THE GREAT THANKSGIVING
A Service of Word and Table Hymnal pg. 17
We invite you to come forward to partake of Holy Communion. Please come forward using the center aisle. Take a piece of the bread and dip it into the cup to share in the Lord’s Supper.
Please place your prayer cards in the baskets. You may return to your seat using the side aisle.
Assisting with Communion are Marty & Lynn Nowak.
PRAISE MUSIC “O Come to the Altar” Praise Team
PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
*PRAISE MUSIC “Gloria” Praise Team
*PARTING WORDS OF GRACE
Leader: The Lord is waiting for our active preparing of his love and justice among people. But he will do it with us. Let the Lord come and activate us, with the blessing of almighty God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
People: Amen.
Leader: Let us go with one another the way of the Lord.
People: Thanks be to God.
Baker Memorial
United Methodist Church
345 Main Street
East Aurora, New York 14052
Website: BakerChurch.org
716-652-0500 Fax 716-652-8346
December 17, 2017
Third Sunday in Advent
Compelled to Love
“In the Face of Disaster”
Worship Opportunities
10:00 am ~ Worship Service
Pastor Rev. Matthew Goliblersuch Congregational Care Rev. Rebecca Naber
Director of Youth & Family Life Lisa Doutt
Administrative Assistant Kris Logel
Lay Leader Kelly Thompson
Organist Dr. Jeffrey Thompson
Choir Director Bob Sowyrda
Welcome! We hope you will find the following information helpful:
We have large print bulletins at the front of the church. There is a hearing assistance system available and an usher would be happy to help you with this. Please silence your cell phones. There are colorful “What’s Happening” sheets at both entrances.
Children are a vital part of our church! “KIDS CONNECTION” activity books are available for children during the Worship Service at the back of the sanctuary. Child care is available for infants to preschool children in room 25 on the 2nd floor.
*Indicates to stand as you are able.
WORDS OF WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS
“COMPELLED TO LOVE IN THE FACE OF DISASTER”
A VIDEO ANTHOLOGY
PRAISE MUSIC “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” Praise Team
Lighting of the Altar Candles Amelia Ogilvie
ADVENT WORSHIP LITURGY
The Irons Family
Speak
Lighting the Third (pink), First & Second Advent Candles
Scripture: Isaiah 61:8-11
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn and provide for those who grieve in Zion – to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor. They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations. “For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery and wrongdoing. In my faithfulness I will reward my people and make an everlasting covenant with them. Their descendants will be known among the nations and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the Lord has blessed.” I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seed to grow, so the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.
Reflection
What to do?
Prayer
*PRAISE MUSIC “Great Are You Lord” Praise Team
“Forever”
LET US GREET ONE ANOTHER
(Visitors: If you would like to be contacted to learn more about Baker Memorial UMC, please fill out one of the cards in the blue folders found at the end of the pews and place it in the offering plate.)
READERS THEATRE
“Where is God in the Midst of This?”
A Christian Response to Disaster
A Litany of Response
SCRIPTURE Psalm 126:1-6 Pew Bible pg. 472
Kate Hillyard
BLESSING & COMMISSIONING OF MADELINE KLEIN
SHARING OUR GIFTS
Offertory “O Come All Ye Faithful” Bells of Baker
arr. by Kevin McChesney
*Doxology Hymn #95
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
*Prayer of Dedication
MESSAGE
“Remember When”
Rev. Matthew Golibersuch
SILENT/CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER
PASTORAL COLLECT