- Collection:
- African American Funeral Programs from the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System
- Title:
- Funeral service for Elizabeth M. Tyson, St. John United Methodist Church, Augusta, Georgia, 11:00 a.m., Saturday, December 1, 1990, the Reverend Scobie C. Branson, the Reverend M. Eugene Dunn
- Date of Original:
- 1990-12-01
- Subject:
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Augusta
Mourning customs--Georgia--Augusta
Funeral service--Georgia--Augusta
Genealogy
African American women--Georgia--Augusta--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Georgia--Augusta--History--20th century
African Americans--Georgia--Augusta--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Program for the December 1, 1990 funeral of Elizabeth M. Tyson. Funding for this project provided by Georgia HomePLACE, a unit of the Georgia Public Library Service.
- Local Identifier:
- Folder-T-0084
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_fpro_tysonelizabethm19901201
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_fpro_tysonelizabethm19901201
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of program], Eula M. Ramsey Johnson Memorial Funeral Program Collection, Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System System, as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Extent:
- 4 pages
- Original Collection:
- Eula M. Ramsey Johnson Memorial Funeral Program Collection, Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System, Augusta, Georgia
- Holding Institution:
- Augusta-Richmond County Public Library
- Rights:
-
FUNERAL SERVICE FOR
ELIZABETH M. TYSON
ST. JOHN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Augusta, Georgia 11:00 A.M.
Saturday, December 1, 1990
ENTRANCE
THE PRELUDE
*THE WORD OF GRACE Jesus said, I am the resurrection and I am life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, yet shall they live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. I died, and behold I am alive for evermore, and I hold the keys of hell and death. Because I live, you shall live also.
^GREETING Friends, we have gathered here to praise God and to witness to our faith as we celebrate the life of Elizabeth M. Tyson. We come together in grief, ac knowledging our human loss. May God grant us grace, that in pain we may find comfort, in sorrow hope, in death resurrection.
*HYMN 88 "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee"
PRAYER (responsively) The Lord be with you. And also with you. Let us pray. 0 God, who gave us birth, you are ever more ready to hear than we are to pray. You know our needs before we ask, and our ignorance in asking. Give to us now your grace, that as we shrink before the mystery of death, we may see the light of eternity. Speak to us once more your sol emn message of life and of death. Help us to live as those who are prepared to die. And when our days here are accomplished, enable us to die as those who go forth to live, so that living or dying, our life may be in you, and that nothing in life or in death will be able to separate us from your great love in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen.
CONFESSION AND PARDON (unison) Holy God, before you our hearts are open, and from you no secrets are hidden. We bring to you now our shame and sorrow for our sins. We have forgotten that our life is from you and unto you. We have neither sought nor done your will. We have not been truthful in our hearts, in our speech, in our lives. We have not loved as we ought to love. Help us and heal us, raising us from our sins into a better life, that we may end our days in peace, trusting in your kindness unto the end; through
Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Who is in a position to condemn? Only Christ, Christ who died for us, who rose for us, who reigns at God's right hand and prays for us. Thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
PROCLAMATION AND RESPONSE
OLD TESTAMENT LESSONS Psalm 23 (unison) 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 be fore 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.
Isaiah 40:25,26, 28-31
NEW TESTAMENT LESSON I Corinthians 15:20-22, 35-36, 38a, 42-44, 49-50, 53-58
HYMN 117 "0 God, Our Help in Ages Past"
GOSPEL LESSON *John 14:1-7, 15-17, 27
SERMON
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH 881 The Apostles' Creed
COMMENDATION
PRAYER God of us all, your love never ends. When all else fails, you still are God. We pray to you for one an other in our need, and for all, anywhere, who mourn with us this day. To those who doubt, give light; to those who are weak, strength; to all who have sinned, mercy; to all who sorrow, your peace. Keep true in us the love with which we hold one another. In all our ways we trust you. And to you, with your church on earth and in heaven, we offer honor and glory, now and for ever. Amen.
PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING God of love, we thank you for all with which you have blessed us even to this day: for the gift of joy in days of health and strength, and for the gifts of your abid ing presence and promise in days of pain and grief. We praise you for home and friends, and for our baptism and place in your church with all who have faithfully lived and died. Above all else we thank you for Jesus, who knew our griefs, who died our death and rose for our sake, and who lives and prays for us. And as he taught us, so now we pray.
THE LORD'S PRAYER
*HYMN 711 "For All the Saints"
*DISMISSAL WITH BLESSING
*RECESSIONAL
^Congregation standing
LEADING IN WORSHIP
Liturgist: The Reverend Scobie C. Branson
Sermon:
The Reverend M. Eugene Dunn
Organist: Mrs. Jamie Council Garvey