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Greenbank Parish Church, Edinburgh
Sunday 14th September 2025
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
In-Person and Livestreamed Worship, 10.30am
Worship Leader: Rev Ian Gilmour
Organist: Professor Derek Williams
Order of Service
(Hymns are from CH4 and readings are from NRSV, except where stated otherwise)
Welcome and Intimations
Call to Worship
Hymn 127: O worship the King [Tune: Hanover]
Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer
Young Church
Hymn 142: A small thing like a hazlenut [Tune: Hazlenut] (The Band)
Reading: Jeremiah 4:11–12, 22–25 (OT: p713) [Reader: Christo/Matthew Esser]
Talk: Grant Gillies – Head Teacher South Morningside Primary
Hymn 243: Touch the earth lightly [Tune: Tenderness]
Reading: Luke 15:1–10 (NT: p75) [Reader: Fiona Grant]
Sermon: Building Relationships
Hymn 244: Where are the voices of the earth? [Tune: Gonfalon Royal]
Prayers of thanksgiving and for others, led by Kenny Htet-Khin
Hymn 237: Look forward in faith [Tune: Cardross]
Benediction, with sung Amen at Hymn 822