sunday november 30, 2025

Fruitland United Methodist Church
November 30, 2025

*(Please stand if you are comfortably able.)

Prelude: “See, What a Morning!” by Keith Getty and Stuart Townsend

Welcoming the Light of Christ and inviting the neighborhood to worship.
Welcome and Announcements

*Call to Worship First Sunday of Advent
Something stirs deep within us
A longing, a hope
A thirst for joy,
A hunger for peace,
A yearning for blessing.
We know deep within
That our hopes and fears
Will be met by angel songs and baby sighs.
It is Advent
Come, Lord Jesus, come.

*Sharing the peace of Christ.

We Light the First Candle of Advent.
*Sing: “Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus” UMH 196

*Luke 1, “Mary’s Song of Praise” UMH 199

Time With Young Christians – Pastor Letha
(Please write prayer concerns and celebrations on yellow notepads, to be collected.)

Time of Community Expressions
     Hymn: “Holy, Holy, Holy” TFWS 2007
     Thanksgiving and Celebration
     Prayers for Healing and Wholeness
     Our Community and The World
And now, we pray in the way that Jesus taught us to pray, “Our
Father, who art in heaven . . . “

*Hymn – “People, Look East” UMH 202

Invitation to Generosity – Pastor
Offertory “How Beautiful” by Twila Paris
*Doxology Praise God, from whom all blessings flow . . . UMH 95

Scripture Reading: James 5: 7-10 Pew Bible p. 1885

Sermon: “Wait for it, Brace Yourself.”

*Unison Prayer: May our waiting not be in vain, O God. May we
watch with vigor, listen with patience, anticipate with hope –
and when the time comes that your Son is to be delivered,
may gladness fill our hearts. Amen.

*Hymn: “Like a Child” TFWS 2092
Benediction
Postlude: “Marching to Zion”

If needing pastoral care while Pastor Jorge is out of town, you may contact
Chip Johnson, pastor of Payette UMC. His phone is 208-546-9137.