Contents
Foreword
a) Pattern of Worship
b) Space & layout
c) Leadership
d) Suitable music
HARVESTING THE WORLD: Leaders’ Version
HARVESTING THE WORLD: Assembly Version
Appendix A: Songs
Appendix B: Materials Specific to the 90kg Of Rice Project
Appendix C: Copyright & Sources
Order of worship
THE GATHERING OF GOD’S PEOPLE
Introduction (Suggestions for words of welcome)
Conversation (A conversation about what we had for breakfast, to illustrate how much we are linked to and dependent on different parts of the world)
THE PRAISE OF GOD
Opening responses (read responsively): In the beginning, God made the world…
A Song of Praise
Prayer (responsive prayer, with sung or spoken KYRIE/ LORD, HAVE MERCY): Before the sunlight, before the mountains…
ENGAGING WITH GOD’S WORD
Giving & receiving – what happens (with optional activities, to illustrate the places the congregation have identified during the conversation)
a) Pass The Parcel passed activity
b) Guessing the location activity
c) 90kg Of Rice Project activity
Song or chant/ chorus
Giving & receiving: a Biblical perspective (Leader’s introduction to the following section on Proverbs)
Proverbial sayings (Responsive reading of 6 selected Proverbs)
Conversation (Discussion of the selected Proverbs)
Song
The Gospel: John 15: 1-4
Reflection or discussion (Optional conversation about cutting back or becoming more fruitful still)
Song
RESPONDING TO GOD’S WORD
Prayers (Five prayers, one from each of the five continents… followed by the Lord’s Prayer, to be spoken in mother languages)
The offering
Prayer: Accept, Lord, the gift of money we offer in your presence…
Affirmation: And now on this day on which we celebrate the harvest of the earth…
Song
Blessing: Now may God, who gives seed for the sower…
Benediction or Grace (according to custom)
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