A Service of Peace

By Rev. David Bonnema & our Compassion, Peace, & Justice Committee, October 26, 2025

Prelude - Jeff Perks

Welcome - Rev. David Bonnema

A Time for Stewardship - Rev. Dana Seiler

Call to Worship - Laurie Dodge

  • Leader: Beloved community, we come to this sacred place, longing for a world shaped by compassion, united in peace, and made whole by justice.
  • People: Come, all who hunger for kindness and mercy.
  • Leader: We come to fill the empty places within our hearts with compassion.
  • People: Come, all who dream of a world in harmony and wholeness.
  • Leader: We come to seek peace for weary souls and for our troubled earth.
  • People: Come, all who thirst for righteousness, who long to see justice roll down like waters.
  • Leader: We come, ready to be instruments of justice, bearers of light in shadowed places.
  • People: Let us gather, not in judgment, but in love. Not in fear, but in hope. Not in isolation, but in community.
  • Leader: We open ourselves to the Spirit of compassion, peace, and justice.

Hymn - “O God, Who Calms the Restless Heart” - see screen - sung to the tune of “Our God, Our Help in Ages Past”

Passing of the Peace

Children’s Time (9:30am only) - Peter Alford

Anthem - “If I Can Help Somebody” (Thomas) - Unity Choir, Dustin Stamey, soloist

Skit - “Who is More Important?” - Kate Conrad, Amy Foster, Henry Haynes, Gail Satterthwaite

Introduction to the Peace Service - Rev. David Bonnema

Perspectives from “The Least of These”
The Poor- Peter Alford
The Widow - Bee Manship

Anthem - “May the Works that I’ve Done Speak for Me” - Mariners Quartet

Perspectives from “The Least of These”
The Orphan - Sam Sipes
The Immigrant - Jay Sloan

Offering and Prayer - Dave Fechtmeister

Hymn - “Let There Be Peace on Earth” - see screen

Benediction

Postlude