God our Author and Creator, in whose life we find our own, make our daily witness greater by our lives make your love known. Help us show how love embraces those whom fear and greed downtrod; in all yearning hearts and faces let us see a child of God. Like those first apostles, Savior, give us strength to love and serve: when our fainting spirits waver, fire our hearts and steel our nerve. Teach us wisdom and compassion: bid our restless thoughts be still; by your guidance help us fashion lives conformed unto your will. Keep us faithful, Holy Spirit, help us bear the message true, that at last all lands may hear it: "God is love; Christ died for you." Join our lives in mighty chorus till we come from every place, with all those who went before us, to the fullness of God's grace.
Glory to God, all-pervading, all-knowing, all-seeing, saying the Word bringing space-time and life into being, holy and just, faithful, and worthy of trust, seeking and finding and freeing. Glory to Christ, who has brought us through love's flowing waters, new-born, beloved, and adopted as God's sons and daughters. Chosen, we choose, bearing and sharing good news-- humble and joyful reporters. Praise to the Spirit, conceiving, communing, connecting, eager for truth, every lie and evasion detecting, bringing to view gifts we ourselves never knew, all in the end resurrecting. *Great Holy Trinity, graciously calling and sending servants to follow the Servant, the friendless befriending, as you ordain friends to preside and proclaim, power us with praises unending! *This stanza is sung only at ordination services.