December 24, 2015 - Markham Woods Presbyterian Church

November
2013 10:00 a.m.
CHRISTMAS30,
MORNING
December 24, 2015
4:30 p.m. Service
During our worship service please silence cell phones & refrain from flash photography.
CHIMING CALL TO MEDITATIVE REFLECTION
"Let me not wrap, stack, box, bag, tie, tag, bundle, seal, keep Christmas.
Christmas kept is liable to mold. Let me give Christmas away, unwrapped, by
exuberant armfuls. Let me share, dance, live Christmas unpretentiously, merrily,
responsibly with overflowing hands, tireless steps and sparkling eyes. Christmas
given away will stay fresh—even until it comes again." Linda Felver, A Book of
Christmas, Nashville: Upper Rooms, 1988, p. 48
PRELUDE
Bob Joyner, Organ
Two Settings on “Good Christian Friends Rejoice”
- John Carter and Charles Sergission
WELCOME & LIFE IN OUR CHURCH
Please sign and pass the Fellowship pad (note address & e-mail changes).
All hymn lyrics and liturgy will appear on the screens.
- Chris Baxter
4:30 p.m.
Service Continued
FOR UNTO US (Please stand if you are able)
*Silent Night
*Joy To The World
GIVING OF OUR TITHES & OFFERINGS
Be Born In Me
Reading: “The Fullness of Time”
- Nicole Nordeman
Bob Joyner, Organ
- Gilbert Martin
7:00 p.m.
Service
- Brian Hehn & Mark Burrows
Arr. Theresa Jennings & Paul Jennings
READING: “Holy, Holy, Holy”
SING WITH US THE CHRISTMAS STORY
Arr. Theresa Jennings and Paul Jennings
*Angels We Have Heard On High (Please stand if you are able)
CHIMING CALL TO MEDITATIVE REFLECTION
"Let me not wrap, stack, box, bag, tie, tag, bundle, seal, keep Christmas.
Christmas kept is liable to mold. Let me give Christmas away, unwrapped, by
exuberant armfuls. Let me share, dance, live Christmas unpretentiously, merrily,
responsibly with overflowing hands, tireless steps and sparkling eyes. Christmas
given away will stay fresh—even until it comes again." Linda Felver, A Book of
Christmas, Nashville: Upper Rooms, 1988, p. 48
PRELUDE
Holy Night Medley
Joy To The World
JESUS IS BORN
*Away In a Manger
WELCOME & LIFE IN OUR CHURCH
SHEPHERDS IN THE FIELD
*The First Noel
LIGHTING OF THE ADVENT CANDLE
ANGELS APPEAR
SHEPHERDS FIND BABY JESUS
*Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
THREE KINGS
*We Three Kings
Bob Joyner, Organ
- Susan Caudill
- Susan Caudill
ALPHA INVITATION
Hazel Perinchief, Kaaren Nelsen
and Eloise Pfeifauf
Congregational Response: Share the light of Christ in all you say and do. Live so
God’s great love can grow in you. Go out in Christ each day. Show Christ along
the way, and share the light of Christ in all the world.
THE CHRISTMAS EVE LITANY
(See Screens)
CHRISTMAS CAROL-ALONG (Please stand if you are able)
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming
*Congregation Sings
Dr. Burt Perinchief & Alisa Johnson
- Andrew Gant
GIFT THREE
Congregational Response: “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may
remain in you, and that your joy may be full.” John 15:11 NKJV
OFFERTOTORY
Gesu Bambino
Mary Did You Know?
Bob Joyner & Emily Erdman
- Pietro Yon
Heidi Thompson, Solo
- Traditional
Bryan & Ashley Southard, Duet
- Mark Lowry & Buddy Greene
GIFT FIVE
Congregational Response: “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not
walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” John 8:12 NKJV
Mid-Winter
THE CHRISTMAS EVE LITANY
A DECREE GOES OUT
*O Little Town Of Bethlehem
GIFT TWO
Congregational Response: “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as
the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be
afraid.” John 14:27 NKJV
GIFT FOUR
Congregational Response: “Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will
never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water
springing up into eternal life.” John 4:14 NKJV
LIGHTING OF THE ADVENT CANDLES
The Haller Family
Response: Share the light of Christ in all you say and do. Live so God’s great
love can grow in you. Go out in Christ each day. Show Christ along the way, and
share the light of Christ in all the world.
CHOIR CLUB CHIMES ENSEMBLE
Away in a Manger
Ladies Trio (Ashley, Debby, Linda)
- W.H. Neidlinger Arr. Tom Fettke
GIVING OF OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS
DEPARTURE TO SEE THE KING
ALPHA INVITATION
CHOIR CLUB PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE
The Birth of Jesus
Birthday of a King
Still, Still, Still
CLOSING PRAYER
POSTLUDE
Sing We Now Of Christmas
GIFT ONE
Congregational Response: “Who crowns you with loving kindness and tender
mercies. ”Psalm 103:4 NKJV
Chancel Choir
- Bob Chilcott
A FEW OTHER GIFTS
Congregational Response: “Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and
knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding
out!” Romans 11:33 NKJV
GIFT SIX
Congregational Response: “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord,
“Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they are red
like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Isaiah 1:18 NKJV
HOW DO I LOVE YOU?
