Fruitland United Methodist Church
December 19, 2021 – 9:00 A.M. 4th Sunday of Advent Prelude “Pat-a-Pan” by Bernard de la Monnoye Welcome Lighting Advent Candle and inviting the neighborhood to worship. Interlude In the Bleak Midwinter” by Christina Rossetti and Gustav Holst, Iran Trenkel and Jim Schmid *Call to Worship Blessed be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit Calling Song “While We Are Waiting, Come” While we are waiting, come While we are waiting, come Jesus our Lord, Emmanuel, While we are waiting, come With pow'r and glory, come With pow'r and glory, come Jesus our Lord, Emmanuel With pow'r and glory, come Come, Savior, quickly come Come, Savior, quickly come Jesus our Lord, Emmanuel Come, Savior, quickly come Responsive Reading Mary’s Song – Luke 1:46-55 Leader: My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant. People: Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed: for the Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name! Leader: His mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation. People: He has shown great strength; he has scattered the proud in their inmost thoughts. He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly. Leader: He has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty. All: He has helped his servant Israel, remembering to be merciful to Abraham and his descendants forever, just as he promised. Unison Invocation O God of Elizabeth and Mary, you visited your servants with news of the world’s redemption in the coming of the Savior. Make our hearts leap with joy, and fill our mouths with songs of praise, that we may announce glad tidings of peace, and welcome the Christ in our midst. Amen. Carol “Angels, from the Realms of Glory” UMH #220 Angels from the realms of glory, Wing your flight o'er all the earth; Ye who sang creation's story Now proclaim Messiah's birth Shepherds, in the field abiding, Watching o'er your flocks by night, God with us is now residing; Yonder shines the infant light Come and worship, come and worship, Come and worship, Christ the newborn king. Come and worship, come and worship, Come and worship, Christ the newborn king. Choir “Children, Go Where I Send Thee” New Testament Reading - Hebrews 10:5-10 Gospel Reading - Luke 1:39-45 God’s Word for God’s People. Thanks be to God! Special Music “I Wonder as I Wander” by Aubrey Assad, Jim Schmid and Iran Trenkel Stewardship Thought, Prayer “ Joy To The World” UMH #246 Joy to the world! The Lord is come Let earth receive her King! Let every heart prepare Him room And heaven and nature sing And heaven and nature sing And heaven, and heaven and nature sing Joy to the world! The Savior reigns Let men their songs employ While fields and floods Rocks, hills and plains Repeat the sounding joy Repeat the sounding joy Repeat, repeat the sounding joy Message "O Bethlehem" Micah 5:2-5 Commitment Carol “O Little Town of Bethlehem” UMH #230 O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by; yet in thy dark streets shineth the everlasting light. The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight. For Christ is born of Mary, and, gathered all above while mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wond’ring love. O morning stars, together proclaim the holy birth, and praises sing to God the King and peace to all the earth. How silently, how silently, the wondrous gift is giv’n! So God imparts to human hearts the blessings of his heav’n. No ear may hear his coming, but in this world of sin, where meek souls will receive him, still the dear Christ enters in. O holy Child of Bethlehem, descend to us, we pray, cast out our sin and enter in, be born in us today. We hear the Christmas angels the great glad tidings tell; O come to us, abide with us, our Lord Immanuel! Unison Benediction May our Lord lead us now out of the familiar settings of doubt and fear, beyond our pride and need to be secure, into a strange and graceful ease with this life, this time, these opportunities; that in boundless silence we may grow strong enough to endure and flexible enough to share the grace of God that is manifest in Jesus through whom we live and pray. Postlude “Still, Still, Still” (a German lullaby arranged by Philip Keveren) Thank you for Worshiping with us today! (CCLI License #1552544)
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