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All Things Are Yours

Author: Bryan Jeffery Leech Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Social Concerns First Line: All things are yours: we make that true Lyrics: 1 All things are yours; we make that true when we return our gifts to you; and so we give, and so we share, in Christ's strong name expressing care. 2 "Give out of love" your Word commands; we are your head, your heart, your hands. Your Word you underscore with deeds by using us to answer needs. 3 O what a joy to give, and then out of compassion give again. You have no needs--though that be true, the gifts we share are given to you. 4 All things are yours: we make that true when we return our gifts to you; and so we give, and so we share, in Christ's strong name expressing care. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 6:20 Used With Tune: GERMANY

Where Cross the Crowded Ways

Author: Frank Mason North Appears in 386 hymnals Topics: Social Concern First Line: Where cross the crowded ways of life Scripture: Acts 18:9-10 Used With Tune: GERMANY

Absalom Jones

Author: Michael McKee; Carl MaultsBy Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Justice/Social Concern First Line: Born in slav'ry, worked and paid for his freedom Refrain First Line: Absalom, our friend and preacher Used With Tune: [Born in slav'ry, worked and paid for his freedom]

O holy city, seen of John

Author: Walter Russell Bowie, 1882-1969 Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.6 Appears in 88 hymnals Topics: Social Concerns / Social Justice Lyrics: 1 O holy city, seen of John, where Christ, the Lamb, doth reign, within whose foursquare walls shall come no night, nor need, nor pain, and where the tears are wiped from eyes that shall not weep again! 2 Hark, how from men whose lives are held more cheap than merchandise, from women struggling sore for bread, from little children's cries, there swells the sobbing human plaint that bids thy walls arise. 3 Oh shame to us who rest content while lust and greed for gain in street and shop and tenement wring gold from human pain, and bitter lips in blind despair cry “Christ hath died in vain!” 4 Give us, O God, the strength to build the city that hath stood too long a dream, whose laws are love, whose crown is servanthood, and where the sun that shineth is God’s grace for human good. 5 Already in the mind of God that city riseth fair: lo, how its splendour challenges the souls that greatly dare– yea, bids us seize the whole of life and build its glory there. Scripture: Hebrews 11:10 Used With Tune: MORNING SONG Text Sources: Hymns of the Christian Life, 1910, alt.

God of Our Fathers (A Ti, Señor, Omnipotente Dios)

Author: Daniel c. Roberts, 1841-1907; Juanita R. de Balloch, b. 1894 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 448 hymnals Topics: Social Concern First Line: God of our fathers, whose almighty hand (A ti, Señor, omnipotente Dios) Scripture: Psalm 44:1-9 Used With Tune: NATIONAL HYMN

Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service

Author: Albert F. Bayly, 1901-1984 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 52 hymnals Topics: General Music for Worship Social Concern and Justice Used With Tune: HOLY MANNA

Corre el Viento (Wind and Cold Roar)

Author: Homero R. Perera; Madeleine Forell Marshall, n. 1946 Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Social Concern First Line: Corre el viento en esta gran ciudad (Wind and cold through the city street) Refrain First Line: Ayúdanos a entender (Help us grasp how this is our sin) Scripture: Matthew 25:42-45 Used With Tune: PERDÓN, SEÑOR

Breathe on Me, Breath of God

Author: Edwin Hatch Appears in 367 hymnals Topics: Social Concern Scripture: Ephesians 3:16 Used With Tune: TRENTHAM

Mayenziwe (Your Will Be Done)

Appears in 20 hymnals Topics: Social Concern First Line: Mayenziwe 'ntando yakho (Your will be done on earth, O Lord) Lyrics: Your will be done on earth, O Lord. Your will be done on earth, O Lord. Your will be done on earth, O Lord. Your will be done on earth, O Lord. Your will be done on earth, O Lord. Xhosa: Mayenziwe ’ntando yakho. Mayenziwe ’ntando yakho. Mayenziwe ’ntando yakho. Mayenziwe ’ntando yakho. Mayenziwe ’ntando yakho. Scripture: Matthew 6:10 Used With Tune: [Mayenziwe 'ntando yakho] Text Sources: Lord's Prayer, South African

Loaves Were Broken, Words Were Spoken

Author: Herman G. Stuempfle Jr. Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Social Concerns Refrain First Line: By your body broken for us Scripture: Matthew 26:26-30 Used With Tune: BEACH SPRING