Getting Ready for Christmas

TRINITY CHIME
INFORMAL MOMENTS
PRELUDE Jim Gregory
*SONG OF WELCOME Emmanuel #204
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: As in days of old, a fiery voice heralds the Savior’s coming: All: “Prepare the way! Let all flesh prepare him room!” Leader: Christ is coming, Savior of love and light. All: Come to us, Lord Jesus! Amen.
*HYMN Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus #196
THE ADVENT CANDLES Randy Higgins and Kate Morelli
*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
We are not alone, we live in God’s world. We believe in God: who has created and is creating, who has come in Jesus, the Word made flesh, to reconcile and make new, who works in us and others by the Spirit. We trust in God. We are called to be the Church: to celebrate God’s presence, to love and serve others, to seek jus-tice and resist evil, to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen, our judge and our hope. In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us. We are not alone. Thanks be to God. Amen.
*GLORIA PATRI #70
CHILDREN’S SONG Jesus Loves Me #191
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE
(Children 3rd grade and younger are dismissed for Children’s Church)
GIVING OF GOD’S TITHES AND OUR OFFERING
OFFERTORY
*DOXOLOGY #95
*Hymn It Came Upon the Midnight Clear #218
PASTORAL PRAYER
THE LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name;
Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil;
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
ANTHEM Every Valley Sanctuary Choir(by John Ness Beck)
SONG OF PREPARATION There Is Room In My Heart for Thee On Screen
*SCRIPTURE Luke 3:1-6
Leader: The word of God for the people of God.
All: Thanks be to God.
SERMON Getting Ready for Christmas Rev. Greg Tolle
SILENT REFLECTION & ORGAN INTERLUDE
INVITATION TO CHRISTIAN DISCIPLESHIP
*CLOSING HYMN Savior of the Nations Come On Screen
*BENEDICTION AND BLESSING
*SENDING FORTH Rejoice! Rejoice! On Screen
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel!
POSTLUDE Jim Gregory