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December 24, 2008
Wednesday, December 24, 2008 Bulletin
Festival of Lessons and Carols
Faith Presbyterian Church 7:00 p.m., December 24, 2008
Christmas Eve
Prelude Lo, How a Rose Paul Manz
Choral Introit “Long, Long Ago” Alan Smith
Children’s Choir
The Bidding Prayer
Hymn # 346 “Once in Royal David’s City”
Stanza 1: Mayfawny Bergmann
Stanza 2: Adult Choir
Stanza 3 & 5: Congregation
3 - For he is our childhood’s pattern;
day by day like us he grew;
he was little, weak, and helpless;
tears and smiles like us he knew:
and he feels for all our sadness,
and he shares in all our gladness.
5 - Not in that poor lowly stable
with the oxen standing by
we shall see him, but in heaven,
set at God’s right hand on high:
there his children gather round
bright like stars, with glory crowned.
First Lesson: Genesis 3: 1 – 15 Sophia Bergmann
Choir “O Come, All Ye Faithful” with “ Sleepers, Awake”
Arr. by John Purifoy
Second Lesson: Isaiah 11: 1 - 8 John McKinnis
Hymn # 354 “Angels From the Realms of Glory”
1 – Angels from the realms of glory,
wing your flight o’er all the earth;
ye who sang creation’s story,
now proclaim Messiah’s birth:
come and worship, come and worship,
worship Christ, the newborn King!
2 – Shepherds in the fields abiding,
watching o’er your flocks by night,
God with us is now residing;
yonder shines the infant Light:
come and worship, come and worship,
worship Christ, the newborn King!
3 – Sages, leave your contemplations,
brighter visions beam afar;
seek the great Desire of nations;
ye have seen his natal star:
come and worship, come and worship,
worship Christ, the newborn King!
4 – Though an infant now we view him,
he will share his Father’s throne,
gather all the nations to him;
every knee shall then bow down:
come and worship, come and worship,
worship Christ, the newborn King!
5 – Saints and angels join in praising God,
the Father, Spirit, Son,
ever-more their voices raising
to the eternal Three in One:
come and worship, come and worship,
worship Christ, the newborn King!
Third Lesson: Micah 5: 2 - 4 Kristin Hem
Choir “Christ Is Born” Michael Bedford
Children’s Choir
Fourth Lesson: John 1: 1 – 5 & 9 - 14 Lana Johnston
Hymn # 348 “Away in a Manger”
1 – Away in a manger, no crib for a bed,
the little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head;
the stars in the sky looked down where he lay;
the little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay.
2 – The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes,
but little Lord Jesus, no crying he makes.
I love you, Lord Jesus: look down from on high
and stay by my side until morning is nigh.
3 – Be near me, Lord Jesus; I ask you to stay
close by me forever and love me, I pray.
Bless all the dear children in your tender care;
prepare us for heaven to live with you there.
Fifth Lesson: Luke 1: 26 - 38 Alex Dubikovsky
Choir “Under the Stars” George F. Reynolds
Sixth Lesson: Luke 2: 1 – 20 Erin Sparks
Choir ”Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” with
“Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus” Arr. by John Purifoy
Elders please come forward during anthem.
A Christmas Eve Meditation “Adjusting the Scene”
Pastor Horner
The Lord’s Supper
Invitation and Words of Institution
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Giving and Receiving of the Bread and Cup
The inside cups contain grape juice; the outer cups contain wine.
Prayer of Consecration (in unison)
Almighty Lord: we are thankful for all the benefits given us in this bread and wine, this body and blood. As the grain was harvested and the grapes gathered for this food, so may your church in every place be gathered into your household. And as the grain was ground and the grapes crushed, so may our lives be spent in your service, until you return in triumph to gather to yourself the harvest and call us to the marriage feast of the lamb. Amen.
Hymn # 337 “Joy to the World! the Lord Is Come”
1 – Joy to the world! the Lord is come: let earth receive her King.
Let every heart prepare him room, and heaven and nature
sing, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven, and heaven and nature sing.
2 – Joy to the earth! the Savior reigns: let all their songs employ,
while fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains repeat the sounding joy, repeat the sounding joy, repeat, repeat the sounding joy.
3 - No more let sin and sorrow grow nor thorns infest the ground; he
comes to make this blessings flow far as the curse is found, far
as the curse is found, far as, far as the curse is found.
4 - He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations
prove the glories of his righteousness and wonders of his love,
and wonders of his love, and wonders, wonders of his love.
Benediction
Lighting of the Candles
Hymn # 9 “Silent Night! Holy Night!”
1st time through: Bell Choir
2nd time through: Jordan & Erin Sparks – in Spanish
3rd time through: Children’s Choir
2nd & 3rd stanzas: Congregation
2 – 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!”
3 – 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.
Postlude Go Tell It on the Mountain James Mansfield
* The New Revised Standard Version (Anglicized Edition), copyright 1989, 1995 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
An offering basket is available in the Narthex
for benevolence gifts.
You are invited to a reception in the Fellowship Hall following the service
Posted by faithpres at December 24, 2008 11:27 AM