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Greenbank Parish Church, Edinburgh
Sunday 5th October 2025
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
All-age harvest worship
In-Person and Livestreamed Worship, 10.30am
Worship Leader: Rev Ian Gilmour
Organist: Alberto Massimo
Order of Service
(Hymns are from CH4 and readings are from NRSV, except where stated otherwise)
Organ:
In a Monastery Garden, by Albert Ketèlbey (arr. Massimo)
Welcome and Intimations
Call to Worship
Hymn 229: We plough the fields and scatter [Tune: Wir Pflügen]
Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer
Talk 1
Hymn 232: Pears and apples, wheat and grapes [Tune: Pears and apples] (The Band)
Reading: Exodus 23:10–16 (OT p71) [Reader: Rachel McWilliam]
Hymn 230: Praise God for the harvest of orchard and field [Tune: Stowey]
Reading: Luke 17:5–10 (NT p77) [Reader: Ian McWilliam]
Talk 2
Hymn 231: For the fruits of all creation [Tune: East Acklam]
Prayers of thanksgiving and for others, led by Karen Young
Hymn 233: Come, you thankful people, come [Tune: St George’s Windsor]
Benediction, with sung Amen at Hymn 822
Organ:
Heaven and Earth display the Glory of God, by Felix Mendelssohn (arr. Dicks)