Sunday Worship Oct 25, and Bulletin

Hi Everyone! 

 

Please, keep in prayer: 

 

Marvin and his Dad who came home this week from the specialized care facility.

 

Kathy and Sally as Kathy heals from successful cancer surgery.

 

Al and Polly who continue to keep quarantine with the help of their family. Especially prayers for Polly who is tired most of the time.

 

Naomi and Justin as they move into their new home.

 

Also, please, let me know how you and your loved ones are doing. As the nights get longer and colder, we need each other’s support and prayers more than ever.

 

Can you bring a short message this Sunday or Next Sunday about  “What motivates me to be giving of time, talent, and/or treasure to support Veradale UCC?”

Please, write a paragraph or two and return it in an email or read it on Sunday. Let me know if you are willing to give little message.

 

This Sunday, we continue worshiping through Zoom, Facebook, in person (please, let me know if you will be in-person), and through “Radio Daniel” our parking lot FM station 89.3 FM where you can listen to the worship service from your car radios in the church parking lot, the school parking lot, the street parking in front of the church and the school yard across the street.  If you want to get out of the house, keep healthy distancing, and listen to church — try our parking lot on Sunday morning!

 

The bulletin for Sunday worship is also below. Remember worship is seen and heard both on Facebook and ZOOM (NOTE this is a NEW link). Please, keep flexible about worshiping in person. If Washington State goes back to Phase 1, we will only have the worship team in the building. We are in this for the long haul. 

 

With blessings,

Pastor Gen

 

 

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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!”

Sunday, October 25, 20120• 10:30 a.m.

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Wayne Shull, Music Director

Charlie Salt, Acolyte and AV

Naomi Hanvey Facebook Monitor

Scotty Patton, Zoom Monitor

 

10:30am    Worship begins:

God is our witness . . . all the time!  

All the time . . . God is our witness!

Passing the Peace of Christ and Welcoming the Light of Christ

Hymn: “Won’t You Let Me Be Your Servant”  539 (NCH)

CCLI license #11038266

 

Community Prayer

Pastoral Prayer

Silent Prayer

Lord’s Prayer

 

The Experience of Generosity

 

A Time of Offering

An Invitation to Share

*Dedication 780 (NCH) Public Domain

Praise God from whom all blessing flow. Praise God all creatures here below. Praise God above, you heavenly hosts: Creator, Christ, and Holy Ghost.

Dedication Prayer

An Invitation to Share

Dedication Prayer

Giver of all Life, we give thanks with humble hearts. Bless this offering for the work of this congregation. Help us to live  generously giving of our time, talent, and treasure. Amen

Listening for God

Message About Alphabetical Prayer Word Beads

Scotty Patton

1 Thessalonians 2:1-8

2 You yourselves know, brothers and sisters, that our coming to you was not in vain, ² but though we had already suffered and been shamefully mistreated at Philippi, as you know, we had courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in spite of great opposition. ³ For our appeal does not spring from deceit or impure motives or trickery, ⁴ but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the message of the gospel, even so we speak, not to please mortals, but to please God who tests our hearts. ⁵ As you know and as God is our witness, we never came with words of flattery or with a pretext for greed; ⁶ nor did we seek praise from mortals, whether from you or from others, ⁷ though we might have made demands as apostles of Christ. But we were gentle among you, like a nurse tenderly caring for her own children. ⁸ So deeply do we care for you that we are determined to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you have become very dear to us.

Matthew 22:34-46(NRSV)³⁴ When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, ³⁵ and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. ³⁶ “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” ³⁷ He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ ³⁸ This is the greatest and first commandment. ³⁹ And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

⁴¹ Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them this question: ⁴² “What do you think of the Messiah? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.” ⁴³ He said to them, “How is it then that David by the Spirit calls him Lord, saying,

⁴⁴ ‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand,
    until I put your enemies under your feet”’?

⁴⁵ If David thus calls him Lord, how can he be his son?” ⁴⁶ No one was able to give him an answer, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.

 

Message: “The Greatest Commandment”

 

Silence

 Our Light moves into the World God Loves

Hymn “How Firm a Foundation” Melody 407(NCH)

Public Domain

1 How firm a foundation, you saints of the Lord, is laid for your faith in his excellent Word! What more can he say than to you he has said, to you who for refuge to Jesus have fled?

2 “Fear not, I am with you, O be not dismayed; for I am your God, and will still give you aid; I’ll strengthen you, help you, and cause you to stand, upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand.

3 “When through the deep waters I call you to go, the rivers of sorrow shall not overflow; for I will be with you, your troubles to bless, and sanctify to you your deepest distress.

4 “When through fiery trials your pathway shall lie, my grace, all-sufficient, shall be your supply; the flame shall not hurt you; I only design your dross to consume and your gold to refine.

5 “The soul that on Jesus has leaned for repose, I will not, I will not desert to his foes; that soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, I’ll never, no never, no never forsake.”

 

*Benediction and “Love Round”

Public Domain

Love, love, love, love, Christians this is your call. Love your neighbor as yourself for God loves us all.

Postlude

 

We have purple cloth masks to give away. They are a blending of red and blue to make purple and, thus, a statement of our sorrow and of our hope to create unity. Let me know if you would like a few of them to share.

 

 

Meeting ID: 988 6286 7992

Passcode: 321

 

Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 6pm to 6:30pm

 

 

Please, remember offerings can be given through the church website at https://veradaleucc.org

There is an orange donate button on the right side of the page.

or

send checks to Veradale UCC, 611N Progress Road, Spokane Valley, WA 99037

Thank you!

 

 

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