions plant the seed.

By our giving and forgiving, work a miracle of love.

Holy presence to us offered; Praise the One who reigns above.

*Offertory Prayer (Unison)

God of infinite abundance, your mercy knows no ends. You love patiently and hopefully. May we live love by sharing extravagantly. We give to honour the great Giver. Transform our lives into expressions of deep faithfulness. Amen.

*Laura Turnbull, Gathering Pentecost 1 2025. Page 48.

Prayers of the People and Lord’s Prayer

*Closing Hymn Wherever You May Go (#216 MV)

*Commissioning

One: As we go from this place, may we carry both a spirit of welcome and a heart that listens.

All: We will open our doors with kindness and our hearts with attention.

One: Let us go, not rushed by demands, but grounded in what truly matters.

  All: We will seek what gives life, and share it with others in love. Amen.

*Commissioning Song God Be With You

God be with you wherever you go. Amen, amen, hallelujah.

Peace be with you whatever you do. Amen, amen, hallelujah.

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