Kenyan Thanksgiving

Morning Service

San Francisco Theological Seminary

Tuesday, November 21^st, 2006

Montgomery Chapel

Welcome

*Call to Worship 

               O come, let us sing to the Lord

               And shout with joy to the rock of our salvation!

               Let us come into God’s presence with thanksgiving,

               Singing joyful songs of praise.  (based on Psalm 95)

               Let us worship God!

*Hymn VU 242                                    Let All Things Now Living    

Scripture Reading                             Psalm 146

*Hymn VU 517 (vs. 1-3)                           Praise God for the Harvest

Testimony

*Hymn VU 517 (vs. 4-5)                        Praise God for the Harvest

Affirmation of Faith

We believe in the one High God, who out of love created the beautiful world and everything good in it. He created man and wanted man to be happy in the world. God loves the world and every nation and tribe on the earth. We have known this High God in darkness, and now we know him in the light. God promised in the book of his word, the bible, that he would save the world and all the nations and tribes.

We believe that God made good his promise by sending his son, Jesus Christ, a man in the flesh, a Jew by tribe, born poor in a little village, who left his home and was always on safari doing good, curing people by the power of God, teaching about God and man, showing the meaning of religion is love. He was rejected by his people, tortured and nailed hands and feet to a cross, and died. He lay buried in the grave, but the hyenas did not touch him, and on the third day, he rose from the grave. He ascended to the skies. He is the Lord.

We believe that all our sins are forgiven through him. All who have faith in him must be sorry for their sins, be baptized in the Holy Spirit of God, live the rules of love and share the bread together in love, to announce the good news to others until Jesus comes again. We are waiting for him. He is alive. He lives. This we believe. Amen.

Prayers of the People

Please end each prayer with the words, “God, in your mercy,” or “God, in your grace.” and the community will respond, “Hear our prayer.”

Lord’s Prayer in Maa

               Papa lang otii shumata meitisinyi enkara ino metaasai enieyieu ino,

               NAII (rhymes with "sly")

               Metaasai eniyieu te nkop anaa enatiu te shumata.

               NAII

               Inchoo iyiook ena olong endaa an e anaake

               NAII

               Nipalaki iyiook isilen ang, anaa ti nikipalaki, iyiook ilooata isilen 

               ang

               NAII

               Nimirik iyiook atua intemat

               NAII

               Kake intajeu iyiook tiaatua ilo torrono

               NAII

*Hymn VU 516 Come You Thankful People Come

*Benediction

Participants in Worship:

Rev. Dr. Charles Marks, Chaplain

Dr. Dan Hoggatt, Musician

Mr. Don Hammond, Liturgist

Ms. Ruth Kobia, Liturgist

Mr. Aric Clark, Chaplain’s Assistant

Rev. Dr. Sam Hamilton-Poore, Recorder

Resources: The affirmation of faith today was produced by missionaries in Kenya in 1978 as a translation of the Apostle’s Creed into local idioms for the Masai people. Taken from: Christianity Rediscovered, by Vincent J. Donovan, ©2003, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York, USA.