Thanksgiving Service for the Life of Peter Threlfall

SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING FOR THE LIFE OF

GARTH DAVID FREDERICK LAWRENCE

(1943-2013)

WELCOME & INTRODUCTION

HYMNS

Now thank we all our God,

with heart and hands and voices,

who wondrous things hath done,

in whom his world rejoices;

who from our mother's arms

hath blessed us on our way

with countless gifts of love,

and still is ours today.

2. O may this bounteous God

through all our life be near us,

with ever joyful hearts

and blessed peace to cheer us;

and keep us in his grace,

and guide us when perplexed,

and free us from all ills

in this world and the next.

3. All praise and thanks to God

the Father now be given,

the Son, and him who reigns

with them in highest heaven,

the one eternal God,

whom earth and heaven adore,

for thus it was, is now,

and shall be evermore.

Martin Rinkart (1586-1649)

tr Catherine Winkworth (1829-78)

TRIBUTES FROM THE FAMILY

HYMN

Lord of all hopefulness,

Lord of all joy,

Whose trust, ever childlike,

No cares could destroy:

Be there at our waking,

And give us, we pray,

Your bliss in our hearts, Lord,

At the break of the day.

2. Lord of all eagerness,

Lord of all faith,

Whose strong hands were

Skilled at the plane and the lathe:

Be there at our labours,

And give us, we pray,

Your strength in our hearts, Lord,

At the noon of the day.

3. Lord of all kindliness,

Lord of all grace,

Your hands swift to welcome,

Your arms to embrace:

Be there at our resting

And give us, we pray,

Your love in our hearts, Lord,

At the eve of the day.

4. Lord of all gentleness,

Lord of all calm,

Whose voice is contentment,

Whose presence is balm:

Be there at our homing,

And give us, we pray,

Your peace in our hearts, Lord,

At the end of the day!

Jan Struther d. 1953 (c) from Enlarged Songs of Praise

By permission Oxford University Press

TRIBUTES FROM FRIENDS

READING Psalm 121:1-8 (page 582-3) Peter Smith

ADDRESS Gary Wilton

CHOIR

For the beauty of the earth John Rutter

FAMILY POEMS

HYMN

Make me a channel of Your peace.

Where there is hatred

let me bring Your love;

where there is injury,

Your pardon, Lord;

and where there's doubt,

true faith in You.

Oh, Master,

grant that I may never seek

so much to be consoled as to console;

to be understood as to understand;

to be loved, as to love with all my soul.

2. Make me a channel of Your peace.

Where there's despair in life

let me bring hope;

where there is darkness,

only light;

and where there's sadness, ever joy.

Oh, Master....

3. Make me a channel of Your peace.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

in giving to all men that we receive;

and in dying

that we're born to eternal life.

Sebastian Temple

PRAYERS

THE LORD'S PRAYER

As Jesus taught us, so we pray

Our Father, which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth,
As it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,

The power, and the glory,

For ever and ever.

Amen.

HYMN

Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father,

there is no shadow of turning with thee;

thou changest not, thy compassions, they fail not;

as thou has been thou for ever wilt be.

Great is thy faithfulness!

Morning by morning new mercies I see;

all I have needed thy hand hath provided;

great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!

2. Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest,

sun, moon and stars in their courses above,

join with all nature in manifold witness

to thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.

Great is thy....

3. Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth,

thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide;

strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,

blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!

Great is thy....

Thomas O. Chisholm

BLESSING