“English” language resources
Listening to the voice
This podcast is suggested as a resource in the 2023 Migration Worship and Resource Pack
Listening to the voice – first 5 minutes of Guardian podcast
“Did distress calls go unanswered in the run-up to a fatal Channel disaster?” https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2023/may/10/did-the-uk-coastguard-ignore-desperate-calls-for-help-podcast
From start to 3m58s in.
Bible verses relating to migration
These appear as suggested readings in the 2023 Migration Worship and Resource Pack
The Bible on Welcoming Strangers (New International Version)
Leviticus 19:34:
“You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your
Our sons
This appears as a suggested reading in the 2023 Migration Worship and Resource Pack
Our sons, our grandsons, our nephews, our cousins
Are from Surrey, England, Eritrea, Kurdistan, Sudan, Afghanistan
Want to be plumbers, doctors, cricketers, barbers, engineers, nurses, mechanics, actors
Worry about exams
Leave clothes on the floor
Love rap
Hate getting up in
Hymns relating to Migration
These appear as suggested hymns in the 2023 Migration Worship and Resource Pack
Hymns for Living
HFL no. 172, ‘Open Wide Your Hearts’
HFL no. 198, ‘For the Healing of the Nations’
HFL no. 226, ‘This is My Song’ (‘Song of Peace’).
HFL no. 255, ‘This Land is Our Land’
Sing Your Faith
SYF no. 84, ‘Justice for Persons’.
SYF no. 130, ‘Ours
Idyllic beaches break the waves, a hymn relating to migration and asylum – sadly still pertinent..
Tune: KINGSFOLD
This appears as a suggested hymn in the 2023 Migration Worship and Resource Pack
From Andrew Pratt: “These images will not be diminished by persecuting migrants, nor by making a false distinction between those seeking asylum and so called economic migrants. We need to welcome as fellow human beings people coming to our shores who
The coming days
This appears as the Benediction in the 2023 Migration Worship and Resource Pack
God of our hearts,
Bless us as we part.
Be with us as we face
the quandaries, fears and puzzles of the coming days.
Send your peace among us,
And through all our troubled world.
May it be so.
Amen.
Earth blessings
The Earth –
Soil feels in your hands
As life itself
Blessed Earth thank you
May we remember Earth
Commit to our connection
Today and every day.
The Air –
This breath in your lungs
As life itself
Blessed Air thank you
May we remember Air
Commit to our connection
Today and every day.
The Sun –
This heat and light
As
Solstice blessings
May this moment hold you in gratitude
May your breath be an expression of thanks
May the risen sun be a guidance
May a togetherness take root as the core of your being
May a lovingness be everything you are finally seeing
May Solstice Blessings be the forever opening heart we are all invited to be.