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Liturgies for
Life Overseas

A liturgy for learners with a weary heart. O Patient and Gracious Father, When I look around this classroom you have entrusted to me,  I see faces full of excitement, fatigue, interest, boredom, curiosity, and indifference.  These reactions seep through my broken, dusty defenses,  and I feel an immediate temptation to catalogue. To slowly strip these image-bearers of their Creator’s designs and  unwittingly remake them according to my own understanding: valued for their alacr

A liturgy for how our unity speaks to Your reality. Father  This simple greeting points to our belonging in a Family  Every family has its quirky characters  In this new land where I live I often think those who gather as Family here are the quirky ones  But maybe it’s me   Father  I used to be so comfortable gathering with Family in my passport country  Was it just a club? A place where I knew all the unspoken rules? I don’t know the rules here And in my stumbling through un

A liturgy for dwelling together in unity. Behold, how good & pleasant it is  when brothers & sisters dwell together in unity. Surely, from an eternity before this was penned by our brother David,  You, Father, considered my team.  You chose us & called us out from our nations,  in accordance with Your foreknowledge of our willing obedience.  You led each of us by the hand to our new homes & places of calling.  Indeed, You Yourself marked out our appointed times  & the very bo