The
Wedding of
April
Davis
&
Michael McGinnis
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Waring, Texas
Program
The One I've Been Waiting For - Out of the Grey
Prelude: Brethren We Have Met to Worship - Gee Min Glaue
Special Music: The One He Kept For Me - Roy Abbott
Processional: O Worship the King and Crown Him With Many Crowns - Gee Min Glaue
Prayers of Blessing
Hymn: O Worship the King - Congregation
Message: Charles Prince
Vows: Michael and April
Special Music: Strong Determination - Marilyn & Krista Loree
Pronouncement and Introduction: Charles Prince
Recessional and Postlude: Shout to the North - Gee Min Glaue
Rationale
Not
to us, O Lord, not to us, but to thy name give glory.
- Psalm 115:1
We conceived this celebration not to receive honor but to give honor. Even the music is mostly not about us, but about Him. We are marrying because we believe God will receive greater honor if we are together than if we are apart. We have gathered here to worship Him. We pray you will sense His supernatural presence today as you witness two people resolving in a new way not to live for themselves alone.
- Michael and April
Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one... Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
- Mark 12:29-30
Quotations
All
is vain unless the Spirit of the Holy One comes down
Brethren, pray and holy manna will be showered all around
- From "Brethren We Have Met to Worship" by George Atkins
The one I've waited for, my love's design
The one he kept for me until it was time
- From "The One He Kept for Me" by Maurette Brown-Clark
So what do I need now that You're here with words of eternity
You're the One I've been waiting for
- From "The One I've Been Waiting For" by Christine Dente
It's easy to love when you've just fallen in
But the years take a toll and you've got to hold on
To finish what you begin
- From "Strong Determination" by Dwight Liles and Shawn Craig
Jesus is saviour to all
He's Lord of heaven and earth
- From "Shout to the North" by Martin Smith
Participants
Charles Prince – minister
Linda Davis – mother of the bride
C. David and Eloise McGinnis – parents of the groom
Mark McGinnis – groomsman, brother of the groom
Ray Loree – best man, brother-in-law of the groom
Donna Klingaman – matron of honor, friend of the bride
Lisa Wierenga – bridesmaid, friend of the bride
Marilyn Loree – singer, sister of the groom
Roy Abbott – singer, brother of the bride
Darlene
Stoltz – sister of the bride
Daleta Perone – sister of
the bride
Betty Alters – friend of the bride
O Worship the King
O worship the
King, all glorious above,
O gratefully sing His power and His
love;
Our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days,
Pavilioned
in splendor, and girded with praise.
O tell of His
might, O sing of His grace,
Whose robe is the light, Whose canopy
space,
His chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form,
And
dark is His path on the wings of the storm.
Thy bountiful
care, what tongue can recite?
It breathes in the air, it shines in
the light;
It streams from the hills, it descends to the
plain,
And sweetly distills in the dew and the rain.
Frail children of
dust, and feeble as frail,
In Thee do we trust, nor find Thee to
fail;
Thy mercies how tender, how firm to the end,
Our Maker,
Defender, Redeemer, and Friend.
Words: Robert Grant, Edward E. Bickersteth and William Kethe, 1561-1833
Music: Attributed to Johann M. Haydn (1737-1806), arranged by William Gardiner, 1815