A Time of Remembrance

(words for hymns and bible readings can be found below the order of service)

Welcome & Intimations
Call to worship – We will remember them!
Hymn MP 498 O God, our help in ages past
Opening Prayer
Words leading into silence
Remembrance video
Hymn Praise! 922 God, as with silent hearts
Reading. Revelations 22:1-5
Reflection
Memories video
Powerpoint – Prayers for the world
The Lord’s Prayer
For the healing of the nations
Blessing – Les us go in the spirit of Christ
Hymn CH3 521 God save our gracious queen
Blessing

MP 498 O God, our help in ages past

1 O God, our help in ages past,
our hope for years to come,
our shelter from the stormy blast,
and our eternal home.

2 Under the shadow of Your throne,
Your saints have dwelt secure;
sufficient is Your arm alone,
and our defense is sure.

3 Before the hills in order stood,
or earth recieved her frame,
from everlasting You are God,
to endless years the same.

4 A thousand ages in Your sight
are like an evening gone,
short as the watch that ends the night
before the rising sun.

5 Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
bears all its sons away;
they fly forgotten, as a dream
dies in the dawning day.

6 O God, our help in ages past,
our hope for years to come,
be out defence while list shall last,
and our eternal home.

Praise! 922 God, as with silent hearts

1 God, as with silent hears we bring to mind
how hate and war diminth humankind,
we pause – and seek in worship to increase
our knowledge of the things that make for peace.

2 Hollow our will as humbly we recall
the lives of those who gave and give their all.
We than you, Lord, for women, children, men
who seek to serve in love, today as then.

3 Give us deep faith to comfort those who mourn,
high hope to share with all the newly born,
strong live in our pursuit of human worth:
‘lest we forget’ the future of this earth.

4 So, Prince of Peace, disarm our trust in power,
teach us to coax the plant of peace to flower.
May we, impassioned by your living Word,
remember forward to a world restored.

Bible Reading Revelations 22: 1 – 5

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life,
as clear as crystal,
flowing from the throne of Godand the Lamb
down the middle of the great street of the city.

On each side of the river stood the tree of life,
bearing twelve crops of fruit,
yielding its fruit every month.
And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

No longer will there be any curse.
The throne of God and the lamb will be in the city,
and his servants will serve him.

They will see his face,
and his name will be on their foreheads.
There will be no more night.

They will not need the light of a lamp
or the light of the sun,
for the Lord God will give them light.

And they will reign for ever and ever.

Hymn CH4 706 For the healing of the nations

1 For the healing of the nations,
Lord, we pray with one accord;
for a just and equal sharing
of the things that earth affords.
To a life of love in action
help us raise and pledge our word.

2 Lead us forward into freedom,
from despairyour wolrd release,
that, redeemed from war and hatred,
all may come and go in peace.
Show us how through care and goodness
fear will die and hope increase.

3 All that kills abundant living,
let it from the earth be banned;
prive of status, race or schooling,
dogmas that obscure your plan.
In our common quest for justice
may we hallow life’s brief span.

4 You, Creator-God, have written
your great name on humankind;
for our growing in your likeness
bring life of Christ to mind;
that by our response and service
earth its destiny may find.