Weekly Bulletin
December 5, 2021
December
5, 2021 SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT ~ PEACE 10:00 AM
We extend a warm
welcome to all who join us for worship.
We pray that the service will offer you peace, comfort, and substance to feed
your soul.
The Community Gathers
Meditation “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by
understanding.”
~ Albert Einstein
Prelude “Noel
Nouvelet” Arr. Matthew
McConnell
Paula
Squires Maclay, piano; Jacqui
Savage, organ
Welcome/Announcements
Moment of Preparation – Let us prepare our hearts and minds
for worship.
Lighting of the Candles
Introit “Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord” from Godspell
Peter Gray, solo; Sarah Heath, drums
Call to Worship
One: The sudden
sense of a larger mystery. A flood of unexpected tears. Some chorus faintly
heard.
All: A cherished memory brought to mind. A
fragment of a dream. The tail end of a
story.
One: An awesome peace in the midst of a pressing
chaos. A holy reverence on a starlit,
moon-bright night.
All: An unexplained act of kindness. An
unexpected letter, a surprise visit. In many and
varied ways God nudges, tugs, calls and beckons
us.
One: We turn and discover God already waiting
for us.
All: Our longing met by God’s yearning. Let
us rejoice and sing!
*Opening
Hymn “There’s a Spirit of Love in this Place” See screens
Lighting of the Candle of Peace Jane
and Rick Campbell
Reader 1: This morning, we light the second candle of
Advent, the Candle of Peace.
(Light the second candle.)
Reader 2: We seek your
comfort, O God. Both mighty and tender, you come. Prepare our
hearts to be transformed by you.
Reader 1: Isaiah
announced God’s coming to a people exiled in a broken and parched
wilderness. He declared that God’s redemption would make a
highway in the desert
and change the rough places into plain. God would come as a
shepherd — feeding,
leading, and cradling the weary flock. This Advent, we seek
such a God.
ALL:
Saving God, look upon your world and heal your land and your people. Prepare
us to be changed. This Advent, teach us to be tender and
just, as you are. Amen.
The Children’s Lesson “Mary’s Good News”
The Word of God
Reading of Scripture Luke 3:1-6
Message “What Do You
Want for Christmas?” Rev. Scott Cousineau
Anthem “For Unto Us a Child is Born” Handel, from Messiah
We Respond to God’s Word
The
Community at Prayer
Sharing
Prayers
Silent
Prayer
Pastoral
Prayer
Our Lord’s Prayer (unison)
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy
kingdom come. Thy will be
done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our
daily bread and forgive us our
debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver
us from
evil: for Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory
forever. Amen.
Prayer Response “Come Fill Our Hearts” Taizé
Come fill our hearts with your peace. You alone, O Lord, are
holy.
Come and fill our hearts with your peace, alleluia!
Offering Our Gifts to God
Invitation
Offertory “If I Loved You” from Carousel, Rogers and Hammerstein
Ella Walters, solo
*Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings
flow.
Praise God all creatures here
below.
Praise God above ye heavenly
hosts, Creator,
Christ, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
*Prayer of Dedication
Sharing the Sacrament of Communion
*Communion Hymn “I Come With Joy”
#313
(Verses
1 & 5)
Invitation to All
Sharing of the Bread and the Cup
You are invited to come forward and
receive the elements. Please bring the elements back to your pew. We will all
partake together. If you are unable to come forward, you may remain in your pew
and the Deacons will serve you.
Prayer of Thanksgiving
*Closing
Hymn “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” #114
*Benediction
*Choral Postlude “Angels We Have Heard
on High”
*Indicates
that you are invited to stand in body or in spirit.
Rev. Scott
Cousineau, Senior Minister
Kris Galasyn, Director of Christian Education
Jacqueline Savage, Director of Music
Connor Remillard, Acolyte