Leave-taking blessing These words might be used when a Minister is moving on to a new ministry or retiring. [Name of Leaving Minister] – be free to rest, relax and retire. Continue to listen to the call of Jesus, whom we call Christ, to respond to Christs call on your life in […]
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Leave-taking prayer — Kate Gray, UK
For all that has been in these full years of ministry we say thank you. All: Thank you God who holds us gently. For all funerals led, people visited, lives mourned, For all new lives welcomed, thanksgivings and baptisms celebrated, For all new relationships blessed and marriages marked, For new members welcomed, elders ordained, […]
Read full textLeave-taking for a Minister, a Progressive Liturgy — Kate Gray, UK
This service of leave-taking was originally written for the departure of Revd Bob Day by Revd Kate Gray, Manchester UK. Time to give thanks There is a time to give thanks, for the times of challenge and hardship for the times of tiredness and distress for the times of solidarity and justice with […]
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