Order of Service / World Food Sunday / October 19, 2025

*Gathering Hymn For the Fruit of all Creation (#227 VU)

Welcome & Land Acknowledgement

Lighting the Christ Candle

Call to Worship

One: We come as ordinary people, with ordinary lives.

All: Ordinary we are, but your call to us is powerful.

One: We come to be fed at your table of grace.

  All: We come to be fed, knowing that we are also called to feed others.

One: We come remembering your commissioning to us, to live out our faith as presence in this world.

All: As your called people, we proclaim justice and encourage generosity.

*Gord Dunbar, Gathering Pentecost 2 2025. Page 45.

Opening Prayer

*Opening Hymn Praise the Lord with the Sound of Trumpet (#245 VU)

Prayer of Confessional and Renewal (Unison)

Generous God, you have given us a world filled with beauty and plenty, yet we have not always shared your gifts with care. We take more than we need while others go hungry, and we forget that all food is your blessing. We waste what the earth provides and ignore the hands that harvest our daily bread. Forgive us for our selfishness and renew in us hearts of gratitude and compassion. Teach us to live simply, share generously, and join in your work of feeding the world with love. (a time of silent confession) Amen.

Words of Assurance

One: God knows the hunger of our hearts; our longing to be forgiven, to begin again, to live with kindness.

  All: In Christ, we are fed with mercy and renewed by grace.

One: The Spirit moves among us, planting seeds of hope and compassion.

All: We are nourished to become bread for one another and blessing for the world. Thanks be to God!

Announcements and Minute for Mission

Prayer for Illumination

Proclaiming the Scriptures

Jeremiah 31:31-34 God’s new Covenant will be written upon people’s hearts.

Psalm 119:97-104 (VU p. 840) How I love God’s law.

2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 People with itching ears will turn away from the truth.

This is the Good News from the Bible.

  Thanks be to God.

Anthem

Sermon

*Hymn O for a World (#697 VU)

*Offering

*Offertory Hymn (#542 VU, We Give You But Your Own)

We give you but your own, whate’er the gift may be,

all that we have is yours alone, we give it gratefully.

*Offertory Prayer (Unison)
These gifts are to provide living water for lives that are parched, Life-Giving God, and actual food and water for any who live with a scarcity of these essentials. These gifts are offered to encourage those who wonder if their hopes will ever come to fruition, and to support the gardeners who lovingly tend your world and its peoples in so many ways. Amen.

*Keren Boivin, Gathering Pentecost 2 2025. Page 45.

Prayers of the People and Lord’s Prayer

*Closing Hymn Make Me a Channel of Your Peace (VU 684)

*Commissioning

One: As the colours of autumn brighten the earth, may our lives shine with gratitude and grace.

All: We go from this place to share kindness, to feed the hungry, and to care for creation.

One: May all that we share become streams of blessing that nourish the world

  All: we go to live generously and to walk in God’s peace. Amen.

*Commissioning Song Peace Be With You (#215 MV)

Peace be with you, peace forever, peace be with you my friends.

Till we meet again, may God be with you. Peace, peace, peace. 

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