May we have your attention please gentlemen. Thank you very much. We are welcoming you to this special service here in the Garden Chapel this morning and it is a happy occasion in which we come together and to begin the service we're going to invite Mr. Frank Butler who is a minister in the Church of Christ and a regular chaplain visitor here at San Quentin performing a faithful service.
Mr. Butler is going to open our service with a meditation. Our father in heaven we humbly thank you for this day and for all the blessings that you have given us in it. We're grateful most of all for the gift of your son who you gave for the sins of all of mankind. We're especially grateful for your patience and long-suffering with us in the times when we sinned and walked in our own will and way.
That you continued your grace to us and allowed us a space of time wherein we could repent and come unto you and live before time shall be called to an end.
Now as we go into this worship service it is our fervent prayer that you be with us, guide us in all that we do, let everything be done decently and in order which shall be acceptable unto you in that last day. This we do reverently ask in Jesus name. Amen.
Thank you very much Mr. Butler for that meditation as we begin this service. Now we continue with the music of the chapel with the choir and our special guest today one of our own that we welcome back with great affection and great appreciation Mr. Merle Haggard.
Thank you chaplain. Today we'd like to ask the San Quentin choir to help us on a couple of numbers. We'd also like to recognize the fact that Bonnie, the entire strangers and all the...
congregations here, the San Quentin Chapel. We're going to do a song here that I consider to be one of the great standards. I understand it's probably over a hundred years old. It's called Amazing Grace.