Easter Sunday Service for 5th April 2026 at 10.45am with Rev Nigel Chikanya

Opening Voluntaries include:
Easter Chimes – Malcolm McKelvie
Easter Hymn – Mascagni
Prelude on Easter Hymn – Phil Lehenbauer

Welcome & Intimations

CH4 410: Jesus Christ is Risen Today
CCLI Song # 7036510 – William Henry Monk
© Words & Music: Public Domain

Prayer

Children’s / All Age Talk

CH4 410: Jesus loves me! This I know
CCLI Song # 1187 – Anna Bartlett Warner | William Batchelder Bradbury
© Words & Music: Public Domain

Offering: You raise me up – Josh Groban

Reading: Romans 8: 18-27 & Luke 24: 1-8

MP 1213: O Church Arise
CCLI Song # 4611992 – Keith Getty | Stuart Townend
© 2005 Thankyou Music (Admin. by Integrity Music Ltd)

Sermon

MP 453: Low in the grave he lay
CCLI Song # 27783 – Robert Lowry
© Words & Music: Public Domain

Invitation to Communion

CH4 19: Ye gates
Psalm 24, The Scottish Psalter, 1929 | William Croft | Andrew Mitchell Thomson
Music & Words: Public Domain

Communion
Communion Music: I know that my Redeemer liveth – Handel

Prayer

CH4 419: Thine be the glory
CCLI Song # 21837 – Edmond Louis Budry | George Frideric Handel | Richard Birch Hoyle
Words & Music: Public Domain

Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Hallelujah Chorus – Handel

Licensing – CCL: #154670, Streaming Plus Licence: #1454711, PRS DML for Worship: LE-0037137. All hymns are played as original content and sung by the congregation of Kirkgate Parish Church during the live broadcast.