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FAMILY ENRICHMENT/KINSHIP SUNDAY

MUSIC & WORSHIP RESOURCES

Sunday, October 23, 2011

The African American Lectionary Liturgists Team

Worship Planning Notes

This year’s Family Enrichment/Kinship Sunday Scripture focuses on discipline. If your congregation decides to use discipline or related subjects as a theme, here are suggestions to aid you in planning your worship service:

• Plan your service at least two months in advance to allow time to have all members of your church invite their family and extended family members.



• Highlight the theme of discipline. Have select family members give brief (fun or serious) testimonies about an instance they received discipline and how it blessed their life. Keep the testimonies to two minutes or less. Allow persons from all ages to give testimonies at select points throughout the service. For instance, you could open the service with a discipline testimony, have another during the announcement segment, and have another before the sermon.



• List brief sayings that concern discipline in your bulletin. See the Family
  Enrichment/Kinship Sunday 2011 Cultural Resource unit for examples.



• Plan a family picnic that will occur either the Saturday before or immediately after your worship service. Allow youth and teenagers to assist in planning the activities for the picnic.



• Encourage each family to choose a color to represent their entire family at the service. Ideally, the color should have some symbolic meaning or significance to the family. Each individual in the family can decide how to wear the color (as a suit, blouse, pants, scarf, etc.).



• Honor both the family who has attended your church the longest and the newest family in your church.

1. Responsive Reading

	The Black Family
Leader:	O God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Creator and Sustainer of the universe, Maker of all there is, we recognize the multitude of challenges facing families as we celebrate the bonds of kinship established through your love.
Congregation:	We celebrate strong black families everywhere and their future generations.
Leader:	We understand the negative impact of poverty, poor education, crime and substance abuse, premature sexual activity, inadequate housing, and unemployment on the black family.
Congregation:	We acknowledge that of ourselves we can do nothing, but with you all things are possible.
Leader:	We declare our interest in and commitment to the survival of the black family. Now, therefore, we affirm for every black family faith, strength, and love.
Congregation:	We pray for faith, strength, and love for black families everywhere and for future generations.
Leader:	We further pray for black family understanding, wisdom, and power.
Congregation:	We pray for understanding, wisdom, and power for black families everywhere and for future generations.
Leader:	We pray for the inner strength of every black family member—every parent, every spouse, every child, every sibling, and every caregiver—that they may never forget your promise to strengthen them and cause them to stand, upheld by your righteous, omnipotent hand.
Congregation:	Our prayer is that you would renew our minds, uplift our hearts, and create a growing spiritual life for our people today and for future generations.
All:	Blest be the tie that binds, our hearts in Christian love! The fellowship of kindred minds is like to that above.

2. Hymns and Congregational Songs
(a) A Christian Home. By Barbara B. Hart. Tune, (FINLANDIA), by Jean Sibelius

(b) Precious Memories. By J. B. F. Wright and Lonnie B. Combs

(c) We’re Marching to Zion. By Isaac Watts

3. Spirituals
(a) Stan’in in de Need of Prayer (solo). Arr. by Hall Johnson

(b) Ole-Time Religion.

4. Gospel Songs for Choirs, Ensembles, or Praise Teams
(a) I Need You to Survive. By David Frazier

(b) United We Stand. By Timothy Wright

(c) When Will We Sing the Same Song? By John P. Kee

5. Liturgical Dance or Mime Ministry Music
(a) You Are an Heir. By Donald Lawrence

(b) Yes. By Phil Tarver

6. Anthems
(a) Family Born of Font and Spirit (w/opt. congregation). By Jeffrey Honoré

(b) As a Family, We Thank You (w/opt. congregation). By Ruth Elaine Schram

7. Modern Songs (Written between 2000–2010)
(a) Unity. By Glorraine Moone. Based on Psalm 133:1

(b) Family (There’s a Healing). By Donald Lawrence

(c) Umoja (Unity). By Glenn Burleigh

(d) Family Bible. By Willie Nelson

(e) The Family of God. By William J. Gaither and Gloria Gaither

8. Song or Instrumental for the Offertory Period
(a) Will the Circle Be Unbroken? By Ada R. Habershon

(b) In the Sanctuary. By Kurt Carr

9. Song or Instrumental for the Period of Prayer
(a) We Are One. By Timothy Wright

(b) They’ll Know We Are Christians. By Peter Scholtes

(c) Koinonia. By V. Michael McKay

10. Sermonic Selection
(a) I Bowed on My Knees and Cried Holy. By Nettie Dudley Washington. Arr. by Lari Goss

(b) Seasons. By Donald Lawrence

11. Invitational Song or Instrumental
(a) The Family of God. By Gloria Gaither and William Gaither

(b) The Bond of Love. By Otis Skillings

(c) O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee. By Washington Gladden. Tune, (MARYTON), by H. Percy Smith

12. Benediction Song or Instrumental
(a) Make Us One. By Carol Cymbala

(b) God Be with You Till We Meet Again. By Jeremiah E. Rankin

Cites and Additional Information for Music and Material Listed

1. Responsive Reading—The Black Family
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2. Hymns and Congregational Songs
(a) A Christian Home. By Barbara B. Hart. Tune, (FINLANDIA), by Jean Sibelius
Location:
(b) Precious Memories. By J. B. F. Wright and Lonnie B. Combs
Location:
(c) We’re Marching to Zion. By Isaac Watts
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3. Spirituals
(a) Stan’in in de Need of Prayer (solo). Arr. by Hall Johnson
Location:

(b) Ole-Time Religion.
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4. Gospel Songs for Choirs, Ensembles, or Praise Teams
(a) I Need You to Survive. By David Frazier
Location:
(b) United We Stand. By Timothy Wright
Location:
(c) When Will We Sing the Same Song? By John P. Kee
Location:
5. Liturgical Dance or Mime Ministry Music
(a) You Are an Heir. By Donald Lawrence
Location:

(b) Yes. By Phil Tarver
Location:
6. Anthems
(a) Family Born of Font and Spirit. By Jeffrey Honoré
Location:

(b) As a Family, We Thank You (w/opt. congregation). By Ruth Elaine Schram
Location:

7. Modern Songs (Written between 2000–2010)
(a) Unity. By Glorraine Moone. Based on Psalm 133:1
Location:
(b) Family (There’s a Healing). By Donald Lawrence
Location:

(c) Umoja (Unity). By Glenn Burleigh
Location:

(d) Family Bible. By Willie Nelson
Location:
(e) The Family of God. By William J. Gaither and Gloria Gaither
Location:
8. Song or Instrumental for the Offertory Period
(a) Will the Circle Be Unbroken? By Ada R. Habershon
Location:
(b) In the Sanctuary. By Kurt Carr
Location:
9. Song or Instrumental for the Period of Prayer
(a) We Are One. By Timothy Wright
Location:
(b) They’ll Know We Are Christians. By Peter Scholtes
Location:
(c) Koinonia. By V. Michael McKay
Location:
10. Sermonic Selection
(a) I Bowed on My Knees and Cried Holy. By Nettie Dudley Washington. Arr. by Lari Goss
Location:

(b) Seasons. By Donald Lawrence
Location:

11. Invitational Song or Instrumental
(a) The Family of God. By Gloria Gaither and William Gaither
Location:
(b) The Bond of Love. By Otis Skillings
Location:
(c) O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee. By Washington Gladden. Tune, (MARYTON), by H. Percy Smith
Location:
12. Benediction Song or Instrumental
(a) Make Us One. By Carol Cymbala
Location:

(b) God Be with You Till We Meet Again. By Jeremiah E. Rankin
Location:

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