Order Of Service
Sunday 9 November 2025
Rev Paul Lutton
Welcome and Announcements
Call to Worship
Introit SfW 107 What shall we pray?
Prayer of Adoration and Confession
Song: IPH 136 O God, our help in ages past
Act of Remembrance
Song: IPH 542 I will offer up my life
Children’s Talk
Song: IPH 118 (Offering) He’s got the whole wide world
Children leave for Sunday School (P1-5) and Sunday Club (P6-Yr 9)
Dedication of Offering
Reading: Acts 9: 1-19a, p 120 Tom Hutchinson
Sermon Brother Saul
Anthem Hymn before Action and
Dona nobis pacem in terra
(Grant us peace on earth)
Prayers of Intercession
Hymn: SfW 98 We lay our broken world
Benediction
National Anthem
Postlude: Crossing the Bar (words by Alfred Lord Tennyson)
Please join us for refreshments after the service in the church halls.
We often end our opening prayer by saying the Lord’s Prayer together.
Please join us in whatever version or language is most familiar to you.
Our Father, who is in heaven,
hallowed be your name;
your kingdom come;
your will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For yours is the kingdom,
the power and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen.
What shall we pray?
What shall we pray for those who died,
Those on whose death our lives relied?
Silenced by war but not denied,
God give them peace.
What shall we pray for those who live
Tied to the past they can’t forgive.
Haunted by terrors they relive?
God give them peace.
What shall we pray for those who fear
War, in some guise, may reappear
Looking attractive and sincere?
God give them peace.
God give us peace and, more than this,
show us the path where justice is;
And let us never be remiss
Working for peace that lasts.
Hymn Before Action (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
The earth is full of anger,
The seas are dark with wrath,
The Nations in their harness
Go up against our path:
Ere yet we loose the legions
Ere yet we draw the blade,
Jehovah of the Thunders,
Lord God of Battles, aid!
High lust and froward bearing,
Proud heart, rebellious brow,
Deaf ear and soul uncaring,
We seek Thy mercy now!
The sinner that forswore Thee,
The fool that passed Thee by,
Our times are known before Thee,
Lord, grant us strength to die!
Lord, grant us strength to die!
Lord, grant us strength to die!
Dona nobis pacem in terra
Dona nobis pacem in terra;
Dona nobis pacem, Domine.
(Grant us peace on earth,
Grant us peace, O Lord.)
Crossing the Bar
Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell, when I embark,
For, tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place, the flood may bear me far
I hope to see my Pilot face to face, when I have crost the bar.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
KOINONIA on Thursday 13 November we welcome back one of our favourite speakers, Alex Kane, well known writer and broadcaster, to hear his views on our local social and political situation; always entertaining and insightful. We meet at 10.30 am; all welcome.
CONGREGATIONAL COMMITTEE MEETING: The Congregational Committee Meeting will be held on Tuesday, 25th November at 7:45pm in the Megaw Room. If any members of the congregation have any points they would like raised at the meeting, please let Austin Moore know at austinmoore@hotmail.co.uk.
CONCERT: THE ARMED MAN, A Mass for Peace, by Karl Jenkins, will be held in the church on Friday 28 November at 7.30 pm. Solo performances by Deirdre Harshaw, organ; Scott Heron, cello; Christopher Dunseath, piano; Justin Livingstone, flute; Jed Dunlop, saxophone; Catherine Dynes, harp.
No booking required, donations to Organ Repair Fund.
If you would like to have a notice included in the announcement sheet, please email NewtownbredaAnnouncements@outlook.com
Please try to send your announcements to us by the Thursday prior to the Sunday service.
NI Charity NIC104325 www.newtownbreda.org