Category: Sunday Worship

HARVEST SUNDAY FOLLOWED BY PLOUGHMAN’S LUNCH

Welcome and Intimations (session clerk)
Choir Introit (Bible is placed in pulpit) Oh the life of the world (CH4)
Call to worship: Genesis 1:1-5
Hymn All things bright and beautiful (CH4)
Prayer and Lord’s Prayer
Time with the children
Hymn Who put the colours on the rainbow? (CH4)
Offering uplifted by duty team
Offering dedicated by minister, then children leave for ‘young church’
Anthem If I planted a garden
Reading/s (read by a church member) Psalm 95:1-7 and Colossians 1:15-23
Hymn How lovely on the mountains are the feet of him (MP 249)
Sermon
Hymn This is my song, O God of all the nations (Sheet)
Prayers of intercession
Hymn Now we sing a harvest song (Sheet)
Benediction and three-fold amen (Sung)
Sung blessing – May God’s Blessing surround you each day

From the ‘God who became human for us’ toward the ‘Possibility of a humanity fully expressed’

Entry of choir & minister
Welcome and Intimations (session clerk)
Choir Introit (Bible is placed in pulpit) As the deer pants for the water
Call to worship
Hymn How excellent in all the earth (CH4 4)
Prayer and Lord’s Prayer
Time with the children
Hymn King of kings, Majesty (MP 1000)
Offering uplifted by duty team
Offering dedicated by minister, then children leave for ‘young church’
Anthem Kneels at the feet of his friends (Jesu Jesu)
Reading/s Matthew 25:31-46 and John 1:1-18
Hymn Light of the world you stepped into darkness (MP 1086)
Sermon
Hymn Christ be our Light (CH4 543)
Prayers of intercession
Hymn O Lord my God (MP 506)
Benediction and three-fold amen (Sung)
Sung Blessing (May God’s Blessing)

Welcome and Intimations (session clerk)
Choir Introit (Bible is placed in pulpit) Blest are the pure in heart (CH3)
Call to worship
Hymn Father we have heard your calling
Prayer and Lord’s Prayer
Time with the children
Hymn I’ve got that joy…… down in my heart (JP 121)
Offering uplifted by duty team
Offering dedicated by minister, then children leave for ‘young church’
Choir anthem Singing we gladly (CH4 257)
Reading/s Psalm 126 and Philippians 4:1-8
Hymn What a wonderful change in my life has been wrought (MP 748)
Sermon From the ‘joys of life’ toward a ‘life inspired by God’
Hymn My life flows on (CH4 565)
Prayers of intercession
Hymn Great is Thy faithfulness (CH4 153)
Benediction and three-fold amen (Sung)
Sung blessing May God’s Blessing surround you

A Service with the Sacraments of Baptism and Holy Communion

Welcome and Intimations (session clerk)
Gathering Hymn – Majesty, worship His majesty
Bible is placed in pulpit
Call to worship
Hymn All people that on earth do dwell (CH4 63) (plus doxology)
Prayer and Lord’s Prayer
Baptism (including the Sung Blessing – The Lord Bless you)
Hymn Jesus put this song into our hearts (MP 376)
Offering uplifted by duty team, then children leave for ‘young church’
Reading/s Psalm 30 and Revelation 22:1-17
Hymn How sweet the name of Jesus sounds (MP251)
Sermon – From “personal tears” toward “tears that express the personal.”
Hymn (Psalm 24) The earth belongs and Ye gates lift up (CH4 18 and 19)
Holy Communion
Hymn Guide me O Thou great Jehovah (MP 201)
Benediction and three-fold amen (Sung)
Sung Blessing May God’s Blessing (MP 460)