SUNDAY SERVICE
November 2, 2025
Welcome & Opening Prayer
God, whose loving eyes see each discouraged and troubled heart, we bring our week of “real life” to You.
We bring our bitterness, our hurt, our longing to be seen.
Help us choose the better part—
to lay down our resentment and learn to love like You, God.
We bring our challenges, our stress, our burdens.
We cry out to You—
Help us to lift our gaze so we may see: we are not alone.
We bring our faith—faint, feeble, flickering still.
Increase it, Lord, that we may live into it more fully each day.
Enrich our lives with more of Your love.
Give us the strength we need for each day with courage and hope.
Amen.
Worship
Already Chosen (Spoken Word)
All Saints Sunday
All Saints Day is a day in the church calendar to give thanks for and honor all those who have gone before us in the faith. From the early days of Christianity, there is a sense that the Church consists not only of all living believers, but also all who have gone before us. In Hebrews 12, the author encourages Christians to remember that a "great cloud of witnesses" surrounds them, encouraging and cheering them on.
We will take a moment now to silently remember and honor the legacy of those who have gone before us:
Today, we specifically honor and remember: Tiarra White, Harper Walters, Joe Vopava, Carl and Mae Johanson, Reverend Jack Abel, Paul Christianson, Thea Gorman, Betty Bowers, Ellen Book, John Davis Kidd Jr., Raymond Kidd, Diallo Kidd, Lavonne & Leo Leach, Chelsea To
We thank you for how they demonstrated your love, grace, and joy with their life and the legacy of love.
Let us pray together.
All Saints Prayer
God, we recognize that we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses. We thank you for their lives of faith. We thank you for Our Loved ones now resting in you, who guided us, nurtured, and cared for us; our ancestors who worked, lived, and died so that we might be who we are, where we are. Give us grace to follow the example of their steadfastness and faithfulness in Jesus. Amen.
Communion
Quick Connection
Announcements
Children’s Play Each year, Wellington Heights Community Church hosts a Children’s Christmas Play, and we are excited to start preparing for this year!
Kyrah and Anna Slife will lead the play, and they can’t wait to work with the kids to create another memorable Christmas performance. We hope to see you and your family there!
Email: briana@wellingtonheightscommunitychurch.org if your child is interested in participating
Advent Believe it or not, Advent is just around the corner. It begins on November 30th.
In the season of Advent, we remember how, for many years and centuries, the people of God waited for the long-prophesied Messiah - who eventually arrived through the birth of Jesus. The word Advent - means “coming” or “arrival” This season of Advent invites us to receive and reflect God's generosity. Love is the foundation of generous living. Our hope is that we may notice God’s blessings all around us and respond with generosity toward others and the rest of creation.
Advent Devotionals As we walk through the Advent season, contemplating God’s generosity, we are offering a daily devotional to accompany the series.
This devotional follows our theme of living generously throughout Advent and beyond. We encourage you to read daily on your own, with a friend, or your family. Pick one up at the back table or connect Keeyon@wellingtonheightscommunitychurch.org for a PDF copy.
Building Hope Congregation's goal 10 mins We have raised $30,000. Our Goal to get the siding of each building exterior done is $115,400
Pr. Steph and Keeyon, the leadership team, and the finance team are working hard to raise the remaining funds.
We’d like to challenge our congregation to raise $10,000 as a congregation by the end of the year.
Scripture Reading
Luke 19: 1-10 CEB
Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through town. 2 A man there named Zacchaeus, a ruler among tax collectors, was rich. 3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, but, being a short man, he couldn’t because of the crowd. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed up a sycamore tree so he could see Jesus, who was about to pass that way. 5 When Jesus came to that spot, he looked up and said, “Zacchaeus, come down at once. I must stay in your home today.” 6 So Zacchaeus came down at once, happy to welcome Jesus.
7 Everyone who saw this grumbled, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.”
8 Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I give half of my possessions to the poor. And if I have cheated anyone, I repay them four times as much.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this household because he too is a son of Abraham. 10 The Human One[a] came to seek and save the lost.”
Sermon
Pr. Keeyon
Worship
Benediction
Let us continue imagining and working out what it looks like to live a more fully integrated expression of the Good News in our homes and our community.
