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Downloadable Easter Service 2022

The service can be used as part of your worship or to give to those who aren’t able to access online worship.

It includes Easter hymns, readings and a reflection from the President of the Conference.

Download an mp3 audio file  

 

Resurrection Faith: A Place to Belong - Track listing

Call to Worship: Alleluia

Daud Irfan, Youth President

 

Hymn: Christ the Lord is Risen Today (StF 298)

Charles Wesley (1707-1788)

Performed by Gareth Moore

 

Opening Prayers

Barbara Easton, Vice President of the Methodist Conference

 

Hymn: Christ is alive! Let Christians sing (StF 297)

Words: Brian Wren (1936-), 1969, 1995, Stainer & Bell Ltd

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Performed by Joy Everingham.

 

Reading: Luke 24:13-35

Lorraine Darlow, Learning Network: Scotland and Shetland Coordinator

 

Meditation

Gary Hopkins

 

Song: Be Water

Eeek

 

Feature: Memory Worship

Julie Peek, Southend and Leigh Circuit

 

Hymn: The head that once was crowned with thorns (StF 312)

Words: Thomas Kelly (1769-1855)

Music: Jeremiah Clarke (1674-1707)

Performed by Choir of Wesley Methodist Church, Reading

 

Feature: Inclusive Gathering Birmingham

 

Reading: Ephesians 1:20-21, 2:11-22

Read by John Browby

 

Reflection

Sonia Hicks, President of the Methodist Conference

 

Hymn: Low in the grave he lay

Words and music: Robert Lowry (1826-1899)

Performed by Matt Beckingham

 
Feature: Church at the Margins

Sunday Supper Club: Nottingham 


Prayers for the world

Led by Methodist Women in Britain

 

Hymn: Thine be the Glory (StF 313)

Words: Edmund Budrey (1854-1932) translated by Richard Birch Hoyle (1875-1939)

Music: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

 

Blessing: Hebrews 13:20-21

Jackie Bellfield

 

The Grace

Performed by Gareth Moore, music written by Gary Hopkins