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Thanking God with body and voice

An order of service for a Thanksgiving worship of praise Psalms.

Gathering Music
Welcome and announcements
    • I invite you to join in the experience, not just contemplation
    • Every experience we have changes us as people, may we leave here both blessed and changed today people of God
Prelude
*Call to worship
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
We give thanks from the height of joy to depths of despair 
because we know that hope and salvation is in our God. 
We give thanks in times of bitterness and anger
because it is our God who redeems.
We give thanks in times of peace and prosperity
because it is our God who gives good gifts.
We come to give thanks as a people, broken and beautiful.
Blessed be the name of the Lord!
*Hymn - How Great Thou Art Gray Songbook 
*Invocation
Children’s story Thanking God with Body and Voice
*Song Blessed be your name (insert)
(children dismissed to children’s time after song)
Sharing and prayer
Prayer song - We give thanks unto you #161
(based on Psalm 136)
Offering
Scripture Reading Psalm 67
Stillness
Call and response Psalm 136
His love endures forever
Hymn Great is thy Faithfulness #327
(based on Psalm 136)
Readers’ theatre Psalm 43  (Keith, Judy, Tim, Asia)
Song- 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord Oh my soul) Gray songbook
Benediction Song- You shall go out with joy #427
(based on Psalm 136)

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