February 28, 2021

WELCOME TO ST ANDREW’S ON THE TERRACE

GATHERING

Today in this service we celebrate liturgical music, which can be a balm for those in need of healing and comfort, a source of hope for the down hearted, a mind opener for seekers of new understandings and a sound that gives the spirit wings.

We are glad to come together in this Lenten season

 

PROCESSIONAL HYMN AA 36 ‘Every day I will offer you’
Words © 1992 Shirley Murray
Music by Colin Gibson, © 1993 Hope Publishing Company (Vs x 2)
1. Every day
I will offer you, loving God, my heart and mind;
every way I discover you
in the work your hand has signed;
help me see I'm your image,
and you have dreamed what I might be
every day
in your Spirit, I'll find the love and energy!

2. Every day
I will focus on Christ, and lift my courage high
through the tides and the tossing of waves that drown,
and hopes that die;
help me see stepping out of the boat,
I'll learn what risk might be --
every day
in your Spirit, I'll find the love and energy!
WELCOME
Kia ora tatou.
Kia ora.

Sally Gray - ‘Every day I will offer you’
PRAYER Michael Leunig
We give thanks for singers.
All types of singers.
Popular, concert singers and
tuneless singers in the bath.
Whistlers, hummers and those
who sing while they work.
Singers of lullabies; singers of nonsense
and small scraps of melody.
Singers on branches and rooftops.
Morning yodellers and evening warblers.
Singers in seedy nightclubs, singers in the street;

Singers in cathedrals, school halls, grandstands,
back yards, paddocks, bedrooms, corridors,
stairwells and places of echo and resonance.

We give praise to all those who give some small voice
To the everyday joy of the soul.
Amen

JESUS PRAYER (Alternative) Steve Garnaas
United Methodist Pastor adapt.
Source of our being,
whose presence is heaven,
all creation sings of you.
May your realm unfold among us,
your desire be fulfilled.
Give us the breath of life, one breath at a time.
Accept our brokenness;
give us compassion towards those who are broken.
Lead us beyond our desires
and save us from the grip of evil.
For the world is within you;
all power is from you,
and all glory is about you.
Amen.
LIGHTING THE RAINBOW CANDLE
BLESSING THE CHILDREN (All stand)
We send you to the Rainbow Room to hear stories, ask questions
and have fun together.
We bless you. Amen.
HYMN Trish McBride ‘Here I am Lord’
Words based on Isaiah 6: Dan Schutte. Music Dan Schutte
Words & music © 1981, 2000, OCP
Reprinted with permission under One License A-623996. All rights reserved

I, the Lord of Earth and Sky
I have heard my people cry.
All who dwell in dark and pain
my hand will save.
I, who made the stars of night,
I will make their darkness light.
Who will bear my light to them?
Whom shall I send?

Chorus
Here I am Lord. Is it I, Lord?
I have heard you calling in the night.
I will go, Lord, if you lead me,
I will hold your people in my heart
THE WORD IN TEXTS Marilyn Wallace
Hebrew Bible Psalm 150: 1-6
Contemporary reading Shirley Murray (1931 – 2020)

Song of faith that sings forever And when life would overwhelm us,
through God’s people, ages long, when there seems no song to sing,
word that holds the world together hear the constant voice of courage
when our hearts take up the song, out of fear and suffering:
always, always somewhere sounding, all who’ve loved and trusted Jesus,
though the source we do not see, all who lift us to be strong,
counterpoint to all despairing, endless, endless are the voices
it is hope that sets the key. of the faith that makes the song.

RESPONSE
Let the word dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Colossians 3:16
Amen.

HYMN Rosemary Lawrence HIOS 35 (ii) ‘Go gently, go lightly’
Words: © 2001 Shirley Erena Murray
Music: Colin Gibson “Legere”
1. Go gently, go lightly,
go safe in the Spirit,
live simply, don't carry
much more than you need:
go trusting God's goodness,
go spreading God's kindness,
stay centered on Jesus
and where he will lead.

