Order of Service – 1st June 2025

The Order of Service follows below.

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Brougham Place Uniting Church
Kardlayirdi Karnungga
A Light on the Hill

June 1, 2025
Preacher: Rev Linda Driver
Communion.
Easter 7. White

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

Naa marni? (Are you all good?)
Marni Ai! (Good I am)

Lighting of the Candles

Instrumental

Call to Worship

We are here to worship God.

The world belongs to God,
the earth and all its people.

Love and peace come together,
justice and peace join hands.

How good and how lovely it is
to live together in unity.

If the Lord’s disciples keep silent
these stones would shout aloud.

Lord, open our lips
and our mouths shall proclaim your praise.

Let us worship God.

We sing: Praise with Joy the World’s Creator

Praise with joy the world’s Creator,
God of justice, love and peace,
source and end of human knowledge,
force of greatness without cease.
Celebrate the Maker’s glory,
power to rescue and release.
Praise the Son who feeds the hungry,
frees the captive, finds the lost,
heals the sick, upsets religion,
fearless both of fate and cost.
Celebrate Christ’s constant presence –
Friend and Stranger, Guest and Host.
Praise the Spirit sent among us,
liberating truth from pride,
forging bonds where race or gender,
age or nation dare divide.
Celebrate the Spirit’s treasure –
foolishness none dare deride.
Praise the Maker, Son and Spirit,
one God in community,
calling Christians to embody
oneness and diversity.
Thus the world shall yet believe, when
shown Christ’s vibrant unity.

Together in Song, 179, John L. Bell 1949- and Graham Maule 1958- Words from Wild Goose Songs 1, Heaven Shall Not Wait.

Prayer of Confession

You call us, O God, into loving community, but unity is hard, God!
Relationships are hard!
Differences, tensions, divisions and hurts are real and working out how to navigate these in honest, loving and mature ways is hard for us.
We’re sorry, God, for the times when pain and fear and unlove keep us at a distance from each other.
We’re sorry, God.

Words of Assurance/Grace

Jesus knows the vulnerability of what it means to be human.
He prayed for love and community to be the big story of our lives and knew that forgiveness is at the heart of all of this.
Receive this freely given gift of God—you are forgiven.
Thanks be to God.
Amen

Passing of the Peace

The peace of our God be with you.
And also with you.

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Children’s Time

Following Children’s Time, the children are invited to sit with their families for Communion.

We sing: Feed Us Now

Feed us now Bread of life,
in this holy meal;
let us know your love anew:
we hunger for you.
Feed us now, Bread of life,
come and live within;
let your peace be ours today,
Lord Jesus, we pray.
Piece of bread, cup of wine:
Lord, this food is good:
love and mercy come to us –
your promise we trust.
Piece of bread, cup of wine:
who can understand
how his mercy works in these?
Yet, Lord, we believe.

Communion

Invitation

Words of Institution

Great Prayer of Thanksgiving

Let us give our thanks to God: 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.

For this land
and the First Peoples
We give thanks!
For the Second Peoples
We give thanks!
For the culturally and linguistically diverse peoples
We give thanks!
For the seeds and fruits of this Land
We give thanks!
For the work of those who have tended the earth and prepared the feast
We give thanks!
For the One who breathes life into this feast
We give thanks!

Great God…

…For this gift of bread and wine that reminds us of all those other gifts you have given us we sing with every person who has been at this table in every time and in every place

Holy, holy, holy God
God of power and might
heaven and earth are full of your glory
Hosanna in the highest
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of God
Hosanna in the highest

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

We break this bread
and take this cup
so that we can all share in the life of Christ.
The gifts of God for the people of God.

The Communion

Prayer After Communion

Children and Young people may go downstairs for Sunday School and Youth. Parents, 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.

We sing: Feed Us Now

God is here, O so near,
nearer than our thoughts.
Stay with us where’er we go;
Lord, help us to grow.
God is here, O so near,
in this heaven’s meal.
May we always feed on you –
on the bread that is true.

Scripture Reading: John 17:20-26

“I ask not only on behalf of these but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

“Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you, and these know that you have sent me. I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them and I in them.”

The Gospel of Christ, Light of the world.
Thanks be to God.

Message

We sing: Love Divine

Love divine, all loves excelling,
joy of heaven, to earth come down,
fix in us thy humble dwelling,
all thy faithful mercies crown:
Jesus, thou art all compassion,
pure unbounded love thou art;
visit us with thy salvation,
enter every trembling heart.
Come, almighty to deliver,
let us all thy life receive;
suddenly return, and never,
never more thy temples leave:
thee we would be always blessing,
serve thee as thy hosts above,
pray, and praise thee, without ceasing,
glory in thy perfect love.
Finish then thy new creation,
pure and spotless let us be,
let us see thy great salvation,
perfectly restored in thee:
changed from glory into glory,
till in heaven we take our place,
till we cast our crowns before thee,
lost in wonder, love and praise.

Together in Song 217(i) Charles Wesley 1707-88 alt. Public Domain.

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: Filled with the Spirit’s Power

Filled with the Spirit’s power, with one accord
the infant church confessed its risen Lord:
O Holy Spirit, in the church today
no less your power of fellowship display.
Now with the mind of Christ set us on fire,
that unity may be our great desire:
give joy and peace; give faith to hear your call,
and readiness in each to work for all.
Widen our love, good Spirit, to embrace
in your strong care all those of every race:
like wind and fire with life among us move
till we are known as Christ’s, and Christians prove.

Sending Forth

With the love of God in our hearts,
May we go and be brave

With the Spirit of life weaving us together,
May we seek to make change

With the dawning of the sun,
May hope and healing rise

With the still water stream,
May our eyes be opened wide

As we go forth, carrying the ministry of Reconciliation,
May we be compelled to love, in truth and with action

May the peace and grace of God be with you, always.
Amen

We sing: Doxology

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow,
praise God, all creatures here below,
praise God above, you heavenly host,
praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

Together in Song 768. Thomas Ken 1637-1711 alt. Public Domain.

Postlude

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

Dr. Michelle Eastwood: Liturgy, Learning, & (Purposeful) Life
© 2025, Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of South Australia

Reconciliation Sunday Worship Resource 2020
Uniting Church SA

Cheryl Wilson: Worship at Home

Bianca Manning, Gomeroi woman
and Common Grace’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Justice Coordinator

Rev’d Canon Aunty Di Langham, secretary to the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Anglican Council.

Rev Jesse Size: Words for Worship © 2025, Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of South Australia

Cover Photo by Kamil Kalkan on Unsplash

Bible reading:
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.