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- Worship Resources for September 28, 2025
Orchard Ridge
United Church of Christ
Sunday Worship Resources
Sunday, September 28
The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
9:00 am Faith Formation for children and youth
10:00 am – Worship
Sermon: Julia Burkey
Lay Liturgist: Kathleen Remund
Musical Offerings: TRU Function
After worship: Worship and Work (see below)
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WORSHIP and WORK,
This Sunday, September 28th
Immediately following the worship service there will be opportunities for everyone to help with inside and outside projects.
Wear your grubbies to church. There are a few important chores for W&W this week. If you want to stay indoors, you can wash windows from the inside. (The outsides have already been washed.) If you want to be outside, bring a wheelbarrow, gloves, a rake, spading fork, a shovel, etc. We will move some perennial flowers and hostas to places they can be better appreciated. We will have some bulbs to plant in the entrance garden and some mulch to put around the newly planted flowers as well as the empty spots where they formerly bloomed. There are some potentially ankle-spraining holes in the yard from tree roots that have rotted away that need to be filled in. It will be different from most fall W&W Sundays, and it should make next spring’s work easier.
Worship and Work Sunday is a good time to get to know others and make friends while working to make our space more beautiful. And, yes, plan to enjoy a free lunch in Friendship Hall with your friends and family.
September Compassion Offering:
Guatemala Medical Resources Partnership (GMRP)
Oliveros is a tiny village about 3 hours south of Guatemala City. It and other small villages are in a very poor district. It’s a sugar cane growing area. Jobs are scarce and pay is poor.
The nearest doctor is 25 miles away. The difference between the resources we have here in the US and that part of Guatemala is shockingly stark.
The GMRP clinic, a project of the Thiensville-Mequon Rotary Clubs, takes place every January in a school while students are on Winter break. The school is 5 or 6 rooms in a cement block building with a tin roof and windows without glass.
The need is incredible. In 4 ½ days the clinic will see 600-700 people, some seeing a medical provider, a dentist and/or an optometrist. The clinic opens at 8:00 am but at 5:00 am there may already be 40 people waiting outside.
About 40 people—doctors, nurses, dentists, optometrists, translators, pharmacists and general helpers—make the clinic work.
The clinic has been operating for 22 years. Some of the equipment was donated, already used, 22 years ago. This year we have to replace some of this equipment because it is almost unusable after many repairs. That’s why September’s compassion offering is so important. Please be generous, the people of Oliveros will benefit so much.
For more information about the Guatemala Medical Resources Partnership (GMRP), please view this brief video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrAvXTMqeg8 and/or visit www.gmrp.org
Senior Pastor: Rev. Dr. Julia Burkey EMAIL
Associate Pastor: Rev. Kate Mackey EMAIL
Associate Pastor Rev. Ken Pennings is on sabbatical through November 30, 2025
Director of Children’s Arts and Education: Julie Mazer EMAIL
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