Sunday Service

26 April 2020

10:30 on Zoom

Blessing of garden tools, seeds and gardeners – honouring Earth Day

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Andover, Broad Chalke & Salisbury United Reformed Churches

All are welcome!

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At-home preparation:

Children, please have at hand what you have created about gardens to show 'God in the garden'. (See email from Fiona which includes several cool ideas.)

Reminders to keep our Zoom service running smoothly:

Please keep your microphone muted unless you are speaking.
When we sing and pray together, we will hear one voice, and the others will be muted.
Remember to look at your chat box for words to responsive readings.
If the technology is compromised for any reason or goes totally wonky, we will end the on-line service immediately. If that should happen, we’ll try to restart as soon as possible, sending out an email to notify you.
At this time, we are not requiring a password, to ease the access for those still learning the 'Zoom ropes'.

Order of Service

Fellowship You may join the gathering any time after 9:30.

Prelude (Everyone will be muted for the prelude.)

Scripture & gathering words

Song Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you

God bless you and keep you in all that you do.

Call to Worship (inspired by Psalm 148)

Hymn RS 41 For the beauty of the earth

For the beauty of the earth

For the glory of the skies,

For the love which from our birth

Over and around us lies.

Lord of all, to Thee we raise,

This our hymn of grateful praise.

For the beauty of each hour,

Of the day and of the night,

Hill and vale, and tree and flower,

Sun and moon, and stars of light.

Lord of all, to Thee we raise,

This our hymn of grateful praise.

For the joy of ear and eye,

For the heart and mind’s delight,

For the mystic harmony

Linking sense to sound and sight.

Lord of all, to Thee we raise,

This our hymn of grateful praise.

For the joy of human love,

Brother, sister, parent, child,

Friends on earth and friends above,

For all gentle thoughts and mild.

Lord of all, to Thee we raise,

This our hymn of grateful praise.

Prayer of Praise & Confession Zechariah 10:1

The Lord’s Prayer

Scripture Genesis 1 – assorted verses Valerie & Tahira

Children’s Message Where is God in the garden?

Collection of Offering Mervyn, Salisbury Duty Elder

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Blessing of the Gardeners Prayer Robsons

Song Inch by inch, row by row – Guitar – Anne

Garden Song, David Mallet 1974

Inch by inch, row by row,

Gonna make this garden grow,

All it takes is a rake and a hoe,

And a piece of fertile ground.

Inch by inch, row by row,

God please bless these seeds I sow,

God please warm them from below,

'Till the rain comes tumblin' down.

Pullin' weeds and pickin' stones,

We are made of dreams and bones

Need a spot to call my own

Cause the time is close at hand.

Grain for grain, sun and rain,

Find my way in Nature's chain,

Tune my body and my brain

To the music from the land.

Plant your rows straight and long,

Temper them with prayer and song,

Mother Earth will make you strong

If you give her loving care.

Inch by inch, row by row,

Gonna make this garden grow,

All it takes is a rake and a hoe,

And a piece of fertile ground

Scripture Joel 2:21-24 Mervyn Scamell

Sermon Where is God in the garden?

Chris Haines
Leslie Shaw
Marian Brewer
Sara from A Rocha and Eco-Church

Closing Hymn Sing Praise No.247 Let all creation dance

Let all creation dance

in energies sublime,

as order turns with chance,

unfolding space and time;

for nature's art

in glory grows,

and newly shows

God's mind and heart.

God's breath each force unfurls,

igniting from a spark

expanding starry swirls,

with whirlpools dense and dark.

Though moon and sun

seem mindless things,

each orbit sings:

'your will be done.'

Our own amazing earth,

with sunlight, cloud and storms,

and life's abundant growth

in lovely shapes and forms

is made for praise,

a fragile whole,

and from its soul

heaven's music plays.

Lift heart and soul and voice:

in Christ all praises meet,

and nature shall rejoice

as all is made complete.

In hope be strong, all life befriend,

and kindly tend, creation's song.

Sending forth & the Grace

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all, now and evermore. Amen.

Postlude & Fellowship

12:00 Andover URC Coffee hour on Zoom

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