August 5, 2018
WELCOME TO ST ANDREW’S ON THE TERRACE
GATHERING
New buds burst from branches,
Hope grows inside us.
Mornings lighten and days lengthen,
Fresh energy makes our heartbeat quicken.
Old hurts are healed and untrodden ways discovered,
Bless the creator who calls us and inspires us!
Bless the One whose essence is peace!
PROCESSION ‘To God the praise’
Words William Livingstone Wallace
Music: Kingsford WOV 500
All rights reserved. Reprinted under One Licence A-623996
1. To God the process, God the life,
to God compassion’s spring.
to God the boundless way of love,
to God in everything.
to God the inner Christ of faith,
to God the wine and bread,
to God the sacred energy,
the fabric and the thread.
2. To you, O God, we sing our praise,
we join the cosmic song,
we walk the path that Jesus walked,
we turn our thoughts from wrong.
For you delight in each of us
and we delight in you.
With hearts on fire we live your praise
in all we think and do.
3. Amen, Amen, Amen O God,
to you be endless praise.
Shalom, Shalom, Shalom O God,
our hearts to you we raise.
For you empower and you fulfil
our latent energy,
the universe within our lives
shall dance your liturgy.
WELCOME
Kia ora tatou.
Kia ora.
PRAYER Sue McRae
JESUS PRAYER Jim Cotter paraphrase on card
LIGHTING THE RAINBOW ROOM CANDLE
TIME WITH CHILDREN Cameron Smart
BLESSING THE CHILDREN (All stand)
We send you to the Rainbow Room programme to play and learn and make friends together. We bless you. Amen.
LIFE MOMENT Russell Feist
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 Bronwyn White
Hebrew Bible Genesis 8: 6-11 and 9:12- 15
Noah, the Dove, and the Rainbow Promise
Gospel Matthew 7:12
“In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets”
Contemporary reading International Committee of the Red Cross President
Peter Maurer 7th July 2017
“We urge all States, those with and those without nuclear weapons, to sign the treaty as a humanitarian imperative and to work steadfastly towards its implementation.…Do not extinguish this light for all humanity. It is our hope for today, and our legacy for future generations.”
RESPONSE
For the Word in scripture,
for the Word among us,
for the Word within us,
we give thanks
REFLECTION Paul Barber
White doves of peace
Please take some time to write a prayer for peace on the white dove in your order of service.
This may be a pledge to action, a prayer for insight and change, or for a specific situation/person.
These can be placed in the basket during the Offering.
CHANT Dona Nobis Pacem
OFFERING PRAYER (said together)
We bring these prayers and gifts of money, trusting that our peaceful intentions and readiness to enact them will help create harmony, wholeness and wellbeing in our world, 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, 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 Paul Barber
CIRCLE OF PRAYER
We think today of the people of Guyana and Suriname and the Hindu people in Guyana, Suriname and throughout the world. In New Zealand, we remember those in Parliament, and today we name Duncan Webb (Christchurch Central electorate) and Meka Whaitiri (Ikaroa-Rāwhiti electorate). Here in the Central Presbytery, we pray for the leaders and people of the Church of Christ The King in Porirua.
PRAYER FOR ST ANDREW’S on card
INVITATION TO COMMUNION Jim Cunningham
St Andrew’s is an open community and all are invited to Christ’s table.
Wherever you are on your faiths journey, wherever you have come from and wherever you are going to, whatever you believe, whatever you do not
believe, you are welcome to participate in the communion. This is God’s meal
for all people.
Communion is served by intinction. You are invited to come to the front of the
church and receive the bread, or a gluten-free cracker, taking a piece large
enough to dip into the wine (silver cup) or grape juice (pottery cup). Eat the
bread dipped in wine or juice.
In the centre one of the servers has a completely gluten-free option of crackers and juice and wine. Please only use this if you need to be gluten free.
Or, remain in your seat to be served if mobility is difficult. If you don’t wish to receive communion, please remain in your seat – we’re glad you are here with us.
COMMUNION HYMN AA 105 ‘O Christ who by a cross’
Words:© 1992 Shirley Murray
Music: Sursum Corda WOV 182
O Christ, who by a cross made peace your sign,
who gives your peace in water, bread and wine
O Spirit Christ who is our spirit's home,
teach us the secret of the true shalom.
We speak of peace when in our hearts we war
and, unforgiving, keep our grudges sore;
we promise peace while yet we strive to win,
and in our enemy, see not our kin.
Two deaths now face the starving and the fed -
the blinding bomb, the simple lack of bread;
with riches of the earth at our command,
from weaponry to welcome, turn our hand.
The selfishness which is our human curse,
the arsenal of hatred which we nurse -
all are dispelled when in our hearts we say:
"There is no way to peace: peace is the way."
COMMUNION
The Great Prayer:
God of Peace
We are nurtured and sustained as your people.
We are blessed with abundance and graciousness.
We are gifted with health and wholeness.
We are called to work for justice and peace;
to share your table with all creation;
to feed the hungry and to see that no one is left in need.
This Table of Shalom is spread with the gifts of creation;
gifts given for all to share in equality and justice and peace;
a table where all are accepted.
As followers of Jesus we celebrate the open table,
proclaimed by Jesus our liberator and our example,
a table of abundant life, inclusive love and redemptive liberation.
In the power of the creative Spirit, Jesus lived life to the full,
We, too, are blessed in the power of that same Spirit,
which we now invoke upon all gathered here
to celebrate the transformative energy
symbolised in these gifts of bread and wine
given to nourish and sustain us as we work for justice and peace.
We remember how Jesus took bread,
blessed it and broke it and gave it to his followers.
We give thanks for the bread of life.
We remember how Jesus took a cup of wine
and blessed it and offered it to his followers.
We give thanks for the cup of solidarity and empowerment.
May the creative Spirit who energises these gifts,
activate in our hearts a hunger for that justice
that will bring sustenance and peace to all people.
We offer this prayer in union with all God’s people,
living and dead,
and particularly with those working for justice and peace
in our world
May we all be held together by that love which knows no bounds.
Amen.
The Bread and Wine are served
Prayer
As we have received the hospitality of Shalom
so let us go to share it with others.
HYMN AA 16 ‘Christ is our peace’
Words: © 1992 Shirley Murray
Music Suantrai WOV 401
Christ is our peace, Christ is our health,
he the true Word, his the true wealth –
gifts to be shared by the simple and poor:
peace in your land, peace at your door.
Peace in your mouth, peace in the hands
open to truth, to love's demands:
those who would go with Christ also must bleed –
bright is the flower, burst is the seed.
Who work for peace find the true wealth,
who heal the hurt find their own health –
peace will flow on through the hearts that believe:
this may we know, thus may we live.
BLESSING
“If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbours.
If there is to be peace between neighbours,
There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart. (Lao Tzu)
We go in peace to love and to serve.
SUNG AMEN
Tongan Peace flag on front of Order of Service
Fuka 'o e Melino depicts the image of a dove with an olive leaf (Lupe mo e Lou 'Olive) which is a commonly used motif design in Tongan ngatu (tapa cloth). Tongan women, when designing ngatu motifs reference the dove from the Biblical story of Noah in which a dove is sent to find dry land and returns with a fresh olive leaf. The dove is also part of the Tongan coat of arms, symbolizing peace, unity and Christianity. Therefore the use of the dove in a Tongan Fuka 'o e Melino (Tongan Flag of Peace) has meaning to our Tongan culture and heritage. Yet it also connects as a worldly symbol through the use of different colours representing peace and hope for the embrace of cultural diversity across our world.
POSTLUDE
THANK YOU Peter Franklin
Our Musician today
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