Join Us For Worship, Sunday December 26th at 11:00am on Youtube Live!!!

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©Order of Worship December 26, 2021
First Sunday After Christmas
Love Feast

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The worship video will be available live at 11:00 am.
Text for hymns are found below each hymn.  Click on the hymn highlighted text for music.

Prelude: …………………………………………Greg D.
 
Coming of the Light:
 
Greetings:……………………………………Pastor Steven
 
Opening Prayer: ………………………… Pastor Steven
 
Father of earth and heaven,
thy hungry children feed,
thy grace be to our spirits given,
that true immortal bread.
Grant us and all our race
in Jesus Christ to prove
the sweetness of thy pardoning grace,
the manna of thy love.
Amen
 
Scripture: Psalm 145:8-21…………………Pastor Steven
 
The Lord is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
 
All: The Lord is good to all,
His compassion is over all his creation.
 
All your works shall give thanks to you, O Lord,
and your faithful ones shall bless you!
 
All: They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom,
and tell of your power,
 
To make known to all people your mighty deeds,
and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.
 
All: Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and your dominion endures throughout all
generations.
 
The Lord upholds all who are falling,
and raises up all who are bowed down.
All: The eyes of all look to you,
and you give them their food in due season.
 
You open your hand,
you satisfy the desire of every living thing.
 
All: All the Lord’s ways are just,
all the Lord’s doings are kind.
 
The Lord is near to all who call,
to all who call upon the Lord in truth.
 
All: The Lord fulfills the desire of all the faithful,
all who love the Lord, the Lord preserves.
 
All: My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord;
let all flesh bless God’s holy name for ever
and ever.
 
Words from Pastor Steven:
 
The Meaning of the Love Feast:…………………Diane C.
 
Giving of our tithes and offerings …………………
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Offertory:…………………………Glenda C., Melanie B.
 
Offertory Response:
Table Grace: Be Present at Our Table Lord#621 UMH
 
Be present at our table, Lord:
Be here and everywhere adored;
Thy creatures bless, and grant that we
May feast in paradise with Thee.
 
Passing of the Bread:
 
Passing of the Water:
 
Testimonies, Prayers, Singing
 
Closing Words:……………………………Pastor Steven
 
Closing Hymn:  “Joy to the World” #246 UMH
Words by Isac Watts, 1719 (Psalms 98:4-9)
Music arranged from G.F. Handel, 1741, by Lowell Mason, 1848
 
1. 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.
 
2. 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.
 
3. 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.
 
4. 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.
 
Dismissal with blessing:…………………Pastor Steven
 
Postlude:………………………………………Greg D.

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