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Stewardship Sunday
11/09/2025 - 10:30 pm
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
CENTERING MUSIC
MINUTE FOR MISSION “Anti-Racism Policy” Starla Colburn
MOMENT OF HOPE
CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: Let us stop for a moment
And in our stillness give praise to God
People: Who looked at the new creation and said
"It is very good"
Leader: Let us worship God.
*OPENING HYMN #36 For the Fruit of All Creation
For the fruit of all creation, thanks be to God.
For the gifts to every nation, thanks be to God.
For the plowing, sowing, reaping, silent growth while we are sleeping,
future needs in earth’s safekeeping, thanks be to God.
In the just reward of labor, God’s will be done.
In the help we give our neighbor, God’s will be done.
In our world-wide task of caring for the hungry
and despairing, in the harvests we are sharing, God’s will be done.
For the harvests of the Spirit, thanks be to God.
For the good we all inherit, thanks be to God.
For the wonders that astound us, for the truths that still confound us,
Most of all that love has found us, thanks be to God.
PRAYER CONFESSING OUR NEED FOR GOD’S GRACE
O God, who sent gifts
of the Holy Spirit to those first saints,
We know you continue to send gifts to us,
Even though we do not claim them.
We confess that we have not always opened our gifts.
We have often chosen to keep them packed away or buried.
Move us, by your Spirit,
To pick up our presents, that you so freely give,
To open them and to spend them lavishly
On the stewardship of your world.
We confess to you how often our thoughts and motives are confused,
Both individually
And when we are together as your people,
And that this confusion has often blinded us
To your interest in our lives.
Break in on our confusion,
And astonish us anew, O God!
Our prayer is that you will claim us again
And silence within us our desire
To always have words for every occasion,
That we might hear the whisper of the wings of your Spirit dove.
In the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, we pray.
Amen.
MOMENT OF SILENT PRAYER
SONG OF RENEWAL SONG OF RENEWAL (2202 in STF)
Come Away with Me to a quiet place
Apart from the world with its frantic pace
To pray, reflect and seek God’s grace.
Come away with me, Come away.
CELEBRATION OF GOD’S GRACE
Here this Good News, God is with us in every moment. Rest in that grace, offered to you constantly and in the silence, know God. Amen.
*PASSING THE PEACE
Leader: The peace of Christ be with you.
People: And with you also.
Leader: Let us pass the peace of Christ.
People: The peace of Christ be with you. (To one another)
ANTHEM - "The Time for Turning" by C. Courtney and P. Martin.
BLESSING THE CHILDREN AND SINGING TO GODLY PLAY
This little light of mine
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine!
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine!
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine!
Let it shine! Let it shine! Let it shine!
Today’s Story “The Ark and the Temple”
Kathleen Krentz & Joyclyn Van
Leader: And as we continue our worship…
Congregation: May God be with you there.
Children: May God be with you here.
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
Leader: God in your Grace,
People: Hear our prayer
PASTORAL PRAYER
THE LORD’S PRAYER
As we pray together the Lord's Prayer, you are invited to say this in whatever version is most comforting and meaningful to you. Here is one possible version (ecumenical version) that you can use:
Our Father, who is in heaven, holy be your name.
Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READINGS: Amos 1:1-2; 5:14-15, 21-24
John 7:37-38
RESPONSE
Reader: The Gospel of the Lord
People: Thanks be to God
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION, from Psalm 19 - responsively
Pastor: May the words of my mouth
People: And the meditations of our hearts
All: Be acceptable in your sight, O Lord,
Our rock and our redeemer. Amen.
SERMON The Abundance in Justice Pastor Barbara Barkley
MOMENT OF SILENT REFLECTION
*HYMN OF RESPONSE #342 Judge Eternal, Throned in Splendor
Judge Eternal, throned in splendor, Lord of lords and King of kings,
With your living fire of judgment purge this land of bitter things;
Solace all its wide dominion with the healing of your wings.
Still the weary folk are pining for the hour that brings release,
And the city’s crowded clang or cries aloud for sin to cease,
And the homesteads and the woodlands plead in silence for their peace.
Crown, O God, your own endeavor; Cleave our darkness with your sword;
Feed the faithless and the hungry with the richness of your word;
Cleanse the body of this nation through the glory of the Lord.
MOMENT OF THANKS
OFFERING OURSELVES AND OUR GIFTS
OFFERTORY
*SONG OF THANKS #708 We Give Thee But Thine Own vs. 1
We give thee but thine own, whate’er the gift may be;
All that we have is thine alone, a trust, O Lord, from thee.
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
We thank you, O God for your love for us.
Love that reaches out to accept us, wherever we are, whoever we are.
Love that demands a lot, but at the same time, somehow, amazingly enables us to meet those demands.
Love that reassures, affirms, prompts, challenges, and overwhelms us with the completeness of its response.
Help us, your people, held within the security of your love, to risk showing that same love to others.
May our love, too, be known for its abundance, its readiness to speak out and its healing power.
Amen.
CLOSING HYMN #757 Today We All Are Called To Be Disciples
Today we all are called to be disciples of the Lord, To help to set the captive free,
Make plowshare out of sword, to feed the hungry, quench their thirst,
Make love and peace our fast, to serve the poor and homeless first, our ease and comfort last.
God made the world and at its birth ordained our human race
To live as stewards of the earth, responding to God’s grace.
But we are vain and sadly proud; we sow not peace but strife.
Our discord spreads a deadly cloud that threatens all of life.
Pray justice may come rolling down as in a mighty stream,
With righteousness in field and town to cleanse us and redeem.
For God is longing to restore an earth where conflicts cease,
A world that was created for a harmony of peace.
May we in service to our God act out the living word,
And walk the road the saints have trod till all have seen and heard.
As stewards of the earth may we give thanks in one accord
To God who calls us all to be disciples of the Lord.
POSTLUDE
*CHARGE AND BENEDICTION