Prayer of Commitment – David Pickering
For the Earth’s sake, for our children’s sake, for God’s sake
Oceans warming
Coral dying
Sea rising
Land disappearing
Ice caps melting
Polar bears dying
Rivers flooding
Waters overwhelming…
Storms destroying
Chaos reigning
Cities flooding
People moving
Disease spreading
Homes disappearing
Crops failing
Hope fading
Planet shaping
World creating
Life forming
Spirit breathing
Law guiding
Cradle birthing
Cross bearing
Hope rising
Service of Challenge,
Commitment and Blessing
Congregational response
Calming, caring God
Help us act to still the storm
For now, for ever
Calming, caring God…
Help us act to still the storm
For now, for ever
Cut the Carbon
Grosvenor Chapel
24 South Audley Street, London W1K 2PA.
Calming, caring God…
Help us act to still the storm
For now, for ever
Blessing – Bishop Richard
Song (sung as congregation leave)
We are marching in the light of God…
We are marching in the hope of God…
We are marching in the love of God…
Refreshments from 10am
Worship Service 11.15am
Music playing as people gather for worship
Welcome: Arthur Ware
Vice Chairman of Grosvenor Chapel
Call to Worship: David Pickering
Moderator of Operation Noah Executive Committee (ONEC)
Song (Tune: Sine Nomine)
Creator God, abundant life your mark,
You once poured speech into the formless dark
And from those words sprang forth a living spark
Your inspiration - Awoke creation
Throughout this world, in which we live and move,
All that we sense below, around, above
Displays the imprint of your longing love
Its revelation - Throughout creation.
But yet the earth is fractured, frayed and torn,
Poisoned, polluted, ravaged, scarred and worn
Its treasures plundered and its beauties scorned
Our transformation - Of God’s creation.
From blight and guilt, we cannot walk away
Our will and actions shape the world today
And ours the greed, insisting on its way,
Whose depredations - Despoil creation.
Prayers:
Praise
Fr Joe Ryan Chair Westminster RC Diocese J & P Comm.
Confession Barbara Echlin Secretary Christian Ecology Link
The Lord’s Prayer (whole congregation)
Three Stories of God’s people
The people of Tuvalu
Steve Hucklesby ONEC
Pharaoh’s heart was hard
Cong. Response: Cut the carbon
Bible reading Mark 12: 28-34 Dudley Coates
Vice President Methodist Conference
Reflective music - tune ‘Genesis’
Address – Rt. Rev. & Rt. Hon. Richard Chartres Bishop of London
Song: Great Creator God we praise you
Great creator God we praise you
Words © Mary
God of beauty, God of seed;
Elizabeth Sparkes
Warmth and water
Tune: All for Jesus
Growth and produce
You sustain us, meet our need.
We confess we waste and squander
Poison earth, pollute the air;
Fell the forests
Thin the ozone
Greedily we fail our share.
Come Holy Spirit, challenge mind and heart!
Inspire our living so that we will start
To make those choices which may yet impart
Love’s liberation - To your creation.
Lord we ask you for forgiveness
Thank you for our harvest store;
New resources
Fresh provision
Generous God, you give us more.
We pledge to touch all things with holy care
Until your coming Kingdom ends despair
Then all the world will witness and will share
The jubilation - Of healed creation.
Here we pledge ourselves to action
Challenge methods, change our ways;
Share our wealth
Respect our planet
Gracious Father, for your praise.
© Pat Bennett and printed with permission of Christian Ecology Link