Join us on Zoom as Revd Ernesto Lozada-Uzuriaga leads us in his Farewell Evening Service.

The link to the Zoom meeting can be found in our WhatsApp group or by contacting Living Stones by email.

You may follow us with the liturgy below or use it for your own prayer time.

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Opening Prayer

The Wind’s Whisper

Eternal Breath, who stirs the waters and
unsettles the stillness, we gather at the
edge of a threshold —between what
has been and what may yet become.
We do not ask for certainty, only for courage to
listen to the wind, to lean into its invisible grace,
and to walk the path it carves through our hearts.

Let this evening be a consecration of change,
a quiet blessing upon all that must be released,
and a gentle welcome to the song that waits
beyond the silence. Amen.

Confession and Words of Forgiveness

Let us bring before God the weight
of what we carry —the regrets, the unfinished conversations,
the moments we held too tightly or let slip too soon.

Silence

Holy One, we confess our resistance to change,
our fear of endings, our longing to control what
cannot be held. We have clung to the familiar and
turned away from the wind’s invitation.

Forgive us.
Unbind us.
Let your Spirit breathe through our reluctance
and teach us to trust the unseen path.

Silence

Words of Forgiveness

The wind does not ask permission to move.
It dances freely, and so does grace.
In Christ, we are forgiven — not because
we understand, but because we are loved.
Amen.

Bible Reading

“The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not
know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

John 3:8

Song

Which Way the Wind Blows – Second Chapter of Acts

Which Way the Wind Blows – YouTube

Feel a feeling
Say a saying
But you’ll still be lonely
If you think life is only for this moment

Do a doing
Mourn a mourning
Still won’t get you off your sorrow
So go ahead and cry your tears
But you can’t cry and look at tomorrow

You don’t know which way the wind blows
So how can you plan tomorrow
You don’t know which way the wind blows
So how can you plan tomorrow

Run a running
Hide a hiding
Whenever you hear the truth
And when you ask for the proof
You won’t listen (listen)

Praise a praising
Build a building
Trying to get peace in your life
And you don’t even know wrong from right
Oh, where is your wisdom

You don’t know which way the wind blows
So how can you plan tomorrow
You don’t know which way the wind blows
So how can you plan tomorrow

Die a dying
Resurrecting
By believing and receiving
Forgiveness from Jesus
Who took the sin from sinning

You don’t know which way the wind blows
So how can you plan tomorrow
Jesus knows which way the wind blows
So give him your tomorrow

Believe Him and receive
Believe Him and receive

You don’t know which way the wind blows
So how can you plan tomorrow
You don’t know which way the wind blows
So how can you plan tomorrow

You don’t know which way the wind blows
So how can you plan tomorrow
You don’t know which way the wind blows
So how can you plan tomorrow

Conversation

Intercessions and Prayers

Let us pray for those who stand at thresholds:
those leaving, those arriving,
those grieving, those hoping.

• For communities in transition,
  that they may find unity in change and tenderness in farewell.

• For those discerning new vocations,
  that the Spirit may guide them with clarity and joy.

• For the weary and the uncertain,
  that they may hear the wind’s lullaby and rest in its rhythm.

• For this Living Stone congregation at home,
  as it releases one chapter and opens to another,
  that it may sing a new song with courage and grace.

Silence

Spirit of the wandering Christ,
be near to all who walk unfamiliar paths.
Let your breath be our compass,
your silence our sanctuary,
your mystery our home.
Amen.

Final Prayer

Lighten our darkness, Lord, we pray,
and in your mercy defend us
from all perils and shadows of this night.
Let your Spirit hover over us
as it did at the world’s beginning —not to
restore what was, but to birth what is becoming.
May we sleep in the knowledge
that endings are not failures,
but invitations to trust the wind
and follow its song.
Amen.

Blessing

Go now, beloved Livingstones,
into the night that sings of possibility.
Let the wind carry what you cannot.
Let the Spirit breathe through your farewells.
Let your life become a new song —
not rehearsed, not perfect,
but true.

And may the blessing of the One
who dances in endings and beginnings,
the Christ who walks beside every threshold,
and the Spirit who moves where she will,
be with you and remain with you always.
Amen.