Call to Worship Based on Psalm 22
Call to Worship Based on Isaiah 55:1-5
Call to Worship Litany – God Who Feeds the Hungry
Call to Worship Based on the BeatitudeCome with worship and praise,
all you who love and serve our God!
For God has not ignored the suffering of the needy,
but has heard their cries for help.
We praise you, O God!
In the presence of your people,
we will fulfill the commitments we have made.
The poor will eat and be satisfied,
and all who seek you will rejoice!
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Come, all who are thirsty!
Come to the water!
Are you broke?
Come anyway – it doesn’t matter.
Buy whatever you like—it’s all free!
Don’t waste your money on junk food.
It won’t fill you up, and you’ll be hungry again right away.
Instead, fill your body with what it really needs:
good, solid food that will nourish you,
and give you the strength to nourish others.
Listen carefully to what I’m saying!
Come to me with your ears wide open,
for this is the way that leads to life!
—Christine Longhurst/Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Click here for a printer-friendly pdf version.to topIn the midst of a world where people hunger and thirst,
come worship a God who feeds the hungry.
In the midst of a world where people are abused and oppressed,
come worship a God who calls for compassion and justice.
In the midst of a world filled with wars and rumor of war,
come worship a God who desires nothing less than peace for the world.
In the midst of a world of spiritual emptiness,
come worship a God who gives life meaning.
Come worship a God whose grace and love know no end.
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from Sacraments and Seasons: Peacemaking Through Worship from the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program.
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to topWe gather hungry.
Blessed are those who are hungry now,
hungry for rice and beans,
hungry for righteousness,
hungry for a world where children do not die of hunger.
Blessed are those who are hungry now, for they will be satisfied.
We praise a prodigal God,
creating an abundant world with enough so no one needs to be hungry.
We worship the maker of new heavens and a new earth,
the Blessed Trinity, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
— prepared by the
Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance, or a service of worship for The Churches’ Week of Action on Food, October, 2010.
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