+ End of School Year Prayer Service “Gathere d in One Spirit”
Dec 28, 2015
+Introduction
We are here today to remember, to pray, and to think in hope about the future. We are gathered to
thank God for our times together, for the friends we have made, for
all we have learned about life from our teacher and from each other
this year. We are here too, so that we can pray for each other, each
one’s happiness in the future. This a time of some sadness and some joy – sad to leave a lot behind, but joy in moving on. We look ahead in hope to know that God will be with
us in the future.
+Opening Prayer
Let us begin our prayer, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Spirit. Amen.
God of mystery, whose voice whispers our name, gather us now in your one Spirit and prepare our hearts to come to your table. We ask this is the name
of Jesus our Lord. Amen.
+A reading according to the book
of John…
I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us so that the world may believe
that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that
you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you
loved me before the foundation of the world.
Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you; and these know that you have sent me. I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in
them, and I in them.
The word of the Lord.
Response: Thanks be to God.
+ Let us pray that we all continue to be followers
of Jesus and that God will watch over
each of us and keep us safe
throughout the summer months.
+ Let us pray for
the poor, the hungry and the homeless, that we won’t forget
about them while we are
spending time with families
and friends this summer.
+ Let us pray for all the staff at (insert school name), that
they will gain peace and strength during the summer
months and that they will return in September, ready
to continue to inspire and
encourage their students.
+ Let us pray for our
graduating students, who are
leaving our school, that God will continue to bless them and support them in
their future endeavors with
his guidance and love.
+
Let us pray for all the staff and students, who are leaving our
school, that they will find
successes and friendships in
their new schools.
+Closing Prayer
When the day has finally drawn to its close, it is time to look back over all that has happened and to that God for his presence. Then we can rest sweetly in the calm
of his love. God of love, your son, Jesus, did not abandon us but sends us your Spirit to live in our hearts, to burn there with love, to unite us all as
brothers and sisters. May we open our hearts to your Spirit of love, and through the same Holy Spirit come to
know you, Father and your son, Jesus, who live and reign with you forever and even. Amen.
And may Almighty God bless us in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
+This Little Light of Mine
This little light of mine,
I'm gonna let it shineThis little light of
mine,I'm gonna let it shine
This little light of mine,
I'm gonna let it shineLet it shine,Let it shine,Let it shine.
+This Little Light of Mine
All Around My Neighborhood - I’m gonna let it shine
All Around My Neighborhood - I’m gonna let it shine
All Around My Neighborhood - I’m gonna let it shineLet it shine, let it shine, let it shine
+This Little Light of Mine
I won’t let no one put it out – no - I’m
gonna let it shineI won’t let no one
put it out – no - I’m gonna let it shineI won’t let no one
put it out – no - I’m gonna let it shineLet it shine, let it shine, let it shine