Order of Service / July 27, 2025 / Pentecost 7

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

Welcome & Land Acknowledgement

Lighting the Christ Candle

Call to Worship

One: May the God of grace be welcome in our midst.

  All: May we receive the power and peace of Divine Love.

One: Come let us worship with our hearts, minds, and bodies.

  All: Let us become a people seeking justice and compassion.

One: Blessed be God who challenges, heals, and unites us.

All: Blessed be our learning in this place, and blessed be our vision of possibilities.

One: Blessed be God who inspires all things to be new.

*Éric Hébert-Daly, Gathering Pentecost 1 2025. Page 40.

Opening Prayer

*Opening Hymn Let Us with a Gladsome Mind (#234 VU|vs.1-4)

Prayer of Confessional and Renewal (Unison)

Loving God, you teach us how to pray, yet we often forget what it truly means. You ask us to seek you, but sometimes we chase after things that do not satisfy us. You give us the bread we need, but we want more than enough. You encourage us to forgive, but we hold on to hurt and anger. Help us to pray not only with words but also with hearts open to your Spirit. Give us the courage to ask, to seek, and to knock, trusting that you are already with us, offering what is good and guiding us with hope and love. (a time of silent confession) Amen.

Words of Assurance

One: Jesus teaches us to ask, seek, and knock, trusting that God hears our prayers.

  All: God’s presence surrounds us always, ready to receive our every word.

One: We are held steadfast in hope that encourages us to live out God’s peace and love.

All: Thanks be to God, whose grace welcomes us always. Amen.

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 2:11-15 Buried in baptism, raised in faith

Psalm 85 (VU p. 802) God restores fortunes and pardons sin.

Luke 11:1-13 Jesus teaches the disciples to pray.

This is the Good News from the Bible.

  Thanks be to God.

Anthem

Sermon

*Hymn What a Friend We Have in Jesus (#664 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)

Welcoming God, you invite us to share. We give with tender hearts, aware of the need around us. We share these offerings so that your good news might be experienced. Fill us with generous spirits. Amen.

*Laura Turnbull, Gathering Pentecost 1 2025. Page 47.

Prayers of the People and Lord’s Prayer

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

*Commissioning

One: God has blessed us through this worship service.

All: Our spirits have been renewed and our faith deepened. Our thanksgiving will spill over into our daily life. Our determination and our resolution will change uncertainty to action for good. Our sense of community and cherished church friends will strengthen the other communities of which we are a part.

One: You have been wonderfully blessed. You will be God’s blessing in this community and

this world.

*David Sparks, Gathering Pentecost 1 2025. Page 50.

*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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