Worship for all the Church Family
We say together the words printed in bold
Gathering to worship God
The Greeting
Welcome - in the name of our Lord Jesus! (Please say 'Hello' to one another)
We process anti-clockwise around the church, with percussion, branches to wave, and singing: You shall go out with joy
The Introduction
Opening Prayer
Loving Lord, Fill us all with your life-giving, joy-giving, peace-giving presence that we may praise you now with our lips and all the day long with our lives, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Silence is kept.
The collect, the prayer of the day is said.
Part One - Praise to God our Provider
Hymn 106 Come, ye thankful people, come
Why the Tabernacle?
First Reading: Leviticus 23.33-34, 40-43
Part Two - Confession to Jesus our Redeemer
We kneel and sing the Shma. It will be played first, and then we join in the words. These are in Hebrew and this is a prayer which Jesus would used twice a day. We still use it regularly in our Communion Service, but in English!
Shma Israel, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad. Baruch shem kavod malchuto le'olam va'ed.
The leader says
Our Lord Jesus Christ said: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all you soul, and with all your mind, and with all your might."
Confession
God our Father, we come to you in sorrow for our sins.
For turning away from you, and ignoring your will for our lives: Father, forgive us.
For behaving just as we wish, For letting ourselves be drawn away from you by temptations in the world about us: Father, forgive us.
For living as if we were ashamed to belong to your Son: Father, forgive us.
The leader declares God's forgiveness
May the Father forgive us by the death of his Son and strengthen us to live in the power of the Spirit all our days. Amen.
Praise for a new start in Jesus
Blessed are you, Lord God, King of the universe! Your word brings on the glory of the morning and the dusk of the evening!
Your wisdom creates both day and night. You arrange the succession of the seasons and the bounty of the harvest.
Living and eternal God, rule over us always. Blessed be the Lord whose word rules day and night, seed time and harvest and all that is good.
Hymn 147 Fill your hearts with joy and gladness
After the hymn, people are invited to bring forward their harvest gifts and children to also bring their percussion instruments. After the gifts have been laid on a table, the children will gather in the Chance! and then dance to their seats during the following hymn.
Hymn 376 Jesus put this song into our hearts
200 years old this year!
The Church's Ministry Amongst Jewish People is 200 years old! Our special guest, Jane Van Der Merwe, the UK Director of CMJ Shoresh Tours, is going to tells us a little about the work of CMJ. and also say a little about our Shoresh Study Tour of Israel next year.
The Prayers
The Lord's Prayer: Our Father, which art in heaven …
The Grace
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us all evermore. Amen.
Part Three - Serving Jesus in the World
Children will come forward to light the candles
Why the Candles?
Second Reading: John 7. 14-16; 8.12
Hymn 732 We plough the fields and scatter
Third Reading: Matthew 5.14-16
Part Four - Strength to Serve Jesus
The Choir will sing, "From the rising of the sun" from Psalm 113- one of the Hallel (or Hallelujah) Psalms. As the Choir sings, water is brought forward to be poured into the silver bowl.
Why the Water?
Fourth Reading: John 7.37-39
Offertory Hymn 506 How great thou art!
Blessing
May God who clothes the lilies and feeds the birds of the sky who leads the lambs to pasture and the deer to water, who multiplied loaves and fishes and changed water into wine, lead us, feed us, multiply us, and change us to reflect the glory of our Creator through all eternity. And the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, be amongst you and remain with, now and forever, Amen.
The children are invited to follow the Rector to the back of the church and to sit in the tabernacle for their refreshments. Cake and coffee/squash will be served for the whole congregation.
Please note the Retiring Collection for the work of the Church's Ministry amongst Jewish People.
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