Closing

Our time in this place may have ended, but our connection to each other and this community remains....

We are never complete. We are never finished. We are always yet to be....

If the “opening words” called people to worship and opened the time and space for this purpose, the closing words bring the service to an end and...

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord keep all those whom you love, whether here or in some other place. May God be your companion and you be God's...

Keeping faith, our faithfulness keeps us. Go in faith.

In our hungering for meaning, In our aching for friendship, In our yearning for justice, In our heart's remembering of finer days, May we look deep with...

Remembering our spiritual, courageous ancestors who forsook oppression with security to gain freedom with opportunity, may we go forth to master ourselv...

Now, go forth into the world in peace. Be of good courage. Prove all things and hold fast that which is good. Amen.

Because of those who came before, we are;in spite of their failings, we believe;because of, and in spite of, the horizons of their vision,we, too,...

May our faith sustain us, our hope inspire us, and our love surround us as we go our separate ways, knowing that we will gather again in this beloved...