WE GATHER AND APPROACH GOD
PRELUDE – Allison Beck, Piano Elizabeth Beck, Violin
“Carol of the Bells“
NOTES ON THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH – Rev. Doug de Graffenried
*LIGHTING OF THE ADVENT WREATH
Danny and Megan Walpole, Hudson, Henry, Brooks
Leader: God of Salvation, break into our world with your great power and glory. Break the chains that bind us to sin. Shatter the systems of our world that promote injustice and oppression.
People: We light the 1st Advent Candle as a sign of our hope that God’s Messiah is coming. May we stay alert for His coming that we might hear with all of creation, the redemption song of our God.
Leader: Come, Lord Jesus.
People: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Amen.
*HYMN OF PRAISE
“Hail to the Lord’s Anointed” – Hymnal, No. 203
*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
*GLORIA PATRI
ANTHEM – Alison and Elizabeth Beck
“Mary Did You Know?”
WE WORSHIP THROUGH OUR PRAYERS AND OUR OFFERINGS
PASTORAL PRAYER – Rev. Doug de Graffenried
LORD’S PRAYER
PRAYER RESPONSE
“Emmanuel, Emmanuel” – Hymnal, No. 204
INVITATION TO THE OFFERING
OFFERTORY -Alison and Elizabeth Beck
“In the Bleak Midwinter“
*DOXOLOGY
ANTHEM – Alison and Elizabeth Beck
“O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”
WE HEAR GOD’S WORD
SCRIPTURE – Luke 21:25-46
SERMON – “Mixed Signals”
Rev. Dr. Wybra Price
WE GO FORTH IN FAITH AND SERVICE
*HYMN OF COMMITMENT
“I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light” – Hymnal, No. 206
*BENEDICTION – Rev. Doug de Graffenried
*POSTLUDE – Deborah Guillory, Organ