Order of Service – 7th June 2026

June 7, 2026

Preacher: Rev Linda Driver

Musical Guests: Hot Gospel Choir

Pentecost 2. Green

Welcome to Brougham Place Uniting Church.

We acknowledge the Kaurna people as the traditional carers of the land on which our church is built.

As you wait for worship to begin, please turn your phone to silent.

Prelude

Welcome and Acknowledgment of Country

For the Kaurna Country on which we gather today,

we give thanks.

For the Elders and communities – past, present, and future – who walk these lands,

we pay our respects.

Come freedom and flourishing to land, people, and culture.

Lighting of the Candles

We sing: All Are Welcome (All Belong)

Call to Worship

Come, you who long for a new beginning.

God calls us into promise.

Come, you who carry grief or shame.

Christ meets us with mercy.

Come, you who hope for healing.

Spirit, make us a blessing on the move.

Prayer of Confession

Merciful God, we confess our small circles and slow feet.

We guard our tables, delay our apologies,

and call caution what is really fear.

Forgive us. Call us again, heal us again, send us again,

until mercy becomes our way.

A time of silence

Words of Grace

Hear Christ’s word: ‘It is kindness that I want, not sacrifice.’

In him, you are welcomed, forgiven, and restored,

freed to walk in the wideness of grace.

Thanks be to God.

We Sing: Come All You People

Come all you people,

come and praise your maker.

Come all you people,

come and praise your maker.

Come all you people,

come and praise your maker.

Come now and worship the Lord.

Passing of the Peace

The peace of our God be with you.

And also with you.

Community News and Notices

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Children’s Time (Exploring the Theme)

Hot Gospel Choir: Draw the Circle

Communion

Invitation

Great Prayer of Thanksgiving

May God be with you.

And also with you.

Lift up your hearts!

We lift them up to our God.

Let us give thanks to God our Creator.

It is right to give our thanks and praise.

Nurturing God…

…And so, together with all the saints and the angels and the wombats and the kookaburras,

we praise you saying:

Holy, holy, holy one,

God of love and light

heaven and earth are full of your glory,

Hosanna in the highest.

Blessed is the One who comes

in the name of the Lord

Hosanna in the highest.

Words of Institution

The Lord’s Prayer

Let us pray together in the words that Jesus taught us:

Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name,

your kingdom come,

your will be done,

on earth as in heaven.

Give us today our daily bread.

Forgive us our sins,

as we forgive those who sin against us.

Save us from the time of trial

and deliver us from evil.

For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours

now and forever. Amen.

The Breaking of the Bread

Christ is the bread of life,

who shares food with sinners.

Christ is the cup of joy,

who revives the faint-hearted.

Let us receive what we are;

let us become what we receive.

The Communion

We sing: Draw the Circle

(repeat)

Verse:

Draw the circle wide, draw it wider still,

Let this be our song, no one stands alone.

Standing side by side,

Draw the circle, draw the circle wide.

(repeat)

Bridge:

Draw the circle wide, draw it wider still,

Let this be our song, no one stands alone

Standing side by side,

Draw the circle, draw the circle wide.

(repeat)

Prayer After Communion

Children and Youth may go downstairs for Sunday School and Youth. Parents of young children, you are welcome to join your child in Sunday School if you feel your child may need your assistance. Alternatively, you may wish for your child to remain with you for the duration of worship. Activity packs are available at the entrances.

Scripture Reading: Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26

Jesus left that place, and as he walked along, he saw a tax collector, named Matthew, sitting in his office. He said to him, “Follow me.”

Matthew got up and followed him.

While Jesus was having a meal in Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and other outcasts came and joined Jesus and his disciples at the table. Some Pharisees saw this and asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with such people?”

Jesus heard them and answered, “People who are well do not need a doctor, but only those who are sick. Go and find out what is meant by the scripture that says: ‘It is kindness that I want, not animal sacrifices.’ I have not come to call respectable people, but outcasts.”

While Jesus was saying this, a Jewish official came to him, knelt down before him, and said, “My daughter has just died; but come and place your hands on her, and she will live.”

So Jesus got up and followed him, and his disciples went along with him.

A woman who had suffered from severe bleeding for twelve years came up behind Jesus and touched the edge of his cloak. She said to herself, “If only I touch his cloak, I will get well.”

Jesus turned around and saw her, and said, “Courage, my daughter! Your faith has made you well.” At that very moment the woman became well.

Then Jesus went into the official’s house. When he saw the musicians for the funeral and the people all stirred up, he said, “Get out, everybody! The little girl is not dead—she is only sleeping!” Then they all started making fun of him. But as soon as the people had been put out, Jesus went into the girl’s room and took hold of her hand, and she got up. The news about this spread all over that part of the country.

The Gospel of Christ, Light of the world.

Thanks be to God.

Message

Hot Gospel: Beds Are Burning

Lament

Prayers of the People

Offering

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Alternatively, there is an offering bowl near the lectern on the left-hand side as you exit the church.

Offering Prayer

We sing: For Everyone Born

Sending Forth and Benediction

Go now in the promise of God,

the mercy of Christ,

and the companionship of the Spirit.

We go, to walk, to welcome, to heal.

Amen.

We sing: Shalom to You Now

Shalom to you now, shalom, my friends.

May God’s full mercies bless you, my friends.

In all your living and through your loving,

Christ be your shalom, Christ be your shalom.

(Sing twice)

Come and share morning tea together, in the basement. There are stairs behind the organ and a ramp between the church and the car park.
All are welcome!

Thank you for joining us for worship!
If you would like to get in touch or request a prayer, please make use of the Contact Cards in the pews and next to the Offering Bowl. Alternately, you can email our Minister, Rev Linda Driver: lindad@bpuc.org

This service has been prepared with assistance from


Liturgy, Learning, & (Purposeful) Life (L3)
John Carr
© 2026, Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of South Australia

Communion Liturgy
Andreana Reale, Murrumbeena Uniting Church
Used with permission

Prayers from United in Prayer
Uniting Church Assembly
Writers: Rev Ken Sumner of the Ngarrindjerri Nation,
National Co-Chairperson, UAICC, SA
and Rev Salesi Faupula, Moderator, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania

Scripture quotations are from the Good News Translation (GNT). Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition) © 1992 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

Many thanks to Hot Gospel Choir, directed by Quentin Eyers.

Congregation Hymns/Songs:


All Are Welcome All Belong
Text and music © 2016, Jesse Manibusan and Jennah Manibusan.
Published by Spirit & Song®, a division of OCP. All rights reserved.

Come All You People
All Together Whatever, 419
Words and music © Alexander Gondo,
Arrangement © 1995 WGRC Iona Community
Administered by Willow Connections Pty Ltd. All rights reserved.

Draw the Circle Wide
Words: Colin Light. Music: Mark a Miller. Words © 1994 Common Cup Co; music. © 2008 Abingdon Press, admin. By the Copyright Company.

For Everyone Born
Worship in Song 4139. Shirley Erena Murray. Words © 1998 Hope Publishing Co. All rights reserved.
Revised lyrics: https://binarybreakingworship.com/2021/06/24/for-everyone-born-revised/

Shalom to You Now
Together in Song 778.
Elise Shoemaker Eslinger 1942- Words and music from the United Methodist Hymnal USA by permission United Methodist Publishing House. All rights reserved.

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