VISION STATEMENT: TO BE A CHRIST CENTERED
COMMUNITY REACHING AND TEACHING
OTHERS THROUGH TOTAL MINISTRY
THEME: UNITY AND DIVERSITY WITHIN THE CHRISTIAN
COMMUNITY – 1 CORINTHIANS 12:12--14
SERVICE OF THE WORD
17TH JUNE 2025
7:30 PM
CLERGY
PRIEST IN CHARGE: REV ANGELA PHILLIPS
OFFICIANT: REV RICHARD KELLMAN
PREACHER: REV MICHELLE LEACOCK
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SERVICE OF THE WORD
17TH JUNE 2025
7:30 PM
Opening Prayer
Opening Hymn: Blest be the tie that binds 60 MP
Opening Sentence
Welcome and Introduction of Theme: Unity and Diversity within the Christian Community
First Lesson: Micah 4: 1-5
Psalm 84
Hymn: Thy Hand O God has guided 351 CPWI
Second Lesson: Ephesians 4:11-16
Acknowledgement of Groups
Collection Hymn: More about Jesus 398 CPWI
The Apostles’ Creed
Introduction of Speaker
Devotional: Be still and know that I am God 844 CPWI
Sermon: Rev’d Michelle Leacock
Hymn for Reflection: Bind us Together Lord 842 CPWI
Intercessory Prayers
Closing Prayer: Rev’d Michelle Leacock
Closing Hymn: For all the saints 819 CPWI
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OPENING PRAYER
OPENING HYMN 60 MP
Blest be the tie that binds
our hearts in Christian love;
the fellowship of kindred minds
is like to that above.
Before our Father's throne
we pour our ardent prayers;
our fears, our hopes, our aims are one,
our comforts and our cares.
We share our mutual woes,
our mutual burdens bear,
and often for each other flows
the sympathizing tear.
When for a while we part
this thought will soothe our pain
that we shall still be joined in heart
and hope to meet again
This glorious hope revives
our courage by the way;
while each in expectation lives
and waits to see the day.
From sorrow, toil, and pain,
and sin, we shall be free;
and perfect love and friendship reign
through all eternity.
OPENING SENTENCE
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION OF THEME
FIRST LESSON: MICAH 4: 1-5
In days to come the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established as the highest of the
mountains, and shall be raised up above the hills. Peoples shall stream to it, and many nations shall
come and say: ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob;
that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.’ For out of Zion shall go forth
instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between many peoples, and
shall arbitrate between strong nations far away; they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and
their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn
war any more; but they shall all sit under their own vines and under their own fig trees, and no one
shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken. For all the peoples walk,
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each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.
L: The Word of the Lord
ALL: Thanks be to God
PSALM 84
1 How dear to me is your dwelling, O Lord of hosts! *
My soul has a desire and longing for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.
2 The sparrow has found her a house
and the swallow a nest where she may lay her young; *
by the side of your altars, O Lord of hosts,
my King and my God.
3 Happy are they who dwell in your house! *
they will always be praising you.
4 Happy are the people whose strength is in you! *
whose hearts are set on the pilgrims' way.
5 Those who go through the desolate valley will find it a place of springs, *
for the early rains have covered it with pools of water.
6 They will climb from height to height, *
and the God of gods will reveal himself in Zion.
7 Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; *
hearken, O God of Jacob.
8 Behold our defender, O God; *
and look upon the face of your Anointed.
9 For one day in your courts is better than a thousand in my own room, *
and to stand at the threshold of the house of my God
than to dwell in the tents of the wicked.
10 For the Lord God is both sun and shield; *
he will give grace and glory;
11 No good thing will the Lord withhold *
from those who walk with integrity.
12 O Lord of hosts, *
happy are they who put their trust in you!
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: As it was in the beginning, is now,
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and will be forever. Amen.
HYMN 351 CPWI
Thy hand, O God, has guided
Thy flock from age to age;
The wondrous tale is written
Full clear on every page;
Our fathers owned Thy goodness,
And we their deeds record;
And both of this bear witness,
One church, one faith, one Lord.
Thy heralds brought glad tidings
To greatest as to least;
They bade men rise and hasten
To share the great King’s feast:
And this was all their teaching,
In every deed and word,
To all alike proclaiming
One church, one faith, one Lord.
When shadows thick were falling,
And all seemed sunk in night,
Thou, Lord, did send Thy servants,
Thy chosen sons of light.
On them and on Thy people
Thy plenteous grace was poured,
And this was still their message:
One church, one faith, one Lord.
