Memorial Service of Leanne Payne

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We pray that the Holy Spirit will bless your viewing of this service with a fresh anointing of His own living presence. Thank you for joining with us in honoring Leanne’s life and ministry.

Yours in Christ,
The MPC ministry team

Organ Prelude: Come Sweet Death - Bach (John Cannon)

Processional: Lift High the Cross (All)

Officiant: Alleluia! Christ is risen!

People: The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia!

Hymn: All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name (All)

Officiant: Welcome.

Officiant: The Lord be with you.

People: And also with you.

Officiant: Let us pray.

Prayer (Cesli Vaccaro): O God, who by the glorious resurrection of Your Son Jesus

Christ destroyed death, we remember before You this day our sister, Leanne. We

thank You for giving her to us to minister Your life and wholeness to so many. We

ask that You would open the eyes of our hearts to see in death the gate to eternal life

so that in quiet confidence we may continue our course on earth, until, by Your call,

we are reunited with Leanne and others who have gone before; through Jesus Christ

our Lord. Amen.

Solo: Our Father (Jeffrey Jensen)

Psalm 84: (Bob Fischer)

Hymn: The King of Love My Shepherd Is (All)

Reflections: (Jean Holt)

Solo: Ave Maria (Dedra Kaiser)

Reflections: (Gino Vaccaro)

Solo: Gaelic Prayer (Sile Ellison)

Reflections: (Sillimon Davis)

Hymn: O God Almighty Father (All)

Solo: Holy Art Thou (Jeffrey Jensen)

Homily: (Sarah Colyn)

Homily: (Norman Arnold)

Hymns: Amazing Grace, My Chains Are Gone (All)

Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (All)

It Is Well with My Soul (All)

Homily: (Conlee Bodishbaugh)

Officiant: The Lord be with you.

People: And also with you.

Prayer (Tommy Briggs): Lord Jesus Christ, we commend to You our sister Leanne,

who was reborn by water and the Spirit in Holy Baptism. Grant, we pray, that her

life and death may recall to us Your victory over death, and be an occasion to renew

our trust in Your Father’s love. Give us the faith to follow You as did Leanne; that

You may be glorified through our lives as it was through hers. Amen.

Solo: When All Is Said and Done (Clay McLean)

Recessional: The Church’s One Foundation (All)

Dismissal (by the officiant from the rear of congregation): Let us go into the world

rejoicing in the power of the Spirit.

Postlude:

When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder (Doug Carrington, Organ)

Fugue in G Major “Gigue” BVW 577 J.S. Bach (John Cannon, Organ)