Order of Worship
~ Call To Worship ~
“It Came Upon the Midnight Clear” Hymn #118
~ Welcome ~
~ Advent ~
The Shepherd’s Candle of Joy
Isaiah 40:11 / 1 Peter 2:25 ~ Bill & Barbara Joines
“While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks” Hymn #135
“I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”
“I Wonder as I Wander”
~ Offertory ~
“O, Holy Night”
~ * Message ~
Pastor Cyrus Rettmann
“Exploring Advent”
“How Great Our Joy”
This Week’s Schedule
Today:
9:30 a.m. Sunday School for all ages
11:00 a.m. Worship Service
12:00 p.m. Christmas Choir Practice
No Evening Bible Study this month
Nursery Attendants:
Today in Sunday School: Kalynn Oliver
Today in Worship Service: Lisa Holt / Elizabeth Aarness
Next Week in SS: Abigail Holt
Next Week in Worship Service: Tanya Eastman
Coffee Fellowship Attendant: Greeters:
Today: June Gibson Louise Kennell
Next week: Pat Jones Ordena Bond & Holt Girls
Security – Today: Mike Kitchen / Lee Powell
Next Week: Steve Ingham / Prentice Boyd
Monday: 6:30 p.m. Elder Board Meeting
Tuesday: 9:30 a.m. Women’s Bible Study in the fellowship hall
Wednesday:
6:30 a.m. Men’s Prayer Breakfast at McDonalds – River Rd. 6:30 p.m. Awana ~ Store Night!
Youth Group – Goofy Gift Exchange – F. Hall 7:00 p.m. Adult Bible Study & Prayer – Youth Room
If you are visiting us today, we extend a special welcome to you. We trust that you will sense the presence and love of Jesus Christ as you worship with us. Please take a moment to fill out a visitor slip from the pew and place it in the offering.
Please join Gailene Thiel & Cherri Kietzmann in the fellowship hall this morning at 10:30 to help them celebrate their 60th birthdays. There will be birthday cake!
This year’s Christmas Tree of Giving will go toward a gift that will help the littlest members of our church family. As we have been blessed with five new babies this year, we’d like to be able to purchase a couple of new rocking chairs for our nursery. If you’d like to contribute to this gift, simply take a tag from the tree in the foyer, mark the amount of your gift, then drop your donation into the offering basket or turn it in to the office.
At this time of year, our Elder Board gives the opportunity to give a love offering to our staff to show them how much we appreciate them all. If you’d like to contribute to this gift, please use the envelope in today’s bulletin. Thank you.
Our Youth Group’s Goofy Christmas Gift Exchange is this Wednesday, December 14, at 6:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall. Adult Bible Study will meet in the youth room.
Our Christmas Program will be next Sunday, December 18th, at 11:00 a.m.
Adults will meet for practice at 8:30 a.m.
Parents, please have your children meet in the Children’s Ministry Room at 9:30 a.m. to practice.
On Christmas Day we will have a Christmas service at 11:00 a.m. There will be no Sunday School classes held that day.
Church Family Christmas Carol
Sing-Along and Fellowship Time
Join us on Wednesday, Dec. 21st, 7:00 p.m., when all evening classes will meet together in the fellowship hall to sing some of your favorite Christmas carols! This event is for kids & adults; please bring a favorite Christmas treat or finger food to share.