Christ Church Worthing

HYMN, SONG AND SERVICE SHEET

Epiphany Sunday

6th January 2019

10.30am Holy Communion led by Canon Muriel Pargeter and

The Revd David Renshaw

Please note that some may prefer to have a quiet time of prayer during the peace and sit rather than shaking hands

6pm BCP Evensong led by The Revd Roger Walker

There is prayer in the organ vestry every Sunday at 10 am for 15 minutes before the service and you are welcome to join at any time.

TODAY: Epistle: Ephesians 3: 1 - 12 read by Gwen M

Gospel: Matthew 2: 1 – 12 read Tony S Intercessions led by Val G

The Organ Voluntary following our Service today will be:

Chorale Fantasia on the Epiphany hymn

Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern

by Dietrich Buxtehude (Lübeck) 1637-1707

Services in January

10th January 10.30am BCP Holy Communion

with The Revd David Renshaw

13th January 10.30am Morning Prayer

with The Revd David Renshaw and

The Revd Canon Andrew Wingate,

Diocesan Associate Interfaith Adviser

20th January 10.30am Holy Communion

with The Revd David Renshaw and Derek Hansen

20th January 6pm BCP Evensong

with The Revd David Renshaw

24th January 10.30am BCP Holy Communion

with The Revd George Butterworth

27th January 10.30am Morning Prayer

with Canon Muriel Pargeter

Contact us:

Vicar: The Revd David Renshaw:

email: christchurchvicar@btinternet.com Tele: 01903 244283 Church Wardens:

Kenneth Hobbs: email: christchurchfinance@btinternet.com Tele: 01903 237713

Simon Davies: c/o email: christchurchfinance@btinternet.com Verger: Lorraine Tele: 07513 592484

Parish Administrator: Janine Hobbs Tele: 01903 237713 email: janine.h@ntlworld.com

Parish admin team: christchurchadmin@btinternet.com

Registered Charity No. 1152846

The Parish of Worthing, Christ Church Website: www.christchurchworthing.org.uk

Opening Hymn [84]

Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid; star of the east, the horizon adorning, guide where our infant Redeemer is laid! Cold on his cradle the dew-drops are shining; low lies his head with the beasts of the stall; angels adore him in slumber reclining, Maker and Monarch and Saviour of all. Say shall we yield him, in costly devotion? odours of Edom and offerings divine, gems of the mountain and pearls of the ocean, myrrh from the forest or gold from the mine? Vainly we offer each ample oblation, vainly with gifts would his favour secure; richer by far is the heart's adoration, dearer to God are the prayers of the poor. Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid; star of the east, the horizon adorning, guide where our infant Redeemer is laid!

Reginald Heber: Public Domain

Worship Songs

What child is this, who, laid to rest, on Mary’s lap is sleeping? whom angels greet with anthems sweet while shepherds watch are keeping? this, this is Christ the King, whom shepherds worship and angels sing; haste, haste to bring him praise, the babe, the son of Mary!

Why lies he is such mean estate where ox and ass are feeding? come, have no fear, God’s Son is here his love all loves exceeding: nails, spear shall pierce him through, the cross be borne for me, for you; hail, hail the Saviour comes the babe, the son of Mary!

So bring him incense, gold, and myrrh; all tongues and peoples own him. the King of kings salvation brings; let every heart enthrone him. raise, raise your song on high, while Mary sings a lullaby; joy, joy, for Christ is born, the babe, the son of Mary!

William Chatterton Dix: Public Domain and editors of New English Hymnal 1986

Song 2

King of kings, majesty, God of heaven living in me, gentle Saviour, closest friend, strong deliverer, beginning and end, all within me falls at your throne. Your majesty, I can but bow. I lay my all before you now. In royal robes I donʼt deserve I live to serve your majesty. Earth and heav’n worship you, love eternal, faithful and true, who bought the nations, ransomed souls, brought this sinner near to your throne; all within me cries out in praise.

