{"id":12276,"date":"2025-05-06T12:50:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T16:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/?p=12276"},"modified":"2025-05-06T12:50:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T16:50:31","slug":"earth-day-sermon-by-randy-haluza-delay-sunday-april-27-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/?p=12276","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day: Sermon by Randy Haluza-Delay – Sunday April 27, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You can listen to the service here.<\/a>
You can listen to the sermon here.<\/a>
You can read the sermon text here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worship Team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Worship Leader:\u00a0Dennis Giesbrecht
Speaker:\u00a0Randy Haluza-Delay
Song Leader:\u00a0Tim Neufeldt
Pianist:\u00a0Lori Unger
Ushers:\u00a0Sherry Nelligan and David Nelligan
Tech Team (In-Person \/ Online):\u00a0Lyf Stolte\/Jonah Thiessen
Activity Period:\u00a0Brad and Jana Lepp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Order of Service<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2013 VT 705 For the Healing of the Nations
Robert Frost \u2013 The Sound of Trees
Song – VT 806 Called by Earth and Sky
Joys & Concerns, Congregational Prayer, Lord\u2019s Prayer
A prayer for our earth \u2013 Pope Francis in Laudato Si\u2019 2015
Lord\u2019s Prayer (on 3 sides)
Blessing of the Bikes – Peter Haresnape & Christina Reimer
Song – VT762 This Little [Bike] of Mine \u2013 verses 1-3 only (words as on slides)
Time with the Children \u2013 Randy Haluza-DeLay
Scripture Reading \u2013 Matthew 18:23-35
Giving with Gratitude \u2013 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
Sermon \u2013 Randy Haluza-DeLay
Closing Song – VT6 Let\u2019s Walk Together
Benediction\/Sending – A prayer by Pope Francis, from proclamation of 2025 as the Year of Jubilee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Earth Day, the church hosted a Blessing of the Bikes. Randy Haluza-Delay spoke and led Children’s Time. Dennis Giesbrecht led the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons-a-worship-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12278,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12276\/revisions\/12278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}