Sunday, June 7, 2009
Service of Remembrance and Holy Communion
Music for Centering “Come and Find the Quiet Center” Annual Conference Choir
Call to Worship
Leader: In our waking, in our sleeping...
People: Your faithfulness never falters or fails.
Leader: In our grieving, in our sorrow ...
People: Your light is never extinguished; our shadows do not prevail.
Leader: In our life and in our deaths...
People: Your pardon, your peace always strengthen and bless.
All: You are our faithful Lord, and in all seasons of our lives we do rejoice, even through
our tears.
*Opening Hymn “Rejoice, the Lord is King”
Opening Prayer
Unison
God, of truth and love, we rejoice this day in the power of your love. Through that love, our
Savior Jesus Christ holds the keys to heaven and hell. With bittersweet joy, we recall those who
this year and years before now rest in their eternal home. We adore you as we remember them
and gaze ahead with anticipation to the time when we, like they, will sing in triumph evermore.
Through Jesus our Lord, Amen.
Anthem “Be Still My Soul” Annual Conference Choir
Scripture 1 John 4:7-16; 18a
Hymn “Great is Thy Faithfulness”
Sermon Great is Thy Faithfulness Rev. Jim Bryan
Rev. Bryan has 33 years of service in the Missouri Conference. He is currently the Senior Pastor at Missouri
United Methodist Church in Columbia, where he has served for nine years.
Naming Those we Remember
You are invited to stand in silence as the name of persons who have touched your life are read.
Hymn “Hymn of Promise”
Celebration of Holy Communion
Invitation
Christ our Lord invites to his table all who love him, who earnestly repent of their sin and seek to live in
peace with one another. Therefore, let us confess our sin before God and one another.
E-12 2009 Missouri Annual Conference
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