Full Service - Mothering Sunday

Mothering Sunday
Order of Service contains:
Call to worship:
Opening Hymn: For the beauty of the earth or Past, present, future, through all time transcending
Prayer: Thank you, loving God
Children's Talk idea - In Christ we have an inheritance
Psalm 139
Hymn: God you hold me like a mother or The wisdom of elders is sometimes berated
Reading: Luke 2:21-40
Sermon ideas:
Drama – Old Folks
Hymn: He’s got the whole world in his hands or Within the temple Simeon met
Reading – 1 Peter 2: 1-5
Second Talk: So, what kind of people are we? - Living Stones
Hymn: Bind us together or Cast aside that awkward fragment
Prayer: Hannah’s prayer
Hymn: Now thank we all our God or Mother us, father us, parent all nations
Blessing:

Andrew Pratt (born 1948)

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