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A Prayer for the Sick

June 20, 2025

Worship leader brings supplicant forward, as song is sung (e.g. Pass Me Not O Gentle Savior, O Healing River’)  The congregation gathers around him/her, laying hands on him/her, some taking him/her by the hand.Anointing:  oil may be poured on supplicant’s forehead by elder while saying, The Lord bless you, __________________, and keep you, The Lord make […]

A Parting Prayer of Blessing

June 20, 2025

God of all sojourns, You bid us greeting in our comings-in, And you bid us farewell at our departures. If we embrace and lay our hands today on ______________, It is in the belief that you have already embraced and laid your hand upon him/her/them, To claim _________ for yourself, to fill ________ with your […]

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