Order of Service

Nimrod from Enigma Variations: Sir Edward Elgar

Introduction

Words from the War Memorial of Perth in St John’s Kirk as we remember VJ Day, Seventy-Five Years ago yesterday 15th of August 1945, honouring all who died and those who came home.

The Call to Worship from Paraphrase 18

Hymn 465 
Be Thou my vision

Prayer
Prelude to Kohima

The Battle of Imphal and Kohima

Introduction to 
The Kohima Epitaph

The Kohima Epitaph

Silence

The Flowers of the Forest : The Pipes of Major Andrew Potter 

The Old Testament Lesson: Micah Chapter 4 verses 1 – 4
Read by Andrew Mansergh

Hymn 128
How shall I sing that majesty?    

The Gospel According to St John Chapter 15 verses 9 – 17 
Read by The Reverend Alex Stewart

Hymn 704
I vow to thee, my country

The Sermon, with Suo Gan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imDRi5WKs-w&list=RD7U-FR2H1O88&index=4utube.com/watch?v=imDRi5WKs-w&list=RD7U-FR2H1O88&index=4

Preface to our Prayers

Prayers 

The Lord’s Prayer

Hymn 691
Be still my soul

The Benediction

The National Anthem

Recessional
May the God of peace