Through many a day of darkness,
Through many a scene of strife,
The faithful few fought bravely,
To guard the nation’s life,
Their Gospel of redemption,
Sin pardoned, man restored,
Was all in this enfolded,
“One Church, one Faith, one Lord.”
And we, shall we be faithless?
Shall hearts fail, hands hang down?
Shall we evade the conflict,
And cast away our crown?
Not so: in God’s deep counsels
Some better thing is stored:
We will maintain, unflinching,
“One Church, one Faith, one Lord.”
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Thy mercy will not fail us,
Nor leave Thy work undone;
With Thy right hand to help us,
The victory shall be won;
And then by men and angels
Thy name shall be adored,
And this shall be their anthem:
One church, one faith, one Lord.
SECOND LESSON: EPHESIANS 4: 11-16
The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors
and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all
of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the
measure of the full stature of Christ. We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown
about by every wind of doctrine, by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming. But
speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from
whom the whole body, joined and knitted together by every ligament with which it is equipped, as
each part is working properly, promotes the body’s growth in building itself up in love.
L: The Word of the Lord
ALL: Thanks be to God
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GROUPS
COLLECTION HYMN 398 CPWI
More about Jesus would I know,
More of His grace to others show;
More of His saving fulness see,
More of His love who died for me.
Refrain
More, more about Jesus,
More, more about Jesus;
More of His saving fulness see,
More of His love who died for me.
More about Jesus let me learn,
More of His holy will discern;
Spirit of God my teacher be,
Showing the things of Christ to me.
Refrain
More about Jesus; in His Word,
Holding communion with my Lord;
Hearing His voice in every line,
Making each faithful saying mine.
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Refrain
More about Jesus; on His throne,
Riches in glory all His own;
More of His kingdom’s sure increase;
More of His coming, Prince of Peace.
Refrain
THE APOSTLES’ CREED
I Believe in God the Father Almighty,
creator of heaven and earth:
I believe in Jesus Christ
His only Son our Lord:
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit
And born of the Virgin Mary:
He suffered under Pontius Pilate,
Was crucified, died, and buried:
He descended to the dead;
On the third day He rose again.
He ascended into heaven, and is seated
At the right hand of the Father
He will come again to judge the living and the dead
I believe in the Holy Spirit:
The holy Catholic Church;
The Communion of Saints:
The Forgiveness of sins:
The Resurrection of the body,
And the Life everlasting. Amen.
INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKERS
DEVOTIONAL: BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD 844 CPWI
Be still and know that I am God,
be still and know that I am God,
be still and know that I am God.
I am the Lord that healeth thee.
I am the Lord that healeth thee.
I am the Lord that healeth thee.
In Thee, O Lord, I put our trust,
in Thee, O Lord, I put our trust,
in Thee, O Lord, I put our trust.
SERMON: REV MICHELLE LEACOCK
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HYMN FOR REFLECTION 842 CPWI
Refrain:
Bind us together, Lord
Bind us together
With cords that cannot be broken
Bind us together, Lord
Bind us together
O bind us together with Love
There is only one God,
There is only one King
There is only one Body,
That is why we sing.
Refrain:
Made for the glory of God
Purchased by his precious Son
Born with the right to be clean
For Jesus the victory has won
Refrain:
You are the family of God
You are the promise divine
You are God’s chosen desire
You are the glorious new wine
Refrain:
INTERCESSORY PRAYERS
CLOSING PRAYER - REV MICHELLE LEACOCK
CLOSING HYMN: 819 CPWI
For all the saints who from their labors rest,
Who Thee by faith before the world confessed,
Thy name, O Jesu, be for ever blest.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Thou wast their rock, their fortress and their might;
Thou, Lord, their captain In the well fought fight;
Thou, in the darkness still, their one true Light.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
O may Thy soldiers, faithful, true and bold,
Fight as the saints who nobly fought of old,
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And win with them the victor’s crown of gold.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
O blest communion, fellowship divine!
We feebly struggle, they in glory shine;
Yet all are one in Thee, For all are Thine.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
And when the strife is fierce, the warfare long,
Steals on the ear the distant triumph song,
And hearts are brave, again, and arms are strong.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
The golden evening brightens in the west;
Soon, soon to faithful warriors comes their rest;
Sweet is the calm of paradise the blest
Alleluia, Alleluia!
But lo! there breaks a yet more glorious day;
The saints triumphant rise in bright array;
The King of glory passes on His way.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
From earth’s wide bounds, from ocean’s farthest coast,
Through gates of pearl streams in the countless host,
singing to Father, Son and Holy Ghost:
Alleluia, Alleluia!
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