Sunday 5 October 2025
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Additional resources to support the journey of young people going to 3Generate
Whether your church community is sending a group to 3Generate or not, the 3Gen Worship Resource pack enables everyone join in.
Containing three worship service outlines to use in the weeks before, during and after 3Generate this pack resources churches to:
- send their young people off with a custom commissioning service
- support young people and their leaders in prayer
- reflect on the 3Generate themes to join together as a Connexion
Download the resource on the 3Generate worship resource for churches page.
Today is Homelessness Sunday. Further information, links and hymn suggestions on our Homelessness Sunday page. Homelessness Sunday falls on the Sunday before Homeless Day, 10 October. Resources can be found here.
World Mental Health Day is also marked this coming Friday, 10 October (though Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK took place in May). For more information see, for example, the Mental Health Foundation and Mental Health UK. Also take a look at Mental Wellbeing, one of a series of articles around themes from the life and work of James Smetham, a Victorian artist and committed Methodist.
Lamentations 1: 1-6
Down the road run refugees (website only)
God of my faith, I offer you my doubt (StF 629)
How long, O Lord, will you forget (StF 630)
It's me, it's me, O Lord (StF 523)
We do not presume to come to this table (StF 601)
When we are tested and wrestle alone (StF 240)
Psalm 137
Hymns reflecting the psalmist’s theme
By the Babylonian rivers we sat down in grief and wept (StF 694)
Give us your comfort, Lord (website only) - a sung response
God who sets us on a journey (website only)
O come, O come, Immanuel (StF 180)
When we are living, we in the Lord (StF 485)
You call us to the wilderness (website only)
2 Timothy 1: 1-14
Author of faith, eternal Word (StF 457)
Dusty-footed, heavy-hearted (website only)
Food to pilgrims given (StF 584)
*Have faith in God, my heart (StF 466)
My God! I know, I feel thee mine (StF 390)
Now let us from this table rise (StF 596)
O thou who camest from above (StF 564)
Through the love of God our Saviour (StF 639)
We turn to God when we are sorely pressed (StF 640)
Luke 17: 5-10
A charge to keep I have (StF 658)
Come, Lord to our souls come down (StF 493)
Eternity (website only)
Father, hear the prayer we offer (StF 518)
In Christ alone my hope is found (StF 351)
I, the Lord of sea and sky (StF 663)
Lord, we have come at your own invitation (StF 595)
Teach me, my God and King, in all things thee to see (StF 668)
The Kingdom of God is justice and joy (StF 255)
When circumstances make my life too hard to understand (StF 641)
When, O God, our faith is tested (StF 643)
Alternative related readings
Habakkuk 1: 1-4; 2:1-4
A bloodied child ("The boy in the ambulance") (website only)
And are we yet alive (StF 456)
*Have faith in God, my heart (StF 466)
Have you heard God's voice; has your heart been stirred? (StF 622)
Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord (StF 89)
Stupendous height of heavenly love (StF 512)
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases (StF 66)
When we were in the darkest night (StF 241)
Psalm 37: 1-9
Hymns reflecting the psalmist’s theme
Be still and know that I am God (StF 18)
Calm me, Lord, as you calmed the storm (StF 624)
Deep in the darkness a starlight is gleaming (StF 625)
Safe in the shadow of the Lord (StF 509)
A prayer for awareness of God's all-sufficient love
Sometimes it seems our tuneless songs are unleashed into emptiness, An unknowable void where nothing is heard.
Remove from us the fear that we are insufficient and that you are unresponsive.
Instead replace it with the knowledge that all we have is you and one another,
And that is enough.
Jude Levermore, Head of Mission, Connexional Team
Prayer following the Manchester Synagogue attack on 2 October
Holy God, who breaks down the walls of division,
we cry out to you in solidarity with our Jewish sisters and brothers following the abhorrent attack upon life and community in Greater Manchester.
We pray that those who have died may rest in your eternal peace and that you would comfort those who mourn.
We pray for those in our communities who are afraid to walk the streets because of their faith and traditions.
On this day held especially holy to the Jewish community, we pray that you would guide our path and lead us through the wilderness.
Where there is enmity, we pray for peace; where there is division, healing; and where there is hatred, a mending of broken bonds.
Holy God, bring reconciliation to our nation that all might live justly and peacefully in the land.
Amen.
The President and Vice-President of the Methodist Conference
A prayer for wisdom - Alternative Prayer
Gracious God, give us wisdom to perceive you, diligence to seek you, patience to wait for you, eyes to behold you, a heart to meditate on you and a life to proclaim you, through the power of the Spirit of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Benedict of Nursia (c. 480-550)
Sunday 5 October 2025
The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” The Lord replied, “If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you." (vs 5-6)