Hymns by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette

Stewardship Hymns

God, We See What You Have Given!
NETTLETON (8.7.8.7 D) ("Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing")
Jesus Sat and Watched the Crowd
HENDON (7.7.7.7.7) ("Take My Life And Let It Be")
Book: Songs of Grace
This hymn celebrates the faithfulness of the widow in the Temple.
Giving God, We Pause and Wonder
NETTLETON (8.7.8.7 D) ("Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing")
Book: Songs of Grace
Vision for tithing
You Call Us, Lord, to Worship
LANCASHIRE (7.6.7.6 D) ("The Day of Resurrection")
Book: Songs of Grace
This hymn about worship includes this verse:
"We bring our tithes and offerings, returning what is yours,
For what we keep may vanish, but what we give endures."
God, Your Blessings Overflow!
DIX (7.7.7.7.7.7) ("For the Beauty of the Earth")
A Thanksgiving hymn that celebrates our many blessings, but also God's comfort for those who are grieving during the holidays.
Don't Show Off Your Giving
ASH GROVE (6.6.11.6.6.11 D) ("Let All Things Now Living")
To What Can the Kingdom of God Be Compared?
TO GOD BE THE GLORY (11.11.11.11 with Refrain) ("To God Be the Glory")
This hymn celebrates Jesus' three short parables about the reign of God.
There Are Many Ways of Sharing
NETTLETON (8.7.8.7 D) ("Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing")
Book: Songs of Grace
A stewardship of talents
Zacchaeus Was a Tax Man
AURELIA (7.6.7.6 D) ("The Church's One Foundation")
"It wasn't just the treetop that helped Zacchaeus see;
Your love and welcome showed him how different life could be.
He said that he'd start over and work to make things fair;
He'd speak the truth, bring justice, and find new ways to share."

Stewardship and Economic Justice

God, You Spoke Your Word Through Amos
BEACH SPRING (8.7.8.7 D) ("God Whose Giving Knows No Ending")
In Your Kingdom Celebration
NETTLETON (8.7.8.7 D) ("Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing")
Luke's Gospel and Jesus' ministry with the poor
Bigger Barns
ABERYSTWYTH (7.7.7.7 D) ("Jesus, Lover of My Soul"; "Watchman, Tell Us of the Night")
Book: Songs of Grace
Jesus' Parable of the Rich Fool
If Only I Had Known
LEONI (6.6.8.4) ("The God of Abraham Praise")
Book: Songs of Grace
Global poverty and justice issues
O God, You Love the Needy
LLANGLOFFAN (7.6.7.6 D) ("Lead On, O King Eternal"; "Rejoice, Rejoice, Believers")
Hymn for giving to the poor (originally for famine relief efforts)
Pentecost Had Come
ARGENTINA (11.11.11.11 with Refrain) ("Song of Hope")
The hymn celebrating Pentecost remembers how "Suddenly the Spirit came in wind and flame, Sending men and women out in Jesus' name" (Acts 2).

Stewardship of God's Creation

Genesis 1, 2; Psalms 8, 24
The Earth is the Lord's
ST. DENIO (11.11.11.11) ("Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise")
Book: Songs of Grace
A celebration of God's creation and our call to care for it.
O God, Your Creatures Fill the Earth
ELLACOMBE (8.6.8.6 D) ("I Sing the Mighty Power of God"; "Hail To the Lord's Anointed")
FOREST GREEN (8.6.8.6 D) ("How Beautiful the March of Days")
A hymn for the care and blessing of animals
Shades of Purple, Shades of Blue
DIX (7.7.7.7.7.7) ("For the Beauty of the Earth")
Genesis 1
At The Dawn of Your Creation
HYMN TO JOY (8.7.8.7 D) ("Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee")
A celebration of God's creation and the command to care for it.
Creator God, You Made the Earth
ST. COLUMBA (8.7.8.7) ("The King of Love My Shepherd Is")
Book: Songs of Grace
Keeping Sabbath Time, Relating to Others/Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Psalms 104, 148
On the Beach, the Waves of Waters
HYMN TO JOY (8.7.8.7 D) ("Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee")
Book: Songs of Grace
O God, the Great, Wide Seas are Yours
MELITA (8.8.8.8.8.8) ("Eternal Father, Strong to Save")
Creation care; the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
O God, When Your Land
LYONS (10.10.11.11) ("O Worship the King, All Glorious Above!")
God Made the Heavens and the Earth
THE SOLID ROCK (8.8.8.8 with Refrain) ("My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less")
Book: Gifts of Love
Creation and Environmental Stewardship
Psalms 95, 104
Creator, We Thank You for All You Have Made
ST. DENIO (11.11.11.11) ("Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise")
Book: Songs of Grace
Beauty of creation in every day

Earth Care resources

You can read more about Carolyn Winfrey Gillette's creation care work in her articles "Shrinking Bills, Growing Membership" (PDF file) (Horizons magazine, November/December 2009), "A Journey Towards a Green Church" (PDF file) by Carolyn and Bruce Gillette in Call to Worship: Liturgy, Music, Preaching and the Arts (May 2009) Environment and Worship issue, and the solar web page for Limestone Presbyterian Church.
The Green Bible (HarperCollins, 2008) is for those who care about creation (for more details about this Bible and praise for it, see Carolyn's article, "A Journey Towards a Green Church").
Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril by Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson brings together the writings of over 80 faith leaders, gifted writers, scientists, government leaders, business leaders, naturists and activists to make the moral arguments for working to stop Climate Change. The hope is that a moral consensus, along with the scientific consensus, will inspire people to needed action. After a foreword by Desmond Tutu, the book's inspiring writings are organized in different sections for why we need to morally respond to Climate Change:
1. For the survival of humankind
2. For the sake of the children
3. For the sake of the Earth itself
4. For the sake of all forms of life on the planet
5. To honor our duties of gratitude and reciprocity
6. For the full expression of human virtue
7. Because all flourishing is mutual
8. The stewardship of God's creation
9. Because compassion requires it
10. Because justice demands it
11. Because the world is beautiful
12. Because we love the world
13. To honor the Earth and Earth systems
14. Because our moral integrity requires us to do what is right

Free Stewardship Resources
to Encourage Financial Support of Church and Missions

We have found these free, downloadable resources to be good ones to share with leaders in our church:

From the Lewis Center for Church Leadership at Wesley Theological Seminary:
- 50 Ways to Encourage Faithful Giving (PDF file)
- 50 Ways to Improve Your Annual Stewardship Campaign (PDF file)
From Parish Paper:

Books of Carolyn's hymns

Gifts of Love: New Hymns for Today's Worship by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette (Geneva Press, 2000)
Songs of Grace: New Hymns for God and Neighbor by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette (Upper Room Books, 2009)

Books including Carolyn's hymns

More Voices (United Church of Canada hymnal supplement) (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2009)
Singing the New Testament (Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and Christian Reformed Church, Faith Alive Christian Resources, 2008)
Sing the Faith: New Hymns for Presbyterians (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2003)
Voices Found: Women in the Church's Song (Episcopal Church Publishing, 2003)
Worship and Song (Abingdon Press, 2011)
The Abingdon Creative Preaching Annual 2014 (Abingdon Press, 2013)

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