December 29, 2024
Fourth Sunday of Christmastide
December 29, 2024 Online Worship Bulletin
Bringing in the Light of Christ
Chiming of the Trinity
Prelude
Sussex Carol arr. Jason Toniol
Welcome
Rev. Kelly Dotson
Call to Worship
Children of God, Jesus Christ is born!
God has come to make a home among us!
Yet the story is not over. After birth comes the ordinary and mundane growing, maturing, and discovering, even for the Christ Child.
In the ordinary and mundane, God has come to make a home among us.
And sometimes, in the midst of the everyday, something surprising happens, and we discover anew just what God is up to in our midst.
In the surprising and spectacular, God has come to make a home among us.
Children of God, let us worship the God who dwells with us in all things and all seasons.
We come to make our home with God who makes a home among us. Amen. +
Carol
O Come, All Ye Faithful UMH#234
Please sing stanzas 1, 2, 5
Joys, Concerns and Prayers
A Reading from the Old Testament
1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26
Solo
In the Bleak Midwinter Rossetti/Holst
Chip Hayden
Psalm of Response
Psalm 148 UMH # 861
Please sing the response
The Reading from the Gospels
Luke 2:41-52
Sermon
Home
Blessing of the Tithes and Offerings
So bring him incense, gold, and myrrh; come, peasant, king, to own him:The King of kings salvation brings, let loving hearts enthrone him.
This, this is Christ the king, whom shepherds guard and angels sing’
Haste, haste to bring him laud, the babe, the son of Mary.
Carol
Go, Tell It on the Mountain UMH#251
Blessing and sharing the Light of Christ to the World
Postlude
He Is Born arr. Mark Hayes
Announcements
Julia Brittain
Today’s Worship Participants
Our Pastor: Rev. Kelly Dotson
Music Director: Dr. Joel Reed
Worship Arts Associate: Patty Higgins