June 20, 2021

WELCOME TO ST ANDREW’S ON THE TERRACE

The Silencing of the Storm

 

Today’s service is led by Rev. Dr Jim Cunningham

GATHERING

“On the boundary” is an exciting

and sometimes frightening place to be;

a place of action and interchange,

where one state of being confronts another,

and where ways of thought and action clash and conflict.

 

Yet this is where we are called to live out our faith,

at the point where sacred and secular,

Church and culture,

individual and community,

meet and intersect and interact.

It is there that we are called to serve

as agents of understanding, and reconciliation, and renewal.

May our worship ready us for such living.

PROCESSIONAL HYMN                                        ‘A Man of Ancient Time and Place’

Words: Brian Wren ©1991 Hope Publishing Company

Tune: Tallis’ Canon WOV 468

1. A man of ancient time and place

with foreign speech and foreign face,

reveals the glory, power and grace

of costly, unexpected love.

 

2. A rabbi, schooled in Moses’ Law,

a male, amending Herod’s flaw,

arouses wonder, rage and awe

with costly, unexpected love.

 

 

3. By teasing word and healing deed,

a leper touched, an outcast freed,

he bears the fruit and plants the seed

of costly, unexpected love.

 

4. The cost we barely can surmise

when, lifted up before our eyes,

the face of God we recognize

in crucified, unfathomed love.

 

5. May faith and hope within us grow,

the way of Christ to tell and show,

and may the Spirit breathe and blow

in costly, unexpected love.

WELCOME

Kia ora tatou.

Kia ora.

 

PRAYER
JESUS PRAYER IN TE REO MĀORI

E tō mātou Matua i te rangi
Kia tapu tōu ingoa.
Kia tae mai tōu rangatiratanga.
Kia meatia tāu e pai ai
ki runga ki te whenua,
kia rite anō ki to te rangi.
Homai ki a mātou āianei
he taro mā mātou mō tēnei rā.
Murua o mātou hara
me mātou hoki e muru nei
i o te hunga e hara ana ki a mātou.
Aua hoki mātou e kawea
kia whakawaia;
Engari whakaorangia mātou
i te kino:
Nou hoki te rangatiratanga,
te kaha, me te kōroria,
Ake, ake, ake. Amine
LIGHTING THE RAINBOW CANDLE
TIME WITH CHILDREN Graham Howell
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.
PASSING THE PEACE
Traditionally we shake hands to pass the peace and say “peace be with you.” Now that COVID-19 is here we ask that you pass the peace without shaking hands.
HYMN ‘Wake, Now My Senses’
Words: Thomas J S Mikelson
Tune: ‘Slane' Public Domain WOV 455

1. Wake, now my senses, and hear the earth call;
feel the deep power of being in all;
keep, with the web of creation your vow,
giving, receiving as love shows us how.

2. Wake, now my reason, reach out to the new,
join with each pilgrim who quests for the true;
honour the beauty and wisdom of time;
suffer your limit, and praise the sublime.

3. Wake, now compassion, give heed to the cry;
voices of suffering fill the wide sky;
take as your neighbour both stranger and friend,
praying and striving their hardship to end.

4. Wake, now my conscience, with justice your guide;
join with all people whose rights are denied;
take not for granted a privileged place;
God's love embraces the whole human race.

5. Wake, now my vision of ministry clear;
brighten my pathway with radiance here;
mingle my calling with all who will share;
work toward a planet transformed by our care.

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THE WORD IN TEXTS Tony Kirby
Hebrew Bible Psalm 46: 1-11
God is our refuge and our strength
Gospel Mark 4: 35-41
The Stilling of the Storm
RESPONSE
For the Word in scripture,
for the Word among us,
for the Word within us,
we give thanks.

THE ST ANDREW’S SINGERS ‘Blest are They’
arr by Mark Haynes
REFLECTION Location, location, location! Jim Cunningham
MUSIC ‘Chanson Triste’
by Henri Duparc
Soloist: Elian Pagalilawan

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OFFERTORY MUSIC
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

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.

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OFFERTORY MUSIC
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

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.

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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 Pat Booth

CIRCLE OF PRAYER
We think today of the people of Guinea and indigenous communities working towards self-determination. 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 Rachel Boyack (Nelson) and Hon Simon Bridges (Tauranga). Here in the Central Presbytery, we pray for the leaders and people of Takapau-Norsewood-Ormondville Presbyterian Church.
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 ‘I feel the winds of God today’
Words: Jessie Adams (1863-1954)
Tune: Petersham CH3 528
1. I feel the winds of God today;
today my sail I lift,
though heavy oft with drenching spray
and torn with many a rift;
if hope but light the water's crest,
and Christ my bark will use,
I'll seek the seas at his behest,
and brave another cruise.

2. It is the wind of God that dries
my vain regretful tears,
until with braver thoughts shall rise
the purer, brighter years;
if cast on shores of selfish ease
or pleasure I should be,
O let me feel your freshening breeze,
and I'll put back to sea.

3. If ever I forget your love
and how that love was shown,
lift high the blood-red flag above;
it bears your name alone.
Great pilot of my onward way,
you will not let me drift;
I feel the winds of God today;
today my sail I lift.
BLESSING
SUNG AMEN
POSTLUDE