church service january 19 2025
celebration of dr. martin luther king, jr
This morning we are honored to have congresswoman maggie goodlander share her thoughts with us.
ORDER OF WORSHIP
Call to Worship
HYMN: Lift Every Voice and Sing
MLK READING--Beyond Vietnam--read by Judy Gill
SCRIPTURE—Matthew 5:38-48
ANTHEM:
MLK READING -- The Drum Major Instinct--read by Craig Anderson
HYMN: Just A Closer Walk With Thee (no. 564)
THOUGHTS ON Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Rep. Maggie Goodlander
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:
HYMN: Battle Hymn of the Republic (v. 1-4) (No. 804)
BENEDICTION: We Shall Overcome
Postlude
Mr. Johnson tells about the origin of the hymn Lift Every Voice and Sing:
“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--Beyond Vietnam--read by Judy Gill
SCRIPTURE—Matthew 5:38-48
ANTHEM:
MLK READING -- The Drum Major Instinct--read by Craig Anderson
HYMN: Just A Closer Walk With Thee (no. 564)
THOUGHTS ON Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Rep. Maggie Goodlander
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:
HYMN: Battle Hymn of the Republic (v. 1-4) (No. 804)
BENEDICTION: We Shall Overcome
Postlude
Mr. Johnson tells about the origin of the hymn Lift Every Voice and Sing:
“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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