ANZAC DAY 2025 SERVICE
Opening Prayer – The Rev Scott Malcolm, St Barnabas Church Mt Eden
National Anthems of New Zealand and Australia: Iris Guo (Pianist)
E Ihowa Atua
O Ngã iwi mãtou rã
Ãta whakarongona:
Me aroha noa
Kia hua ko te pai;
Kia tau tō atawhai;
Manaakitia mai
Aotearoa
God of Nations at Thy feet,
In the bonds of love, we meet,
Hear our voices, we entreat,
God defend our free-land,
Guard Pacific's Triple Star
From the shafts of strife and war,
Make her praises heard afar,
God Defend New Zealand.
Australians all let us rejoice,
For we are one and free;
We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil;
Our home is girt by sea;
Our land abounds in nature’s gifts
Of beauty rich and rare;
In history’s page, let every stage
Advance Australia Fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing,
Advance Australia Fair.
Reading Micah 4: Isabella Boswell - Member of the Mt Eden Village Business Association
Address: Kendyl Smith - Chair of the Albert-Eden Local Board
Hymn: God of our Fathers
God of our fathers known of old
Lord of our far-flung battle line
Beneath whose awful hand, we hold
Dominion over palm and pine
Lord God of Hosts be with us yet
Lest we forget – lest we forget
The tumult and the shouting dies
The captains and the kings depart
Still stands thine ancient sacrifice
A humble and a contrite heart
Lord God of hosts be with us yet
Lest we forget – lest we forget.
Address: Chaplain Pete Olds, JP, NZDF
Laying of Wreaths: Owen Xiao (Violin)
The Last Post: Huw Dann APO (Bugler)
The Ode: Chaplain Pete Olds, JP, NZDF
Reveille: Huw Dann APO (Bugler)
Hymn: Abide with Me
Abide with me; fast falls the eventide:
The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide;
When other helpers fail and comforts flee
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.
Swift to is close ebbs out life’s little day;
Earths joys grow dim, its glories pass away;
Change and decay in all around I see:
O though who changest not, abide with me.
Hold though thy Cross before my closing eyes
Shine through the gloom, and point me to the skies:
Heaven’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee;
In life, in death,
O Lord, abide with me.
Story: Torty and the Soldier, by Jennifer Beck - Read by Jane Brown
Reading: Proverbs 3 – The Rev John Malcom, Greyfriars Eden Epsom Presbyterian Church
Song: Poppy - Roger White
I brought a poppy yesterday
From a gray haired old lady
Outside Pak'n Save
She was smiling up at me
As I dropped a coin in the box
That said donations please,
Donations please.
And I read the Herald on the train
Supplement edition with a long list
of names
Paper memories of men that died
And the horror stories
Of those that survived
And tell me
What did they say...
Ain’t it something about a field
in Flanders
About 1914 and the year of '45.
Ain’t it something about tyranny and freedom and pain
And the will, and the will, to never let it happen again
Never let it happen again.
Now Winky's a member of the RSA
Y ou get a damn good meal there
Or so he says
And I've only been once myself
When Jean finished work
And we had that final bash
And outside that place they've got a gun
Standing on the corner
Pointing at the sun
In a Henderson suburban street
Where the graves of the past
And our lives meet
And tell me what does that say...
Ain’t it something about a field in Flanders….
Call it glory, call it mud death and tears
Ain’t it something about a field in Flanders….
Closing Prayer & Benediction: The Rev Scott Malcolm, St Barnabas Church
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