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We Meet as Friends at Table

Author: Brian Wren, 1936- Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Worth of All Persons Lyrics: 1 We meet as friends at table, to listen, and be heard, united by the Spirit, attentive to the Word. Through prayer and conversation we tune our varied views to Christ, whose love has made us the bearers of good news. 2 With food and drink for sharing the table soon is spread. The freedom meal of Jesus is crowned with wine and bread, and all, without exception, may eat, and speak, and stay, for this is Christ's own table where none are turned away. 3 We share our lives and longings, and when the meal is done we pray as friends at table, and promise to be one. To Christ, and to each other, we cheerfully belong: apart, our hope is fruitless; together, we are strong. 4 Fulfilled, and glad to follow wherever Christ may lead, we journey from the table to love a world in need with patience, truth, and kindness, that justice may increase and all may sit at table in freedom, joy, and peace. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Used With Tune: MEAL OF LOVE

Lord Jesus Christ, Lover of All

Author: John L. Bell, 1949- Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Worth of All Persons Scripture: Colossians 1:9-12 Used With Tune: [Lord Jesus Christ, lover of all]

Strong, Gentle Children

Author: Daniel Charles Damon, 1955- Meter: 5.6.10 D Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Worth of All Persons Lyrics: 1 Strong, gentle children, God made you beautiful, gave you the wisdom and power you need; speak in the stillness all you are longing for; live out your calling to love and to lead. 2 Strong, hurting children, angry and terrified, open the secrets your life has concealed; though you are wounded, know you are not to blame; cry out your story till truth is revealed. 3 Strong, knowing children, utter your cry aloud, honor the wisdom God gave you at birth; speak to your elders till they have heard your voice; sing out your vision of healing on earth. Scripture: Matthew 19:13-14 Used With Tune: TWILIGHT

Draw the Circle Wide

Author: Gordon Light, 1944- Meter: 8.7.8.5 with refrain Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Worth of All Persons First Line: God the still point of the circle Used With Tune: [God the still point of the circle]

Leftover People in Leftover Places

Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Meter: 11.10.11.10 D Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Worth of All Persons Lyrics: 1 Leftover people in leftover places, troubled, disabled, the needy and sad, scavenging crumbs from society's plenty, sick to the soul when their life has gone bad; these are the ones in God's upside-down kingdom deemed to be worthy and called to the feast, soup-kitchen people invited to banquet, valued as greatly as royal and priest. 2 Leftover people, disposable people, locked into prisons of drugs and despair, poverty's children in poverty's spiral, locked out of learning and earning their share; these are the ones in God's upside-down kingdom, these are the Christ in their shabby disguise, these are the least and the highly unlikely, given a hope and new light in their eyes. 3 Here is God's testing of true Easter people, spirited people with service to give, taking to heart the compassion of Jesus, feeling how others must struggle to live; we are a part of God's upside-down kingdom, we know the heart if the gospel's demand, taking our part with the leftover people, widening the space of the lines in the sand. Scripture: Matthew 25:31-45 Used With Tune: CONNECT

Peace of Jesus

Author: Danny A. Belrose, 1941- Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Worth of All Persons First Line: Peace of Jesus burn within us Scripture: Ephesians 2:13-18 Used With Tune: BLAENHAFREN

Brothers and Sisters of Mine

Author: Kenneth I. Morse, 1913-1999 Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Worth of All Persons First Line: Brothers and sisters of mine are the hungry Scripture: Luke 6:36-38 Used With Tune: MINE ARE THE HUNGRY

The Vision of a Life to Be

Author: Geoffrey F. Spencer, 1927-2005 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Worth of All Persons Scripture: Matthew 19:13-15 Used With Tune: GRATEFULNESS

God, We Gather as Your People

Author: David Lohman, 1961- Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Worth of All Persons Refrain First Line: Oh, may our hearts and minds be opened Scripture: Galatians 3:26 Used With Tune: [God, we gather as your people]

Friend of the Streetwalker

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr. Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Worth of All Persons First Line: Friend of the streetwalker, beggar, and child Lyrics: 1 Friend of the streetwalker, beggar, and child, lifting and blessing the weak and reviled, welcoming those the devout turned away: Jesus, we need your example today. 2 Take from us prejudice, hatred, and scorn, fear and suspicion of anyone born outside our fences of money and race: help us, O God, not to shun but embrace. 3 Open our hearts and our heads and our hands, let us experience how caring expands past all the labels and limits we learn: Spirit of mercy, enlarge our concern. 4 Three-personed Mystery, multiple One, joined by diversity never undone: may we more truly your image reveal, coming together to make your love real. Scripture: Matthew 25:37-41 Used With Tune: MYRRH-BEARING MARY