November 17, 2019
WELCOME TO ST ANDREW’S ON THE TERRACE
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What is Transgender Day of Remembrance?
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was started in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honour the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was killed in 1998. The vigil commemorated all the transgender people lost to violence since Rita Hester's death, and began an important tradition that has become the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.
"Transgender Day of Remembrance seeks to highlight the losses we face due to anti-transgender bigotry and violence. I am no stranger to the need to fight for our rights, and the right to simply exist is first and foremost. With so many seeking to erase transgender people -- sometimes in the most brutal ways possible -- it is vitally important that those we lose are remembered, and that we continue to fight for justice."
- Transgender Day of Remembrance founder Gwendolyn Ann Smith
GATHERING
All human beings are valuable
simply because they are human.
All human beings are worth loving
simply because they are human.
Whether we understand an other or not, whether they are different,
they are due respect and the expectation of life.
All human beings are due unconditional love;
All humankind, all orientations, all genders, all people,
are welcome here.
So may it always be
AMEN
PROCESSIONAL HYMN FFS 15 ‘Fancy Noah sailing in the ark’
Words and Music: © 1996 Colin Gibson
WELCOME
Kia ora tatou.
Kia ora.
PRAYER and LORD’S PRAYER
LIGHTING THE RAINBOW ROOM CANDLE
GLAMAPHONES
‘One hand, one heart’ & ‘There’s a place for us’ from West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein)
TIME WITH THE CHILDREN
BLESSING THE CHILDREN (All stand)
We send you to the Rainbow Room programme to hear stories, ask questions and have fun together.
We bless you. Amen.
PASSING THE PEACE
Feel free to pass the peace with those nearby or move to greet others further away. Passing the peace consists of shaking hands and saying “Peace be with you.” The response is “Peace be with you” or just “And with you.” Or, simply saying ‘Hello” is a good idea. Also feel free to simply observe if you wish!
THE WORD IN TEXTS Frances Porter
Hebrew Bible Leviticus 29: 34
Gospel Matthew 22: 34-40
Contemporary reading ‘Violence toward the Transgender Community’
https://www.glaad.org › tdor
The 2014 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and HIV-affected Hate Violence Report from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Projects shows that, of the victims murdered, 80% were people of colour, 55% were transgender women, and 50% were transgender women of colour. Transgender women survivors of hate violence were also more likely to experience police violence, physical violence, discrimination, harassment, sexual violence, threats, and intimidation compared to those who were not transgender women. Findings from the 'Injustice at Every Turn' report conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and the National LGBTQ Task Force showed alarming rates of violence and harassment experienced by the more than 6,000 transgender respondents across a variety of contexts, including educational settings, at work, in interactions with police and with family members, at homeless shelters, accessing public accommodations, and in jails and prisons. As murders of transgender people often go unreported, and the identity of transgender murder victims is often misreported, there is no way to know accurate numbers.
RESPONSE
For the Word in scripture,
for the Word among us,
for the Word within us,
we give thanks.
REFLECTION ‘Unconditional Love’ Susan Jones
GLAMAPHONES ‘Ave Verum corpus’ Mozart
and Into the West (Annie Lenox)
CANDELIGHTING
OFFERING PRAYER (said together)
These gifts of food and money are made to spread further the word that Love is abroad in the world. We give them in gratitude for all we have received and ask they achieve the purpose for which they are given.
Amen
We recognise and bless the gifts brought to the table, and those which wing
their way electronically from our banks to the church’s account.
LIFE IN THE COMMUNITY OF ST ANDREW’S
People share notices and visitors are welcomed. If you have a notice not already in the order of service, please move to the front row, ready to speak briefly from the lectern.
For the benefit of newcomers, please introduce yourself before you begin.
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE Bronwyn White
CIRCLE OF PRAYER
We think today of the people of Switzerland and Liechtenstein and the Council of Christian Churches in Switzerland. We remember the detainees of Manus and Nauru Islands, yearning that their cases be resolved. In New Zealand, we remember those in Parliament, and today we name list MPs, David Carter and Liz Craig. Here in the Central Presbytery, we pray for the leaders and people of Knox Presbyterian Church, Lower Hutt.
PRAYER FOR ST ANDREW’S on card
HYMN ‘For all the saints’
Words: ©Susan Jones. Tune: Sine Nomine
BLESSING
SUNG AMEN
POSTLUDE One Voice”
by Barry Manilow (1943 - )
THANK YOU Peter Franklin
our musician today
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AUDIO REFLECTIONS
Sunday reflections are usually available on our website.
https://www.standrews.org.nz/category/sunday-gathering
Hymns for Sunday 17 November
Looking towards the Transgender Day of Remembrance
Pentecost 23
PROCESSIONAL HYMN FFS 15 ‘Fancy Noah sailing in the ark’
Words and music © Colin Gibson 1996
Permission is given to reproduce this material, with acknowledgement,
for non-commercial use in a congregational or similar setting.
Fancy Noah sailing in the Ark,
ploughing through the wind and rain and dark;
all of a sudden, feel that bump,
landed safe on Ararat's hump,
welcome to the rainbow world.
Rainbow people, every creature too,
rainbow people, well what a motley crew,
with a snow-white dove to guide them,
and an olive leaf their sign,
rainbow people in a rainbow world.
Some folk want a world of this and that,
mostly this, if that is what they're at;
all God's plenty is our store,
open wide the old Ark's door,
step into the rainbow world.
Rainbow people, bridging earth and sky,
rainbow people, God's promise in their eye,
and a shining arch to point them
to the harmony of all things,
rainbow people in a rainbow world.
Some folk want their world all black and white,
some folk like their world just wrong or right,
we like colour, we like hue,
we like me and we like you;
welcome to the rainbow world.
Rainbow people, children of the light,
rainbow people, declaring God's delight
in the multitudinous colours
of a multifarious world,
rainbow people in a rainbow world.
Some folk want a world of wrath and flame,
we prefer the gentle falling rain,
black clouds gather, still it shines,
pledge of seed and harvest times,
welcome to the rainbow world.
Rainbow people, joyful, full of mirth,
rainbow people, all colouring the earth
with the love and grace and laughter
of a plenitudinous God,
rainbow people in a rainbow world.
HYMN ‘For all the saints’
Words: © Susan Jones Tune: Sine Nomine WOV 384
For all the saints of every age and day,
who bravely seek to follow loving ways;
sharing Good News by what they do and say:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
For those who struggle much with who they are,
listening to feelings which with bodies jar
who seek and ask and travel near and far
Alleluia! Alleluia!
For those who understood, as feelings grew,
the need to live within a body true
and all that’s needed to change and renew
Alleluia, Alleluia
For Jesus, who exploded people’s view,
of who was ‘out’ or ‘in’ the chosen few
who died for freedom out of love for you,
Alleluia, Alleluia.
And so we live and celebrate the right
to be yourself by day and every night;
praying Love’s flame will always burn in sight:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
THANK YOU
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