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The Church of Christ in Every Age

Author: Fred Pratt Green, 1903-2000 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 32 hymnals Topics: Injustice Lyrics: 1 The church of Christ in every age beset by change but Spirit-led, must claim and test its heritage, and keep on rising from the dead. 2 Across the world, across the street, the victims of injustice cry, for shelter and for bread to eat, and never live until they die. 3 Then let the servant church arise, a caring church that longs to be a partner in Christ’s sacrifice, and clothed in Christ’s humanity. 3 We have no mission but to serve in full obedience to our Lord, to care for all, without reserve, and spread his liberating word. 4 For Christ alone, whose blood was shed, can cure the fever in our blood, and teach us how to share our bread and feed the starving multitude. 5 We have no mission but to serve in full obedience to our Lord: to care for all, without reserve, and spread Christ's liberating word. Used With Tune: DEO GRACIAS (AGINCOURT)

Lift Every Voice and Sing

Author: James Welcon Johnson, 1871-1938 Appears in 54 hymnals Topics: Injustice Lyrics: 1 Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; facing the rising sun of our new day begun, let us march on till victory is won. 2 Stony the road we trod, bitter the chast’ning rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our people sighed? We have come over a way that with tears has been watered. We have come, treading or path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the bright gleam of our bright star is cast. 3 God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, thou who hast brought us thus far on the way; thou who hast by thy might led us into the light, keep us forever in the path, we pray. Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee; lest, our heart drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee; shadowed beneath thy hand, may we forever stand, true to our God, true to our native land. Scripture: Romans 16:25-555 Used With Tune: LIFT EVERY VOICE

God Weeps

Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Meter: 6.4.8.10 Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Injustice First Line: God weeps at love withheld Lyrics: 1 God weeps at love withheld, at strength misused, at children's innocence abused, and till we change the way we love, God weeps. 2 God bleeds at anger's fist, at trust betrayed, at women battered and afraid, and till we change the way we win, God bleeds. 3 God cries at hungry mouths, at running sores, at creatures dying without cause, and till we change the way we care, God cries. 4 God waits for stones to melt, for peace to seed, for hearts to hold each other's need, and till we understand the Christ, God waits. Scripture: 2 Corinthians 1:3-5 Used With Tune: DAKE

Brothers and Sisters of Mine

Author: Kenneth I. Morse, 1913-1999 Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Injustice First Line: Brothers and sisters of mine are the hungry Scripture: Luke 6:36-38 Used With Tune: MINE ARE THE HUNGRY

Restless Weaver

Author: O. I. Cricket Harrison, 1955- Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Injustice First Line: Restless Weaver, ever spinning Scripture: Psalm 24:1-2 Used With Tune: JEFFERSON

The People Walk (Un pueblo que camina)

Author: Juan A. Espinosa, 1940-; Martin A. Seltz, 1951- Meter: 12.11.12.4 with refrain Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Injustice First Line: The poor ones of the world await the dawn of hope ((Los pobres siempre esperan el amanecer) Refrain First Line: The people walk throughout the world together (Un pueblo que camina por el mundo) Scripture: Galatians 4:4-7 Used With Tune: UN PUEBLO QUE CAMINO

I Am Standing Waiting

Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Injustice First Line: I am standing waiting, waiting at your door Lyrics: 1 I am standing waiting, waiting at your door, one of hunger's children from a billion poor, though you cannot see me, though I am so small— listen to my crying, crying for us all. 2 I stand at your table asking to be fed, holding up my rice bowl, begging for your bread, I stand at your schoolroom longing just to learn, hoping that you'll teach me ways to live and earn. 3 I stand at hour clinic begging for vaccine, I stand at your wash place where the water's clean, I stand at your office, beg the heads of state, I am just a child, so I must hope and wait. 4 I stand in your churches, listen to your prayers, long to know a God who understands and cares. If there is a God, a God who loves the poor, I'm still standing waiting, waiting at your door. Scripture: Matthew 25:31-36 Used With Tune: AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE

Eternal God Transcending Time

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr., 1944- Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Injustice Lyrics: 1 Eternal God transcending time, yet mindful of the fears, the hopes, the questions raised for us by ever-changing years: so guide us through our pilgrim days that we may find a home where justice, truth, and mercy meet, fulfilled in your shalom. 2 Incarnate God revealed in time, true Word in flesh retold, who marked the years from birth to death, then rose to break death's hold: by your becoming one with us, help us to know and claim the unity of all baptized in your redeeming name. 3 Life-breathing God enliv'ning time, awaking heart and tongue, inspiring prophets, bringing hope, consoling old and young: draw us to those denied your gifts by bias, want, or strife, convert our wills and form through us new channels of your life. 4 Great Triune God, so bless the time entrusted to our care, that all our varied ministries may form a common prayer; then when time ceases, bring us where divisions are undone, that in your presence, joined in praise, at last we may be one. Scripture: John 1:1-4 Used With Tune: THE FLIGHT OF THE EARLS

Why Should the Earth Disclose a Face

Author: Geoffrey F. Spencer, 1927-2005 Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Injustice Used With Tune: CANONBURY

Leftover People in Leftover Places

Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Meter: 11.10.11.10 D Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Injustice Lyrics: 1 Leftover people in leftover places, troubled, disabled, the needy and sad, scavenging crumbs from society's plenty, sick to the soul when their life has gone bad; these are the ones in God's upside-down kingdom deemed to be worthy and called to the feast, soup-kitchen people invited to banquet, valued as greatly as royal and priest. 2 Leftover people, disposable people, locked into prisons of drugs and despair, poverty's children in poverty's spiral, locked out of learning and earning their share; these are the ones in God's upside-down kingdom, these are the Christ in their shabby disguise, these are the least and the highly unlikely, given a hope and new light in their eyes. 3 Here is God's testing of true Easter people, spirited people with service to give, taking to heart the compassion of Jesus, feeling how others must struggle to live; we are a part of God's upside-down kingdom, we know the heart if the gospel's demand, taking our part with the leftover people, widening the space of the lines in the sand. Scripture: Matthew 25:31-45 Used With Tune: CONNECT