353- Father Help Your People
Christian Church: Community in Christ
1
- Father, help Your people in this world to build
- Something of Your kingdom and to do Your will,
- Lead us to discover partnership in love;
- Bless our ways of sharing and our pride remove.
2
- Lord of desk and altar, bind our lives in one,
- That in work and worship love may set the tone.
- Give us grace to listen, clarity of speech;
- Make us truly thankful for the gifts of each.
3
- Holy is the setting of each room and yard,
- Lecture hall and kitchen, office, shop, and ward.
- Holy is the rhythm of our working hours;
- Hallow then our purpose, energy, and pow'rs.
4
- Strengthen, Lord, for service hand and heart and brain;
- Help us good relations daily to maintain.
- Let the living presence of the servant Christ
- Heighten our devotion, make our life a feast.