ORDER OF SERVICE FOR 20 NOVEMBER 2022

New Town Parish Grouping ofBroughton St Mary’s, Greenside and St. Andrews and St. George’s West Worship Service 20 November 2022 Sunday 10:30 am

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Prelude

Welcome

Church News

Centring Prayer

Introit

Call to Worship

Our help is in the name of the Lord who made heaven and earth. We glorify our God with songs of thanksgiving and joy. God has done great things for us, filling us with grace. God fed our ancestors in the wilderness, God clothes us with hope. We will offer our hearts to God, always saying, 'Thank you!' to the One who loves us. We will sing our praises, shouting of God's presence in our lives.

Hymn 127 O worship the King, all glorious above

Gathering Prayer and Lord’s Prayer

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us in the time of trial and deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and for ever. Amen.

All Age Chat Gratitude

Responsive Psalm Reading Psalm 100

Be joyful in the Lord, all you lands; serve the Lord with gladness and come into the divine presence with a song. Know this: the Lord, the Lord, is God; the One made us and to whom we belong; we are God’s people, the sheep of God’s pasture. Enter the gates of the Lord with thanksgiving; go into these courts with praise; give thanks to God and call upon the name of the Lord. For the Lord is good, whose steadfast love is everlasting; and whose faithfulness endures from age to age.

Choral Anthem

Epistle Reading Philippians 4:4-9

Gospel Reading Matthew 6:25-33

Reflection Gratitude is the gift of “yes”

Hymn 182 Now Thank We all our God

Offering

Offertory

Doxology Praise God from whom all blessings flow; Praise God, all creatures here below; Praise God for all that love has done; Creator, Christ, and Spirit, One. Amen.

Prayers of the People Response Leader: Lord of life All: In gratitude and service we offer our prayers

Hymn 710 ‘I have a dream’, a man once said,

Sending

The Creator of heaven and earth sends us out,

may we go to being help to all around us.

The Bringer of grace sends us out,

may we go to offer hope and healing to the broken.

The Spirit of peace sends us out,

may we go to bring reconciliation in all the broken places.

Benediction

*Congregational Response Hymn 62 Sing to the Lord a New Song Sing a new song to the Lord, he to whom wonders belong; rejoice in his triumph and tell of his power, O sing to the Lord a new song! Postlude