Pastor Joe Wendorph
Bethlehem Morning
David Whitehead, Solo
- Morris Chapman
PASSING THE LIGHT OF CHRIST
HYMN (Please stand if you are able)
Silent Night
See Back Panel
DEPARTURE TO SEE THE KING
POSTLUDE
Little Jesus Sweetly Sleep
Bob Joyner, Organ
- James Biery
December 24, 2015
THE CHRISTMAS FULFILLMENT – GOOD NEWS TRAVELING FAST
Luke 2: 17 - 20 (NT. Pg. 58)
THE HYMN OF ADORATION
O Holy Night
Ashley Southard, Solo
THE CHRISTMAS PRAYER
GIVING OF OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS
11:00 p.m. Service
PRELUDE
Bob Joyner, Organ
What Child is This
- Richard Purvis
During the prelude, we invite you to quiet your heart in preparation to worship God.
WELCOME AND LIFE IN OUR CHURCH
Please sign and pass the Fellowship pad (note address & e-mail changes).
All hymn lyrics and liturgy will appear on the screens.
ALPHA INVITATION
THE LIGHTING OF THE CHRIST CANDLE
Geoff and Helen Nanton
and Dick Siegrist
THE CONGREGATION RESPONSE:
O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and
dream-less sleep the silent stars go by; Yet in thy dark streets shineth the
everlasting life: The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight.
CHRISTMAS EVE CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: Look to the East, time is near. Our morning light chases away the
night.
People: The sudden sense of a larger mystery.
Leader: A flood of unexpected tears or some chorus faintly heard.
People: A fragment of a dream, a cherished memory brought to mind.
Leader: All: The tail end of a story.
People: An awesome peace in the midst of a pressing chaos.
Leader: A holy reverence on a starlit, moon-bright night.
People: An unexpected letter, a surprise visit.
Leader: In many and varied ways.
People: God nudges, tugs, calls and beckons us.
Leader: We turn and discover God already waiting for us.
People: Our longing met by God's yearning.
Leader: Let us make a bright path for Jesus to come! So, come all ye
faithful, joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to
Bethlehem. All: (sing) O come let us adore him, O come let us
adore him, O come let us adore him, Christ the Lord!
THE CAUSE FOR CHRISTMAS
THE CHRISTMAS PROPHECY
Isaiah 40: 3-5 (OT. Pg. 667)
THE CHRISTMAS STORY
Luke 2: 1-4 (NT. Pg. 58)
*HYMN No. 192 (Please stand if you are able)
“Angels We Have Heard on High” vs. 1 & 2
THE SHEPHERDS WHO GO TO SEE JESUS
Luke 2: 15 - 16
THE CHRISTMAS HYMN No. 185 (Please stand if you are able)
“Away in a Manger” (Versus 1 & 2)
OFFERTORY
Bob Joyner
PRAYER OF DEDICATION
THE CONGREGATION RESPONSE: (We Three Kings of Orient Are, Verse 5)
Glorious now behold Him arise, King and God and sacrifice; Alleluia, alleluia! Sound thru
the earth and skies. O, Star of wonder, Star of night, Star with royal beauty bright, Westward leading, still proceeding, Guide us to Thy perfect light.
Pastors
Joe Wendorph and Karen Greenawalt
A CHRISTMAS EVE MEDITATION
Pastor Joe Wendorph
Christmas From God’s Side Is “Christmas behind, Christmas ahead, Christmas now”
HOLY COMMUNION
Bethlehem Morning
Ashley Southard, Solo
COMMUNION LITANY (Psalms 116) (OT. Pg. 564)
Leader: I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my supplications.
People: He inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
Leader: The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;
I suffered distress and anguish.
People: Then I called on the name of the Lord: “O Lord, I pray, save my life!”
Leader: Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; our God is merciful.
People: The Lord protects the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me.
Leader: Return, O my soul, to your rest, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
People: What shall I return to the Lord for all his bounty to me?
Leader: I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord.
People: I will pay my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people.
Leader: I will offer to you a thanksgiving sacrifice and call on the name of the Lord.
People: I will pay my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people.
Leader: In this place of worship, in the house of the Lord, We Praise the Lord!
THE CHRISTMAS CAROL
“Silent Night, Holy Night” (See Below)
PASSING THE LIGHT OF CHRIST - SHARING A SIGN OF PEACE - Please
stand and share these words with those around you. (May the peace and the love
of the Lord be yours this night and always.)
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE
Little Jesus Sweetly Sleep
- James Biery
Silent Night, Holy Night
Silent night, holy night, All is calm, all is bright
Round yon virgin mother and Child.
Holy Infant, so tender and mild,
Sleep in heavenly peace, Sleep in heavenly peace.
Silent night, holy night, Shepherds quake at the sight;
Glories stream from heaven afar,
Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia!
Christ the Savior is born, Christ the Savior is born!
Silent night, holy night, Son of God, love’s pure light;
Radiant beams from Thy holy face,
With the dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth, Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth.
Silent night, holy night Wondrous star, lend thy light;
With the angels let us sing,
Alleluia to our King;
Christ the Savior is born, Christ the Savior is born!
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