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Please join us for our annual Lessons and Carols service live streamed on YouTube at 10 am on Sunday morning.

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Lessons and Carols - December 5th, 2021

 

Prelude

 

Welcome & Announcements

 

Advent Candle Lighting

Hope is a Star

Peace is a ribbon that circle the earth, giving a promise of safety and worth.

(refrain) When God is a child there’s joy in our song.  The last shall be first and the weak shall be strong, and none shall be afraid.

Prayer

 

Opening Hymn - CP # 88 Come, Thou Long-expected Jesus

 

Opening Prayer

 

1st Lesson - Creation -  Genesis 1:1-5 (from The Message)

 

Choir Anthem - Light of Peace by Joel Raney

 

2nd Lesson - Temptation & Fall - Poem

 

Choir Anthem - Jesus Christ the Apple Tree by Timothy Shaw (Anne Lane on Flute)

 

3rd Lesson - The Promise of a Messiah - Isaiah 11:1-9

 

Choir Hymn - CP #589 Come, O God of All the Earth. (Soloist Ankelly Armstrong)

 

4th Lesson - The Birth of Christ - Poem

 

Choir Hymn - CP#148 See Amid the Winter’s Snow

 

5th Lesson - The Return of Christ

 

Choir Anthem - Look to the Rose - J.M. Martin

 

A reading from the Gospel of John, 1:1-5

 

Choir Hymn - O Christ, the Word Incarnate - W.W. How & R.G. Hobbs/J. Cruger (CCLI # 1884009)

 

Reflection

 

Prayers

 

The Lord’s Prayer

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial, and deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and for ever. Amen.

 

Blessing

 

Closing Hymn CP #114 - Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending (vs. 1, 3, 4)

 

Dismissal