Order of Worship

Scout Sunday

2 February 2025


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Prelude ~

Shared by Christine Kyhn


Welcome and Announcements

Shared by Pastor Ken


Opening Words

Led by Pastor Ken


One: Who are we and what are we called to do?

All: We are the sensitive and responsive ones called

to create a world where every person is radically

affirmed and barriers between people become

bridges of inclusion, justice, and spirituality.



Singing Our Faith ~ 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

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 a symbol of God's grace

Here as one we claim the faith of Jesus (Chorus)


Let us build a house where love is found

In water, wine and wheat

A banquet hall on holy ground

Where peace and justice meet

Here the love of God, through Jesus

Is revealed in time and space

As we share in Christ the feast that frees us

All are welcome, all are welcome,

All are welcome in this place.


Call to Worship

Led by Member of Troop 426


One: From the corners of this city, from the

confusion of life, from the loneliness of our

hearts,

All: Gather us, O God.

One: To feed our minds, to fire our imagination, to

free our hearts, to encourage our spirits,

All: Gather us, O God.

One: In the way that we gather is our identity.

All: We remind one another: “No matter who

you are or where you are on life’s journey,

you are welcome here.”

One: We pray: God of surprises, startle us with truth,

amaze us with your power and grace, beckon

us, and lead us far above restricted hope and

narrow faith. May it be so.

All: We live our prayer by wishing one another

peace.

Opening Prayer ~ A Scout’s Prayer

Shared by A Member of Troop 426


Great Spirit of Life and Love, You are like a Mother

and Father to us, make us Trustworthy, for there

are those who trust us.


Make us Loyal, for through loyalty we reach our

highest ideals.


Teach us to be Helpful, for through helpfulness do

we forget our selfness.


Make us Friendly, for there are so many who need

friends.


Train us in Courtesy, for courtesy is the carpet on

life’s floor.


Make us Kind, for kindness is the oil in the cogs of

life’s machinery.


Insist upon our Obedience, for victory comes only to

him who obeys.


Make us Cheerful, for cheerfulness is the green

grass among the rocks in the path of life.


Train us in Thrift, for thrifty habits brighten our

future.


Make us Brave; brave in the dark and brave in the

light; but save us from becoming fakers in bravery.


Help us to be Clean – clean in thoughts, in speech,

and in deed. And may we remember that our bodies

are Thy holy temples, and that any abuse thereof is

to tamper with Thy Great Plans.


Above all, O God, help us to be Reverent toward all

things which Thou hast made for our enjoyment

when we are in Thy great out-of-doors, among the

trees, along the streams, and on the Hillsides. May

we know it was Thee who made the waters to flow,

the trees to reach heavenward, the mountains to

endure to all ages.


In all these things we ask that Thou wilt help us. And may we never forget the Scout Oath to which we all have pledged ourselves, so that through Thy help we may live these points ofour Scout Law.


Amen


Celebrations

Led by Pastor Ken


At this time, we share moments from our lives: birthdays,

anniversaries, and words of peace and justice. We celebrate

sorrows and grief as part of our comprehensive view of life.

Give voice to goodness!



Celebration Song

Led by Christine Kyhn


Celebrate your heart and your spirit.

Celebrate your life while you live it.

Even when it’s hard to do,

celebrate the best of you!

Celebrate your dreams and your visions.

Celebrate the love

you’ve been given.

Cherish all that

you’ve been

through.

Celebrate the best

of you!


Music for Thinking of You Cards


In the pew racks are cards with the title “Thinking Of You”.

Please use these cards to write a note to someone so they

know they are remembered and cared for. Put the card in

the offering plate when it comes by and the church office

will forward the cards to the person addressed in the card.

This was one of the elements of our time together that you

lifted up as important for all of us. Thank you!

Invitation to Share the Table of Inclusion,

Justice, and Spirituality

Led by Pastor Ken


Members of Jesus’ spiritual family regularly ate a

meal together. It was a human way to be together

and it is something they had in common with

virtually every other social group in their world. It

was considered central to their identity and the way

they cared for each other. It became a tradition and

a life giving ritual. These meal traditions were their

way of acting out the way the world could be. They

offered each other hospitality and loving solidarity.


They shared bread and cup in the spirit of celebra-

tion, presence, and joy. I invite you into the spirit of

those meals as we share this bread and cup today.

The sacrament of communion is rooted in Christian

faith but at Shadow Rock we share it as a sacred

human ritual open to everyone.


Welcome to the Table

Led by Pastor Ken


One: At this table we give thanks for justice, love,

peace and freedom.

All: At this table we give thanks for friends

and strangers who come together in

community in this safe place.

One: At this table we welcome old and young, rich

and poor, weak and strong, sick and well,

and all members of the human family.

All: All of us have a place at the table and all

are invited.


Thanksgiving

Led by Pastor Ken


One: We give thanks for the unfolding of matter,

mind, intelligence, and life that has brought

us to this moment in time.

All: We celebrate our common origin with

everything and everyone that exists.

One: We celebrate the mystery we experience and

address as ‘God’ who is ground and sustainer

of everything that exists, and in whom we

live and move and have our being.

All: We acknowledge and celebrate this

mystery embodied in every human

person, aware that each one of us gives

God unique and personal expression.

One: God is everywhere present in grace-filled

moments of sharing and in carefully created

communities of loving solidarity.

All: We are one with everything, living and

nonliving, on this planet.

Connected.

Interrelated.

Interdependent.


Sharing the Bread and Cup

My Hope is Built On Christ/The Solid Rock

Shared by Christine Kyhn arr. Christine Kyhn

Invitation to Give

Led by Pastor Ken


In our giving, we share energy and strength with

the work of the Spirit. We are continually blessed by

giving and receiving. The circle spins and widens!


In response to our celebrations and the deep goodness of life, our offerings for the

celebration of life, in this place and beyond, shall now be

received.

 

Give Online

 

Offerings and Offertory ~

Shared by Christine Kyhn



Word About Life    

Shared by Pastor Ken


“Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never

breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance.

It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the

ability to bounce back even from the most difficult

times. . . . Your ability to thrive depends, in the end,

on your attitude to your life circumstances. Take

everything in stride with grace, putting forth energy

when it is needed, yet always staying calm

inwardly.”

― Ping Fu


“For everything there is a season, and a time for

every purpose under heaven.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1)


Words for Mission

Shared by A Member of Troop 426


One: The time has come to depart. May we leave

with renewed strength and trust.

All: May we continue to build one another

up with encouragement and hope.

One: Each moment gives us opportunities to

practice compassion, celebration,

presentness, peace.

All: Like yeast in dough, may a new way of

living and being rise up among us and

spread stealthily through the world.

One: These are the times!

All: We are the people.

One: All of Creation is blessed!

All: May we love all and serve all!

One: May God be with you.

All: And also with you.

One: Amen.

All: Amen.


Retirement of the Colors

Led by Troop 426


Sending Forth Song ~ Trees of the Field


You shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace;

The mountains and the hills

will break forth before you.

There’ll be shouts of joy, and all the trees of the field

will clap, will clap their hands.

And all the trees of the field will clap their hands,

(clap, clap)

The trees of the field will clap their hands,

(clap, clap)

The trees of the field will clap their hands

(clap, clap)

While you go out with joy.

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