Morning Service Sunday 5 October 2025

Welcome and Intimations

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.

CH4 153 Great Is Thy Faithfulness

1. Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father,
   there is no shadow of turning with Thee;
   Thou changest not, Thy compassions they fail not,
   as Thou hast been Thou for ever wilt be.
   

   Great is Thy faithfulness,
   great is Thy faithfulness;
   morning by morning
   new mercies I see;
   all I have needed
   Thy hand hath provided -
   great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!
   

2. Summer and winter, and spring-time and harvest,
   sun, moon and stars in their courses above,
   join with all nature in manifold witness
   to Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.
   

   Great is Thy faithfulness,
   great is Thy faithfulness;
   morning by morning
   new mercies I see;
   all I have needed
   Thy hand hath provided -
   great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!
   

3. Pardon for sin, and a peace that endureth,
   Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide;
   strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,
   blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!
   

   Great is Thy faithfulness,
   great is Thy faithfulness;
   morning by morning
   new mercies I see;
   all I have needed
   Thy hand hath provided -
   great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!
   

1. 2 Timothy 1: 1 - 14
2. Luke 17: 5 - 10

CH4 349 In Our Lives Plant Seeds of Hope

1. Jesus said ‘If you have faith
   small as a mustard seed,
   In my name you’ll do great things,
   you’ll do great things indeed.
   

   In our lives plant seeds of hope,
   In our homes plant seeds of love,
   In our Church plant seeds of joy,
   Tell the world about God’s love.
   Tell the world about God’s love.
   

2. ‘If a seed falls to the ground,
   lies buried like the grain’
   Jesus said ‘Until it dies
   it cannot grow again.’
   

   In our lives plant seeds of hope,
   In our homes plant seeds of love,
   In our Church plant seeds of joy,
   Tell the world about God’s love.
   Tell the world about God’s love.
   

3. Jesus told the story of
   the seed the sower sows,
   ‘Listen to my Father’s words
   and then your faith will grow.’
   

   In our lives plant seeds of hope,
   In our homes plant seeds of love,
   In our Church plant seeds of joy,
   Tell the world about God’s love.
   Tell the world about God’s love.
   

4. ‘Some words fall among the thorns
   and some on stony ground;
   Some are carried off and lost
   but others find good ground.’
   

   In our lives plant seeds of hope,
   In our homes plant seeds of love,
   In our Church plant seeds of joy,
   Tell the world about God’s love.
   Tell the world about God’s love.
   

Mrs Carol Dixon

Meditation Rev. Robert Fowlie

CH4 656 I Come with Joy, a Child of God

1. I come with joy, a child of God,
   forgiven, loved, and free,
   the life of Jesus to recall,
   in love laid down for me,
   in love laid down for me
   

2. I come with Christians far and near
   to find, as all are fed,
   the new community of love
   in Christ's communion bread,
   in Christ’s communion bread.
   

3. As Christ breaks bread and bids us share,
   each proud division ends.
   The love that made us makes us one,
   and strangers now are friends,
   and strangers now are friends.
   

4. The spirit of the risen Christ,
   unseen, but ever near,
   is in such friendship better known:
   alive and among us here,
   alive and among us here.
   

5. Together met, together bound,
   by all that God has done,
   we'll go with joy, to give the world,
   the love that makes us one,
   the love that makes us one.
   

1971, 1995 Stainer & Bell Ltd, Brian Wren

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Prayer of Intercession

CH4 645 I'm Not Ashamed to Own My Lord

1. I'm not ashamed to own my Lord,
   or to defend his cause,
   maintain the glory of his cross,
   and honour all his laws.
   

2. Jesus, my Lord! I know his name,
   his name is all my boast;
   nor will he put my soul to shame,
   nor let my hope be lost.
   

3. I know that safe with him remains,
   protected by his power,
   what I've committed to his trust,
   till the decisive hour.
   

4. Then will he own his servant's name,
   before his Father's face,
   and in the new Jerusalem
   appoint my soul a place.
   

Blessing