Welcome to the Red Lodge Community Church
Worship With Us
November 09, 2025
Rev. Teressa L. Clark
If you are joining us in person, the service is at 10:00 AM
Sunday School
Worship With Us
November 09, 2025
Rev. Teressa L. Clark
If you are joining us in person, the service is at 10:00 AM
Sunday School
Participating in Today's Worship
Liturgist -Leslie Ann Bowman
Pianist – Dr. Lynell Kruckeberg
Choir- Marty Clague, Director, Martha Brown, Julia Childs, Jo Ann Eder, Lori Floyd, Libby Gardner, Steve Hanson, Sharyn McKenzie, Mark Sechler, Karen Simmons, Lanny Hilderman, Kathy Munson
Homebrewed Harmony- Marty Clague, Steve Hanson, Jim Howe, Mark Sechler, Don Redfoot
Serving today:
Deacons......................................................................Helen Mackay, Jennifer Anklam
Technology......................................................................................................................... Jay West
Sunday School Director.................................................................................................Zina General, Liz Beard
Sunday School Teacher..................................................................................................Liz Beard
Sunday School Help.........................................................................................................N/A
Nursery Attendant......................................................................................................... N/A
Red Lodge Community Church, United Church of Christ
PO Box 786, 308 South Broadway Avenue
Red Lodge, MT. 59068
406-446-1444
Pastor, Teressa Clark, is available for pastoral care emergencies and is glad to make pastoral care visits to those who are hospitalized or homebound. Please contact her directly by calling or texting 406-717-9745 or by emailing [email protected].
Office Hours: M-Wed 8am-3PM, Thu-Fri 8-noon
Dr. Lynell Kruckeberg, Music [email protected]
Marty Clague, Director Choir [email protected]
For information on joining Red Lodge Community Church, please talk with any of our deacons.
On Sundays, our worship service is recorded with video and audio. If you wish to restrict the use of photos and videos that include you, please complete the Photo/Video Opt-out form and deliver it to the church office.
Jay West records our Sunday Worship Services. If you wish to restrict the use of photos and videos that include you, please complete the Photo/Video Opt-out form and deliver it to the church office.
Words and/or Music reprinted under OneLicense.net License #A-725904 or CCLI #294875.
Liturgy by Rev. Amber Henry Neuroth, “Worship Resources, The Way of the Innkeeper,” UCC Stewardship Resource: Dreaming God’s Dream, 2025.
Liturgist -Leslie Ann Bowman
Pianist – Dr. Lynell Kruckeberg
Choir- Marty Clague, Director, Martha Brown, Julia Childs, Jo Ann Eder, Lori Floyd, Libby Gardner, Steve Hanson, Sharyn McKenzie, Mark Sechler, Karen Simmons, Lanny Hilderman, Kathy Munson
Homebrewed Harmony- Marty Clague, Steve Hanson, Jim Howe, Mark Sechler, Don Redfoot
Serving today:
Deacons......................................................................Helen Mackay, Jennifer Anklam
Technology......................................................................................................................... Jay West
Sunday School Director.................................................................................................Zina General, Liz Beard
Sunday School Teacher..................................................................................................Liz Beard
Sunday School Help.........................................................................................................N/A
Nursery Attendant......................................................................................................... N/A
Red Lodge Community Church, United Church of Christ
PO Box 786, 308 South Broadway Avenue
Red Lodge, MT. 59068
406-446-1444
Pastor, Teressa Clark, is available for pastoral care emergencies and is glad to make pastoral care visits to those who are hospitalized or homebound. Please contact her directly by calling or texting 406-717-9745 or by emailing [email protected].
Office Hours: M-Wed 8am-3PM, Thu-Fri 8-noon
Dr. Lynell Kruckeberg, Music [email protected]
Marty Clague, Director Choir [email protected]
For information on joining Red Lodge Community Church, please talk with any of our deacons.
On Sundays, our worship service is recorded with video and audio. If you wish to restrict the use of photos and videos that include you, please complete the Photo/Video Opt-out form and deliver it to the church office.
Jay West records our Sunday Worship Services. If you wish to restrict the use of photos and videos that include you, please complete the Photo/Video Opt-out form and deliver it to the church office.
Words and/or Music reprinted under OneLicense.net License #A-725904 or CCLI #294875.
Liturgy by Rev. Amber Henry Neuroth, “Worship Resources, The Way of the Innkeeper,” UCC Stewardship Resource: Dreaming God’s Dream, 2025.
GATHERING MUSIC Dr. Lynell Kruckeberg
WELCOME Rev. Teressa L. Clark
RINGING OF THE BELL
PRELUDE
*CALL TO WORSHIP (responsive) Leslie Bowman
One: What do we bring to worship?
All: We bring our small seeds.
One: What do we bring to worship?
