Hymn - "God Is Here! As We Your People Meet" (Tune: Abbot's Leigh)

Processional Hymn - "God Is Here! As We Your People Meet" (Tune: Abbot's Leigh)
AKA "Lord You Give the Great Commission" and
AKA "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken"
camcorded live 09 August 2009

1) God is here! As we your people meet to offer praise and prayer,
May we find in fuller measure what it is in Christ we share.
Here, as in the world around us, all our varied skills and arts
Wait the coming of the Spirit into open minds and hearts.

2) Here are symbols to remind us of our lifelong need of grace;
Here are table, font, and pulpit, here the cross has central place.
Here in honesty of preaching, here in silence, as in speech,
Here in newness and renewal, God the Spirit comes to each.

3) Here our children find a welcome in the shepherd's flock and fold;
Here as bread and wine are taken, Christ sustains us as of old.
Here the servants of the Servant seek in worship to explore
What it means in daily living to believe and to adore.

4) Sovereign God, of earth and heaven, in an age of change and doubt,
Keep us faithful to the gospel, help us work your purpose out.
Here, in this day's dedication, all we have to give, receive;
We, who cannot live without you, we adore you! We believe!

Tune: "Abbot's Leigh", Cyril V. Taylor, 1941

Wayne Burcham-Gulotta,
Music Director/Organist
Church of the Redeemer, Episcopal
Morristown, NJ, USA

J. W. Steere & Son Organ Co., Opus 701, 1918, 3/49

Ernest M. Skinner bought out Steere in 1920 and Skinner ran Steere as a separate company for about a year. Then they brought it into the fold as a separate Skinner factory. For a time organs being built there had the Skinner name but were essentially Steere organs. Much of the great Skinner at Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA is Steere (1915 major enlargement of 1902 Hutchings). Final expansion to the Skinner instrument at Yale we know today was the 1928-1929 rebuild.

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[jjy0909]

Thank you also. We sing it at Wallingford Presbyterian in Wallingford PA. It is my #1 hymn.

[joenwayne]

@jjy0909

Thanks for your comments and for viewing.

Greetings to you in PA from NJ.

Cheers,

Wayne

[jcolbyt82]

I just wanted to thank you for posting your videos! We frequently sing this hymn at the Presbyterian church that I attend here in baton rouge, LA. Thank you for sharing your beautiful music with everyone. God bless you and your church!

[joenwayne]

@jcolbyt82 Thank you for viewing and your very kind comments.

Greetings to you in Baton Rouge from New Jersey.

Cheers,

Wayne

[willgsp]

Where the organ has rocker tabs, I always expect it to be much smaller and the magnificent sound suprises me again and again! Great job on this, a lot of churches get nervous about this being too complicated.

[organist99x]

One of my favorite hymn tunes! Very nice, thanks for posting!

[hjmcgill]

@mkl62 I KNEW this sounded like the Lake Wobegon Lutheran Church Sanctuary Choir!

[mkl62]

It's me, again. Today (July 25), I played a hymn to this tune, ABBOT'S LEIGH, for our closing hymn. It is Lord of Light. It was written by Howell E. Lewis, 1860-1953. It is #688 in Evangelical Lutheran Worship.

[obxemt]

@joenwayne I wasn't trying to insult you or your choir...I was merely attempting to make an amusing observation about the congregation (not the choir), as at 2:54.  Sorry if I offended you.

[joenwayne]

@obxemt

Can I vouch that every single clergy and congregational member (all 150 of them off camera to the right) sings the correct note, of course I can't. Can I vouch that all members of the "summer" choir sing the correct notes, yes, I can.

[obxemt]

@joenwayne I could be wrong but unless your mixture sounds like congregational singing I don't think so. Listen at 2:54.

[joenwayne]

@obxemt

They actually do sing the C correctly. What you are probably hearing is that the Swell Mixture is a Tierce Mixture, meaning that when a C is played one of the notes sounding in the mixture is an E.