October 19th, 2025 - The Season After Pentecost
We offer you a warm welcome, and as is our practice, we remember that the land on which we meet is, was, and always will be native land. We acknowledge those indigenous tribes to Oklahoma: the Wichitas, Caddos, Plains Apaches, and the Quapaws, as the original custodians of the land in this place. We grieve the violence done to native language, culture, and personhood, and seek to honor the sovereignty and dignity of native peoples.
We are so glad you've joined us, whether in person or online. Please take a moment to tell us you are here by using the sign-in button below.
We offer you a warm welcome, and as is our practice, we remember that the land on which we meet is, was, and always will be native land. We acknowledge those indigenous tribes to Oklahoma: the Wichitas, Caddos, Plains Apaches, and the Quapaws, as the original custodians of the land in this place. We grieve the violence done to native language, culture, and personhood, and seek to honor the sovereignty and dignity of native peoples.
We are so glad you've joined us, whether in person or online. Please take a moment to tell us you are here by using the sign-in button below.
Welcome
One: Good morning and welcome from Mayflower Congregational United Church of Christ, where no matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey . . .
All: You are welcome here!
All: You are welcome here!
Call to Worship
One: Beloved community, we do not come to church to be “very demure, very mindful,” or to be seen with every hair perfectly in place. We come as our whole selves, with who we love, and with our highest hopes for making earth as it is in heaven.
All: This is a community for dreaming and doing. This is a community for belonging and believing. This is a community for the impossible and the improbable.
One: Believing that God delights in our hopeful hearts, we will not hold back. We will sing ourselves onto higher ground, pray for our enemies, and trust that love will see us through.
All: So let us sing with joyful spirits, listen with open hearts, and make ourselves ready to be shaped by the Spirit!
All: This is a community for dreaming and doing. This is a community for belonging and believing. This is a community for the impossible and the improbable.
One: Believing that God delights in our hopeful hearts, we will not hold back. We will sing ourselves onto higher ground, pray for our enemies, and trust that love will see us through.
All: So let us sing with joyful spirits, listen with open hearts, and make ourselves ready to be shaped by the Spirit!
Hymn
Enter, Rejoice, and Come In, Hymn 73
New Century Hymnal
[Please rise in body or in spirit.]
New Century Hymnal
[Please rise in body or in spirit.]
Pass the Peace of Christ
One: "May the peace of Christ be with you."
All: "And also with you!"
All: "And also with you!"
Anthem
There is a Happy Land
K. Lee Scott
Carolyn Sargent
K. Lee Scott
Carolyn Sargent
Joys + Concerns
For the joys of this congregation, let the people say: “Thanks be to God!”
The Lord's Prayer
Let us say together the Lord's Prayer, as translated by members of this congregation:
All: Our Creator, who is in heaven, holy is your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For you reign in the power that is love, now and always, Amen.
All: Our Creator, who is in heaven, holy is your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For you reign in the power that is love, now and always, Amen.
Anthem
When I Look into Your Holiness
Wayne and Cathy Perrin arr. Roger House
Glenda Stansbury
Wayne and Cathy Perrin arr. Roger House
Glenda Stansbury
Pastoral Prayer
Rev. Sheridan Irick
Scripture:
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Sermon
Rev. Sheridan Irick
Hymn
I'm Pressing on the Upward Way (Higher Ground), Hymn 442
New Century Hymnal
[Please rise in body or in spirit.]
New Century Hymnal
[Please rise in body or in spirit.]
Announcements
- Please use the giving link above to support the work and mission of this congregation with your tithes and offerings.
- We are still collecting 10,000 tampons in preparation for our Period Packing Party, which is next Sunday, October 19th. You can make a donation to our Reproductive Justice Team or you can find their wish list on our website and in our app. Obviously, everyone is making plans to stay after worship next week for the party - which is for all ages and stages.
- Our weekly immigration vigil takes places every Wednesday at noon in front of the Oklahoma County Jail. Later that day, the Wednesday Even Book Study group continues their discussion of Christ in the Rubble: Faith, the Bible, and the Genocide in Gaza. Join them at 5:30pm in the Seekers Room, which is at the far end of Milligan Hall.
- SOLACE, our youth group for students in 6th through 12th grade, have invited us to volunteer with them at the Regional Food Bank on Thursday, October 23rd, at 6:15pm. Registration is required, register through the event on our website or in the app.
- Rev. Lori will be out of the office this week, including next Sunday, and will return Monday, October 20th.
- You can find more details about all of these things in the events tab on our app and on our website.
Benediction
One: May God grant to us the grace to never sell ourselves short, the courage to risk something big for something good, and the wisdom to know that the world is too small for anything but love. So let us go in peace, pray for peace, wage a little peace, and love one another.
ALL: Every single other. Amen.
ALL: Every single other. Amen.
Benediction Response
What Does the Lord Require?
Jim Strathdee
Part 1: What does the Lord require of you? What does the Lord require of you?
Part 2: Justice, kindness, walk humbly with your God. Justice, kindness, walk humbly with your God.
Part 3: To do justice, and love kindness and walk humbly with your God. To do justice, and love kindness and walk humbly with your God.
[Sung in a round, Part 1 begins the response, joined the second time by Part 2, then by Part 3, and then a fourth time through. For those in-person, it is our tradition for the congregation to stand and turn towards the center aisle during the benediction response so that we might "send each other forth" to embody what we sing.]
Jim Strathdee
Part 1: What does the Lord require of you? What does the Lord require of you?
Part 2: Justice, kindness, walk humbly with your God. Justice, kindness, walk humbly with your God.
Part 3: To do justice, and love kindness and walk humbly with your God. To do justice, and love kindness and walk humbly with your God.
[Sung in a round, Part 1 begins the response, joined the second time by Part 2, then by Part 3, and then a fourth time through. For those in-person, it is our tradition for the congregation to stand and turn towards the center aisle during the benediction response so that we might "send each other forth" to embody what we sing.]