Order of Service – 14th June 2026

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Brougham Place Uniting Church

Kardlayirdi Karnungga

A Light on the Hill

14 June, 2025

Preacher: Paul Turley

Pentecost 3 – 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

Naa marni?

(Are you all good?)

Marni Ai!

(Good I am)

Introit and Lighting of the Candles

Choir – Spirit of Love (Nairn)

Call to Worship

Come, you who wait and wonder.

We come hungry for promise.

Come, you who ache and hope at once.

We come, trusting grace to meet us.

Come, beloved of God.

We come ready to be sent in mercy.

Opening Prayer …

Prayer of Confession

Merciful God,

we bring before you the times we have failed to notice the needs around us.

We confess the ways we have hurt one another, intentionally and unintentionally.

We acknowledge the times we have been selfish or uncaring,

and the times we neglected our own well-being

and the well-being of others.

Forgive us, we pray,

and draw us again into your compassion and care,

that we may live with greater attentiveness and love.

Words of Assurance

Hear these words of assurance:

The God of compassion meets us with mercy

and restores us in love.

In Christ, we are forgiven,

renewed in hope,

and invited into new life. Amen.

We sing: All Are Welcome

Let us build a house where love can dwell

and all can safely live,

a place where saints and children tell

how hearts learn to forgive.

Built of hopes and dreams and visions,

rock of faith and vault of grace;

here the love of Christ shall end divisions:

Refrain:

All are welcome, all are welcome,

all are welcome in this place.

Let us build a house where prophets speak,

and words are strong and true,

where all God’s children dare to seek

to dream God’s reign anew.

Here the cross shall stand as witness

and as symbol of God’s grace;

here as one we claim the faith of Jesus:

Refrain:

All are welcome, all are welcome,

all are welcome in this place.

Let us build a house where hands will reach

beyond the wood and stone

to heal and strengthen, serve and teach,

and live the Word they’ve known.

Here the outcast and the stranger

bear the image of God’s face:

let us bring an end to fear and danger:

Refrain:

All are welcome, all are welcome,

all are welcome in this place.

Let us build a house where all are named,

their songs and visions heard

and loved and treasured, taught and claimed

as words within the Word.

Built of tears and cries and laughter,

prayers of faith and songs of grace,

let this house proclaim from floor to rafter:

Refrain:

All are welcome, all are welcome,

all are welcome in this place.

Prayer of Adoration and Thanksgiving

Passing of the Peace …

The peace of our God be with you.

And also with you.

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Children’s Time (Exploring the Theme)

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 – Grow in Grace

Archer

Scripture Reading: Matthew 9:35-10:8

Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his harvest.”

Then Jesus summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to cure every disease and every sickness. These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon, also known as Peter, and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee and his brother John; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus and Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananaean and Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed him.

These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not take a road leading to gentiles, and do not enter a Samaritan town, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go, proclaim the good news, ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’ Cure the sick; raise the dead; cleanse those with a skin disease; cast out demons. You received without payment; give without payment.

The Gospel of Christ, Light of the world.

Thanks be to God.

Message

We sing: Inspired by love and anger

Inspired by love and anger, disturbed by need and pain,

informed of God’s own bias, we ask him once again:

’How long must some folk suffer? How long can few folk mind?

How long dare vain self-interest turn prayer and pity blind?’

From those for ever victims of heartless human greed,

their cruel plight composes a litany of need:

’Where are the fruits of justice? Where are the signs of peace?

When is the day when prisoners and dreams find their release?’

From those for ever shackled to what their wealth can buy,

the fear of lost advantage provokes the bitter cry:

’Don’t query our position! Don’t criticise our wealth!

Don’t mention those exploited by politics and stealth!

To God, who through the prophets proclaimed a different age,

we offer earth’s indifference, its agony and rage:

’When will the wronged be righted? When will the kingdom come?

When will the world be generous to all instead of some?’

God asks: ’Who will go for me? Who will extend my reach?

And who, when few will listen, will prophesy and preach?

And who, when few bid welcome, will offer all they know?

And who, when few dare follow, will walk the road I show?’

Amused in someone’s kitchen, asleep in someone’s boat,

attuned to what the ancients exposed, proclaimed and wrote,

a Saviour without safety, a tradesman without tools

has come to tip the balance with fishermen and fools.

Prayers of the People …

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: Gather Us In

Here in this place new light is streaming,

now is the darkness vanished away,

see, in this space, our fears and our dreamings,

brought here to you in the light of this day.

Gather us in, the lost and forsaken;

gather us in, the blind and the lame;

call to us now, and we shall awaken,

we shall arise at the sound of our name.

We are the young, our lives are a mystery;

we are the old, who yearn for your face;

we have been sung throughout all of history,

called to be light to the whole human race.

Gather us in, the rich and the haughty;

gather us in, the proud and the strong;

give us a heart so meek and so lowly,

give us the courage to enter the song.

Not in the dark of buildings confining,

not in some heaven light years away,

but here in this space, the new light is shining,

now is the kingdom, now is the day.

Gather us in, and hold us forever;

gather us in, and make us your own;

gather us in, all peoples together,

fire of love in our flesh and our bone.

Sending Forth and Benediction

Choral Blessing – Aaronic Blessing

R. Dewerse

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

Words for Worship
© 2026, Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of South Australia

Acorns and Archangels
Ruth Burgess. Wildgoose Publications.
Compilation © 2009 Ruth Burgess

Liturgy, Learning, & (Purposeful) Life (L3)
Dr Michelle Eastwood
© 2025, Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of South Australia

Bible Readings are from the New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America.

Photo by Michelle Harris. Isle of Iona, Scotland.

Congregation Hymns/Songs:

All Are Welcome
Marty Haugen b.1950.
© 1994 GIA Publications Inc. All rights reserved.
ONE LICENSE, License #A-604444.

Inspired by Love and Anger
Together in Song, 674,
John L. Bell 1949 and Graham Maule 1958.
Words from Wild Goose Songs 1.

Heaven Shall Not Wait
Wild Goose Publications. Used with permission under copyright CCLI Licence No. 137219. Copyright cleared music for churches.

Gather Us In
Together in Song 474. Marty Haugen.© 1982 GIA Publications. ONE LICENSE, License #A-604444. All rights reserved.