Give to Reconciliation Ministry

The Special Offering

The Reconciliation Ministry Special Offering is received each year in congregations on the last Sunday in September and the first Sunday in October (in solidarity with World Communion Sunday).  Funds generated by this special emphasis are used throughout the year to provide grants to ministries and congregations actively developing and implementing  programs that promote our Church’s Pro-Reconciliation and Anti-Racist identity.  These programs and efforts seek to reveal, re-educate, and remove systemic and structural barriers in our communities that serve to deny the image of God and human thriving based on race.

Your gifts to Reconciliation Ministry strengthens our Church’s witness to God’s unending love for all of humanity.  With your generosity, leaders, communities, and our congregations are being equipped to witness to God’s love and justice in all times and in every season.  The time is always ripe to stand up for justice to ensure that all of God’s children are treated equitably.  Thank you for joining us on this journey through your generosity.

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Reconciliation Offering Worship Resources

Reconciliation Offering celebrates our journey toward wholeness and imagining a world where racism is dismantled and all of God’s children can flourish. The offering is received on Sundays September 29th and October 6th.

Lectionary Texts for September 29th

• • Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22 
  • Psalm 124:1-8
  • Second Reading James 5:13-20
  • Gospel Mark 9:38-50

 

Lectionary Texts for October 6th

• • Job 1:1, 2:1-10 and Psalm 26
  • Genesis 2:18-24 and Psalm 8
  • Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12
  • Mark 10:2-16

 

Call to Worship

(from Prayers and Psalms by Joan Stott)

59C*
A Call to Worship
Pentecost 20C [Ordinary 27C] or [Proper 22C]

Psalm 137
Holy God, we come to worship you,
as flawed and even failed human beings.
We come, aware that God knows us for
who and what we are, and yet God loves us.

Eternal God, we come to worship you,
and despite life’s experiences, we never learn!
We come, clinging to old habits and ideas,
yet we also want to open ourselves to God.
Creative Love, we come to worship you,
believing that you love and accept us as we are,
with our personal values and experiences,
our hang-ups, our fears and our concerns.
We come, conscious that sometimes it is hard
to sing God’s praises and even pray for forgiveness
for ourselves and for others.
Bless us today, Tender God. Amen.

Alternate Call to Worship

 

 

Prayer

Hymns/Praise Songs

 

Communion Prayer

 

Benediction

Let us depart in peace, and in love and grace toward our neighbors. May we be joined together in the common goal of service to our God and God’s beloved.  May God’s blessing of peace and freedom be with us all. Amen.

 

How to give?

You can give online on the form below, or send your gift to the Office of the General Minister and President Treasury Services via mail. Please designate your gift, and if you are mailing it, send it to:

OGMP Treasury Services
Reconciliation Ministry Offering (Memo)
P.O. Box 1986
Indianapolis, Indiana 46206-1986

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