CCLI 2765 Jarrod Cooper © 1998 Sovereign Lifestyle Music

Offertory Hymn [89]

O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness, bow down before him, his glory proclaim; with gold of obedience and incense of lowliness, kneel and adore him the Lord is his name. Low at his feet lay thy burden of carefulness, high on his heart he will bear it for thee, comfort thy sorrows and answer thy prayerfulness, guiding thy steps as may best for thee be. Fear not to enter his courts in the slenderness of the poor wealth thou wouldst reckon as thine: truth in its beauty and love in its tenderness these are the offerings to lay on his shrine. These, though we bring them in trembling and fearfulness, he will accept for the name that is dear; mornings of joy give for evenings of tearfulness, trust for our trembling and hope for our fear. O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness, bow down before him, his glory proclaim; with gold of obedience and incense of lowliness, kneel and adore him the Lord is his name.

J. S. B. Monsell: Public Domain

Final Hymn [87]

Hail to the Lord's Anointed, great David's greater Son! hail, in the time appointed, his reign on earth begun! He comes to break oppression, to set the captive free, to take away transgression, and rule in equity.

He comes with succour speedy to those who suffer wrong; to help the poor and needy and bid the weak be strong; to give them songs for sighing, their darkness turn to light, whose souls, condemned and dying, were precious in his sight.

He shall come down like showers upon the fruitful earth, and joy and hope, like flowers, spring in his path to birth. before him on the mountains shall peace, the herald, go and righteousness, in fountains, from hill to valley flow.

Arabia's desert ranger to him shall bow the knee, the Ethiopian stranger his glory come to see; with offerings of devotion ships from the isles shall meet to pour the wealth of ocean in tribute at his feet.

Kings shall bow down before him and gold and incense bring; all nations shall adore him, his praise all people sing; to him shall prayer unceasing and daily vows ascend, his kingdom still increasing, a kingdom without end.

O'er every foe victorious, he on his throne shall rest, from age to age more glorious, all-blessing and all-blest. the tide of time shall never his covenant remove; his name shall stand forever, his changeless name of love.

James Montgomery: Public Domain

(Psalm 72)

Please stay for coffee and a chat after the service!

All those whom we know that are lonely, troubled, sick or grieving, as well as church family members and residents in local nursing & care homes whom Muriel and the pastoral team visit.

There is a box at the back of the church for people to make suggestions for hymns or worship songs that they would like us to try and include in our Sunday worship. The hymns and songs are usually chosen to reflect the readings or feast for the day, but the

worship committee will endeavour to include your choices wherever possible.

DATES FOR YOUR 2019 DIARY !

Please note the Rainbow Poetry group will meet

again on 17th January 2019 from 2.30pm

Tuesday, 5th February, 12.30 to 1.30pm PAUL GREGORY, Guitarist will once again give a recital in Christ Church Also….

Tues 5th Feb 2019 2.30pm - 3.30pm The church ‘home group’ will

meet again for one session, then there will be a Lent group – more

details to follow, then the church homegroup will resume after

Easter.

Tuesday, 19th February, 12.30 to 1.30pm We welcome Lynsey Tran, who will share a Dementia Friends information session. Help us to become a Dementia Friendly Community!

Sunday 10th Feb 10 .30am We welcome Martin Auton-Lloyd who

will give a talk on the work of Family Support Work, one of the

parish supported missions, during Morning Prayer

Keeping in touch!

Christ Church operates a taxi service for those who find it difficult to

get to church on a Sunday, or through the week. If you would like to

use the service, please talk with Joan, Sylvia or Lorraine. You do

not then have to pay the driver. This is not dependent in any

way on ability to pay, this is to help people get to church, without

worrying. If people feel they would like to contribute towards the

cost of the fares, they merely place their donation in a Gift Aid

envelope, marked ‘Taxi’.

A message from your organist……

At the end of my first full calendar year as your organist I would like

to thank you all very much for the warmly appreciative comments

about the voluntaries at the end of each service, which really is a

great encouragement and really does make the time taken in

choosing and practising them so much more worthwhile. If anyone

would like further information about any piece, do ask. Now that I

have a reliable page turner in John Bull, I can greatly expand the

range of pieces from which I can choose the Voluntary. If anyone else

would like to volunteer for this task, for which reading music and

following a score containing long passages of small value notes is

essential, then please have a word with me. May I wish everyone a

very happy and healthy 2019. John.

