Order of Service – 19th October 2025

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Brougham Place Uniting Church
Kardlayirdi Karnungga
A Light on the Hill

October 19, 2025
Preacher: Rev Linda Driver
Pentecost 19. Stewardship 1. BPUC Anniversary

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

Candle of Remembrance

Welcome and Acknowledgment of Country

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

For this Land:
We give thanks!
For the First Peoples:
We give thanks!
We acknowledge the Kaurna people, traditional custodians of this land under God. We commit ourselves again to working for reconciliation in this land.

Introit and Lighting of the Candles

Look Forward in Faith (Scobie/Steele) CH237

Call to Worship

We gather today, celebrating our life together
with gratitude to those who have gone before.
We gather today, looking ahead to our life together
with anticipation as we step forward together.
We gather, to worship and to serve the living God:
the God of yesterday, today and tomorrow.

We sing: All Are Welcome (All Belong)

Refrain:
All are welcome in this place,
Behold Love’s amazing grace.
All are welcome! All are welcome!
Bring your hopes, bring your dreams.
Mercy flows and Love redeems!
All are welcome! All belong!

Welcome all the broken hearted,
all who sorrow and despair.
You are not alone,
for you are God’s own!
Together, we sing and we proclaim!

All are welcome in this place,
Behold Love’s amazing grace.
All are welcome! All are welcome!
Bring your hopes, bring your dreams.
Mercy flows and Love redeems!
All are welcome! All belong!

Welcome, all who are forgotten,
excluded and dignity denied!
You are not alone,
for you are God’s own!
Together, we sing and we proclaim!

All are welcome in this place,
Behold Love’s amazing grace.
All are welcome! All are welcome!
Bring your hopes, bring your dreams.
Mercy flows and Love redeems!
All are welcome! All belong!

Welcome, all who work for justice, bringing
hope, charity and peace!
You are not alone,
for you are God’s own!
Together, we sing and we proclaim!

All are welcome in this place,
Behold Love’s amazing grace.
All are welcome! All are welcome!
Bring your hopes, bring your dreams.
Mercy flows and Love redeems!
All are welcome! All belong!

Opening Prayer

Loving God, you are our God;
we are your people.
We do not have to pray harder
or have greater faith,
for you to hear our prayers
and to answer us because:
who we are is enough for you.

You love us and want to give us all good things,
and for this:
we give thanks.

We commit ourselves again to you,
and to living faithfully in your ways.
Give us strength, courage, and grace
that we may share your love,
and seek your kingdom.
Amen

Prayer of Confession and Words of Grace

Gracious God,
please forgive us for the times that we may have been harsh with one another.
Please forgive us for the times we have failed to speak up.
Please forgive us for each time we have not shown love.

(A time of silence)

Friends in Christ,
you are loved, and your sins are forgiven.
Rise up in faith and love one another as you have been loved.
Amen

Passing of the Peace

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

Community News and Notices

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Stewardship 2025/26 – You Belong Here

Children’s Time (Exploring the Theme)

“You Belong Here”
Author M.H. Clark. Illustrator: Isabelle Arsenault. Copyright © 2016 M.H. Clark, Isabelle Arsenault and Compendium. Used with Permission.

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.

Choral Anthem

Here we are in the Church (L Newton)

Scripture Readings

Jeremiah 31:27-34

The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will plant seeds in Israel and Judah, and both people and animals will spring up. Just as I watched over them to dig up and pull down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring harm, so I will watch over them to build and plant, declares the Lord. In those days, people will no longer say:

Sour grapes eaten by parents

leave a bitter taste in the mouths of their children.

Because everyone will die for their own sins:

whoever eats sour grapes

will have a bitter taste in their own mouths.

The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. It won’t be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant with me even though I was their husband, declares the Lord. No, this is the covenant that I will make with the people of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my Instructions within them and engrave them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. They will no longer need to teach each other to say, “Know the Lord!” because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord; for I will forgive their wrongdoing and never again remember their sins.

