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Resources

Northport Food Pantry

The Ecumenical Lay Council Food Pantry in Northport serves over one hundred Long Island families. The food pantry is located at 330 Main Street in Northport (The First Presbyterian Church). Their hours of operation are Monday-Friday 10am-12pm and their phone number is 631-261-4357.

Lutheran Counseling Center

The Lutheran Counseling Center offers health, hope and wholeness by providing faith-based individual and family psychotherapy. They are a nonprofit organization with licensed professional pastoral counselors, social workers and psychologists from a Christian background that serve individuals, families, congregations and their community including people of different ethnic and religious backgrounds. Each person is valued as a unique and worthy creation of God. For more information, visit their website, Lutheran Counseling Center or call 1-800-317-1173.

Thrivent

Thrivent is a financial service organization (membership-owned fraternal organization) that offers investment, financial and insurance advice as well as banking, annuities and generosity programs. Whether you're just starting out or planning your retirement, their financial products are designed to help you meet your needs. As a benefit of membership, you may be eligible for Thrivent's Choice Dollars, a program where you are able to guide Thrivent's contributions to Abiding Presence Lutheran Church (this is no expense to you)! They also have an Action Teams program where they offer monetary support for qualifying organizations that are undertaking projects that help others. Visit the Thrivent website for more information.

Wedding Reading & Psalm Suggestions

Genesis 1:26-28 Woman and man created in God’s image

Genesis 2:18-24 Companionship rather than loneliness

Proverbs 3:3-6 Loyalty and faithfulness written on the heart

Song of Solomon 2:10-13 The voice of the beloved

Song of Solomon 8:6-7 Many waters cannot quench love

Isaiah 63:7-9 God’s steadfast love lifts up the people

Jeremiah 31:31-34 The new covenant of the people of God

Psalm 67 May God be merciful to us and bless us

Psalm 100 We are God’s people

Psalm 117:The steadfast love of the Lord

Psalm 121 The Lord keeps watch over you

Psalm 127 Unless the Lord builds the house

Psalm 128 Happy are they who follow in God’s ways

Psalm 150 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord

Romans 8:31-35, 37-39 If God is for us, who is against us?

Romans 12:1-2, 9-18 A living sacrifice and genuine love

1 Corinthians 12:31—13:13 The greatest gift is love

Ephesians 3:14-19 The greatness of Christ’s love

Ephesians 5:1-2 Live in love, as Christ loved us

Philippians 4:4-9 Rejoice in the Lord always

Colossians 3:12-17 Clothed in gifts of God

1 John 3:18-24 Let us love in truth and action

1 John 4:7-16 Let us love one another, for love is of God

Matthew 5:1-10 The Beatitudes

Matthew 5:14-16 You are the light, let your light shine

Matthew 7:24-27 Build on the rock

Matthew 19:3-6 What God has united must not be divided

Matthew 22:35-40 Love, the greatest commandment

Mark 10:6-9 They are no longer two but one

John 2:1-11 The wedding at Cana

John 15:9-17 Love one another as I have loved you

Wedding Hymn Suggestions

ELW 308 O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright!

ELW 312 Jesus, Come! For We Invite You

ELW 436 Wake, Awake, for Night Is Flying

ELW 460 Now the Silence

ELW 488, 489 Soul, Adorn Yourself with Gladness

ELW 585 Hear Us Now, Our God and Father

ELW 586 This Is a Day, Lord, Gladly Awaited

ELW 631 Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

ELW 642 Ubi caritas et amor

ELW 644 Although I Speak with Angel’s Tongue

ELW 648 Beloved, God’s Chosen

ELW 816 Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life

ELW 836 Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee

ELW 839, 840 Now Thank We All Our God

ELW 879 For the Beauty of the Earth

ELW 881 Let All Things Now Living

ACS 1040 Love Has Brought Us Here Together

ACS 1041 God Is Love

ACS 1043 Spirit, Open My Heart

ACS 1044 Not for Tongues of Heaven’s Angels

Funeral Service Reading & Psalm Suggestions

Procession:

*Psalm 23 The Lord is my shepherd

Psalm 90 Our dwelling place in all generations

Psalm 118 God’s steadfast love endures forever

Psalm 130 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord

Isaiah 41:9b-10 Do not be afraid, for I am with you

Matthew 11:28-29 I will give you rest

John 11:25-26 I am the resurrection and the life

John 14:27 Peace I leave with you

Romans 14:7-9 Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s

Revelation 1:17-18 Do not be afraid, I am the first and the last

Revelation 14:13 Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord

In the service

Job 19:23-27a I know that my Redeemer lives

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 For everything there is a season

