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Appendix A-2: Form for Commemorative Service

 

<typohead type=4>Prescribed Form for Commemorative Service</typohead>

 

All stand

Clerk:

Since we last met in Assembly many who served alongside us in the Body of Christ have died. We remember them before God with thanksgiving, acknowledging God’s grace and goodness to them, and, through them, to us and the Church. We commend to God’s care those who loved them.

We commemorate by name those remembered in the courts of the Church who, with God’s help, served in the spirit of Christ.

 

(names are read)

 

(A period of silence)

Moderator:

Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witness, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith.

(Prayer)