PRE-BURIAL SERVICE
PROGRAMME FOR BURIAL OF LATE HON. MARLON PRAISES ANIPA
LOCATION: LASHIBI FUNERAL HOME
DATE: FRIDAY 25TH FEBRUARY, 2022
TIME: 10.00am
OFFICIATING MINISTER: Rev. Dr E. K. Amegbletor
LITURGIST: Stella Mahu
ORDER OF SERVICE
- Call to Worship
- Hymn MHB 428 “I’ll Praise My Maker While I Have Breath”
- Prayer and Creed
- Song Ministration by the Great Choir
- Biography of the Deceased by a Family Member
- Tributes
- Hymn MHB 831 “Give Me The Wings of Faith to Rise”
- Scripture Reading: John 12:24 – 26
- Sermon
- Offertory
- Dedication of Offertory
- Presentation of Wreaths
- Vote of Thanks
- Announcements and Acknowledgements
- Closing Prayer and Benediction
- “Dead March in Saul” by the Organist
- Recessional Hymn MHB 976 “Now The Labourer’s Task is Over”
PRE-BURIAL HYMNS (MHB)
MHB 428
1. I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath,
And when my voice is lost in death,
Praise shall employ my nobler powers;
My days of praise shall ne’er be past,
While life, and thought, and being last,
Or immortality endures.
2. Why should I make a man my trust?
Princes must die and turn to dust;
Vain is the help of flesh and blood:
Their breath departs, their pomp, and power,
And thoughts, all vanish in an hour,
Nor can they make their promise good.
3. Happy the man whose hopes rely
On Israel’s God: He made the sky,
And earth, and seas, with all their train:
His truth for ever stands secure;
He saves th’oppressed, He feeds the poor,
And none shall find His promise vain.
MHB 831
- Give me the wings of faith to rise
within the veil, and see
the saints above, how great their joys,
how bright their glories be.
2 .Once they were mourning here below,
their couch was wet with tears;
they wrestled hard, as we do now,
with sins and doubts and fears.
- We ask them whence their victory came:
they, with united breath,
ascribe their conquest to the Lamb,
their triumph to his death.
MHB 976
- Now the laborer’s task is o’er;
Now the battle day is past;
Now upon the farther shore
Lands the voyager at last.
Refrain:
Father, in thy gracious keeping,
Leave we now thy servant sleeping. A-men.
- There the tears of earth are dried,
There its hidden things are clear,
There the work of life is tried
By a juster judge than here. [Refrain]
- There the penitents, that turn
To the cross their dying eyes,
All the love of Jesus learn
At his feet in Paradise. [Refrain]
- ‘Earth to earth, and dust to dust,’
Calmly now the words we say;
Leaving him to sleep, in trust,
Till the resurrection-day. [Refrain]