Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We pray that this day brings you joy as you lift your voices in praise and thanksgiving to our Lord and Savior - the Giver of all good things!  Happy Thanksgiving!

Come, Ye Thankful People, Come

Come, ye thankful people, come, 

Raise the song of harvest home; 

All is safely gathered in, 

Ere the winter storms begin. 

God our Maker doth provide 

For our wants to be supplied; 

Come to God's own temple, come, 

Raise the song of harvest home.

All the world is God's own field, 

Fruit as praise to God we yield; 

Wheat and tares together sown 

Are to joy or sorrow grown; 

First the blade and then the ear, 

Then the full corn shall appear; 

Lord of harvest, grant that we 

Wholesome grain and pure may be.

For the Lord our God shall come,

And shall take the harvest home; 

From the field shall in that day 

All offenses purge away, 

Giving angels charge at last 

In the fire the tares to cast; 

But the fruitful ears to store 

In the garner evermore.

Even so, Lord, quickly come,

Bring thy final harvest home; 

Gather thou thy people in, 

Free from sorrow, free from sin, 

There, forever purified, 

In thy presence to abide; 

Come, with all thine angels, come, 

Raise the glorious harvest home.

Henry Alford

"Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.  Serve the LORD with gladness: 

come before his presence with singing.  Know ye that the LORD he is God: 

it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.  Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: 

be thankful unto him, and bless his name.  

For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; 

and his truth endureth to all generations."

(Psalm 100)