Hi Friend

A little audience participation,
the congregation greeting each other
“Hi friend”, warm smiles erupting
spreading from face to face
a glow filling the sanctuary

Maybe to understand the lessons
the teaching in the word,
maybe instead of neighbor
instead of stranger
Friend instead
picturing ourselves greeting
as if each person we meet
viewing all as a friend

Being Christ’s friends,
sharing his love, abiding in the father
with him, in love, in community
living in the vine, in fellowship
one to another, bound, entwined
calling all a friend, perhaps
just one we don’t know yet


May 17, 2009
Psalm 98:4-8 (Call to Worship)
1 John 5:1-5
John 15:11-15
Message for Children
by Reverend Huntley Halvorson,
sermon, “Friends”,
by Pastor Ruth L. Foss,
and final hymn, “What a Friend We Have in Jesus”,
United Methodist Hymnal #526
(Sanctifying Grace and Perfecting Grace section),
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
May 17, 2009