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SERVICE OF Remembrance

June 10, 2018 | Iowa Events Center Des Moines, Iowa

In New Communities of Faith

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SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCEJune 10, 2018 | 4:00 pm

(Family members and guests are welcomed and seated by hosts before the service begins.)

GATHERING Great is Thy Faithfulness Praise Band SCRIPTURE Psalm 23 (NKJV)

The Lord is my shepherd;I shall not want.He makes me to lie down in green pastures;He leads me beside the still waters.He restores my soul;He leads me in the paths of righteousnessFor His name’s sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,I will fear no evil;For you are with me;Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;You anoint my head with oil;My cup runs over.Surely goodness and mercy shall follow meAll the days of my life;And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

GREETING (Please rise in body or in spirit.)Leader: Friends, we have gathered here to praise God and to witness to our faith as we celebrate the lives of those we have lost this year. We come together in our grief, acknowledging our loss. MayGodgrantusgrace,thatinpainwemayfindcomfort, in sorrow hope, in death resurrection.

HYMN (Sing in unison.) Great Is Thy Faithfulness #140 (UMH)Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father,There is no shadow of turning with thee;Thou changest not, thy compassions, they fail notAs thou hast been thou forever wilt be.

RefrainGreat is thy faithfulness!Great is thy faithfulness!Morning by morning new mercies I see;All I have needed thy hand hath provided;Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me! Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest,

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Sun, moon and stars in their courses above,Join with all nature in manifold witnessTo thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.

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Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth,Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide;Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!

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PRAYER (Please be seated.) pp. 142-143 (UMC Book of Worship)Leader: O God, who gave us birth, you are ever more ready to hear than we are to pray. You know our needs before we ask, and our ignorance in asking. Give to us now your grace, that as we shrink before the mystery of death, we may see the light of eternity. Speak to us once more your solemn message of life and of death. Help us to live as those who are prepared to die. And when our days here are accomplished, enable us to die as those who go forth to live, so that living or dying, our life may be in you, and that nothing in life or in death will be able to separate us from your great love in Christ Jesus our Lord. All: Amen.

ANTHEM Shepherd Me, O God By: Marty Haugen (Conference Choir under the direction of Rev. Dr. Jacqueline K. Thompson)

LITANY PRAYER I Was There to Hear Your Borning Cry* Psalm 90:1-17 (CEB)ALL: I was there to hear your borning cry, I’ll be there when you are old. I rejoiced the day you were baptized, to see your life unfold.Leader: Lord, you have been our help, generation after generation.All: Before the mountains were born, before you birthed the earth and the inhabited world— from forever in the past to forever in the future, you are God.Leader: You return people to dust, saying, “Go back, humans,”

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All: Because in your perspective a thousand years are like yesterday past, like a short period during the night watch.Leader: You sweep humans away like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning.All: True, in the morning it thrives, renewed, but come evening it withers, all dried up. Leader: I was there when you were but a child, with a faith to suit you well; In a blaze of light you wandered off tofindwheredemonsdwell. Yes, we are wasting away because of your wrath; we are paralyzed with fear on account of your rage.All: You have put our sins right in front of you, set our hidden faults in the light from your face.Leader: Yes, all our days slip away because of your fury; wefinishupouryearswithawhimper.All: We live at best to be seventy years old, maybe eighty, if we’re strong.Leader: But their duration brings hard work and troubleAll: Because they go by so quickly. Andthenweflyoff.Leader: Who can comprehend the power of your anger? The honor that is due you corresponds to your wrath.All: So teach us to number our days so we can have a wise heart. Leader: When you heard the wonder of the Word I was there to cheer you on; You were raised to praise the living Lord, to whom you now belong. Ifyoufindsomeonetoshareyourtime and you join your hearts as one, I’ll be there to make your verses rhyme from dusk ‘till rising sun. Come back to us, Lord! Please, quick! Have some compassion for your servants!All: Fill us full every morning with your faithful love so we can rejoice and celebrate our whole life long.Leader: In the middle ages of your life, not too old, no longer young, I’ll be there to guide you through the night, complete what I’ve begun. Makeushappyforthesameamountoftimethatyouafflictedus— for the same number of years that we saw only trouble.All: Let your acts be seen by your servants; let your glory be seen by their children.Leader: Let the kindness of the Lord our God be over us. Make the work of our hands last.All: Make the work of our hands last! Leader: When the evening gently closes in,

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and you shut your weary eyes, I’ll be there as I have always been with just one more surprise. I was there to hear your borning cry, I’ll be there when you are old. I rejoiced the day you were baptized, to see your life unfold.

