Thank you for joining us on Mothering Sunday 22nd March 2020.

As a result of Covid-19 we are unable to meet in our building, but the church is where God’s people are and we hope that you will join in worship with us.

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The words of the hymns, the Lord’s Prayer and the reading are at the bottom of the page.

Please begin by singing (or following) our first hymn ‘Over all the Earth’ (Mission Praise 1101). It has a chorus which might have been written for a time such as this, ‘Lord, reign in me, reign in your power, over all my dreams, in my darkest hour’

HYMN Mission Praise 1101 ‘Over all the Earth’ (Lord reign in me)

Welcome, prayers and reading John 19:17-27



HYMN Mission Praise 162 The Servant King

Sermon, prayer for the world and the Lord’s prayer and blessing



HYMN Mission Praise 486 Now thank we all our God

Over All The Earth
You Reign On High
Every Mountain Stream Every Sunset Sky
But My One Request Lord My Only Aim
Is That You’d Reign In Me Again

Lord Reign In Me
Reign In Your Power
Over All My Dreams
In My Darkest Hour
You Are The Lord Of All I Am
So Won’t You Reign In Me Again

Over Every Thought
Over Every Word
May My Life Reflect The Beauty Of My Lord
You Mean More To Me Than Any Earthly Thing
So Won’t You Reign In Me Again

Brenton Brown © Vineyard Ministries

From heaven you came helpless babe
Entered our world, your glory veiled
Not to be served but to serve
And give Your life that we might live

Chorus This is our God, The Servant King
He calls us now to follow Him
To bring our lives as a daily offering
Of worship to The Servant King

There in the garden of tears
My heavy load he chose to bear
His heart with sorrow was torn
‘Yet not My will but Yours, ‘ He said

Come see His hands and His feet
The scars that speak of sacrifice
Hands that flung stars into space
To cruel nails surrendered

So let us learn how to serve
And in our lives enthrone Him
Each other’s needs to prefer
For it is Christ we’re serving

Songwriters: Chris Llewellyn / Graham Kendrick / Gareth GilkesonThe Servant King lyrics © Thank You Music Ltd., Make Way Music

Now thank we all our God
with heart and hands and voices,
who wondrous things has done,
in whom his world rejoices;
who from our mothers’ arms
has blessed us on our way
with countless gifts of love,
and still is ours today.

O may this bounteous God
through all our life be near us,
with ever joyful hearts
and blessed peace to cheer us,
to keep us in his grace,
and guide us when perplexed,
and free us from all ills
of this world in the next.

All praise and thanks to God
the Father now be given,
the Son and Spirit blest,
who reign in highest heaven
the one eternal God,
whom heaven and earth adore;
for thus it was, is now,
and shall be evermore.

Translator: Catherine Winkworth; Author: Martin Rinkart (1636)

The Lord’s Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy 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 thine is the kingdom,
the power and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen.

John 19:17-27 New International Version (NIV)

17 Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). 18 There they crucified him, and with him two others—one on each side and Jesus in the middle.
19 Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews. 20 Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek. 21 The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews.”
22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
23 When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.
24 “Let’s not tear it,” they said to one another. “Let’s decide by lot who will get it.”
This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled that said,
“They divided my clothes among them
    and cast lots for my garment.”
So this is what the soldiers did.
25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman,[b] here is your son,” 27 and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.