2. Go singing, go bringing
the gifts of the Spirit,
go hopefully searching
for things that are true:
in living, in loving,
whatever befalls you,
God keep you, God bless you
in all that you do.
PASSING THE PEACE
HYMN Elizabeth Weinberg ‘In a bulb there is a flower’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDpByzZqeQ4

THE OFFERINGS ARE GATHERED
During the offering we will listen to the hymn “Be Still, My Soul" ("Stille, mein Wille’’)
The words are by Katherine von Schlegel, 1697 - ? She may have been a Lutheran nun.
Words translated from German by Jane Borthwick, a member of the Free Church of Scotland in 1855.
Sung to many tunes. Today’s tune, Finlandia, from a symphonic tone poem by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) is the most popular.
OFFERING HYMN Tune: Duke Street WOV 24
Willing hands, to lead the blind,
heal the wounded, feed the poor.
Love embracing all our kind,
charity with liberal store.
OFFERING PRAYER
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.

HYMN Tony Pears ‘Look Around You’
Singing the Faith 525 Text & music by Jodi Page- Clark © 1971 Celebration
Reprinted with permission under One License A-623996. All rights reserved

1. Look around you; can you see?
Times are troubled, people grieve.
See the violence, feel the hardness;
all my people, weep with me.

Refrain:
Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison.

2. Walk among them, I’ll go with you.
Reach out to them with my hands.
Suffer with me and together,
we will serve them, help them stand.

Refrain:
Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison.

LIFE IN THE COMMUNITY OF ST ANDREW’S
People share notices and visitors are welcomed. If you have a notice, 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 Lois Robertson
CIRCLE OF PRAYER
We think today of the people of Dominican Republic and Haiti and the Christian World Service partner organisations working in Haiti to support income generation, community education, training and strengthening of local organisations to fully engage in civil society and democracy. We hold all refugees in our hearts. We pray in particular for those detained for many years in Papua New Guinea & Nauru. We give thanks for progress that has been made and pray that their calls for justice might yet find a compassionate response. In New Zealand, we remember those in Parliament, and today we name Tangi Utikere (Palmerston North) and Tim van de Molen (Waikato). Here in the Central Presbytery, we pray for the leaders and people of Pacific Islands’ Presbyterian Church, Newtown.
PRAYER FOR ST ANDREW’S
Renew your people, God,
and renew our life in this place.
Give us a new spirit of unity
with all who follow the Way of Jesus
and new bonds of love
with people of other faiths.

Bless the city in which we live
that it may be a place
where honest dealing,
good government,
the desire for beauty,
and the care for others flourish.

Bless this church
that what we know of your will
may become what we do,
and what we believe
the strong impulse
of our worship and work.

Amen

HYMN Margaret Rushbrook ‘Let us talents and tongues employ’
Words: Fred Kaan, Jamaican Folk Melody WOV 658 Verses 1 & 2
1. Let us talents and tongues employ,
reaching out with a shout of joy:
bread is broken, the wine is poured,
Christ is spoken and seen and heard.

Refrain:
Jesus lives again,
earth can breathe again,
pass the Word around:
loaves abound!

2. Christ is able to make us one,
at the table he set the tone,
teaching people to live to bless,
love in word and in deed express. Refrain
HYMN Gillian Feist FFS 14 ‘Faith has set us on a journey’
Words: ©1992 Shirley Murray Music © 1992Colin Gibson, Hope Publishing Co.
Verses 1 & 3
1. Faith has set us on a journey
past the landmarks that we know,
taking risks with no insurance
but the Word that tells us "go!"
Friend or job or home or lover
we may need to leave behind,
outworn truths and ways of thinking,
baggage to the past consigned.

2. We are this unlikely people
in the Body knit as one,
company of clowns and cripples --
some are wise and some can run.
Prophets are our travel agents,
gospel-makers lay this road:
to the place of peace and promise
faith will take us into God.
BLESSING
SUNG AMEN
POSTLUDE “Sine Nomine” Ralph Vaughan Williams (1906)