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Greenbank Parish Church, Edinburgh
Sunday 22nd June 2025
Second after Pentecost
In-Person and Livestreamed Worship, 10.30am
Worship Leader: Dr Suresh Sanders
Organist: Alberto Massimo
Order of Service
Theme: Refugee Sunday
(Hymns are from CH4 and readings are from NRSV, except where stated otherwise)
Organ: Two ‘Songs Without Words’, by Felix Mendelssohn (arr. Ernest Dicks)
Welcome and Intimations
Call to Worship
Hymn 36: God is our refuge and our strength [Tune: Stroudwater]
Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer, led by Donald King
Young Church: A Video Story
Hymn 544: When I needed a neighbour [Tune: Neighbour]
Reading: Psalm 42 (OT: p526) [Reader: Christo Esser]
Hymn 550: As the deer pants for the water [Tune: As The Deer Pants]
Reading: Galatians 3: 23–29 (NT: p186) [Reader: Barbara Middleton]
Sermon: Mercy
Hymn 485: Dear Lord and Father of mankind [Tune: Repton]
Prayers of thanksgiving and for others, led by Matthew Esser
Hymn 198: Let us build a house where love can dwell [Tune: Two Oaks]
Benediction, with sung Amen at Hymn 822
Organ: War March of the Priests from ‘Athalie’, by Felix Mendelssohn (arr. Oxley)