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Kindness (Brian McLaren, recorded by Steve Bell)
Bread for the World (by Marty Haugen)
God of Justice (by Tim Hughes)
Enough for us All (by Mike Janzen)
Defender of the Poor (by Mike Janzen)
Hymn: Whatever You Do
(by Brian McLaren, Theresa of Avila, recorded by Steve Bell)
Christ has no body here but ours
No hands, no feet here on earth but ours.
Ours are the eyes through which he looks
On this world with kindness.
Ours are the hands through which he works.
Ours are the feet on which he moves.
Ours are the voices through which he speaks
To this world with kindness.
Through our touch, our smile, our listening ear,
Embodied in us, Jesus is living here.
So let us go now, inspirited,
Into this world with kindness.
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(by Marty Haugen, written for the Occasion of Bread for the World's 35th anniversary)
Rejoice, give thanks for abundant grace
Food on our tables and peace within this place
How rich, how wide is our God's embrace!
And thru' this great sustaining love
We are bread for the world, bread for the world,Bread for a hungry world.May we be bread for the world, bread for the world,Bread for a hungry world.Hope burns anew, thru' the world's despair, when eyes are opened and hearts are moved to care, when we can listen and learn to share, then we might fin'lly turn and see
We are bread for the world...Act strong in faith, for God's Reign is near;
Stand up with courage, speak out and do not fear!
Now is the time that the world must hear
The tasks that God has called us to;
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God of justice, Saviour to all
Came to rescue the weak and the poor
Chose to serve and not be served
Jesus, You have called us
Freely we've received
Now freely we will give
We must go live to feed the hungry
Stand beside the broken, we must go
Stepping forward keep us from just singing
Move us into action, we must go
To act justly every day
Loving mercy in every way
Walking humbly before You, God
You have shown us, what You require
Freely we've received
Now freely we will give
Fill us up and send us out
Fill us up and send us out
Fill us up and send us out, Lord
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In the simplest of beginnings
In the tiniest of faith
In the future to imagine
In two copper coins, in this gift of choice (ch)
(ch)
We find joy to share
We find bread and wine
We find food for the hungry
And rest for the weary
Enough for us all
In our hunger we’ve fed hunger
In the mountains we consume
In our thirst the rivers emptied
In the land and sea, and in your mercy (ch)
In our finding and receiving
In the fishes and the loaves
In this work that’s set before us
In our rising up, in the smallest step (ch and la la’s)
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(by Mike Janzen)
To bless the poor with us
To feed the hungry ones
Is what You have taught us
To give as you have giv’n
To bring the orphans in
Is what You’ve commanded
Yet I am also poor in love
I need You Lord to fill me up
Ch:
Defender of the poor
Restorer of the broken
Release for the oppressed
A shelter for the homeless
Is this not what it means
To know You, Lord of all
Is this not what’s required to
Worship You above
To care for those in need
To set the captives free
To love as You showed us
To leave the harvest fields
For those without to eat
To tell of Your favour (Ch)
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Hymns
(inspired by Matthew 25:31-46)
“Whatever you do to the least ones of these,
I tell you in truth that you do unto Me!”
Lord Jesus, you taught us! May we learn anew
that when we serve others, we also serve You.
When poor, waiting children pray hunger will end,
when those long-forgotten cry out for a friend,
when thirsty ones whisper, “O Lord, where are you?”
we hear, in their longing, that You’re calling, too.
In prisons and jails, Lord, we find a surprise;
we see You in people whom others despise.
At hospital bedsides we offer a prayer
and find, when we visit the sick, You are there.
When we reach to others in flood-stricken lands
and offer our hearts there, and offer our hands—
we notice, Lord Jesus, the gift of Your grace:
we see, in the crowds of the suffering, Your face.
“Lord, when did we see you?” Your teaching is clear
that when we serve others, we’re serving You here.
And when Your church heeds You and helps those in pain,
then out of the chaos, hope rises again.
Tune suggestion (11.11.11.11.)
ST. DENIO
http://www.ccel.org/cceh/0000/000032a.mid “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise”
Music: Welsh Folk Hymn, Adapted in Caniadau y Cyssegr, 1839
Text: Copyright © 2008 by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette. All rights reserved.
Permission for free local church use is given to congregations that support the
Canadian Foodgrains Bank
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