We praise your name, O God of all creation, for making plain the purpose of your will; we thank you for creative inspiration and our responding through design and skill. We thank you that our faith has found expression in walls that shelter those who worship here; help us to be a house of intercession and make us glad the world is always near. We set this place apart for praise and preaching, for breaking bread and practice to forgive; we pray that through the open-ness of teaching together, young and old, may learn to live. Keep free our life from bondage of tradition and let your Holy Spirit set the trend, endow us with an urgent sense of mission; our doors be wide to welcome and to send. Your word be in our actions clearly spoken extend our church beyond the builder's plan and use our witness as a vivid token that you are still with woman, child and man.