Our Extended Family

Not strangers, set apart from us
part of us, all those suffering
our extended family
the people of Haiti;
all of them raised up
lifted up, as if on wings,
wrapped in our collective prayer
all around the world

Each of them lifted up, in our prayer
that their pain, their sorrow
the weight lifted from their shoulders
feeling instead, love,
palpable, the loving arms of God
healing the ache, the loss
all of our brother, our sisters, our children
in that troubled, hurting place


January 17, 2010
Matthew 25:31-40
Psalm 33:3-9 (Call to Worship)
Ephesians 5:21-33
Pastoral prayer, the Message for Children and prayer after,
by Pastor Ruth L. Foss
and sermon, “Haitian Earthquake: You are There”
by Reverend Huntley Halvorson,
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
http://www.suncookumc.org
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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Suncook-United-Methodist-Church/102221356487965
Suncook, NH
January 17, 2010


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