June 28, 2025: Celebration of Life for Jack Harlow
A Celebration of Life for Jack Harlow will be held on Saturday, June 28, at 10 a.m. in the Meeting Room. A reception will follow in Fellowship Hall. Click here to view Jack's obituary.
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Poem featured on the inside of the Order of Service.
Gathering Music
Kim Carballo, piano
Ringing of the World Bell
Welcome
Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray
Chalice Lighting
Heather, Cordelia, and Nathan, grandchildren
Reading
“Hope” by Sir Arthur Canon Doyle
Heather Harlow
Remembrances from Family
April Adkins, daughter-in-law
Remembrances from Friends
Steve Hollmann
Rev. Bill Breeden
Gift of Music
“Amazing Grace” words by John Newton music by Virginia Harmony
Kim Carballo, piano
Community Sharing
Pastoral Prayer
Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray
Closing Words
Recessional
Kim Carballo, piano
Faith may break on reason,
Faith may prove a treason
To that highest gift
That is granted by Thy grace;
But Hope! Ah, let us cherish
Some spark that may not perish,
Some tiny spark to cheer us,
As we wander through the waste!
A little lamp beside us,
A little lamp to guide us,
Where the path is rocky,
Where the road is steep.
That when the light falls dimmer,
Still some God-sent glimmer
May hold us steadfast ever,
To the track that we should keep.
Hope for the trending of it,
Hope for the ending of it,
Hope for all around us,
That it ripens in the sun.
Hope for what is waning,
Hope for what is gaining,
Hope for what is waiting
When the long day is done.
Hope that He, the nameless,
May still be best and blameless,
Nor ever end His highest
With the earthworm and the slime.
Hope that o'er the border,
There lies a land of order,
With higher law to reconcile
The lower laws of Time.
Hope that every vexed life,
Finds within that next life,
Something that may recompense,
Something that may cheer.
And that perchance the lowest one
Is truly but the slowest one,
Quickened by the sorrow
Which is waiting for him here.