The Reverend Donald Stanley Davenport

A Celebration of the Life of

   The Reverend

  Donald Stanley Davenport

   1936 - 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Manchester Community Church

 

   “Where people count, and Christ is honored.”          

Established 1833

             Pastor Alec Rogers

The Procession       “Surely The Presence”     MCC Choir

 

Welcome                                             Pastor Alec Rogers

 

Military Honors   

 

The Liturgy of Word & Song                       

         

    Scriptural Invocation                                 Pastor Alec

 

    Opening Prayer                                         Pastor Alec

 

    Hymn #186          “The Old Rugged Cross”

 

    Reading: Psalm 23                                     Pastor Alec    

 

Song:    “Dancing in the Sky”            Recorded and sung by       

        Kelly Davenport

 

    Remembrance:        Rev. Robert Bradstreet, lifelong friend

 

Remembrance & Song:    “The Prayer”      Don Sweeney

 

    Remembrances:                   Neiland Douglas, with written

         sentiments by Bruce Sharp, lifelong friends

 

    Song:         “Precious Memories”         Recorded & sung by

Jean & Joan

 

    Remembrance:                                     Ken Fuller, brother

 

    Song:               “What’ll I Do”                    Bob Colwell

 

    Selected Scriptures                                     Pastor Alec

 

    Eulogy:    “That They Might Lovely Be”     Pastor Alec

 

Closing Prayer and Lord’s Prayer                  Pastor Alec

 

Commendation and Benediction                  Pastor Alec

 

Postlude                                                        Lisa Harding

 

 

A reception & light lunch will follow this service in the new Fellowship Hall.  All are welcome.  Thank you for sharing this morning with us.

 

Thank you to this morning’s ushers: Don & Lynn Sweeney and Bud and Teddy Ware.

 

 

 

“Love the unlovable.

Forgive the unforgivable.”