MAY WE BE ONE

1. Maywebeone,
bound in love forever,
growing close together day by day; growing as God fills us with his life — we are joined in him, he makes us one.

2. Maywebeone,
as our Father planned it —
may the love of Jesus make us strong. No-one can harm us when he is near — he has brought us peace, he makes us one.

3. Maywebeone,
Jesus' truth to bind us —
with his body he unites us all;
dying our death he restores our life, living with us now he makes us one.

4. Maywebeone,
sharing life together
with the Father and his only Son.
Now we have life in this world of death; heaven has begun, he makes us one. Heaven has begun, he makes us one.

1981. How often in the New Testament is unity urged on the first Christians? I was working on this song for one of our regular student services, which took its theme — ‘May they be one’ - from John 17. Dorothy heard me singing it and asked if it was for an approaching wedding we were singing at. Well, it became a song for both occasions, and was first sung for the wedding service at St Stephen's. I don't know how many weddings it's been sung at since, but I think it must be several hundred.

 

ALWS 5/10/23

To say I've been inactive on my website is a serious understatement! I've written nothing here since early 2021. 

So, does this mean the world has stopped for us, that nothing is happening?
A major event for us in 2022 was moving house in October. We had been in Modbury Heights since July 1993.Now we're back in Klemzig.

In May we travelled to the Mentawai Islands in Indonesia, seeing work supported by Australian Lutheran World Service. Dorothy and I are Ambassadors for the ALWS programme, Lives You Touch. We are encouraging people to leave money in their will for the work of ALWS. We committed to leave a third of our will many years ago and hope many others can touch lives in this way.
Since then we have visited Box Hill & Loxton with Jonathan & Julie Krause as part of the Asante presentations, promoting the cause of ALWS. Still to come this year are Asante events in Toowoomba & Rochedale (Nov 26 & 27) and Perth (Dec 10)

Looking forward to seeing many people on these occasions.