Collective Worship Resources - Baptism

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Week BeginningWeek Beginning

10thth January 2011January 2011


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Monday 10th January

Pause to Reflect: What would it be like for me to hear God say

You are my beloved daughter/son; with you I am well pleased?


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Let us pray:

Almighty, eternal God, when the Spirit descended upon

Jesus at his baptism in the Jordan, you revealed him as

your own beloved Son. Keep us, your children born of

water and the Spirit, faithful to our calling.We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one

God, for ever and ever. Amen.


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Response: Let all who have nothing, come to the water.

1. Millions of people around theworld face water shortages.Many millions of children die everyyear from water-borne diseases.Response

2. "We need to free women and girlsfrom the daily chore of hauling water, oftenover great distances. We must involve themin decision-making on water management.We need to make sanitation a priority. Thisis where progress is lagging most." (KofiAnnan) Response

3. There are 1.1 billion people or 18%of the world's population who lack accessto safe drinking water. About 2.6 billionpeople or 42% of the total lack access tobasic sanitation. Response

4. At any one time, half the world'shospital beds are occupied by patientssuffering from water-borne diseases.Response

Today we will be reflecting on the importance

of water in our lives and pray for those

who do not have this privilege.


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Prayer:

Leader: Source of all Being,

Who brought water from the stone,

Giver of life,

In whom all things live and move and have their being,All: Give us the miracle of gratitude,

for how our lives are sustained in your care.

Give us the miracle of courage and creativity

to find new habits for ourselves, our country, and our

world,

in sharing your resources.

AMEN


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Response: And let all who work too hard, let them come to the water.

1. For a family of six, collecting enough water for drinking, cooking and basic hygienemay mean hauling heavy water containers from a distant source for an average of threehours a day. Most often this is the work of women and girls.Response

2. Twenty years of oil industry activity have left 30,000 people in Ecuador's northeastAmazon region with no clean water. The issue is now in the courts.Response

3. The CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) predicts water scarcity for half of the world'spopulation in ten years. At the same time, the United States government has removedwater as a human right from the statements of the last several global water conferences.

Response


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Prayer:Leader: God of life, help us to remember,

that, for some, the earth is parched.

We lift to you

those for whom clean water is

not a basic right but a luxury,

We cry out, O God,

against conflict and violencethat leaves crops to wither

and drives families from their homes

to lands where fresh, clean water is only a dream.

All: In this season of new life,

may we heed your call

to hunger and thirst

for righteousness

and may your justice and righteousness

roll down as an ever-flowing stream.

(This prayer taken from the MCC website)


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Baptism is the Christian

religious practice with the

use of water as anevidence of a new born

Christian. There are a few

types of Christian Baptism

such as submersion,

immersion, pouring orsprinkling. The baptism is

an act of Gods salvation

and given new birth

through water and spirit.

What does baptism mean for Christians today?


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Prayer:

"Blessings be with you today

and every day to come

Through caring actsmay your life be lit with love

Through kindness

may contentment be your reward

With gentlenessmay you journey well

With truth and beauty

may you follow a path

That wherever you gowhatever you do

todays grace and joy

abides with you!"

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Prayer - Susan Helene Kramer

Think of someone you

would like to prayer for

today. Maybe they are

recently baptised, maybe

they are not. Perhaps you

want to pray that more

people will come to know

Christ as their Lord and

therefore be baptised.

Maybe you want to

remember your own

baptism. In the silent of

your heart think of thisperson.


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In the Roman Catholic Christian tradition,Baptism is the first sacrament,

a ceremony of welcome in the Christian Community.

Pause for thought as we begin a New Year, are there people you need to welcome

into your life, whether for the first time, or by forgiving them and starting anew?


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Collective Worship Resources - Baptism