Old Copy of Worship Service 2023

United by Faith and Love

Glenn-McConnell-Boyd Family Reunion 2023

Mt. Pleasant, SC

Worship Service

Sunday, July 23, 2023

10am

Presiding: Nwandi Lawson

Prelude

*Call to Worship. Sylvia McCants

Leader: Early in the morning, our thoughts turn toward you God, as You led us to the mountaintop of worship.

People: Come with joy and gladness to praise and honor God. Come to the refreshing waters that God provides.

Leader: God is gracious and merciful and full of compassion. Let all of creation join in giving thanks.

People: Give ear, all people, to the law of God. Give thanks for all the guidance God gives us.

Leader: God upholds all who are falling. God raises us up when we are bowed down.

People: Come, all who are weary and carrying heavy burdens. Come, for Christ has promised rest.

Hymn of Praise “Great is Thy Faithfulness” All

Call to Confession Sylvia McCants

God, we come to You confessing that we have fallen short of Your glory. We live in a generation of unthankfulness, rich in things but poor in spirit. We have held back our time and even ourselves out of greed. We have held back love and compassion because of fear and pride. Oh, loving Father, You have overwhelmed us with such good gifts and we have kept them to ourselves. We have been so selfish in our thoughts and actions. Hear our confession. As You call us to a life of surrender and sacrifice. help us to let go, help us to trust and help us to serve. As we do, may we find increased joy, contentment, and freedom in You, Jesus, and may our lives be a light to the world around us.

Congregational Hymn “I Surrender All” vs. 1,2 All

Morning Prayer Regina Rohlsen

Musical Selection “My Love is My Stronghold” Nwandi Lawson Zarina Hutcherson

Candle Lighting Ceremony

In Memory of Departed Loved Ones

Offertory Prayer Abdul-Haqq Family

General Fund Offering

Doxology

Scripture Readings Psalm 34:1

Introduction of Speaker De’Chancela Williams

Sermonic Hymn “We’ve Come this Far by Faith” GMB Family Choir

The Sermon I Will Bless The Lord Reverend Dr. Leron Peterkin Rabb

Invitational Hymn “You Deserve It” GMB Family Choir

Ancestor Acknowledgement

Closing Hymn “Lord Dismiss us With Thy Blessing” All

Closing Remarks GMB Youth

Benediction Reverend Dr. Leron Peterkin Rabb

SONGS & READINGS

Great is Thy Faithfulness (Hymn of Praise)

Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father

There is no shadow of turning with Thee

Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not

As Thou hast been, Thou forever will be

Great is Thy faithfulness

Morning by morning new mercies I see

All I have needed Thy hand hath provided

Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me

Summer and winter and springtime and harvest

Sun, moon and stars in their courses above

Join with all nature in manifold witness

To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love

Great is Thy faithfulness

Morning by morning new mercies I see

All I have needed Thy hand hath provided

Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me

Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth

Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide

Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow

Blessings all mine with 10, 000 beside

Great is Thy faithfulness

Morning by morning new mercies I see

All I have needed Thy hand hath provided

Great is Thy faithfulness

Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me

I Surrender All (Verses 1 &2) (Congregational Hymn)

All to Jesus, I surrender;
All to Him I freely give;
I will ever love and trust Him,
In His presence daily live.
I surrender all, I surrender all,
All to Thee, my blessed Savior,
I surrender all.

All to Jesus I surrender;
Humbly at His feet I bow,
Worldly pleasures all forsaken;
Take me, Jesus, take me now.
I surrender all, I surrender all,
All to Thee, my blessed Savior,
I surrender all.

“My Love is My Stronghold” (Musical Selection by Nwandi Lawson & Zarina Hutcherson)

O SON OF BEING! My love is My stronghold; he that entereth therein is safe and secure, and he that turneth away shall surely stray and perish.

We’ve Come This Far by Faith (Sermonic Selection)

We’ve come this far by faith,
Leaning on the Lord.
Trusting in his holy word.
He’s never failed us yet.
Oh, oh- oh- can’t turn around,
We’ve come this far by faith.

Don’t be discouraged with troubles in your life.
He’ll bear your burdens
And move all discord and strife

Oh! We’ve come this far by faith,
Leaning on the Lord.
Trusting in his holy word.
He’s never failed us yet.
Oh, oh- oh- can’t turn around,
We’ve come this far by faith.

Just remember the good things He has done.
Things that seemed impossible.
Oh, praise Him for the vict’ries He has won.
He has won!

We’ve come this far by faith,
Leaning on the Lord.
Trusting in his holy word.
He’s never failed us yet.
Oh, oh- oh- can’t turn around,
We’ve come this far by faith.

Just the other day I heard a man say,
He didn’t believe in God word.
But I can truly say the Lord will make a way.
Because He, He’s never failed me yet.

We’ve come this far by faith,
Leaning on the Lord.
Trusting in his holy word.
He’s never failed us yet.
Oh, oh- oh- can’t turn around,
We’ve come this far by faith.

Oh, oh- oh- can’t turn around,
We’ve come this far by, this far by faith!

