Tony Cook Order of Service

The funeral service conducted by

Pastor Andrew FisherFrom Wellspring Victory Church, Bolnuevo.

OnWednesday, 18th November 2009

At11am

In Loving Memory

of

Anthony (Tony) Douglas Cook

29th April 1944 ~ 14th November 2009

ORDER OF SERVICE

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MUSIC IN MEMORY OF TONYThe First Time I Saw Your Face

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WELCOME

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OPENING PRAYER

We have come here today to remember before God our brother Tony. To give

thanks for his life. To commend him to God our merciful redeemer and judge;

To commit his body to be cremated, and to comfort one another in our grief.

God of all consolation, your Son Jesus Christ was moved to tears at the grave of

Lazarus his friend. Look with compassion on your children in their loss, give to

troubled hearts the light of hope and strengthen in us the gift of faith, in Jesus

Christ our Lord.

GOSPEL READING

John 5 Vs 24-27

I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has

eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. I

tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the

voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in

himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself. And he has given him

authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.

READING FROM SCRIPTURERomans 8 Vs 38-39

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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HYMN

Amazing Grace Hymn

Amazing grace! How sweet the soundThat saved a wretch like me!

I once was lost, but now am found;Was blind, but now I see.

Through many dangers, toils and snares,We have already come;

'Tis grace that brought us safe thus far,And grace will lead us home.

When we've been there ten thousand years,Bright shining as the sun,

We've no less days to sing God's praiseThan when we'd first begun.

Amazing grace! How sweet the soundThat saved a wretch like me!

I once was lost, but now am found;Was blind, but now I see.

PRAYERS

All: Lord, we come into your presence to remember Tony and to seek

your comfort, for we know that nothing can separate us from your

love and that you support us in our sorrow. We are sure that the

souls of the righteous are with you and that nothing can harm them.

Although they have died they are in peace. Give us your strength to

rejoice that you have taken Tony to be with yourself where he shall

no more be in need. May we find life and peace and perfect joy with

him in your presence; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen

All: God of mercy, we acknowledge that we are all sinners. We turn

from the wrong that we have thought and said and done, and are

mindful of all that we have failed to do. For the sake of Jesus, who

died for us, forgive us for all that is past, and help us to live each

day in the light of Christ our Lord.

Amen.

READING FROM SCRIPTURE

Psalm 23The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days

of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

POEM Gone To Soon

You never said "I'm leaving"

You never said goodbye

You were gone before I knew it,

And only God knew why

A million times I needed you,

A million times I cried

If Love alone could have saved you,

You never would have died

In Life I loved you dearly

In death I love you still

In my heart you hold a place,

That no one could ever fill

It broke my heart to lose you,

But you didn't go alone

For part of me went with you,

The day God took you home.

A PERSONAL TRIBUTE & MUSIC IN MEMORY OF TONYBarbra Streisand ~ I've dreamed of you

A PERSONAL TRIBUTE & MUSIC IN MEMORY OF TONYBarbra Streisand ~ I've dreamed of you

POEMRemember Me

To the living, I am gone

To the sorrowful, I will never return

To the angry, I was cheated

But to the happy, I am at peace

And to the faithful, I have never left

I cannot speak, but I can listen

I cannot be seen, but I can be heard

So as you stand upon the shore

Gazing at the beautiful sea, remember me

As you look in awe at a mighty forest

And in its grand majesty, remember me

Remember me in your hearts,

In your thoughts, and the memories of the

Times we loved, the times we cried,

the battle we fought and the times we laughed

For if you always think of me,

I will never have gone.

THE LORDS PRAYER

All: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed by 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

temptation; but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the

power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

COMMENDATION

Let us commend Tony to the mercy of God, Our maker and redeemer. God our

creator and redeemer, by your power Christ conquered death and entered into

glory. Confident of his victory and claiming his promises, we entrust Tony to your

mercy in the name of Jesus our Lord, who died and is alive and reigns with you,

now and forever.

Amen.

COMMITTAL

The Lord is full of compassion and mercy, slow to anger and of great goodness.

As a father is tender towards his children, so is the Lord tender to those that fear

him. For he knows of what we are made; he remembers that we are but dust. Our

days are like the grass; we flourish like a flower of the field; when the wind goes

over it, it is gone and its place will know it no more. But the merciful goodness of

the Lord endures for ever and ever towards those that fear him and his

righteousness upon their children's children.

We have entrusted our brother Tony to God’s mercy, and we now, commit his

body to be cremated: earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust: in the sure and

certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ, who

will transform our frail bodies that they may be conformed to his glorious body,

who died, was buried, and rose again for us. To him be glory for ever.

Amen.

THE BLESSING

May God give you his comfort and his peace, his light and his joy, in this world

and the next; and the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son, and the

Holy Spirit, be among you and remain with you always.

Amen.

EXIT MUSICRonan Keating ~ When You Say Nothing At All

Donation in memory of Tony may be given to MABS

Service Sheets Designed & Printedby

The English Funeral Director, Tony Smith. Tel: 650 631 719www.EnglishFuneralDirector.com