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Spring Prayers & Music
Prayers of Worship & Intercession from our Spring Clean Service Emerging Prayer A sleeping world emerges to new possibilities, For the cycle of life Which brings death and rebirth A. We rejoice in the promise of Spring For lengthening days, for time to play after dinner And sunlight’s warmth upon the soil and our faces…
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Palm Sunday Resources
Photograph by Matthew Wiebe Intro to Palm Sunday Today we remember the special journey Jesus took into Jerusalem the week before he was killed. Like a king Jesus rode into the city and Jesus’ followers started getting excited, they thought he was going to make himself King and the crowd got bigger and bigger, shouting,…
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Prayers, communion & spice quiz on World Communion Sunday
Grace over our Feast Prayer of St Norman patron saint of hungry middle aged slightly balding asian men… with spectacles Dear God Thank you for the gift of difference Thank you that by your love your grace your sacrifice we are all wonderfully created unique and beautiful – each of us a pixel in a…
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Candy Cane Prayer Activity
Bring: Print out of psalm 25:4-7 on square pieces of paper with stripe edge. For instructions see http://www.skiptomylou.org/2008/12/11/paper-candy-canes/ The origin of the candy cane to decorate our Christmas trees goes back about 350 years to 1670, when the choir leader at the Cologne Cathedral in Germany, bent sugar-sticks into canes to represent a shepherd’s staff.…
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Journey to Rest Meditation
Play itunes track – Nature sounds ‘into the Australian bush’ Paper and pencils on tables. Rocks placed like a river bed at the front. Picture yourself walking along, not a lonely road, on a track that we are all journeying on together. Today is the day where we sit down and rest by a river.…
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Come Near to God Meditation – All Ages
A meditation based on James 4 from our service this week.
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A Prayer of Adoration and Confession
Father God You are the God of the great reversal Mourning to dancing Death to life Dull to gleaming light Sin to shocking grace Jesus, beautiful redeemer You are the bringer of the great reversal with incomprehensible joy you pour out freedom and forgiveness you turn our heads towards the light and whisper, ‘this way,…
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Hand Prayer at the Opening of the Service
I invite you to take a few deep breaths and relax your body. Play Itunes track ‘ Morning: Good’ by Paul Motian & Anat Fort. Isaiah 2:3 says, Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will…
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Prayer for the Walk
We shared this prayer in our Baptism Celebration this week.. Opening Meditation ‘ Prayer for the Walk’ Play Itunes ‘ Down to the River to Pray’ by Wanda Vick or ‘A New Life’ by Klaus Badelt I invite you to place your feet firmly on the ground. Feel the ground beneath your feet. Notice your…
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Winter Moments
Some moments from our service this week.. Rain Meditation It has been very wet, we have often fallen asleep listening to the rain this week. Water has an amazing voice, in the bible someone describes God’s voice as the sound of rushing waters. Spend some time relaxing your body, close your eyes and just…
