"A Home for All" Original Hymn (Christmas, radical hospitality)
"A Home for All" Original Hymn (Christmas, radical hospitality)
DIGITAL SHEET MUSIC DOWNLOAD
This hymn, originally written for the Close to Home bundle for Advent 2021, is created for use in congregational worship and other ministry contexts. We’ve set fresh words of faith to a well-loved public domain hymn tune for maximum singability.
License for congregational use is included in the purchase—no reporting to CCLI or other licensing agencies is required. To inquire about other uses, such as recording or publishing, please contact us.
“A Home for All”
Tune: MENDELSSOHN 7.7.7.7 D with refrain (“Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”)
Text: Anna Strickland, 2021
Music: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, 1840
DOWNLOAD includes:
PDF sheet music with four-part harmony
PNG image of the lyrics and melody for use in bulletins
Lyrics to copy and paste for bulletins and screens
Lyrics:
Light the candles, deck the halls
We are making room for all
Practice hospitality
Give in Christian charity
But to create lasting change
A transactional exchange
Won’t make straight our crooked ways
Or lift valleys into plains
Refrain:
Prophets of the ages call:
“We must build a home for all”
Stack the gifts beneath the tree
Hang the lights for all to see
Send cards full of Christmas cheer
To the family far and near
But the greatest gift we share
Is a world that’s just and fair
Though it feels so far away
We work for God’s promised day
Refrain
Set the table for a feast
Crystal, china, silver gleam
Once the banquet has been blessed
Gather ‘round in Christmas best
But Christ’s table has been set
With the simplest meal of bread
Offering abundant grace
Here all people have a place
Refrain
credit info:
Hymn text by Rev. Anna Strickland | A Sanctified Art, LLC | sanctifiedart.org