Luke 18:1-8

Jesus was telling them a parable about their need to pray continuously and not to be discouraged. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him, asking, ‘Give me justice in this case against my adversary.’ For a while he refused but finally said to himself, I don’t fear God or respect people, but I will give this widow justice because she keeps bothering me. Otherwise, there will be no end to her coming here and embarrassing me.” The Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. Won’t God provide justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night? Will he be slow to help them? I tell you, he will give them justice quickly. But when the Human One comes, will he find faithfulness on earth?”

From this shines forth the Word of God.
Thanks be to God.

Message

We sing: Lord Jesus, we belong to you

Together in Song 686

Lord Jesus, we belong to you,
you live in us, we live in you;
we live and work for you –
because we bear your name.
Help us receive each other, Lord,
for you receive the least of us
and come to us in them –
because we bear your name.
Bless those who give us any gift
because they know that we are yours;
reward them with your grace –
because we bear your name.
Let us acknowledge those as friends
who use your name to right a wrong,
but have not joined us yet –
because we bear your name.
Keep us from missing out on life;
give hands that help; and single sight,
and feet that walk your way –
because we bear your name.
You are the salt that cleanses us,
so clean us out, and make us fit
for common life with you –
because we bear your name.

Prayers of the People

Anniversary Prayer

God of yesterday, today and tomorrow,
we give thanks for …

God of yesterday,
we give our thanks and praise.

God of yesterday, today and tomorrow,
we give thanks for …

God of today,
we give our thanks and praise.

God of yesterday, today and tomorrow,
we give thanks for …

God of tomorrow,
we give our thanks and praise.

God of yesterday, today and tomorrow
you are our God, and we are your people.
Continue to journey with us,
as we seek to honour the past and move into the future.
Amen

A prayer for Anti-Poverty Week

The Lord’s Prayer

And now with the confidence of the children of God, let us pray the prayer Jesus taught us saying…

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.

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: We Limit Not the Truth of God

We limit not the truth of God
to our poor reach of mind,
by notions of our day and sect,
crude, partial and confined:
no, let a new and better hope
within our hearts be stirred:

The Lord has yet more light and truth
to break forth from his word.

Our faithful forebears searching went
the first steps of the way;
this was the dawning, yet to grow
into the perfect day.
And grow it shall, our glorious sun
will brighter rays afford:

The Lord has yet more light and truth
to break forth from his word.

Creator, Son, and Spirit, send
us increase from above;
enlarge, expand all living souls
to comprehend your love;
and make us all go on to know,
with nobler powers conferred,

that you have yet more light and truth
to break forth from your word.

This day we come to celebrate
the church in which we stand.
It served your people in the past
and pray it always will.
May blessings of peace enfold this church
a Light upon the Hill,

as you have yet more light and truth
to break forth from your word.

Sending Forth and Benediction

We go back out into the world
to love and serve the world around us,
just as this church fellowship has done for 166 years.
We go out, held in the loving arms of God where we belong:
the God who creates, redeems and sustains us.
We go, in the arms of love.
Thanks be to God. Amen.

Choral Blessing

May the Lord Bless You and Keep You (Nairn)

Postlude

You are invited to come forward with your wooden peg as you go.

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)\ Dr Michelle Eastwood
© 2025, Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of South Australia

Prayers from Worship at Home
Rev Cheryl Wilson

Prayer for Poverty Week from Uniting Church SA Synod Weekly e-News.

Bible Readings are from the Contemporary English Bible (CEB)
Copyright © 2011 by Common English Bible

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.

Because We Bear Your Name
Together in Song 686
Words © J. W. Kleinig. John Wilfred Kleinig 1942-
All rights reserved.

We Limit Not the Truth of God
Together in Song 453.
Verses 1 – 3 by George Rawson 1807-89 alt. Public Domain.
Verse 4 by Lyn Sandy