SCRIPTURES Lamentations 3:19-24 (NRSV)Remembermyafflictionandroaming,The wormwood and the gall.My soul still remembersAnd sinks within me.This I recall to my mind,Therefore I have hope.Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed,Because his compassions fail not.They are new every morning;Great is your faithfulness.“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,“Therefore I hope in him!” John 6:32-40 (NRSV)Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” Then they said to him, “Lord, give us this bread always.” And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me shall never hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will by no means cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of the one who sent me. This is the will of the Father who sent me, that of all he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. And this is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

MESSAGE Keep a Grip on Hope Bishop Bruce Ough

HYMN (Please rise and sing.) Love Divine, All Loves Excelling #384 (UMH)Love divine, all loves excelling,joy of heav’n, to earth come down,fixinusthyhumbledwelling;all thy faithful mercies crown.Jesus, thou art all compassion;pure, unbounded love thou art;visit us with thy salvation;enter ev’ry trembling heart.

Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spiritinto ev’ry troubled breast!Let us all in thee inherit;letusfindthepromisedrest.Take away our bent to sinning;

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Alpha and Omega be;end of faith, as its beginning,set our hearts at liberty.

Come, Almighty, to deliver;let us all thy life receive;suddenly return and never,nevermore thy temples leave.Thee we would be always blessing,serve thee as thy hosts above,pray and praise thee without ceasing,glory in thy perfect love.

Finish then thy new creation;pure and spotless let us be.Let us see thy great salvationperfectly restored in thee.Changed from glory into glory,till in heav’n we take our place,till we cast our crowns before thee,lost in wonder, love, and praise.

READING OF THE NAMES (Please be seated.) Nitza DovenspikeCLERGY Hugh S. BirdDale E. GrayRichard T. HohlLeRoy W. KeldermanNorman L. KnightWarren J. McFateHarold S. MillerRichard C. PfaltzgraffElizabeth E. PietteJulie M. PooreAlfred E. RauJames W. StilesVerdon SwensonEmmanuel A. TabelismaCharles G. TefftLinda VogelCarryl R. Ziettlow

Refrain (In unison.)Comeandfillourheartswithyourpeace.You alone, O Lord, are holy.Comeandfillourheartswithyourpeace,alleluia!

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SPOUSESArlene BarberRuth S. BonathDoris L. BrentAlyce K. BrownIone BurhamDoris EldridgeAmy GarlockDoris HesseltineNoreen F. Kahler-MillerJohn KlappInsook MatthewsLois J. MillerEvelyn L. NesterMarjorie L. RobinsonNora Evelyn RoseDale J. Seylar(Venca) Jean SparksGenevieve SparksJuneStrifflerMargaret SullivanMary Ann Ziettlow

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DIACONAL MINISTER Bernice E. Dvorak

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DIAKONOSHunter Williams

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LAITY OF THE CENTRAL DISTRICT

LAITY OF THE EAST CENTRAL DISTRICT

LAITY OF THE NORTH CENTRAL DISTRICT

LAITY OF THE NORTHEAST DISTRICT

LAITY OF THE NORTHWEST DISTRICT

LAITY OF THE SOUTH CENTRAL DISTRICT

LAITY OF THE SOUTHEAST DISTRICT

LAITY OF THE SOUTHWEST DISTRICT

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CLOSED CHURCHES

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ANTHEM Hymn of Promise By: Natalie Sleeth Arranged By: John Ferguson

(Conference Choir under the direction of Rev. Dr. Jacqueline K. Thompson)

PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING (In unison.) pp. 150-151 (UMC Book of Worship)God of love, we thank you for all with which you have blessed us even to this day:for the gift of joy in days of health and strength and for the gifts of your abiding presence and promise in days of pain and grief.We praise you for home and friends, and for our baptism and place in your Church with all who have faithfully lived and died.Above all else we thank you for Jesus, who knew our griefs, who died our death and rose for our sake, and who lives and prays for us.And as Jesus taught us, so now we pray:

LORD’S PRAYER (In unison.)Our Father, who art in heaven,hallowed be thy name.Thy kingdom come,thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.Give us this day our daily bread,and forgive us our trespasses,as we forgive those who trespass against us.And lead us not into temptationbut deliver us from evil:for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

HYMN (Please rise and sing in unison.) Sing with All the Saints of Glory #702 (UMH) Sing with all the saints in glory, sing the resurrection song! Death and sorrow, earth’s dark story, to the former days belong.

All around the clouds are breaking, soon the storms of time shall cease; in God’s likeness we, awaking, know the everlasting peace.

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O what glory, far exceeding all that eye has yet perceived! Holiest hearts, for ages pleading, never that full joy conceived. God has promised, Christ prepares it, there on high our welcome waits. Every humble spirit shares it; Christ has passed th’eternal gates.

Life eternal! heaven rejoices: Jesus lives, who once was dead. Join we now the deathless voices; child of God, lift up your head! Patriarchs from the distant ages, saints all longing for their heaven, prophets, psalmists, seers, and sages, all await the glory given.

Life eternal! O what wonders crowd on faith; what joy unknown, when, amidst earth’s closing thunders, saints shall stand before the throne! O to enter that bright portal, seethatglowingfirmament;know, with thee, O God Immortal, “Jesus Christ whom thou has sent!”

DISMISSAL WITH BLESSING p. 151 (UMC Book of Worship) Leader: Now may our Creator God from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, according to the riches of God’s glory, grant you to be strengthened with might through God’s Spirit in your inner being, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, thatyoumaybefilledwithallthefullnessofGod.

All: Amen.

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Bishop Bruce Ough is the resident bishop of the Dakotas-Minnesota Area of The United Methodist Church, where he has served since Sept. 1, 2012.

Prior to his election and consecration as a bishop in July 2000, Bishop Ough served as the senior pastor of St. Paul’s UMC in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

HispreviousIowaappointmentsincludedfiveyearsasdistrictsuperintendentoftheCedarRapidsDistrict and Director of the Iowa Conference Council on Ministries for seven years. He has also served as Council Director of the former Dakotas Area and a camp program director for the former North Dakota Conference. He was ordained deacon in 1975 and elder in 1979 in the former North Dakota Conference.

Bishop Ough chaired the United Methodist Connectional Table for the 2012 to 2016 quadrennium and justfinishedatwo-yeartermaspresidentoftheCouncilofBishops.

He is married to Charlene Ough, and they are the parents of three sons: Lance (with spouse Cathie in Thornton, New Hampshire), Stuart (with spouse Christine in Indianapolis, Indiana), and Matthew (with spouse Jory in Green Bay, Wisconsin). They are the proud grandparents of seven grandchildren.

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Preacher: Bishop Bruce Ough, Resident Bishop for the Dakotas-Minnesota Area of the United Methodist Church

Liturgists: Macyn Frasher Parker Frasher Betty Kiboko Daniel Nyonzima Nitza Dovenspike

Family Hosts: Sue Terry Jo Campney

Choir Director: Rev. Dr. Jacqueline K. Thompson

Pianist: Phil Carver

East Central District Praise Band Simon Campbell – Guitar, Vocals Rev. Bobb Barrick – Bass Guitar Rev. John Louk – Percussion Mara Louk – Guitar, Vocals Rev. Rebecca Carver – Percussion, Vocals Phil Carver – Keyboard, Vocals

Worship Team: Sally Barrett, Phil Carver, Rev. Danilo Fernandez, Pastor Sue Ney, Thelma Perry, Rev. Hugh Stone, Rev. Dr. David Swinton, Chair; Rev. Dr. Jacqueline Thompson

Doors: Special thanks to Brandon Haugh at Apex Architectural EPS, who built the doors for our worship area; to Damon Spencer who painted the doors; and to Howard Brause (of Polk City UMC), who lent his artistic talents to the lettering and the details.

* Adapted from I Was There to Hear Your Borning Cry #2051 (TFWS)