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**Welcome! Bienvenue!** All: Many of us have come from other places, arriving from distant shores, our families arriving years ago or some Vegreville United Church & of us more recently. When settlers came, they were met by Salem United Church others who were already here, already knew these lands, 4th Sunday after Pentecost, June 20, 2021 already lived rich and full lives based on ancient and proud Indigenous Day of Prayer cultures. A Zoom Service. You are invited to say the words to the One: Let us take time to name the peoples of this land now. I prayers and sing the songs, even if you are muted. invite you to speak out loud or in silence the local people(s) who traditionally and still call these lands home. If you are aware of the status of Indigenous claims to this land (unceded, treaty, etc.), REFLECTION please name this too (the people speak the names…). No one can paddle two canoes at the same time. Bantu proverb O God, as we acknowledge the peoples who have lived on and stewarded these lands since time immemorial, and their WE GATHER AS COMMUNITY continued claims to the land, help us to become neighbours that we might live together in better ways. WELCOME All: For we are all kin in Christ, "All My Relations," with ACKNOWLEDGING OUR KINSHIP each other and this earth, its waters, air, animals, and plants. One: Creator, we come together today as diverse, united peoples to give thanks to you, Maker of Heaven and Earth. DANCE WITH THE SPIRIT, CREATION MV #156 Dance with the Spirit early in the mornin’, All: We come to listen, to learn, to sing and pray, to Walk with the Spirit throughout the long day. consider our place in the order of things you have created Work and hope for the new life abornin’, and are creating. listen to the Spirit to show you the way. Words and Music: Jim Strathdee 1995 One: It is right and good to give thanks for the land on which we One License #A606632. Used with permission. stand, for this is wisdom we learn from Indigenous peoples of this https://strathdeemusic.com/DanceSpiritIm.html land? that we are one with the earth, its waters, air, animals, and plants. CALL TO WORSHIP (ADAPTED FROM PSALM 62) One: Be still my soul and wait for God: from God comes my All: Such wisdom, our interdependence with all life, is salvation. something too easy to forget in our busy lives! It is a gift and All: God alone is my rock; I shall never be shaken. a challenge to us to remember. One: On God rests our deliverance and our honour. All: My mighty rock, my refuge, my strength is in God. One: And so we take time to acknowledge the lands on which One: Trust in God at all times, O people. we now live. All: In love, we pour out our hearts before the Lord our God. 1 2 PRAYER OF APPROACH the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small Holy One, you are our rock, animals that scurry along the ground.” a foundation upon which we stand. Fill our hearts now with joy at your deep, abiding presence. So God created human beings in his own image. Encourage us by the teachings of Christ to live In the image of God he created them; with care and compassion for self, friend, and neighbour. male and female he created them. Bless us now as we reflect on our relations with Indigenous peoples—our kin—as Matthew 22:34-40 diverse, yet united peoples. Amen. You shall love your neighbour as yourself But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the TEACH ME, GOD, TO WONDER VU #299 Sadducees with his reply, they met together to question him 1 Teach me, God, to wonder, teach me, God, to see; again. One of them, an expert in religious law, tried to trap him let your world of beauty capture me. with this question: “Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?” Praise to you be given, love for you be lived, life be celebrated, joy you give. Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and 2 Let me, God, be open, let me loving be; greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your let your world of people speak to me. R neighbor as yourself.’ The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.” 3 Let me, God, be ready, let me be awake, in your world of loving my place take. R MEDITATION: "Finding Neighbours Everywhere" 4 Teach me, God, to know you, hear you when you speak, AS A FIRE IS MEANT FOR BURNING VU #578 see you in my neighbour when we meet. R 1 As a fire is meant for burning Words: Walter Farquharson 1973 with a bright and warming flame, Music: Ron Klusmeier 1974 so the church is meant for mission, One License #A606632, Used with permission. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiPu9NCSZis giving glory to God's name. Not to preach our creeds or customs, but to build a bridge of care, INDIGENOUS ART we join hands across the nations, finding neighbours everywhere. WE ENCOUNTER SACRED STORY 2 We are learners; we are teachers; we are pilgrims on the way. SCRIPTURE We are seekers; we are givers; Genesis 1:26-27 - Humans shall have "dominion" we are vessels made of clay. Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be By our gentle, loving actions, like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, we would show that Christ is light. 3 4 In a humble, listening Spirit, RSV Pastoral Charge thanks you for your participation in the work we would live to God's delight. and mission of God’s people. 3 As a green bud in the springtime WE ARE AN OFFERING BY CHRIS CHRISTIANSON is a sign of life renewed, We lift our voices so may we be signs of oneness We lift our hands mid earth's peoples, many-hued. We lift our lives up to You As a rainbow lights the heavens We are an offering when a storm is past and gone, may our lives reflect the radiance Lord use our voices of God's new and glorious dawn. Lord use our hands Choir at Knox United Church in Calgary, Alberta Lord use our lives they are Yours Words: Ruth Duck, 1992 We are an offering Music: Marty Haugen, 1987 One License #A606632, Used with permission. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlUD-NmaO-Q All that we have All that we are All that we hope to be OUR RESPONSE TO LISTENING AND HEARING We give to You, We give to You This song is from the album "Praise Album" and "Mirror Of Your Heart" Song by Dwight Liles OUR BLESSINGS—WHAT WE OFFER TO GOD Used with Permission. CCLI #21002284 & Streaming Plus #21002277 Loving God, Three-in-One, One-in-Three, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfxhnHfMMD4 we offer our gifts for your blessing. PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE As you have transformed us by your Spirit's presence—weaving us into a beautiful tapestry of THE LORD’S PRAYER BY MICHAEL CURB CONGREGATION relationship—may you bless us and our giving for all our relations. CCLI #21002284 & Streaming Plus #21002277. Used with Permission. By your blessing, may we become ever more the people Curb Records (on behalf of Curb Records); Wise Music Group, UMPI, PEDL, Jesus called us to be, ever more intentionally aware of our and 8 Music Rights Societies interdependence. Amen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IGN6Fq_mlU Gord Dunbar, Kincardine P.C., Kincardine, Ont. Gathering, Pentecost 1, Year B, 2021, page 35. Used with permission. DONATIONS WE GO FORTH TO BE So we ask, if you are able, to make a contribution. THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD 1. Cheques can be mailed to: Vegreville United Church at: THE LAST WORD 5126 - 48 Avenue, Vegreville, AB T9C 1M7 We are, all of us, Treaty People: Salem United Church at: original inhabitants Box 336, Vegreville AB T9C 1R3 and those who came later- 2. Email transfers to [email protected] inheritors of a diverse history, 5 6 dwellers in a common land, 4 The church divided seeks that grace, travellers toward a better day. that newness we proclaim; We have known a unity of serving love friendship and animosity, that lives praise to God's name! R cooperation and oppression, blessing and pain. 5 This broken world seeks lasting health And now we embrace and vital unity. the sacred covenant God's people by God's Word renewed, that heralds a new beginning: cast off all slavery! R that softens the heart Words: Walter Farquharson 1974 and dismantles the prisons of Music: Ron Klusmeier 1974 One Licence #A606632. Used with permission the present and the past. St. John's United Church Elmvale We joyfully claim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3zArDsRplY our rights and responsibilities as Treaty People. Amen. COMMISSIONING AND BENEDICTION —Treaty People’s Creed (2011), The All My Relations Network of One: As God's united yet diverse peoples, we go to become Saskatchewan Conference neighbours to each other and to the earth. CLOSING SONG: Walls that Divide Are Broken Down All: For in Christ we are all kin.