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| ✟ Indicates to stand (for those who are able) |
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| Prelude |
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| Welcome and Greeting |
| Please sign the fellowship folders and pass them down your row and to the back. |
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| Lighting of the Advent Candles |
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| ✟ Opening Worship Song |
Let It Rise |
| Lighting of the Candles |
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| Unison Opening Adven (UMH#201) |
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| P: Merciful God, you send your messengers the prophets |
| P: to preach repentance and prepare the way for our salvation. |
| P: Give us grace to heed their warnings and forsake our sins, |
| P: that we may celebrate aright the commemoration of the nativity, |
| P: and may await with joy the coming in glory of Jesus Christ our Redeemer; |
| P: who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, |
| P: One God, for ever and ever. Amen. |
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| ✟ Praise songs: |
What A Glorious Night |
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Its Christmas |
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| (Please pass your prayer concerns to the aisle during the last song) |
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| Prayers of the People |
| The Lord’s Prayer (printed on the back of the bulletin) |
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| Choir Anthem |
A Joyful, Jubilant Song |
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| Children’s Time |
| Junior Church is downstairs following Children's Time |
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| ✟ Hymn #240 |
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing |
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| Scripture: Psalm 30:1-5, 11-12 |
| The Message: "Almost or Altogether: Joy” |
Pastor Jeff Swainston |
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| Offertory |
| Offertory Prayer |
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| ✟ Hymn #251 |
Go, Tell It on the Mountain |
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| ✟ Dismissal With Blessing |
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| On this fourth Sunday in Advent, we sincerely welcome all who have come to worship. |
| May Christ the Lord touch us with his grace, so that we may each be refreshed in mind, |
| renewed in spirit and filled with the love of God. |
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| Those Assisting with our Service |
| Pianist: Carla Shore |
| Worship Leader: Sandi Moffit |
| Junior Church: Liesel Beck |
| Fellowship: Ruth Ward/Jane Fleming |
| Counters: Penny and Char |
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| For a full copy of today's bulletin click here. |
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