Isaiah 25:6-9 God will swallow up death forever

*Isaiah 40:1, 6-11 God will gather the lambs

Isaiah 40:1-11, 28-31 Comfort my people, says your God

*Isaiah 43:1-3a, 5-7 I have called you by name

Isaiah 43:1-3a, 18-19 I am about to do a new thing

Isaiah 55:1-3, 6-13 Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters

Isaiah 61:1-3 The spirit of the Lord God is upon me

*Isaiah 65:17-20, 23-25 A new heaven and a new earth

*Isaiah 66:10-14 As a mother comforts her child

Jeremiah 31:8-13 I will turn their mourning into joy

Lamentations 3:22-26, 31-33 The steadfast love of the Lord

*Psalm 23 The Lord is my shepherd

*Psalm 42:1-5 As a deer longs for flowing streams

Psalm 46:1-7 God is our refuge and strength

*Psalm 121 I lift up my eyes to the hills

*Psalm 139:7-12 The gracious omnipresence of the Lord

*Psalm 142:1-6 I cry to the Lord with my voice

Psalm 143 Lord, hear my prayer

Romans 5:1-11 Peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ

*Romans 8:31-35, 37-39 Who will separate us from the love of Christ?

1 Corinthians 15:12-26 Christ, the first fruits, has been raised

2 Corinthians 4:6-12, 16-18 Treasure in clay jars

*1 Thessalonians 4:13-14, 18 Teaching about those who have died

Hebrews 12:1-2 Surrounded by a cloud of witnesses

1 Peter 1:3-9 A living hope through Jesus’ resurrection

*1 John 3:1-2 See what love the Father has given us

Revelation 7:9-17 God will wipe away every tear

Revelation 21:2-7 I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem

Revelation 22:1-5 The Lord God will be their light

*Matthew 5:1-10 Blessed are those who mourn

Matthew 11:25-30 I will give you rest

*Matthew 18:1-5, 10-14 A child is the greatest in the kingdom

*Mark 10:13-16 Let the little children come

Mark 16:1-7 The resurrection of Christ

Luke 24:1-9 he resurrection of Christ

John 1:1-5, 9-14 The light shines in the darkness

John 6:37-40 I will raise them up on the last day

*John 10:11-16 I am the good shepherd

John 11:21-27 I am the resurrection and the life

John 14:1-6 I prepare a place for you

John 14:25-27 Peace I leave with you

Funeral Service Hymn Suggestions

ELW 308 O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright!

ELW 313 O Lord, Now Let Your Servant

ELW 351, 352 O Sacred

Head, Now Wounded

ELW 377 Alleluia! Jesus Is Risen!

*ELW 381 Peace, to Soothe Our Bitter Woes

ELW 391 This Joyful Eastertide

ELW 409 Kyrie! God, Father

ELW 422 For All the Saints

ELW 423 Shall We Gather at the River

ELW 429 In Our Day of Thanksgiving

ELW 447 O Blessed Spring

ELW 483 Here Is Bread

ELW 500 Now We Remain

ELW 502 The King of Love My Shepherd Is

ELW 531 The Trumpets Sound, the Angels Sing

*ELW 595 Jesus Loves Me!

*ELW 613 Thy Holy Wings

ELW 621 Jesus Lives, My Sure Defense

ELW 622 Neither Death nor Life

ELW 629 Abide with Me

ELW 636 How Small Our Span of Life

ELW 637 Holy God, Holy and Glorious

ELW 639 When We Are Living

ELW 721 Goodness Is Stronger than Evil

ELW 730 Lord Our God, with Praise We Come

ELW 750 Lord, Thee I Love with All My Heart

ELW 759 My Faith Looks Up to Thee

ELW 760 O Christ the Same

ELW 770 Give Me Jesus

ELW 773 Precious Lord, Take My Hand

ELW 778 The Lord’s My Shepherd

ELW 786 O Holy Spirit, Enter In

ELW 787 On Eagle’s Wings

*ELW 815 I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light

ELW 826 Thine the Amen

ACS 950 Oh, When the Saints Go Marching In

ACS 1006 By Grace We Have Been Saved

ACS 1025 If We Live, We Live to the Lord

ACS 1026 In the Midst of Earthly Life

*ACS 1029 In the Peace of God Find Rest

ACS 1030 Death Be Never Last

*ACS 1050 Sometimes Our Only Song Is Weeping

*ACS 1054 God Weeps with Us Who Weep and Mourn

*ACS 1075 O God, We Call

*ACS 1083 Be Still and Know

*Although most of the suggested readings and hymns are suitable for a funeral involving a person of any age, these may be especially useful at the death of a child.