Welcome to our service this morning, Rev Stephen Haward is leading our worship which has been recorded in the chapel.

The service reaches a point where you can pause the recording and follow the words of the communion service which have been delivered to members of the congregation. You may want to prepare a drink and some bread before you start to listen.

All hymns are available on YouTube.

HYMN Mission Praise 50 ‘Be still for the presence of the Lord’
David J Evans ©Thankyou Music

Welcome and Call to Worship, Prayer, Reading John 2:1-11

HYMN ‘Jesus strong and kind’  
Colin Buchanan, Jonny Robinson, Michael Farren, and Rich Thompson

Reading Ephesians 3:7-17, Sermon

HYMN Mission Praise 251 ‘How sweet the name of Jesus sounds’
John Newton (1725-1807) altd

Prayers, Lord’s Prayer, Act of Dedication and Blessing

HYMN ‘Halleluya!  We sing your praises’
South African traditional, arr. Anders Nyberg

John 2:1-11

Jesus changes water into wine
 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, ² and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. ³ When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, ‘They have no more wine.’
⁴ ‘Woman, why do you involve me?’ Jesus replied. ‘My hour has not yet come.’
⁵ His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’
⁶ Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from eighty to a hundred and twenty litres.
⁷ Jesus said to the servants, ‘Fill the jars with water’; so they filled them to the brim.
⁸ Then he told them, ‘Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.’
They did so, ⁹ and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realise where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside ¹⁰ and said, ‘Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.’
¹¹ What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

Ephesians 3:7-17

⁷ I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace given me through the working of his power. ⁸ Although I am less than the least of all the Lord’s people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the boundless riches of Christ, ⁹ and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. ¹⁰ His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, ¹¹ according to his eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. ¹² In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence. ¹³ I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.
A prayer for the Ephesians
¹⁴ For this reason I kneel before the Father, ¹⁵ from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. ¹⁶ I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, ¹⁷ so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.

Contemporary Lord’s Prayer

 Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory are yours
now and for ever.
Amen.