Sunday, December 26, 2021

Fruitland United Methodist Church
December 26, 2021 – 9:00 A.M.

Prelude

Welcome
Lighting of the Candles and inviting the neighborhood to worship.

Interlude

*Call to Worship
Blessed be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

Calling Song “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 all their songs employ;
while fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
repeat the sounding joy,
repeat the sounding joy,
repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow,
nor thorns infest the ground;
he comes to make his blessings flow
far as the curse is found,
far as the curse is found,
far as, far as the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace,
and makes the nations prove
the glories of his righteousness,
and wonders of his love,
and wonders of his love,
and wonders, wonders of his love.

Responsive Reading from Psalm 148 (The Message)
Leader: Hallelujah! Praise God from heaven, praise him from the
 mountain tops;
People: Praise him, all you his angels, praise him, all you his warriors.
Leader: Praise him sun and moon, praise him you morning stars.
People: Praise him, high heaven, praise him heavenly rain clouds;
Leader: Praise, oh let them praise the name of God!
People: He spoke the word, and there they were!
All: Hallelujah!

Invocation

Carols
 “Angels We Have Heard on High” UMH #238
Angels we have heard on high
sweetly singing o’er the plains,
and the mountains in reply
echoing their joyous strains.
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!

Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
which inspire your heavenly song?
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!

Come to Bethlehem and see
Christ whose birth the angels sing;
come, adore on bended knee,
Christ the Lord, the newborn King.
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!

See him in a manger laid,
whom the choirs of angels praise;
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
while our hearts in love we raise. 
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
​
 “Good Christian Friends, Rejoice” UMH #224
Good Christian friends, rejoice
with heart and soul and voice;
give ye heed to what we say:
Jesus Christ was born today.
Ox and ass before him bow,
and he is in the manger now.
Christ is born today!
Christ is born today!

Good Christian friends, rejoice
with heart and soul and voice;
now ye hear of endless bliss:
Jesus Christ was born for this!
He has opened heaven's door,
and we are blest forevermore.
Christ was born for this!
Christ was born for this!

Good Christian friends, rejoice
with heart and soul and voice;
now ye need not fear the grave:
Jesus Christ was born to save!
Calls you one and calls you all
to gain his everlasting hall.
Christ was born to save!
Christ was born to save!

Reading The Little Match Girl
Written by Hans Christian Anderson – read by Holly Hutchinson

Old Testament Reading - Isaiah 9:2 and 6-7
New Testament Reading - Colossians 3:12-17
God’s Word for God’s People. Thanks be to God!

Stewardship Thought, Prayer

Carol “It Came upon the Midnight Clear” UMH #218
It came upon the midnight clear,
that glorious song of old,
from angels bending near the earth
to touch their harps of gold:
"Peace on the earth, good will to men,
from heaven's all-gracious King."
The world in solemn stillness lay,
to hear the angels sing.

Still through the cloven skies they come
with peaceful wings unfurled,
and still their heavenly music floats
o'er all the weary world;
above its sad and lowly plains,
they bend on hovering wing,
and ever o'er its Babel sounds
the blessed angels sing.

And ye, beneath life's crushing load,
whose forms are bending low,
who toil along the climbing way
with painful steps and slow,
look now! for glad and golden hours
come swiftly on the wing.
O rest beside the weary road,
and hear the angels sing!

For lo! the days are hastening on,
by prophet seen of old,
when with the ever-circling years
shall come the time foretold
when peace shall over all the earth
its ancient splendors fling,
and the whole world send back the song
which now the angels sing.
​
Church Choir
“The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy”
“Like a Child”
“O Holy Night”

Meditation, Luke 2:20

Closing Song “Go Tell It on the Mountain” UMH #251
Refrain:
Go, tell it on the mountain,
over the hills and everywhere;
go, tell it on the mountain
that Jesus Christ is born.

While shepherds kept their watching
o'er silent flocks by night,
behold, throughout the heavens
there shone a holy light. [Refrain]

The shepherds feared and trembled
when, lo! above the earth
rang out the angel chorus
that hailed our Savior's birth. [Refrain]

Down in a lowly manger
the humble Christ was born,
and God sent us salvation
that blessed Christmas morn. [Refrain]

Postlude
Thank you for Worshiping with us today!

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