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Transcript of Ted Kellaway
The funeral service conducted byPastor Andrew Fisher
Tuesday 2nd April 2013at 12noon
In Loving Memoryof
Edward (Ted) Albert Kellaway23rd January 1941 ~ 27th March 2013
ORDER OF SERVICE
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Welcome~
Opening Prayer
The death of someone we love and care about, is like the death of part of us. No one else will ever call out from within us quite the same responses, the same feelings or actions or ideas. Their death is an ending of one part of a story. Lord as we look back over Ted’s life. We ask that what we have received, what we can appropriate, and continue on in our own lives, we will, and what must be laid to rest, we will lay those things down. Our love for Ted reminds us that our sharing in one another's lives brings both support and pain. Our being parted from him reminds us of our own mortality ......And that your love is enduring.
We thank you that our love for Ted draws us together and gives us a new appreciation of one another, and of the beauty and fragility of relationships, which mirror your grace and goodness to us.
Lord, time's tide may wash Ted’s footprints from the shore, but not our love for him nor the influence of his life upon our own. Nor the ways in which they will ever be a sign for us, of those things which really matter -which are eternal. Hear this prayer for your love's sake. Amen.
Prayers
All: Lord, we come into your presence to remember Ted and to seek your
comfort, for we know that nothing can separate us from your love and
that you support us in our sorrow. We are sure that the souls of the
righteous are with you and that nothing can harm them. Although they
have died they are in peace. Give us your strength to rejoice that you have
received Ted to be with yourself where he shall no more be in need. May
we find life and peace and perfect joy with him in your presence; through
Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen
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Reading From Scripture
Psalm 23
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down
in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters He restoreth my
soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea,
though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no
evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou
preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou
anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and
mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the
house of the LORD for ever.
Reading From Scripture1 Corinthians 13 Vs 1-13
LOVE
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only
a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and
can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can
move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to
the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain
nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it
is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it
keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with
the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always
perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease;
where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it
will pass away. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the
greatest of these is love.
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Music In Memory of Ted
PoemGolden Memories
They say memories are golden
well maybe that is true.
I never wanted memories,
I only wanted you.
A million times I needed you,
a million times I cried.
If love alone could have saved you
you never would have died.
In life I loved you dearly,
In death I love you still.
In my heart you hold a place
no one could ever fill.
If tears could build a stairway
and heartache make a lane,
I'd walk the path to heaven
and bring you back again.
Our family chain is broken,
and nothing seems the same.
But as God calls us one by one,
the chain will link again.
A Personal Tribute & Music In Memory of Ted
A Personal Tribute & Music In Memory of Ted
PoemI’m Free
Don’t grieve for me, for now I’m free I’m following the path God has laid you see.
I took His hand when I heard him call I turned my back and left it all.
I could not stay another day To laugh, to love, to work, to play.
Tasks left undone must stay that way I found that peace at the close of day.
If my parting has left a void Then fill it with remembered joy.
A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss Oh yes, these things I too will miss.
Be not burdened with times of sorrow I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.
My life’s been full, I savored much Good friends, good times, a loved one’s touch.
Perhaps my time seemed all too brief Don’t lengthen it now with undue grief.
Lift up your hearts and peace to thee God wanted me now; He set me free.
The Lords Prayer
All: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name; thy kingdom
come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily
bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass
against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. For
thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.
Commendation
Let us commend Ted to the mercy of God, Our maker and redeemer. God our
creator and redeemer, by your power Christ conquered death and entered
into glory. Confident of his victory and claiming his promises, we entrust
Ted to your mercy in the name of Jesus our Lord, who died and is alive and
reigns with you, now and forever.
Amen.
Committal
The Lord is full of compassion and mercy, slow to anger and of great
goodness. As a father is tender towards his children, so is the Lord tender to
those that love him. For he knows of what we are made; he remembers that
we are but dust. Our days are like the grass; we flourish like a flower of the
field; when the wind goes over it, it is gone and its place will know it no
more. But the merciful goodness of the Lord endures for ever and ever
towards those that love him. and his righteousness upon their children's
children.
We have entrusted our brother Ted to God’s mercy, and we now, commit his
body to be cremated: earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust: in the sure
and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus
Christ, who will transform our frail bodies that they may be conformed to
his glorious body, who died, was buried, and rose again for us. To him be
glory for ever.
Amen.
The Blessing
May God give you his comfort and his peace, his light and his joy, in this
world and the next; and the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit, be among you and remain with you always.
Amen.
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Donations In Ted’s Memory will be given to MAD
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Exit MusicMusic In Memory of Ted