Song Sheet February 9th

Entrance Hymn: As We Gather at Your Table

As we gather at your table, as we listen to your word, Help us know, O God, your presence: Let our hearts and minds be stirred. Nourish us with sacred story till we claim it as our own; Teach us through this holy banquet how to make love’s victory known.

Turn our worship into witness in the sacrament of life; Help us forth to love and serve you, bringing peace where there is strife. Give us, Christ, your great compassion to forgive as you forgave; May we still behold your image in the world you died to save.

Gracious spirit, help us summon other guests to share that feast. Where triumphant love will welcome those who had been last and least. There no more will envy blind us; nor will pride our peace destroy. As we join with saints and angels to repeat the sounding joy.

Offertory Hymn: The Summons

Will you come and follow me if I but call your name? Will you go where you don’t know and never be the same? Will you let my love be shown? Will you let my name be known, will you let my life be grown in you and you in me?

Will you leave yourself behind if I but call your name? Will you care for cruel and kind and never be the same? Will you risk the hostile stare should your life attract or scare? Will you let me answer prayer in you and you in me?

Will you let the blinded see if I but call your name? Will you set the prisoners free and never be the same? Will you kiss the leper clean and do such as this unseen, and admit to what I mean in you and you in me?

Will you love the “you” you hide if I but call your name? Will you quell the fear inside and never be the same? Will you use the faith you’ve found to reshape the world around, Through my sight and touch and sound in you and you in me?

Lord your summons echoes true when you but call my name. Let me turn and follow you and never be the same. In Your company I’ll go where Your love and footsteps show. Thus I’ll move and live and grow in you and you in me.

Communion Hymn: Here I Am Lord

I the Lord of sea and sky, I have heard my people cry. All who dwell in dark and sin, My hand will save. I who made the stars of night, I will make their darkness bright. Who will bear my light to them? Whom shall I send?

(Refrain) Here I am Lord, Is it I Lord? I have heard you calling in the night. I will go Lord, If you lead me, I will hold your people in my heart

I, the Lord of snow and rain, I have borne my people’s pain. I have wept for love of them. They turn away. I will break their hearts of stone, Give them hearts for love alone. I will speak my word to them. Whom shall I send? (To Refrain)

I the Lord of wind and flame, I will tend the poor and lame. I will set a feast for them, My hand will save. Finest bread I will provide, Till their hearts be satisfied. I will give my life to them, Whom shall I send?(To Refrain)

Recessional Hymn: Holy God We Praise Thy Name

Holy God, we praise thy name; Lord of all, we bow before thee; all on earth thy scepter claim; all in heaven above adore thee. Infinite thy vast domain; everlasting is thy reign. Infinite thy vast domain; everlasting is thy reign.

Hark the glad celestial hymn, angel choirs above are raising; cherubim and seraphim, in unceasing chorus praising, fill the heavens with sweet accord: Holy, holy, holy Lord. Fill the heavens with sweet accord: Holy, holy, holy Lord

Holy Father, Holy Son, Holy Spirit: three we name thee, while in essence only one; undivided God we claim thee, and adoring bend the knee while we own the mystery. And adoring bend the knee while we own the mystery.