ANZAC DAY MEMORIAL SERVICE - ARROWTOWN ANZAC DAY MEMORIAL SERVICE 25 APRIL 2021
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ARROWTOWN ANZAC DAY MEMORIAL SERVICE SUNDAY 25 TH APRIL 2021 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS President - Rosemary Chalmers Chaplain - Dr. Rev. Carlton Johnston Special Guests LAC Angela Keith & LAC Shannon Crene Wakatipu High School's Jasmine Chrichton Arrowtown School's Maddison Brady, Billie Druett, and Lucia Horton-Crabbe Pianist - Jeanette Robertson Choir - Arrow Entertainers Sound - Reg McTaggart Design - George F Chalmers Design Print - Print Central Queenstown
Order of Service Please stand as the Parade enters Opening Prayer the hall and remain standing for God Led by Chaplain Save the Queen Dr. Rev. Carlton Johnston Led by Arrow Entertainers Padre Our help is in the name of the Lord, God Save the Queen People Who made heaven and earth God save our gracious Queen, Greater love has no one than this Long live our noble Queen, That people lay down their lives for God save the Queen, their friends. Send her victorious, The lord be with you Happy and glorious, And also with you Long to reign over us, God save the Queen. Padre Let us pray O lord, our God, we remember wth Welcome & Introductions gratitude all those who gave their Led by President Rosemary Chalmers & lives in our defence and for the Dr. Rev. Carlton Johnston preservation of human freedom and human rights. We ask that you give O God Our Help In Ages Past them eternal rest and everlasting O God, our help in ages past, happiness. May we be worthy of their Our hope for years to come, sacrifice and work without ceasing Our shelter from the stormy blast, for that justice which brings true And our eternal home! and everlasting peace. We ask this through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Beneath the shadow of thy throne, People Amen Thy saints have dwelt secure; Sufficient is thine arm alone, And our defense is sure. A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone, Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come Be thou our guard while troubles last And our eternal home.
Act of Commemoration (All Stand) Padre Now let us pray as our Lord has Led by President Rosemary Chalmers taught us. People Our Father in Heaven, hallowed Let us remember those who have be Your name, Your Kingdom died serving their country in the field come, Your will be done on earth of conflict and with them all those as it is in Heaven. who have died since. We remember Give us today our daily bread and them from the Boer War, the tragic forgive us our sins as we forgive world conflicts of 1914-1918 and 1939- those who sin against us. 1945. We remember them from Korea, Save us from the time of trail and Malaysia, Borneo, Vietnam, East Timor, deliver us from evil. Afghanistan, Iraq, Bougainville/Solomon For the Kingdom, the power Islands and other areas where our return and the glory are yours Now and and servicemen and women have fought forever. and died for peace, justice and freedom. Amen. May we, who have inherited their victory, pledge ourselves to the task of working Padre The peace for which we yearn for reconciliation of all peoples under the begins not only with the other hand of God. nations, but with our own nation and with each one os us. A Time of Silence Yet, so often we fail to live the life of peace and fall short of the They shall grow not old, Glory of God. If we confess our As we that are left grow old. sins, he is faithful and just, and Age shall not weary them, will forgive our sins and cleanse nor the years condemn. us from all unrighteousness. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, Wakatipu High School Student Reading We will remember them. Jasmine Chrichton Sponsored by D'or Hairstylist, Queenstown Plumbing, G F Chalmers Builder, Lakes District Museum. Padre The souls of the righteous are in the hands of god People And there shall no torment, touch them. Grant them O Lord, eternal rest. And let perpetual light shine upon them.
Order of Service Short Time of Quiet & Mediation Padre Father you have raised us together with Christ, Set our hearts and minds on attitudes of peace, The peace that passes all human understanding. People Amen Arrowtown School Student Reading Maddison Brady, Billie Druett, and Lucia Horton-Crabbe Hymn For ANZAC Day Honour the dead, our country’s fighting brave, honour our children left in foreign grave, An offering to be used to help where poppies blow and sorrow seeds her flowers, with Arrowtown RSA welfare honour the crosses marked forever ours. and administration. Will be received during the siging of Weep for the places ravaged with our blood, this hymn. weep for the young bones buried in the mud, weep for the powers of violence and greed, weep for the deals done in the name of need. Weep for the waste of all that might have been, weep for the cost that war has made obscene, weep for the homes that ache with human pain, weep that we ever sanction war again. Honour the dream for which our nation bled, held now in trust to justify the dead, honour their vision on this solemn day, peace know in freedom, peace the only way. Shirley Murray
Order of Service Reading Dr. Rev. Carlton Johnstone Guest LAC Angela Keith & LAC Shannon Crene Chaplain Let us recite the Peace Prayer of St Francis Peace Prayer of St Francis People Lord make me an instrument of your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is sadness joy. O divine master grant that I may seek. Not so much to be consoled as to console To be understood, as to understand. To be loved. as to love For it's in giving that we receive And it's in pardoning that we are pardoned And it's in dying that we are born to eternal life. Thanksgiving Prayer
Order of Service God Defend New Zealand Benediction E Ihowā Atua, At the conclusion of the Service the O ngā iwi mātou rā Parade will proceed to the Memorial for Āta whakarangona; the laying of wreaths. Me aroha noa Kia hua ko te pai; Exiting Song Kia tau tō atawhai; Sons of Gallipoli - Preformed by Arrow Manaakitia mai Entertainers Aotearoa Sons of Gallipoli God of Nations at Thy feet, In the bonds of love we meet, We sang 'God of Nations at thy feet' Hear our voices, we entreat, As we stood on that sacred shore God defend our free land. With a heartfelt pride Guard Pacific's triple star Somewhere deep inside From the shafts of strife and war, For the sons of Gallipoli Make her praises heard afar, We sang 'E Ihowa Atua' God defend New Zealand. From the place the call Anzac Cover We gazed out to sea Australian National Anthem Where our home would be For the sons of Gallipoli Australia's all, let us rejoice, How still you lie For we are young and free; And how still you die on other hillsides. We've golden soil and wealth for toil, We sang 'Hear our voices we entreat Our home is girt by sea; As the wind blew from off the sea Our land abounds in nature's gifts. With a fearful sigh and the question why For the sons of Gallipoli Of beauty rich and rare; We sang ' God defend our free land' In history's page, let every stage And for all whose lives are torn Advance Australia fair. With one voice implore In joyful strains let us sing, No more talk of war Advance, Australia fair. For the sons of Gallipoli
We remember our local men - who paid the ultimate sacrifice WWI | 1914 - 1918 WWII | 1939 - 1945 Cotter, Richard Stephen Romans, LT. COL. R.E. Edwards, Charles Thomas Toll, LT. T.J. Edwards, Herbert James Wahrlich, CORP. C.C. Fletcher, George Edward McEntyre, DRV. T. Hunter, John Boyd Richardson, DRV. B.H. Jenkins, James Stevenson, PTE. D.R. Jenkins, Joseph Nelson Jackways, PTE, A.H. Jenkins, Thomas Flynn, PRE. T. Jopp, James Alexander McAllister, Peter George McKibbin, William O'Fee, David Daniel Reif, A. W. J. Ritchie, James Sangster Ross, William Smith, John Webb, Alexander Wilcox, James Lest We Forget
Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall 33 Buckingham Street Arrowtown Arrowtown
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