"We Thank You for Your Constant Care" - 3 January 2016 AM and PM
Sunday Morning: We thank you for your constant care for us personally and as a congregation, loving Father; we thank you for how you have been pleased to bring many people into this congregation’s life over the years; and we thank you for bringing us to a new year. O God, renew our spirits by your Holy Spirit, and draw our hearts unto yourself; so that our work may not be a burden but a delight; and give us such a mighty love for you as may sweeten all of our obedience. Let us not serve you with the spirit of bondage as slaves, but with cheerfulness and gladness as children, delighting ourselves in you and rejoicing in your will (adapted from “Spend and Be Spent,” 12). Look upon your Church throughout the world, to include these: The Ethiopian and Coptic Catholic Churches; The Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (the only Communist sanctioned churches in China); The Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church; The United Church of Zambi...