All: We bring our big dreams.
One: What do we bring to worship?
All: We bring our faith in God’s transformation of small seeds into big dreams. Amen.
*HYMN “You Are Salt for the Earth, O People” TNCH # 181
*PRAYER OF CONFESSION / ASSURANCE OF PARDON
One: Stewardship is a season to cast our seeds into the ground, trusting that they will grow and bear fruit. That trust doesn’t always come easily for us. Let us join together in reconciliation, so that God can renew our trust and hope.
All: Holy God, we confess that we think we know how your story of faith will play out. We think we know how many seeds we have and what growth they will produce. We are discouraged that we don’t have more, and we doubt your faithfulness to us. Forgive us and remind us that your gifts are always good, no matter their size. Amen.
One: If God’s kingdom is about growth from a small and seemingly worthless seed, imagine all that God has in store for us. It is more than we can even imagine. Trust in the abundance of God’s love for you. Amen.
PASSING OF THE PEACE
TIME WITH CHILDREN
PRESENTATION OF A BIBLE to Evelyn Brown
TLC: A covenant is like a promise that you make with someone. As we present a Bible to Evelyn today, we are all invited to covenant with each other and with God to use our Bibles for learning and growing in faith.
Zina: Evelyn, will you try your best to covenant and promise to read your Bible, to look at the pictures, to become enchanted with the stories, to act them out—in other words, do you promise to use your Bible often? If so, please answer, “Yes, with God’s help!”
E: “Yes, with God’s help!”
TLC: You, the people of Red Lodge Community Church, are part of their learning and growing in faith. Will you covenant to be part of their Christian Education by also reading your Bibles, remembering the stories, living them out in your lives, and sharing them with others? If so, please answer, “Yes, with God’s help!”
ALL: “Yes, with God’s help!”
TLC: I invite everyone to repeat after me in prayer.
Dear God,
help us to remember the Bible stories
and to remember you always love us. Amen.
THE LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day, our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Children are invited downstairs for Sunday School with Zina and Liz.
Nursery care is also available downstairs.
SCRIPTURE Luke 13:18-21
Jesus asked, “What is God’s kingdom like? To what can I compare it? It’s like a mustard seed that someone took and planted in a garden. It grew and developed into a tree and the birds in the sky nested in its branches.”
Again he said, “To what can I compare God’s kingdom? It’s like yeast, which a woman took and hid in a bushel of wheat flour until the yeast had worked its way through the whole.”
One: God brings us together in the word.
All: We are grateful to be part of God’s story.
One: God brings us together in stewardship.
All: We are grateful to be part of God’s community.
One: God brings us together in a vision for the future.
All: We are grateful to be part of God’s dream. Amen.
CHOIR ANTHEM “Lord, Be With Us on this Day” Words & Music by Jay Althouse
MESSAGE “Faith in Action”
HYMN “We Plant a Grain of Mustard Seed” TNCH # 540
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
JOYS AND CONCERNS OF THE CHURCH
- Harvest Dinner Thank you
- Our Office Administrator is shifting to new office hours. So the church office will be open 8 a.m. – 2 p.m., Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and 8 a.m. – Noon, Thursday and Friday. We have given Janet some flexibility as to when she works the rest of her hours each week, knowing it will usually be early morning.
- Living with Grief group meets this Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in the Upper Room
- Congregational Meeting, Nov. 23, after worship
- Community Thanksgiving Service and Potluck, Nov. 23rd, 5 p.m., at Messiah Lutheran
STEWARDSHIP MISSION MOMENT Martha Brown
INVITATION TO GENEROSITY
Even though many doubted him, Jesus never wavered in his belief in what God could do. He always had faith in the smallest of gifts. Every single one mattered to him. He knew their great value and potential. Each thing that we offer to God, whether it be money or time or a prayer, can help church the grow. God welcomes our gifts now.
OFFERTORY
*DOXOLOGY TUNE: OLD HUNDREDTH
Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
Praise God, all creatures here below;
Praise God for all that love has done;
Creator, Christ, and Spirit, One. Amen.
*PRAYER OF DEDICATION (unison)
Gracious God, we thank you that your creation provides all that we need for growth. Bless these seeds that we have offered, so that they might grow into ministries that bless others. Expand the reach of our gifts, so that they can realize your dreams for us. Amen.
*HYMN “You Are the Seed” TNCH # 528
*BENEDICTION
Go forth into the world to serve God with gladness;
be of good courage; hold fast to that which is good;
render to no one evil for evil;
strengthen the fainthearted;
support the weak; help the afflicted;
honor all people; love and serve God,
rejoicing in the power of the Holy spirit.
The blessing of God Almighty, go with you and remain with you always.
Go in Christ’s peace, with kindness and love. Amen.
*SENDING SONG “Dream God’s Dream” (refrain) Songsheet
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