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August 23rd 2009

ANTHEM         We’re Marching to Zion   Timothy Shaw, arr.

                         Chelsea Holland, triangle
                      Jonathan Holland, snare drum

Come, we that love the Lord, and let our joys be known;

Join in a song with sweet accord and thus surround the throne.

We’re marching to Zion, beautiful, beautiful Zion;

We’re marching upward to Zion, the beautiful city of God.

Let those refuse to sing who never knew our God;

But children of the heav’nly king may speak their joys abroad.

Then let our songs abound and ev’ry tear be dry;

We’re marching through Immanuel’s ground to fairer worlds on high.

August 16th 2009

VOLUNTARY     O God of Earth and Space
                     Michael Burkhardt
                 Paul Thurmond, Organist

ANTHEM            God Be in My Head                             David Evan Thomas
                         Text: Sarum Primer, 1514

God be in my head and in my understanding;

God be in my eyes and in my looking;

God be in my mouth and in my speaking;

God be in my heart and in my thinking;

God be at my end and at my departing.

August 9th 2009

VOLUNTARY       Song Without Words, Op. 19, No. 1      
                                  Felix Mendelssohn
                           Paul Thurmond, Organist

ANTHEM       It is Good                             David Lantz III 
                              Text: Susan Bentall Boersma

It is good to give thanks to the God of creation
Who dwells in the heavens above.
In His presence we stand with the great congregation
To sing of His goodness and love.

 It is good to give thanks for the world He has fashioned,
the sun and the moon to give light.
He determined the number of stars, and He named them;
He rules both the day and the night.

It is good, it is good to give thanks to the Lord,
Singing praise to His glorious Name.
It is good, it is good to remember His love
And His faithfulness, ever the same.

It is good to give thanks and forever exalt Him,
So great is His power and might.
And His pleasure is found in His children who fear Him.
Our praise is to Him a delight. 

OFFERTORY         Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah                                  Alan Viner

July 26th 2009

ANTHEM                “Come, Thou Fount”      Dennis Allen, arr.

                            Chelsea Holland, conductor

Come, thou fount of ev’ry blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise.

Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above;
Praise his name; I’m fixed upon it, name of God’s redeeming love.

 Hitherto thy love has blest me; thou hast brought me to this place;
And I know thy hand will bring me safely home by thy good grace.

Jesus sought me when a stranger, wand’ring from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger, bought me with his precious blood.

O to grace how great a debtor daily I’m constrained to be!
Let thy goodness, like a fetter, bind my wand’ring heart to thee:

Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it; seal it for thy courts above.

OFFERTORY             “Heaven Come Down”     J. W. Peterson

*POSTLUDE              “Blessed Assurance”             J. F. Knapp

July 19th 2009

VOLUNTARY             “Toccata in A Minor”              Jan Peter Sweelinck

*POSTLUDE          “Festal Song”                                     John E. West

July 5th 2009

VOLUNTARY     "Gavotte" from English Suite No. 3             J.S. Bach                                                                                  Paul Thurmond, Organist

OFFERTORY      “Calm” from Suite for Piano             Norman Dello Joio

SHARING THE BREAD AND CUP

DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS

June 28th 2009

VOLUNTARY                  “Allegro”                         Charles Koechlin

               Jeremy Hansen, horn                  Paul Thurmond, Organist

*OPENING HYMN          “People of the Lord”               Greg Scheer

OFFERTORY                         “Nocturne”                         Gliere

 “People of the Lord”                                             Greg Scheer

June 21st 2009

ANTHEM            “I Know Whom I Have Believed”        James McGranahan
                                           Men’s Choir

I know not why God’s wondrous grace to me he hath made known,

Nor why, unworthy, Christ in love redeemed me for his own.

But I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able

To keep that which I’ve committed unto him against that day.

I know not how this saving faith to me he did impart,

Nor how believing in his word wrought peace within my heart.

I know not when my Lord may come, at night or noonday fair,

Not if I’ll walk the vale with him, or meet him in the air.

June 14th 2009

ANTHEM    “Cantate Domino”  Giuseppe Pitoni (1657-1743)
                                                  Text: Psalm 149:1-2

Cantate Domino canticum novum, laus ejus in ecclesia sanctorum.

Laetetur Israel in eo, qui fecit eum, et filii Sion exsultent in rege suo.

Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the faithful! Let Israel be glad in his Maker, let the sons of Zion rejoice in their King!