We regret that our Sunday Worship is suspended until further notice.  A service is however being recorded for each Sunday.  The scheduled preachers for these recorded services are:

Bible month: Ruth Chapter 1
Circuit Team

Bible month: Ruth Chapter 2
Circuit Team

Bible month: Ruth Chapter 3
Circuit Team

Bible month: Ruth Chapter 4
Circuit Team

Mrs Christine Morgan

Revd Catherine Bowstead

Mrs Doreen Murgatroyd

Mr David Morgan

Revd Catherine Bowstead

Revd Catherine Bowstead

Mrs Keg Glossop

Mrs Kim Tame

Mr Mike Bowstead

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Each service was recorded by the participants in their homes and then put together to make a complete service.

Order of Service:

StF 370

1. Breathe on me, Breath of God;
   fill me with life anew,
   that I may love what thou dost love,
   and do what thou wouldst do.

2. Breathe on me, Breath of God,
   until my heart is pure,
   until with thee I will one will,
   to do and to endure.

3. Breathe on me, Breath of God,
   till I am wholly thine,
   until this earthly part of me
   glows with thy fire divine.

4. Breathe on me, Breath of God;
   so shall I never die,
   but live with thee the perfect life
   of thine eternity.

Edwin Hatch (1835–1889)

StF 378

1. Father of everlasting grace,
   your goodness and your truth we praise,
   your goodness and your truth we prove;
   you have, in honour of your Son,
   the gift unspeakable sent down,
   the Spirit of life, and power, and love.

2. Send us the Spirit of your Son,
   to make the depths of Godhead known,
   to make us share the life divine;
   send him the sprinkled blood to apply,
   send him our souls to sanctify,
   to bless and seal us with this sign.

3. So shall we pray, and never cease,
   so shall we thankfully confess
   your wisdom, truth, and power, and love,
   with joy unspeakable adore,
   and bless and praise you evermore,
   and serve you as your hosts above:

4. Till, added to that heavenly choir,
   we raise our songs of triumph higher,
   and praise you with a bolder voice,
   out-soar the first-born seraph's flight,
   and sing, with all our friends in light,
   with everlasting love rejoice.

Charles Wesley (1707–1788)
Music played by Rev. Clyde McLennan, Hymnary.org
CCLI Streaming Licence 583214

Order of Service:

StF 564

1. O thou who camest from above
   the pure celestial fire to impart,
   kindle a flame of sacred love
   on the mean altar of my heart!

2. There let it for thy glory burn
   with inextinguishable blaze,
   and trembling to its source return,
   in humble prayer and fervent praise.

3. Jesus, confirm my heart's desire
   to work, and speak, and think for thee;
   still let me guard the holy fire,
   and still stir up thy gift in me —

4. Ready for all thy perfect will,
   my acts of faith and love repeat,
   till death thy endless mercies seal,
   and make the sacrifice complete.

Charles Wesley (1707–1788)

StF 546

1. Behold the servant of the Lord!
   I wait thy guiding eye to feel,
   to hear and keep thy every word,
   to prove and do thy perfect will,
   joyful from my own works to cease,
   glad to fulfil all righteousness.

2. Me if thy grace vouchsafe to use,
   meanest of all thy creatures, me,
   the deed, the time, the manner choose;
   let all my fruit be found of thee;
   let all my works in thee be wrought,
   by thee to full perfection brought.

3. My every weak though good design
   o'errule or change, as seems thee meet;
   Jesus, let all my work be thine!
   Thy work, O Lord, is all complete,
   and pleasing in thy Father's sight;
   thou only hast done all things right.

4. Here then to thee thine own I leave;
   mould as thou wilt thy passive clay;
   but let me all thy stamp receive,
   but let me all thy words obey,
   serve with a single heart and eye,
   and to thy glory live and die.

Charles Wesley (1707–1788)
Music played by Rev. Clyde McLennan, Hymnary.org

Order of Service:

StF 372

1. Come down, O Love divine,
   seek thou this soul of mine,
   and visit it with thine own ardour glowing;
   O Comforter, draw near,
   within my heart appear,
   and kindle it, thy holy flame bestowing.

2. O let it freely burn,
   till earthly passions turn
   to dust and ashes, in its heat consuming;
   and let thy glorious light
   shine ever on my sight,
   and clothe me round, the while my path illuming.

3. Let holy charity
   mine outward vesture be,
   and lowliness become mine inner clothing;
   true lowliness of heart,
   which takes the humbler part,
   and o'er its own shortcomings weeps with loathing.

