David Prangnell & Heather Rapp
Pecan Grove June 17, 2006

Lighting of the Unity Candles��Be Thou My Vision�
Evelyn Prangnell & Brenda Rapp

Processional��You Raise Me Up�
Kenneth Rapp� Best Man, Brother of the Bride
David Prangnell� Groom
Linda Prangnell� Bridesmaid, Sister of Groom
Meredith Morgan� Maid of Honor
Heather Rapp� Bride
Escorted by Mark Rapp, Father of the Bride

Reading� Ian Prangnell, Father of the Groom

Welcome, Prayer, and Minute of Silence� Brother Tim Crosby

�They�ll Know We Are Christians" ...Jonathan Godfrey

Family & Community Blessing
(Tim) We offer now the families of David and Heather the opportunity to publicly affirm their relationship and to pledge continued love and support to them.
(David�s family) We welcome you, Heather, into our family and give our blessing to this marriage.
(Heather�s family) We affirm your relationship, welcome you, David, into our family, and give our blessing to this marriage.
(Both families) David and Heather, as your families, we promise to pray for you and to do all in our power to support you as a couple in this new relationship which you are about to enter. We will uphold you with our love as you establish yourselves as a family within our own families.
(Everyone) David and Heather, we are thankful for God�s love and grace that bring you together. We are witnesses to the vows you are making to each other, and we commit ourselves to help you fulfill your vows. We pledge to you our prayers, our counsel, and our continued friendship. May God grant us the strength as we strive to be faithful to each other and to Christ, our Lord.

�Prayer of St. Francis�� Charles and Mary Alice Wise
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.

�What a Wonderful World�� J. Godfrey & Trudy Jacobs

Charge to Couple and Exchange of Vows
MINISTER TO GROOM: David, do you take Heather to be your wife; will you commit yourself to her happiness and her self-fulfilment as a person, and to her usefulness in God�s kingdom; and do you promise to love, honour, trust, and serve her in sickness and in health, in adversity and prosperity, and to be true and loyal to her, so long as you both shall live?
GROOM: I do.
MINISTER TO BRIDE: Heather, do you take David to be your husband; will you commit yourself to his happiness and his self-fulfilment as a person, and to his usefulness in God�s kingdom; and do you promise to love, honour, trust, and serve him in sickness and in health, in adversity and prosperity, and to be true and loyal to him, so long as you both shall live?
BRIDE: I do.
MINISTER: The wedding ring is a symbol of marriage in at least two ways: the purity of gold symbolises the purity of your love for each other, and the unending circle symbolises the unending vows which you are taking, which may be broken honourably in the sight of God only by death. As a token of your vows, you will give and receive the rings.
GROOM: Heather, with this ring I pledge my life and love to you, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
BRIDE: David, with this ring I pledge my life and love to you, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
BRIDE & GROOM: Entreat me not to leave you
Or to return from following you;
For where you go I will go,
And where you lodge I will lodge;
Your people shall be my people,
And your God my God [Ruth 1:16, RSV]
MINISTER TO CONGREGATION: Since they have made these commitments before God and this assembly, by the authority of God and the laws of this state, I declare that David and Heather are Husband and Wife.
MINISTER TO COUPLE: David and Heather, you are no longer two independent persons but one. �What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate� [Matt. 19:6, NASB]

Blessing and Exchange of Rings

Wise words from Brother Tim

Unity Candle & signing of paperwork� �This is Forever� by Paul Coleman Trio

Bonheoffer Reading: Gary and Nancy Morgan
God is guiding your marriage. Marriage is more than your love for each other. It has a higher power, for it is God's holy ordinance, through which He wills to perpetuate the human race until the end of time. In your love you see only your two selves in the world, but in marriage you are a link in the chain of the generations, which God causes to come and to pass away to His glory, and calls into His kingdom. In your love you see only the heaven of your own happiness, but in marriage you are placed at a post of responsibility towards the world and all mankind.
Your love is your own private possession, but marriage is more than something personal � it is a status, an office. Just as it is the crown, and not merely the will to rule, that makes the king, so it is marriage, and not merely your love for each other, that joins you together in the sight of God and man. As you gave the ring to one another � so love comes from you, but marriage from above, from God. As high as God is above man, so high are the sanctity, the rights, and the promise of love. It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

Charge to the couple

Kiss

Introduction of the new couple by Brother Tim

Recessional� �Love Invincible� by Michael Franti