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

Special Offering “Repairers of the Breach” Promotional Video:

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

World Communion Sunday from Chalice Book of Worship p. 178

We gladly join with fellow Christians everywhere to affirm both the freedom of our particular customs and the spiritual kinship that we feel with al who love the Lord Jesus Christ.

“How good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity.” Psalm 133

“There is one body, one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who  is above all and through all and. in all.”  (Ephesians 4:4-6)

Alternate Call to Worship

Responsive Reading #43 African American Heritage Hymnal

Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, if another member of the church sin against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?”
Jesus said to him, “Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times.”

So when you are offering your gift at the altar, if you remember that, your brother or sister has something against you,
Leave your gift there before the altar, and go; be reconciled to your brother or your sister, and then come and offer your gift.
For if you forgive others, their trespasses, you’re heavenly father will also forgive you

But if you do not, forgive others, neither will your father forgive your trespasses.”

Put away from you all the bitterness and wrath, and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another,

Tender-hearted, forgiving one, another, as God and Christ has forgiven you.

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation;

That is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and in trusting the message of reconciliation to us.

So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we treat you on behalf of, Christ, be reconciled to God.

For him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him, God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things. .. by making peace through the blood of his cross.

Prayer:

• PROPER 21 (26) PRAYER

Creator God,
you call us to love and serve you
with body, mind, and spirit
through loving your creation
and our sisters and brothers.
Open our hearts in compassion
and receive these petitions
on behalf of the needs of the church and the world.

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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