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The funeral service conducted by
Pastor Andrew FisherFrom Wellspring Victory Church, Bolnuevo.
OnFriday, 20th November 2009
At11am
In Loving Memory
of
Lesley Read
30th April 1960 ~ 15th November 2009
ORDER OF SERVICE
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MUSIC IN MEMORY OF LESLEYNimrod
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WELCOME
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OPENING PRAYER
We have come here today to remember before God our sister Lesley.
To give thanks for her life. To commend her to God our merciful redeemer and
judge; To commit her body to be cremated, and to comfort one another in our grief.
God of all consolation, your Son Jesus Christ was moved to tears at the grave of
Lazarus his friend. Look with compassion on your children in their loss, give to
troubled hearts the light of hope and strengthen in us the gift of faith, in Jesus
Christ our Lord.
READING FROM SCRIPTURE
Romans 8 Vs 38-39
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither
the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything
else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ
Jesus our Lord.
PRAYERS
All: Lord, we come into your presence to remember Lesley and to
seek your comfort, for we know that nothing can separate us from
your love and that you support us in our sorrow. We are sure that
the souls of the righteous are with you and that nothing can harm
them. Although they have died they are in peace. Give us your
strength to rejoice that you have taken Lesley to be with yourself
where she shall no more be in need. May we find life and peace and
perfect joy with her in your presence; through Jesus Christ our
Lord.
Amen
All: God of mercy, we acknowledge that we are all sinners. We
turn from the wrong that we have thought and said and done, and
are mindful of all that we have failed to do. For the sake of Jesus,
who died for us, forgive us for all that is past, and help us to live
each day in the light of Christ our Lord.
Amen.
READING FROM SCRIPTURE
Psalm 23
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in
green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters He restoreth my soul: he
leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I
walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou
art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table
before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil;
my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days
of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
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GOSPEL READING
John 5 Vs 24-27
I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eter-
nal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. I tell you
the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of
the Son of God and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself,
so he has granted the Son to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to
judge because he is the Son of Man.
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MUSIC IN MEMORY OF LESLEY
Unchained Melody ~ The Righteous Brothers
POEM Remember Me
To the living, I am gone
To the sorrowful, I will never return
To the angry, I was cheated
But to the happy, I am at peace
And to the faithful, I have never left
I cannot speak, but I can listen
I cannot be seen, but I can be heard
So as you stand upon the shore
Gazing at the beautiful sea, remember me
As you look in awe at a mighty forest
And in its grand majesty, remember me
Remember me in your hearts,
In your thoughts, and the memories of the
Times we loved, the times we cried,
the battle we fought and the times we laughed
For if you always think of me,
I will never have gone.
POEMMemories
They say memories are golden
well maybe that is true.
I never wanted memories,
I only wanted you.
A million times I needed you,
a million times I cried.
If love alone could have saved you
you never would have died.
In life I loved you dearly,
In death I love you still.
In my heart you hold a place
no one could ever fill.
If tears could build a stairway
and heartache make a lane,
I'd walk the path to heaven
and bring you back again.
Our family chain is broken,
and nothing seems the same.
But as God calls us one by one,
the chain will link again.
THE LORDS PRAYER
All: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name;
thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into
temptation; but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the
power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.
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COMMENDATION
Let us commend Lesley to the mercy of God, Our maker and redeemer. God our
creator and redeemer, by your power Christ conquered death and entered into
glory. Confident of his victory and claiming his promises, we entrust Lesley to
your mercy in the name of Jesus our Lord, who died and is alive and reigns with
you, now and forever.
Amen.
COMMITTAL
The Lord is full of compassion and mercy, slow to anger and of great goodness.
As a father is tender towards his children, so is the Lord tender to those that fear
him. For he knows of what we are made; he remembers that we are but dust. Our
days are like the grass; we flourish like a flower of the field; when the wind goes
over it, it is gone and its place will know it no more. But the merciful goodness of
the Lord endures for ever and ever towards those that fear him and his
righteousness upon their children's children.
We have entrusted our sister Lesley to God’s mercy, and we now, commit her body
to be cremated: earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust: in the sure and certain
hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ, who will
transform our frail bodies that they may be conformed to his glorious body, who
died, was buried, and rose again for us. To him be glory for ever.
Amen.
THE BLESSING
May God give you his comfort and his peace, his light and his joy, in this world
and the next; and the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit, be among you and remain with you always.
Amen.