Online prayer service for Tonga

Service of Prayer

Following Volcano Eruption and Tsunami in Tonga

20th January 2022, 7.30pm

GREETINGS & INTRODUCTION - Matagi  (Advocate, BMCC - Being a Multicultural Church Circle)

WELCOME TO COUNTRY - Mark Kickett  (Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress)

LIGHTING OF THE CANDLE OF HOPE - Rev Dr Apwee Ting - Assembly Resourcing Unit

CALL TO WORSHIP & OPENING PRAYER - Matagi  (Advocate, BMCC)

OPENING HYMN: Tongan Hymn 545 ‘Kalisitiani, ‘oua ’

PSALM 130 - Ps Milise Ofa Foiakau (member, BMCC) or Ps Joyce Tangi (Uniting Mission and Education, NSW/ACT Synod)

PSALM 46 - Rev Sandy Brodine  (member, BMCC)

MESSAGES OF SOLIDARITY AND PRAYER

1. (Rev Kili Mafaufau - Samoan National Conference)
2. (Ps Kenny Nelisi - Niue National Conference)
   
3. (Mr Jone Lotu - Fijian National Conference)
4. (Rev Seungjae Yeon - Korean National Conference)
5. (Rev Amel Manyon - South Sudanese National Conference)
6. (Rev Berlin Guerrero - Filipino National Conference)
7. (Ps Levon Kardashian - Middle Eastern National Conference)
   
8. (Rev Cyrus Kung, BMCC)
9. (Rev Esteban Lievano - Ibero Latino National Conference)
10. (Rev Ajub Jahja - Indonesian National Conference)
11. (Dr Paul Goh, BMCC)

SONG: Tongan Hymn 410: ‘Sisu, he Taulanga u’

1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-13 - Rev Charissa Suli (President Elect)

A PASTORAL MESSAGE 

Rev Sharon Hollis (UCA, President)

RESPONSE  - Rev Feke Kamitoni (Chair - Tongan National Conference)

CLOSING SONG - ‘A Beautiful Thing’ (sung by Radhika Sukumar-White)

BENEDICTION - Matagi