Communion wine

As from this Sunday, we have changed the wine that

we take at communion. Having researched it widely,

David has found a specialised ‘wine’ that we hope will

meet with your approval. In the mid 1850s Mr Frank

Wright and Mr Lionel Mundy were concerned about

the impact alcohol was having on the nation and

decided to do something about it by producing a non-

alcoholic wine for use by the Churches. Using his pharmacy skills Mr

Wright produced his first non-alcoholic communion wine in 1858. One

of the Church leaders to commend the altar wine was the Rev C H

Spurgeon. His letter confirming its use at his Tabernacle Church is in

the archives of the makers, Frank Wright Mundy & Co Ltd. For over

150 years, Churches throughout the British Isles have used their

communion wine and continue to do so today. It has long been a

problem for priests who drive home after consuming quite a lot of left-

over wine, so this will relieve this! It also comes at a time when

reducing our consumption of alcohol is widely advised.

Please let us know what you think once you have tasted it today!

TURNING TIDES [Formerly Worthing Churches Homeless Projects]

There has been much in the news media about help for the homeless in society that don't have the comforts that we enjoy and maybe we take a bit for granted. Homeless people feel excluded from society, are often depressed, frightened, in danger at night, and hungry and thirsty. It is easy for us to forget that they are in

need all year round, not just at Christmas.

TURNING TIDES can change all that, but they need help from us

in just small ways.

TURNING TIDES is currently losing a lot of government funding.

There have been funding changes to housing benefit and funds have been cut by county council. There is a basket and a new list of practical donations that they badly need at present, at the back of the church: - including toiletries, cleaning products, food, sweets,

nuts, and crisps.The full list can be found at the back of the church. For more information, please ask Judie J.

Thank you!!

TURNING TIDES is a local Registered Charity No. 1027832

Open Church Many thanks to all who come along to support

our ‘Open Church’ days throughout the week,

and especially to our fundraising Mission coffee

mornings each Wednesday, when we welcome

donations for the many missions we support.

Parish Magazine

Please continue to send us items to include. These can be recipes

[family recipes, not those taken directly from any published book],

clean, funny jokes, items of interest about people or places and

poetry, or indeed, anything you think people will enjoy reading. We

would be grateful if we could have contributions for the February

magazine by 18th January. Many thanks! Janine and Ann P

Christ Church Prayer Card

Dear Church Family,

We have, in the past, had a Prayer card with the names of everyone in

our family, and their families, if you so wish, that would like to be prayed

for regularly. This takes the form of a card, laid out in days, 1 – 31, when

we can pray for a few people each day of the month, so everyone is

prayed for once a month.

Now that we are required to comply with GDPR, we are required to not

only ask you [which we have always done] if you would like to be included

on the list, but also to have you record that agreement, for our records. If

at any time, you wish to be taken off the card, we can only do so when a

new one is produced, and it is updated, so you need to be aware of this.

Some people ask for just their first names to be included, others have

their first and surname, the choice is entirely yours.

Please complete the form below, and hand to Ann P, Joan P or Janine

Hobbs, before the second week in January, and then a new one will be

produced and will be available. Thank you!

CHRIST CHURCH PRAYER CARD

I would like to be included on the prayer card.

Please include my name [and family if you wish], recorded as

…………………………………………………………………………………………….……………………

I understand that I can ask for my name to be removed at any time, but that this will only be possible when a new, updated card is produced. This will be done as soon as practicable. Please indicate your agreement by signing below

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Please complete, detach and hand to Ann P, Joan P or Janine Hobbs

____________________________________________________________

6 pm 1662 BCP Evensong – Service Order

Conducted by The Revd Roger Walker

Hymn 83 As with gladness men of old

Confession etc. (see booklet)

Responses

Psalm 98 (see pointed sheet)

1st Reading, Isaiah 60: 1 - 9 Reader: Joan P

Canticle – Magnificat (see pointed sheet)

2nd Reading: John 2: 1 - 11 Reader: Sue C

Canticle – Nunc Dimittis (see pointed sheet)

Creed, Responses, Collects (see booklet)

Hymn 85 Earth has many a noble city

Prayers led by Dorothy F

Hymn 91 We three kings of Orient are

Sermon

Offertory Hymn 90 Songs of thankfulness and praise

Blessing

Organ Voluntary

OUR THANKS TO THE REVD ROGER WALKER FOR LEADING OUR SERVICE TONIGHT - PLEASE STAY FOR COFFEE OR TEA AND A

CHAT AFTERWARDS