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LIGHTING THE CANDLE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
Together we acknowledge the Traditional Custodians on whose lands we stand today and pay our respects to the Elders past, present and future. We commit to walking together across these lands in friendship, trust, justice and healing.
WELCOME SONG – Come In Come and Sit down
Church is for the hungry. We long for God; our souls wait and put their trust in God’s word.
Our spirits long for God; more than nightwatchmen wait for the dawn. Worship includes both a celebration of what God has done for us and a hungry plea for more of this God in our lives.
Living and faithful Spirit, the God in whom we live and move and have our being, the God who is made known in our friend Jesus, bless us all as we worship you today.
Please remove from our minds and hearts whatever impediments hinder worship or dampen our joy. Increase within us that longing for closeness which can open our lives to fuller delight and to a deeper commitment.
May our hymns, prayers and words, our searching thoughts, and our hearing of the Scriptures, be a tonic to our souls. By you, with you and for you, may our lives publish your praise. In the name of Christ Jesus. Amen
Judy and Jenny Duet I am carried
CONFESSION AND ASSURANCE
Great God, just and gracious, have mercy on us; forgive the injustices to which we are party, both the wilful ones and those committed in ignorance.
Great God, truthful and gracious, forgive the deceits we personally practice and those communal lies in which we participate without protest.
Great God, patient and gracious, forgive our impatience and irritability, the unreal expectations we put on others and the petulant excuses made for ourselves.
Great God, generous and gracious, forgive our miserly ways and the occasions when we resent the demands made on our time, money, energy and goodwill.
Great God, inclusive and gracious, forgive our proud exclusive habits, and have mercy on us if we perversely exclude ourselves from knowing your free grace.
Great God, by the saving grace of Christ Jesus, cleanse us and support us in the hour of temptation, deliver us from evil, and lead us by your light, love and serene joy.
For your name’s sake. Amen
With a knowledge of our own limitations, and faith in God’s unlimited grace, let’s go on our way as Christ’s optimists.
Amen!
With good will towards our critics and patience with our flawed self, let’s go on our way with thanksgiving.
Amen!
With mercy for our enemies and much delight in our good friends, let’s go on our way rejoicing.
Amen!
Without mulling over past mistakes and with high hopes for the future, let us go on our way with the light steps of the redeemed.
Amen!
Grace mercy and peace, from the bounty of our loving God, through the intervention of the Saviour in the power of the Spirit-Friend, will be with us now and always.
Amen!
FORGIVENESS
People of God! Put all of our hope in God!
For with God there is steadfast love,
in the Holy One is plentiful redemption.
We remember the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who though he was rich, for our sakes became poor,
so that through his poverty we might become rich.
God does redeem the people
from all their sins.
Thanks be to God!
Hymn – The Power of your Love
BIBLE READING
Mark 5 13 – 24
21 Once again Jesus got into the boat and crossed Lake Galilee. Then as he stood on the shore, a large crowd gathered around him. 22 The person in charge of the synagogue was also there. His name was Jairus, and when he saw Jesus, he went over to him. He knelt at Jesus’ feet 23 and started begging him for help. He said, “My little daughter is about to die! Please come and touch her, so she will get well and live.” 24 Jesus went with Jairus. Many people followed along and kept crowding around.
25 In the crowd was a woman who had been bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had gone to many doctors, and they had not done anything except cause her a lot of pain. She had paid them all the money she had. But instead of getting better, she only got worse.
27 The woman had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind him in the crowd and barely touched his clothes. 28 She had said to herself, “If I can just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” 29 As soon as she touched them, her bleeding stopped, and she knew she was healed.
30 At that moment Jesus felt power go out from him. He turned to the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”
31 His disciples said to him, “Look at all these people crowding around you! How can you ask who touched you?” 32 But Jesus turned to see who had touched him.
33 The woman knew what had happened to her. So she came trembling with fear and knelt down in front of Jesus. Then she told him the whole story.
34 Jesus said to the woman, “You are now well because of your faith. May God give you peace! You are healed, and you will no longer be in pain.”
35 While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from Jairus’ home and said, “Your daughter has died! Why bother the teacher anymore?”
36 Jesus heard what they said, and he said to Jairus, “Don’t worry. Just have faith!”
37 Jesus did not let anyone go with him except Peter and the two brothers, James and John. 38 They went home with Jairus and saw the people crying and making a lot of noise.[f] 39 Then Jesus went inside and said to them, “Why are you crying and carrying on like this? The child isn’t dead. She is just asleep.” 40 But the people laughed at him.
After Jesus had sent them all out of the house, he took the girl’s father and mother and his three disciples and went to where she was. 41-42 He took the twelve-year-old girl by the hand and said, “Talitha, koum!”[g] which means, “Little girl, get up!” The girl got right up and started walking around.
Everyone was greatly surprised. 43 But Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone what had happened. Then he said, “Give her something to eat.”
Poem From Judy H
JOHN’S MESSAGE
HYMN
All praise to our redeeming Lord,
who joins us by God’s grace,
and bids us, each to each restored,
together seek God’s face.
God bids us build each other up;
and gathered into one,
to our high calling’s glorious hope,
we hand in hand go on.
The gift which God on one bestows
we all delight to prove;
the grace through every vessel flows,
in purest streams of love.
We all partake the joy of one,
the common peace we feel,
a peace to sensual minds unknown,
a joy unspeakable.
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
A Service to Mark the Conclusion of the Long Supply of Rev Paul Bartlett
Rev Steve Aynsley
HYMN – Here in this place (Paul’s favourite hymn)
GOING OUT
With a knowledge of our own limitations, and faith in God’s unlimited grace we will go on our way as Christ’s optimists.
With good will towards our critics and patience with our flawed self we will go on way with thanksgiving.
With mercy for our enemies and much delight in our good friends we will go on our way rejoicing.
Without mulling over past mistakes and with high hopes for the future we will go on our way with the light steps of the redeemed.
Grace mercy and peace, will be with us now and always.
from the bounty of our loving God,
through the intervention of the Saviour and in the power of our Spirit-Friend. H
Benediction song
May light come into your eyes
May hope spring up in your heart
May peace guide all of your mind and keep you in God
And keep you in God, Amen.
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