4. And so the yearning strong,
   with which the soul will long,
   shall far outpass the power of human telling;
   for none can guess its grace,
   till he become the place
   wherein the Holy Spirit makes his dwelling.

Bianco da Siena (d. 1434)
translated by Richard Frederick Littledale (1833–1890)

StF 391

1. O breath of life, come sweeping through us,
   revive your Church with life and power;
   O breath of life, come, cleanse, renew us,
   and fit your Church to meet this hour.

2. O wind of God, come, bend us, break us,
   till humbly we confess our need;
   then in your tenderness remake us,
   revive, restore; for this we plead.

3. O breath of love, come, breathe within us,
   renewing thought and will and heart;
   come, love of Christ, afresh to win us,
   revive your Church in every part.

Elizabeth Ann Head, (Bessie Porter Head) (1850–1936)
Music played by Rev. Clyde McLennan, Hymnary.org

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StF 545

1. Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart,
   be all else but naught to me, save that thou art;
   be thou my best thought in the day and the night,
   both waking and sleeping, thy presence my light.

2. Be thou my wisdom, be thou my true word,
   be thou ever with me, and I with thee, Lord;
   be thou my great Father, thy child let me be;
   be thou in me dwelling, and I one with thee.

3. Be thou my breastplate, my sword for the fight;
   be thou my whole armour, be thou my true might;
   be thou my soul's shelter, be thou my strong tower:
   O raise thou me heavenward, great Power of my power.

4. Riches I heed not, nor earth's empty praise:
   be thou mine inheritance now and always;
   be thou and thou only the first in my heart:
   O Sovereign of heaven, my treasure thou art.

5. High King of heaven, thou heaven's bright Sun,
   O grant me its joys after victory is won;
   Great Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
   still be thou my vision, O Ruler of all.

Irish, 8th century
translated by Mary Elizabeth Byrne (1880–1931)
versified by Eleanor Henrietta Hull (1860–1935)

StF 415

1. The Church of Christ, in every age
   beset by change but Spirit-led,
   must claim and test its heritage
   and keep on rising from the dead.

2. Across the world, across the street,
   the victims of injustice cry
   for shelter and for bread to eat,
   and never live until they die.

3. Then let the servant Church arise,
   a caring Church that longs to be
   a partner in Christ's sacrifice,
   and clothed in Christ's humanity.

4. For he alone, whose blood was shed,
   can cure the fever in our blood,
   and teach us how to share our bread
   and feed the starving multitude.

5. We have no mission but to serve
   in full obedience to our Lord:
   to care for all, without reserve,
   and spread his liberating Word.

Fred Pratt Green (1903–2000)
CCLI Streaming Licence 583214
Music played by Rev. Clyde McLennan, Hymnary.org

Order of Service:

StF 148

1. Come, let us with our Lord arise,
   our Lord, who made both earth and skies:
   who died to save the world he made,
   and rose triumphant from the dead;
   he rose, the Prince of life and peace,
   and stamped the day for ever his.

2. This is the day the Lord has made,
   that all may see his love displayed,
   may feel his resurrection's power,
   and rise again, to fall no more,
   in perfect righteousness renewed,
   and filled with all the life of God.

3. Then let us render him his own,
   with solemn prayer approach his throne,
   with meekness hear the gospel word,
   with thanks his dying love record,
   our joyful hearts and voices raise,
   and fill his courts with songs of praise.

4. Honour and praise to Jesus pay
   throughout his consecrated day;
   be all in Jesus' praise employed,
   nor leave a single moment void;
   with utmost care the time improve,
   and only breathe his praise and love.

Charles Wesley (1707–1788)

StF 611

1. Brother, sister, let me serve you,
   let me be as Christ to you;
   pray that I may have the grace
   to let you be my servant too.

2. We are pilgrims on a journey,
   and companions on the road;
   we are here to help each other
   walk the mile and bear the load.

3. I will hold the Christ-light for you
   in the night-time of your fear;
   I will hold my hand out to you,
   speak the peace you long to hear.

4. I will weep when you are weeping;
   when you laugh I'll laugh with you;
   I will share your joy and sorrow
   till we've seen this journey through.

5. When we sing to God in heaven
   we shall find such harmony,
   born of all we've known together
   of Christ's love and agony.

6. Brother, sister, let me serve you,
   let me be as Christ to you;
   pray that I may have the grace
   to let you be my servant too.

Richard A. M. Gillard (b. 1953)
CCLI Streaming Licence 583214
Music played by Rev. Clyde McLennan, Hymnary.org