Location: New Life Pentecostal Church<br>
Date: 2010-12-04<br>
Time: 11:00 AM<br>
Interment: Devotional Gardens
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<li>Amazing Grace - Piano and Guitar
<li>Pallbearers seated
<li>Pastor and Participants enter
<li>Amazing Grace - vocal
<li>Prelude Stops
<li>Call to Worship
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<li>William Alton Messer - 37
<li>Magdalene and Ollie Messer and Kayla Messer
<li>Thanks to all who have reached out by providing food, visits and prayer
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<li>Invocation<br>
<i>Our Loving Eternal Heavenly Father, as we meet this morning to remember our dear friend and loved one, William Alton Messer, we ask you to be to us the God of all comfort, and the God of all grace. Give us perspective as we face the reality of death, to grow in our perspective of the Truth of Life . We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ , AMEN.</i>
<li>Gentle Shepherd
<li>Obituary/Eulogy
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<li>Simple Man - reading
<li>Valued friends - few but good ones
<li>Part of us
<li>Cancer - each day he watched the sun come up - cherishing the time he had
<li>What kind of pain - hurtin kind
<li>Mr. Eddie - learned body work - stroke/visit
<li>Accepted Lord many years ago but had not been sticking with it
<li>Felt unworthy to come to church
<li>Confessed to having done things he was ashamed of
<li>Expressed his love openly
<li>Others?
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<li>Angel For Me
<li>Message
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<li>Transitory nature of life
<li>Fairness - dying at 37 - our Lord died at 33
<li>Where did we come from? - Genesis 1:27<br>
<i>So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.</i>
<li>Why are we here? - Revelation 4:11<br>
<i>Thou art worthy, O Lord , to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.</i>
<li>Where are we going? - John 14:3<br>
<i>And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.</i>
<li>How do we get there? - John 14:6<br>
<i> Jesus saith unto him, I am the Way , the Truth , and the Life : no man cometh unto the Father , but by me.</i>
<li>What will it be like? 1 Corinthians 2:9 <br>
<i>But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.</i>
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<li>Wish You Were Here
<li>Benediction<br>
<i>Our Father in Heaven, in as much as you, in your sovereign love, have called the soul of our loved one and friend, William Alton Messer, to be with you, we express our thanks, for the privilege of knowing him. We thank you for the way he impacted our lives, and for your grace through difficult times. We are grateful for your love; You, who sent us the Great Shepherd of the Sheep. You who have prepared a place for all who trust you, and who alone are worthy of our faith, to you we turn for continued strength, continued comfort, continued perspective, continued purpose.</i>
<li>Amazing Grace
<li>Recession
<li>Graveside
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<li>Thessalonians 4:15-17<br>
 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord , that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
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 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God : and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
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 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord .
<li>Prayer<br>
<i> Lord Jesus , we thank you for the Grace , Mercy and Love with which you continually shower us.  We thank you for Life itself.  May you be the object of our love, adoration and service till we see you and and our dear Alton in your eternal kingdom, Amen  </i>
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