Worship Team

Worship Leader: Dennis Giesbrecht
Speaker: Randy Haluza-Delay
Song Leader: Tim Neufeldt
Pianist: Lori Unger
Ushers: Sherry Nelligan and David Nelligan
Tech Team (In-Person / Online): Lyf Stolte/Jonah Thiessen
Activity Period: Brad and Jana Lepp
Coffee Hour: Denise and Peter Voth

Order of Service

Gathering Song: VT179 At the Dawn of Your Creation
Welcome, Introductions, & Land Acknowledgement 
Announcements 
Call to worship: Prayer of Healing – United Nations Environmental Sabbath Service
Song – VT 705 For the Healing of the Nations
Robert Frost – The Sound of Trees
Song – VT 806 Called by Earth and Sky
Joys & Concerns, Congregational Prayer, Lord’s Prayer
A prayer for our earth – Pope Francis in Laudato Si’ 2015
Lord’s Prayer (on 3 sides)
Blessing of the Bikes – Peter Haresnape & Christina Reimer
Song – VT762 This Little [Bike] of Mine
Time with the Children – Randy Haluza-DeLay
Scripture Reading – Matthew 18:23-35, Carolyn Heath
Giving with Gratitude – An Iroquois Prayer of Thanksgiving
Song – VT750 God of Fertile Fields
Scripture Reading  – Leviticus 25:1; 10-15; 23-24; 39-41 and Deuteronomy 15:1-8, Carolyn Heath
Sermon – Randy Haluza-Delay
Closing Song – VT6 Let’s Walk Together
Benediction/Sending – A prayer by Pope Francis, from proclamation of 2025 as the Year of Jubilee