The funeral service conducted by Pastor Andrew Fisher

Friday 15th March 2013 at 2pm

In Loving Memory of

John Gwyn Jones 24th May 1955 ~ 10th March 2013

ORDER OF SERVICE

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Croeso ~ Welcome ~

Opening Prayer

The death of someone we love and care about, is like the death of part of us. No one else will ever call out from within us quite the same responses, the same feelings or actions or ideas. Their death is an ending of one part of a story. Lord as we look back over John’s life. We ask that what we have received, what we can appropriate, and continue on in our own lives, we will, and what must be laid to rest, we will lay those things down. Our love for John reminds us that our sharing in one another's lives brings both support and pain. Our being parted from him reminds us of our own mortality ......And that your love is enduring. We thank you that our love for John draws us together and gives us a new appreciation of one another, and of the beauty and fragility of relationships, which mirror your grace and goodness to us. Lord, time's tide may wash Johns footprints from the shore, but not our love for him nor the influence of his life upon our own. Nor the ways in which they will ever be a sign for us, of those things which really matter - which are eternal. Hear this prayer for your love's sake. Amen.

Prayers

All: Lord, we come into your presence to remember John and to seek

your comfort, for we know that nothing can separate us from your love

and that you support us in our sorrow. We are sure that the souls of the

righteous are with you and that nothing can harm them. Although they

have died they are in peace. Give us your strength to rejoice that you have

received John to be with yourself where he shall no more be in need. May

we find life and peace and perfect joy with him in your presence; through

Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen

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Reading From Scripture

Psalm 23

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down

in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters He restoreth my

soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea,

though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no

evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou

preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou

anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and

mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the

house of the LORD for ever.

Reading From Scripture 1 Corinthians 13 Vs 1-13

LOVE

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only

a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and

can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can

move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to

the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain

nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it

is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it

keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with

the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always

perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease;

where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it

will pass away. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the

greatest of these is love.

Poem

I miss you

I miss you when I wake at night

The stars are out the moon is bright

But I still miss you

The morning comes as well it might

The sun shines clear and oh so bright

And I miss you

The day is long , no end’s in sight

Keep thinking of you . Have I the right

Dear lordI miss you.

Illmiss you all my lifelong days

Your loving smile , your gentle ways

Your wit and laughter oh so dear

Your voice so soft upon my ear

I miss you .

A Personal Tribute In Memory of John

A Personal Tribute In Memory of John

POEM

I’m Free

Don’t grieve for me, for now I’m free I’m following the path God has laid you see.

I took His hand when I heard him call I turned my back and left it all.

I could not stay another day

To laugh, to love, to work, to play. Tasks left undone must stay that way I found that peace at the close of day.

If my parting has left a void

Then fill it with remembered joy. A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss Oh yes, these things I too will miss.

Be not burdened with times of sorrow I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.

My life’s been full, I savored much Good friends, good times, a loved one’s touch.

Perhaps my time seemed all too brief

Don’t lengthen it now with undue grief. Lift up your hearts and peace to thee God wanted me now; He set me free.

The Lords Prayer

All: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name; thy kingdom

come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily

bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass

against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. For

thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

COMMENDATION

Let us commend John to the mercy of God, Our maker and redeemer. God

our creator and redeemer, by your power Christ conquered death and entered

into glory. Confident of his victory and claiming his promises, we entrust

John to your mercy in the name of Jesus our Lord, who died and is alive and

reigns with you, now and forever.

Amen.

Committal

The Lord is full of compassion and mercy, slow to anger and of great

goodness. As a father is tender towards his children, so is the Lord tender to

those that love him. For he knows of what we are made; he remembers that

we are but dust. Our days are like the grass; we flourish like a flower of the

field; when the wind goes over it, it is gone and its place will know it no

more. But the merciful goodness of the Lord endures for ever and ever

towards those that love him. and his righteousness upon their children's

children.

We have entrusted our brother John to God’s mercy, and we now, commit

his body to be cremated: earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust: in the

sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord

Jesus Christ, who will transform our frail bodies that they may be

conformed to his glorious body, who died, was buried, and rose again for us.

To him be glory for ever.

Amen.

The Blessing

May God give you his comfort and his peace, his light and his joy, in this

world and the next; and the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son,

and the Holy Spirit, be among you and remain with you always.

Amen.

The family would like to invite you back to

Si Bar following the service

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Donations In John’s Memory will be given to

The Dogs at Los Balones & The Cricket Club

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