1. Welcome and Intimations

  2. Prayer and 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,
    the power, and the glory
    for ever and ever.
    Amen.

  3. CH4 198 Let Us Build a House

    1. Let us build a house where love can dwell
      and all can safely live,
      a place where saints and children tell
      how hearts learn to forgive;
      built of hopes and dreams and visions,
      rock of faith and vault of grace;
      here the love of Christ shall end divisions:

      All are welcome, all are welcome,
      all are welcome in this place.

    2. Let us build a house where prophets speak,
      and words are strong and true,
      where all God’s children dare to seek
      to dream God’s reign anew.
      Here the cross shall stand as witness
      and as symbol of God’s grace;
      here as one we claim the faith of Jesus:

      All are welcome, all are welcome,
      all are welcome in this place.

    3. Let us build a house where love is found
      in water, wine and wheat:
      a banquet hall on holy ground,
      where peace and justice meet.
      Here the love of God, through Jesus,
      is revealed in time and space,
      as we share in Christ the feast that frees us:

      All are welcome, all are welcome,
      all are welcome in this place.

    4. Let us build a house where hands will reach
      beyond the wood and stone
      to heal and strengthen, serve and teach,
      and live the Word they’ve known.
      Here the outcast and the stranger
      bear the image of God’s face;
      let us bring an end to fear and danger:

      All are welcome, all are welcome,
      all are welcome in this place.

    5. Let us build a house where all are named,
      their songs and visions heard
      and loved and treasured,
      taught and claimed
      as words within the Word.
      Built of tears and cries and laughter,
      prayers of faith and songs of grace,
      let this house proclaim from floor to rafter:

      All are welcome, all are welcome,
      all are welcome in this place.

    1994, GIA Publications, Inc.

    1. Psalm 42 and 43
    2. Galatians 3:23-29

  5. CH4 565 My Life Flows on in Endless Song

    1. My life flows on in endless song
      above earth’s lamentation:
      I catch the sweet, though far off, hymn
      that hails a new creation.

      No storm can shake my inmost calm
      while to that Rock I'm clinging.
      Since love is Lord of heaven and earth,
      how can I keep from singing?

    2. Through all the tumult and the strife,
      I hear that music ringing.
      It finds an echo in my soul --
      how can I keep from singing?

      No storm can shake my inmost calm
      while to that Rock I'm clinging.
      Since love is Lord of heaven and earth,
      how can I keep from singing?

    3. What though my joys and comforts die?
      The Lord, my Saviour, liveth.
      What though the darkness round me close?
      Songs in the night he giveth.

      No storm can shake my inmost calm
      while to that Rock I'm clinging.
      Since love is Lord of heaven and earth,
      how can I keep from singing?

    4. The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart,
      a fountain ever springing.
      All things are mine since I am his!
      How can I keep from singing?

      No storm can shake my inmost calm
      while to that Rock I'm clinging.
      Since love is Lord of heaven and earth,
      how can I keep from singing?

  6. Message

  7. CH4 543 Longing for Light, We Wait in Darkness

    1. Longing for light, we wait in darkness.
      Longing for truth, we turn to you.
      Make us your own, your holy people,
      light for the world to see.

      Christ, be our light! Shine in our hearts.
      Shine through the darkness.
      Christ, be our light!
      Shine in your church gathered today.

    2. Longing for peace, our world is troubled.
      Longing for hope, many despair.
      Your word alone has pow’r to save us.
      Make us your living voice.

      Christ, be our light! Shine in our hearts.
      Shine through the darkness.
      Christ, be our light!
      Shine in your church gathered today.

    3. Longing for food, many are hungry.
      Longing for water, many still thirst.
      Make us your bread, broken for others,
      shared until all are fed.

      Christ, be our light! Shine in our hearts.
      Shine through the darkness.
      Christ, be our light!
      Shine in your church gathered today.

    4. Longing for shelter, many are homeless.
      Longing for warmth, many are cold.
      Make us your building, sheltering others,
      walls made of living stone.

      Christ, be our light! Shine in our hearts.
      Shine through the darkness.
      Christ, be our light!
      Shine in your church gathered today.

    5. Many the gifts, many the people,
      many the hearts that yearn to belong.
      Let us be servants to one another,
      making your kingdom come.

      Christ, be our light! Shine in our hearts.
      Shine through the darkness.
      Christ, be our light!
      Shine in your church gathered today.

    1993, 2000, Bernadette Farrell

  8. Offering

  9. Prayer of Intercession

    For other people, close to us or far off,
    let us pray.

    Wherever people spend their days like puppets with a legion of string-pullers, losing their own sense of worth and purpose.
    Let your life come in its fullness, loving Liberator.

    Wherever some have lost contact with reality, and suffer mental torments through every hour of each day.
    Let your life come in its fullness, loving Healer.

    Wherever some are at last breaking free and taking the first steps towards independence of mind and spirit.
    Let your life come in its fullness, loving Encourager.

    Wherever human beings are physically restrained but remain mentally tough and spiritually and mentally free.
    Let your life come in its fullness, loving Inspirer.

    Wherever they seek a reliable friend, or healer, comforter, adviser, teacher or a sure Redeemer.
    Let your life come in its fullness, loving Counsellor.

    Wherever people suffer the indignities of poverty, the loneliness of misunderstanding, or the crushing brutality or war;
    Let your life come in its fullness, loving Saviour

    Wherever the members of your church have traded liberty for legalism, or the living Truth for dogma, or trust for religious fears;
    Let your life come in its fullness, loving God.

    God of liberty, enable us to enter more completely in to the kingdom of love which has been waiting for us from the beginning of time.

    Through Christ, in Christ, for Christ, we so pray.
    Amen!

  10. CH4 624 In Christ there is no East or West

    1. In Christ there is no east or west,
      in Him no south or north,
      but one great fellowship of love
      throughout the whole wide earth.

    2. In Christ shall true hearts everywhere
      their high communion find:
      His service is the golden cord
      close-binding all mankind.

    3. Come brothers, sisters of the faith,
      whate’er your race may be!
      Whoever does my Father’s will
      is surely kin to me.

    4. In Christ now meet both east and west,
      in Him meet south and north,
      all Christ-like souls are one in Him,
      throughout the whole wide earth.

  11. Blessing