You Deserve It-Charles Jenkins (Invitational Hymn)

My hallelujah belongs to You

My hallelujah belongs to You (everybody sing, say, my hallelujah)

My hallelujah belongs to You (every worshipper, lift your voice tonight, sing my hallelujah)

My hallelujah belongs to You (yeah, You deserve it)

You deserve it

You deserve it (You deserve it Lord, yes, You do)

You deserve it (You deserve it all, oh, Lord)

You deserve it (Father, You deserve it Lord)

You deserve it (You deserve)

You deserve it

So we sing hallelujah (hallelujah)

To the king of glory (hallelujah)

To the lamb that was slain (hallelujah)

Ay (ay)

Said You sit upon the thrown (hallelujah)

And You cannot be moved (hallelujah)

That's why we sing hallelujah (hallelujah)

Yeah (hallelujah)

Said, "You are Lord" (hallelujah)

Said, "You are King" (hallelujah)

You are great (hallelujah)

Oh-oh-oh-oh (hallelujah)

Jesus, Jesus (hallelujah)

Said we call Your name (hallelujah)

We give You the highest praise (hallelujah)

Oh-oh-oh-oh (hallelujah)

Father (hallelujah)

Master (hallelujah)

We sing praise (hallelujah)

Unto The Name (hallelujah)

Yeah-yeah (hallelujah)

Hey-ey (hallelujah)

Yeah (hallelujah)

Jesus (hallelujah)

Say, You are King (hallelujah)

Yeah-yeah (hallelujah)

We say, You are Lord (hallelujah)

Yeah (hallelujah)

We say, all the glory (all the glory)

All the honour (all the honour)

All the praise (all the praise)

You deserve it (yes, oh God You do)

You deserve it (yeah, You deserve it)

You deserve it (You deserve it)

You deserve it (now somebody ought to come out and give Him glory)

Somebody shout!

Shout!

Give Him praise

One more time, everybody say

Hallelujah (hallelujah)

The angels cry (hallelujah)

Hallelujah (hallelujah)

The Cherubim cry (hallelujah)

Hallelujah (hallelujah)

The 21 elders (hallelujah)

They're casting down (hallelujah)

Their golden crown (hallelujah)

Sing hallelujah (hallelujah)

Say, hallelujah (hallelujah)

Hallelujah (hallelujah)

We change the creation (hallelujah)

Hallelujah (hallelujah)

We try with the earth (hallelujah)

Hallelujah (hallelujah)

Yes, You're worthy (hallelujah)

From the rising of the sun (hallelujah)

To the setting of the same (hallelujah)

Say all the glory (all the glory)

All the honour (all the honour)

All the praise (all the praise)

(You deserve it)

You deserve it (You deserve it)

My hallelujah belongs to you (say, my hallelujah)

My hallelujah belongs to you (yeah, my hallelujah)

My hallelujah belongs to you (my hallelujah)

My hallelujah belongs to you

Oh one God, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh (come on, cry out Nigeria)

Oh, oh, oh (COZA, lift your voice and cry out!)

Oh, oh, oh (cry out for your families, oh-oh)

Oh, oh, oh (where are the worriors in this house? Cry out)

Oh, oh, oh (cry out 'til the walls start falling)

Oh, oh, oh (yeah, yeah, oh...)

Oh, oh, oh (ohh, Lord, oh-ohh, Jesus)

Sound up in the room

Oh, oh, oh (yeah, yeah)

Oh, oh, oh (lift your voice and cry out in the house)

Oh, oh, oh (oh-oh, oh-oh)

Oh, oh, oh (oh, oh, oh)

Oh, oh, oh (oh)

You deserve it

You deserve it (every song)

You deserve it

You deserve it (You deserve)

You deserve it (deserve)

You deserve it

So, my hallelujah belongs to You (my hallelujah)

My hallelujah belongs to You (sing, my hallelujah)

My hallelujah belongs to You (yeah my hallelujah)

My hallelujah belongs to You

Somebody shout!

Shout!

Lord Dismiss Us With Thy Blessing (Closing Hymn)

Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing;
Fill our hearts with joy and peace.
Let us each, thy love possessing,
Triumph in redeeming grace.
Oh, refresh us, oh, refresh us,
Trav'ling thru this wilderness.
Oh, refresh us, oh, refresh us,
Trav'ling thru this wilderness.
Thanks we give and adoration
For the gospel's joyful sound.
May the fruits of thy salvation
In our hearts and lives abound.
Ever faithful, ever faithful
To the truth may we be found.
Ever faithful, ever faithful
To the truth may we be found.

Ancestor Acknowledgement

Indigenous Ancestors:

We offer this prayer in remembrance of the Stono, Kiawah, Sewee, and Etiwan people who lived along the Charleston Harbor from the time before time, and who raised their children and chanted holy verses before the first Spanish explorers or British colonists arrived.

O Great Spirit,

Whose voice I hear in the winds,

And whose breath gives life to all the world,

hear me! I am small and weak, I need your

strength and wisdom

Let me Walk in Beauty, and make my eyes

ever behold the red and purple sunset.

Make My Hands respect the things you have

made and my ears sharp to hear your voice.

Make Me Wise so that I may understand the

things you have taught my people.

Let me learn the lessons you have hidden

in every leaf and rock.

I Seek Strength, not to be greater than my

brother, but to fight against my greatest enemy—myself.

Make Me Ready to come to you with

clean hands and straight eyes.

So When Life Fades, as the fading sunset,

my spirit may come to you without shame.

—Native American prayer

African Ancestors:

These words are offered in honor of the 200,000 or more African people who were brought in shackles through the port of Charleston. We pray for people who were abducted from their homes and kidnapped from their families in Angola and Senegal; the Gambia, Cameroon, and Ghana; Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria and Benin, those who became who we are.

Let us not run the world hastily,

Let us not grasp at the rope of wealth impatiently;

What should be treated with mature judgment,

Let us not treat in a fit of temper;

Whenever we arrive at a cool place,

Let us rest sufficiently well;

Let us give prolonged attention to the future,

And then let us give due regard to the consequence of things,

And that is on account of our sleeping

—Yoruba odu (recital)