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Blessing and Dedication hOUSE

This document contains the liturgy for dedicating a new home to God. It includes prayers, hymns, scripture readings, and symbolic offerings to commit the home and its inhabitants to God's love and care. The pastor leads those gathered in dedicating the home, asking God's continued blessings on all who live there and work within its walls. They dedicate the home for purposes of thought, leisure, joy and fellowship, guided by God's grace.

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Blessing and Dedication hOUSE

This document contains the liturgy for dedicating a new home to God. It includes prayers, hymns, scripture readings, and symbolic offerings to commit the home and its inhabitants to God's love and care. The pastor leads those gathered in dedicating the home, asking God's continued blessings on all who live there and work within its walls. They dedicate the home for purposes of thought, leisure, joy and fellowship, guided by God's grace.

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United Church of Christ in the Philippines God’s grace and power to acquire this home for our Lord’s

acquire this home for our Lord’s glory and


F. Abellanosa St., Cagayan de Oro City service of our fellow men, we will now stand in God’s holy presence
and dedicate this in the spirit of Christian love and faith.
People: We dedicate this home unto the Lord!
A Liturgy for Dedication of the House Pastor: Mindful of God’s goodness and love, we offer this home so that the
people who will live here will continue to prosper.
WORDS OF WELCOME (Host) People: We dedicate this home unto the Lord!
SALUTATION Pastor: We dedicate this home to work and leisure; to thought and
Pastor: May the peace and joy of God be with you and remain with you. laughter, to quietness and growth. We dedicate it to joy and
People: And also with you. companionship, to courage and patience, to courtesy and mutual
CALL TO CELEBRATION understanding, to loyalty and high fellowship.
Pastor: “Except the Lord build the house, People: We dedicate this home unto the Lord!
they labor in vain that built it.” [Psalm 127:1] ♫ HYMN OF THANKSGIVING: “Now Thank We All Our God”
People: Let the beauty of our Lord, our God, be upon us; Now thank we all our God with hearts and hands and voices,
yes, and establish the work of our hands upon us; Who wondrous things has done, in whom this world rejoices;
yes the work of the our hands establish it. Who from our parents’ arms, Has blessed us on our way
Unison: God is here – God is now! IT is time for celebrating! With countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.
IT is time for exalting! O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us,
LET us praise God! LET us exalt God’s name together! With ever joyful hearts and blessed peace to cheer us;
+ ♪ SONG: “As We Gather” And keep us still in grace, And guide us when perplexed,
VERSE 1: As we gather may Your Spirit work within us And free us from all ills in this world and the next.
As we gather may we glorify Your Name All praise and thanks to God our Maker now be given,
Knowing well that as our hearts begin to worship To Christ, and Spirit, too, our help in highest heaven,
We'll be blessed because we came The one eternal God, whom earth and heaven adore;
We'll be blessed because we came For thus it was, is now, and shall be ever more.
REPEAT VERSE 1 OFFERING OF SYMBOLS: Candles, Water, Flowers & Rice
VERSE 2: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases Minister: We now dedicate this home and this endeavor to the honor
His mercies never come to an end|| and praise of God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen
They are new every morning, new every morning THE ACT OF BLESSING
Great is Thy faithfulness (Oh Lord), Great is Thy faithfulness Minister: In God’s holy name, the Creator, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, we
+ PRAYER: [Unison] bless this home and the family, committing to God’s love and care
O God, Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer; giver of all that we own and all who work therein.
enjoy; We give you praise that you have so blessed this couple with this new People:Praise and thanksgiving to God for the divine goodness and
home. And so our hearts overflow with thanksgiving. Be with us here and be love! Amen.
with now as we dedicate anew our lives and this house to your glory. PRAYER OF DEDICATION
Through Jesus Christ, whom all things flow and through whom all things are BENEDICTION
sanctified. Amen. RESPONSE: DOXOLOGY
+ SCRIPTURE READING: PSALM 121:8 (NIV), “The LORD will watch over your
coming and going both now and forevermore.”
MEDITATION: “HOUSE BLESSING” REV. RICARDO C. YAÑEZ, JR.
ACT OF DEDICATION
Pastor: Having prospered by the good hand of our God, and enabled by

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