church service january 14 2024
celebration of dr. martin luther king, jr
This morning we are honored to have Dr. Joel Gill share his thoughts with us. He is a professor at Boston University and both author and illustrator of a series of graphic novels of Black History.
We are also pleased to have Mary Catherine Gill, our soloist for this morning.
ORDER OF WORSHIP
Call to Worship
HYMN: Lift Every Voice and Sing
MLK READING--The Drum Major Instinct--Part 1
SCRIPTURE—Mark 10:35-45
ANTHEM: Rise Up
MLK READING -- The Drum Major Instinct--Part 2
HYMN: Just A Closer Walk With Thee (no. 564)
THOUGHTS ON Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Dr. Joel Gill
UNISON PRAYER by Dr. King
Our Father God, who dost overarch our fleeting years with thine eternity and
Dost undergird our weakness with thy strength, in the midst of the pressures of
another day, as we face its vast concerns. Above all else, save us from
succumbing to the tragic temptation of becoming cynical. In Jesus Name, AMEN
LORD’S PRAYER
WORSHIP OF GOD WITH OUR OFFERINGS
OFFERTORY: Give Me Jesus
HYMN: Battle Hymn of the Republic (v. 1-4) (No. 808)
BENEDICTION: We Shall Overcome
Postlude
Lift Every Voice and Sing, by James Weldon Johnson:
Mr. Johnson tells about the origin of that hymn:
“A group of young men in Jacksonville, Florida, arranged to celebrate Lincoln’s birthday in 1900. My brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and I decided to write a song to be sung at the exercises. I wrote the words and he wrote the music. Our New York publisher, Edward B. Marks, made mimeographed copies for us, and the song was taught to and sung by a chorus of five hundred colored school children. Shortly afterwards my brother and I moved away from Jacksonville to New York, and the song passed out of our minds. But the school children of Jacksonville kept singing it; they went off to other schools and sang it; they became teachers and taught it to other children. Within twenty years, it was being sung over the South and in some other parts of the country. Today the song, popularly known as the Negro National Hymn, is quite generally used. The lines of this song repay me in an elation, almost of exquisite anguish, whenever I hear them sung by Negro children”
Click on the hymns below to follow or sing along.
Call to Worship
HYMN: Lift Every Voice and Sing
MLK READING--The Drum Major Instinct--Part 1
SCRIPTURE—Mark 10:35-45
ANTHEM: Rise Up
MLK READING -- The Drum Major Instinct--Part 2
HYMN: Just A Closer Walk With Thee (no. 564)
THOUGHTS ON Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Dr. Joel Gill
UNISON PRAYER by Dr. King
Our Father God, who dost overarch our fleeting years with thine eternity and
Dost undergird our weakness with thy strength, in the midst of the pressures of
another day, as we face its vast concerns. Above all else, save us from
succumbing to the tragic temptation of becoming cynical. In Jesus Name, AMEN
LORD’S PRAYER
WORSHIP OF GOD WITH OUR OFFERINGS
OFFERTORY: Give Me Jesus
HYMN: Battle Hymn of the Republic (v. 1-4) (No. 808)
BENEDICTION: We Shall Overcome
Postlude
Lift Every Voice and Sing, by James Weldon Johnson:
Mr. Johnson tells about the origin of that hymn:
“A group of young men in Jacksonville, Florida, arranged to celebrate Lincoln’s birthday in 1900. My brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and I decided to write a song to be sung at the exercises. I wrote the words and he wrote the music. Our New York publisher, Edward B. Marks, made mimeographed copies for us, and the song was taught to and sung by a chorus of five hundred colored school children. Shortly afterwards my brother and I moved away from Jacksonville to New York, and the song passed out of our minds. But the school children of Jacksonville kept singing it; they went off to other schools and sang it; they became teachers and taught it to other children. Within twenty years, it was being sung over the South and in some other parts of the country. Today the song, popularly known as the Negro National Hymn, is quite generally used. The lines of this song repay me in an elation, almost of exquisite anguish, whenever I hear them sung by Negro children”
Click on the hymns below to follow or sing along.
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