leave-taking

Blessing for a Minister leaving post — Kate Gray, UK

  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, […]

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