THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH, NIGERIA,

ANDONI AUTONOMOUS SUB FIELD

RIVERS STATE

ORDER OF DAY VIGIL/ FUNERAL SERVICE
IN HONOUR OF

LATE MADAM MARIAH IKOWA
@
THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH,
IBOTIREM ASSEMBLY
ATABA AREA
DATE: SATURDAT 22
ND
NOVEMBER 2014
VENUE: C.P.S. IBOTIREM FIELD
TIME: 9:00 AM PROMPT
SUNDAY 23RD NOVEMBER 2014= THANKSGIVING SERVICE
VENUE: TAC IBOTIREM ASSEMBLY
TIME: 10:00 AM PROMPT

OFFICIATING MINISTERS
1. APOSTLE Z. S.WARIGBANI FILED SUPERINTENDENT
2. APOSTLE C. J. JOSHUA ------FIELD SECRETARY
3. PASTOR I. T. ANDREW
4. PASTOR N. N. JAPHET
5. PASTOR N. N. ZEBULON---AREA SUPERVISOR
6. PASTOR U. P. JACKSON-----HOST I
7. PASTOR B. WANDER -------HOST II
AND OTHER ANOINTED MEN OF GOD

PART A: ORDER OF DAY VIGIL
1. Opening prayer and choruses by Elder T. Robert
2. Opening hymn : SS&S No. 902 ( My hope is built on
nothing less)
3. Anthem by the host choir TAC Ibotirem and worship by
Pastor N. N. Japhet
4. General greeting by the secretary R. Rogers
5. Choruses by brother u. Ezekiel
6. Anthem by Ataba, Ebormung and Unyeada Assembly
choirs
7. Choruses for offering by worker G. Ambrose
8. Special dance by all sisters
9. Anthem by invited churches
10. Group song by the bereaved families
11. Activities if any
12. Music! Music!! Music!!!
13. Congregation moves to see the corpse lying in state
OPENING HYMN SS&S NO. 902
1. My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus blood and righteousness
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
But wholly lean on Jesus name


CHORUS:
On Christ, the solid rock, I stand
All other ground I sinking sand
All other ground is sinking sand
2. When darkness hide his lovely face
I rest on His unchanging grace
In every high and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the vail

3. His oath, His covenant , His blood
Support me in the whelming flood
When all around my soul gives way
He then is all my hope and stay
4. When he shall come with trumpet sound
May then in his be found
Dressed in His righteousness alone
Faultless to stand before the throne

SERVICE @ THE HOME OF THE BEREAVED
1. PRAYER
2. ANNOUNCEMENT
PROCESSIONAL HYMN TO THE CHURCH
SS&S 726 (PEACE PERFECT PEACE)
1. Peace! perfect peace! in this dark and world and sin?
The blood of Jesus whispers peace within
2. Peace! perfect peace! by thronging duties prest?
To do the will of Jesus, this is rest.
3. Peace! perfect peace! with sorrows surging round?
On Jesus bosom naught but calm is found.
4. Peace! perfect peace! with loved ones far away?
In Jesus keeping we are safe, and they
5. Peace! perfect peace! our future all unknown?
Jesus we know, and He is on the throne.
6. Peace! perfect peace! death shadowing us and ours?
Jesus has vanquished death and all its power
7. It is enough; earths struggles soon shall cease,
And Jesuss calls us to heavens perfect peace

PART TWO
FUNERAL SERVICE
1. Opening prayer and choruses by WKR. W. B. warder
2. Congregational hymn 543 ( precious Promise)
3. Worship by Pastor N. N. Zebulon
4. Anthem by Ibotirem District Choir
5. Bible reading : 1
st
Thessalonians 4: 13-18
6. Testimony by the church
7. Biography by the family
8. Sermon by Pastor U. P. Jackson
9. Sympathizers offering by the congregation
10. Prayer for (a) The departed soul
(b) The church
(c) The Families
11. Announcement
12. PROCESSIONAL HYMN 102 TO THE GRAVESIDE
(MAN OF SORROW)
1. Man of sorrow, what a name
For the son of God, who came
Ruined sinners to reclaim!
Hallelujah! What a Saviour!
2. Bearing shame and scoffing rude,
In my place condemned He stood;
Sealed my pardon with His blood
Hallelujah! What a Saviour
3. Guilty, vile, and helpless we;
Spotless Lamb of God was he:
Full atonement!- can it be?
Hallelujah! What a Saviour!

4. Lifted up was he to die,
It is finished! was His cry;
Now in heaven exalted high:
Hallelujah! What a Saviour!
5. When he comes, our glorious King,
All His ransomed home to bring,
Then a new this song well sing:
Hallelujah! What a Saviour!

11. HYMN IN THE CHURCH SS&S 543 (PRECIOUS
PROMISE)
1. Precious promise God hath given
To the weary passer-by
On the way from earth to heaven,
I will guide thee with Mine eye
CHORUS:
I will guide thee, I will guide thee,
I will guide thee with Mine eye;
On the way from earth to heaven,
I will guide thee with Mine eye
2. When temptations almost win thee,
And thy trusted watchers fly,
Let this promise ring within thee:
I will guide thee with Mine eye

3. When the secret hopes have perished
In the grave of years gone by,
Let this promise still be cherished,
I will guide thee with Mine eye
4. When the shades of life are falling,
And the hour has come to die,
Hear the trusty Leader calling,
I will guide thee with mine eye

12. BIBLE READING: 1 THESS 4: 13-18
Verse 13. But I would not have you to be ignorant,
brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye
sorrow not even as others who have no hope
Verse 14. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
even so God will bring with him those who sleep with
Jesus
Verse 15. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord,
that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the
Lord will by no means prevent them who are asleep.
Verse 16. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven
with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the
trumpet of God and the dead in Christ will rise first.
Verse 17. Then we who are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the
Lord in the air and thus we shall always be with the Lord.
Verse 18. Therefore comfort one another with these
words.
PART THREE
AT THE GRAVE SIDE
1. Prayer
2. Hymn SS&S No. 1028 ( On the resurrection morning)
3. Anthem by the Choir
4. The word
5. Interment by the superintendent
6. Prayer and benediction
HYMN AT THE GRAVESIDE SS&S NO. 1028
( ON THE RESURRESTION MORNING)
1. On the resurrection morning,
Soul and body meet again;
No more sorrow, no more weeping,
No more pain.
2. Here a while they must be parted,
And the flesh its Sabbath keep;
Waiting in a holy stillness,
Wrapped in sleep.
3. For a space the tried body
Waits in peace the mornings dawn,
When there breaks the last and brightest
Easter morn.
4. On the happy Easter morning
All the graves their dead restore
Father, sister, child and mother
Meet once more

5. Soul and body reunited;
Thenceforth nothing shall divide;
Waking up in Christs own likeness,
Satisfied