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ORDER OF WORSHIP, OCTOBER 13, 2024 - HONORING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

John T. Redman, CRE

Updated: Oct 31, 2024

ORDER OF WORSHIP

OCTOBER 13, 2024 10:30 AM

TWENTY FIRST SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST




 

If you have individual prayer requests, please write them on prayer cards in the pews and bring them up or give them to an usher during the prelude.

 

**Kindly stand if you are able

 

PRELUDE                                                                                                     Mary Lee Farris, Organ

 

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE LANDS

We gather to worship on lands that were occupied and honored by those of the Munsee, the Ramapough and the Lenape Nations, along the shores of the water that flows both north and south. As we are all related, we recognize their long stewardship of these lands and will endeavor to continue in their protection and preservation for benefit of all of God’s children.

 

CALL TO WORSHIP (Adapted from Psalm 90)

Leader: So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.

PEOPLE: Turn, O LORD! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

Leader: Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

PEOPLE: Make us glad as many days as you have afflicted us and as many years as we have seen evil.

Leader: Let your work be manifest to your servants and your glorious power to their children.

PEOPLE: Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us and prosper for us the work of our hands.

 

INVOCATION

Eternal God, we gaze at the stars, they dance to your music; the moon shines, reflecting your glory. We greet the sunrise and rejoice in creation. Tasting the rain, we affirm your care for us; touching the sand, we are in awe of your power. Walking in the woodlands, you whisper to us in the breeze. Your spirit surrounds our every step. You spark our senses to the scope of your grandeur, and we give you honor as we worship your name. Amen.

 

**OPENING HYMN              “To Bless the Earth”                                                       Blue # 200

                       

CALL TO CONFESSION

Among our many sins, too numerous to count but all to be acknowledged, are the horrendous and multiple acts against our indigenous people, their forebears, and descendants. Let us come together to acknowledge past sins as we seek a greater understanding of how to live in a world that is better for everyone.

  

PRAYER FOR UNDERSTANDING

Great Creator of us all, we know that our past generations and even some of the present have never treated our native sisters and brothers as we should, nor as Jesus Christ commanded. We ask forgiveness for those who have sinned so deeply in the past and we seek to find an understanding for more equitable treatment today and into the future. As the Great Creator has said: “we are all related.” Amen

(a moment for silent personal confession)

 

ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS

We gather in the sight of God to remember all that has been done for us and those around us. In the words of our Lakota sisters and brothers Mata kuiesen. We are all relatives. Amen.

 

**PASSING OF THE PEACE

 

**AFFIRMATION OF FAITH –  (Loosely Translated from Lakota Sioux)

We believe in the Great Creator, who made all that is and will be made, and in his shining Son of the East, whose bright light came with a star and lived among the people and died among them for his own light. The Great Spirit raised him to live again among the people of the stars and the mother earth, as he leads all who wish to join him in the feast of his being, for as long as the stars shall shine, and the rivers shall flow. Amen.

 

**HYMN OF PRAISE           “When the Morning Stars Together”                             Blue #486

 

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION

Lord, open our hearts and minds by the power of your Holy Spirit, that as the Scriptures are read and your Word is proclaimed, we may hear with joy what you say to us today. Amen.

 

SCRIPTURE READINGS

OLD TESTAMENT READING                   Joshua 6: 15-21                                 Theresa Cotanche                 

GOSPEL READING                                    Luke 19: 26-28

 

SERMON:                             Promises Made and Shattered                            John Redman, CRE

 

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LORD’S PRAYER  

And Lord we pray for those in our own hearts whose names you already know, for their own healing and comfort, in your name and that of our redeemer Jesus Christ, who taught to pray, saying:

 

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen

 

OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS 

It is right to share our abundance with those who have less or need more. May what we offer here help to be the answer of the prayers of others in the name of Jesus, Amen.

 

OFFERTORY            “Take My Life, and Let It Be”

 

**DOXOLOGY          Traditional                                                                              Blue # 591

 

**PRAYER OF THANKS 

Gracious God, accept our gifts that they may be used wisely in your service for those who hunger, or thirst, or merely seek a greater understanding of your love. This we gratefully pray in Jesus’ name, Amen.

 

**HYMN OF PARTING        “Go with Us, Lord”                                                    Blue # 535  

 

BENEDICTION          

 

POSTLUDE              “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing”                      Mary Lee Farris, Piano

 

Blessings!

 

 

 

John Redman, CRE

Mobile: (914) 474-0722

Union Church

44 Balmville Rd, Newburgh NY 12550

Phone: (845) 562-0954

 


 

 

 

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