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Worship Materials and Bulletin December 13, 2020 Streaming License Number: 20160536 Copyright License: 2880734 Video License: 504308177 Weather permitting, we will offer an in-person, outdoor worship service at 9:30 Sunday morning. We will do our best to communicate via Facebook by 9:00 on Sunday morning if the outdoor service will not happen. Each Sunday morning at 10:45, we will livestream a worship service to Facebook from inside the sanctuary (with no in-person congregation). You can access the livestreamed Advent service at https://www.facebook.com/CrievewoodUMC/ Please share this bulletin with any members that you think might not see this email before Sunday. Thank you. Prayer List Ecumenical Prayer Cycle: China, Hong Kong, Macau Cumberland River District Prayer Cycle: Bethlehem UMC (Wilson County), Cross Roads UMC, Dodson Chapel UMC Crievewood UMC: https://crievewoodumc.org/prayer-list/ (a password is necessary) Crievewood PrayerMost gracious God, thank you for all the gifts you have bestowed on Crievewood United Methodist Church over the generations. By your Holy Spirit, grant us the grace that welcomes all of your children. Make us a community that reflects the full diversity of Christ’s body. Help us grow to love one another as You love us. Empower us to reveal Christ through worship and service. In your holy name we pray. Amen.  Worship Order Words of Welcome: Rev. Chelsey Hedglin Centering Music: Gabriel’s Message: Caleb Dinger, Piano Opening Prayer: Rev. John Hill Hymns: Joy to the World and Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming Joy to the World Verse 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. Verse 2 Joy to the world, 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. Verse 3 No more let sins and sorrows grow, nor thorns infest the ground; he comes to make his blessings flow far as the curse is found, far as the curse is found, far as, far as the curse is found. Verse 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. Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming Verse 1 Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming from tender stem hath sprung! Of Jesse’s lineage coming, as those of old have sung. It came, a floweret bright, amid the cold of winter, when half spent was the night. Verse 2 Isaiah ’twas foretold it, the Rose I have in mind; with Mary we behold it, the Virgin Mother kind. To show God’s love aright, she bore to us a Savior, when half spent was the night. Verse 3 O Flower, whose fragrance tender with sweetness fills the air, dispel in glorious splendor the darkness everywhere. True man, yet very God, from sin and death now save us, and share our every load. Advent Liturgy (written by Matt Sevier) and Lighting of the Advent Wreath: Locklayer FamilyReader 1: Blessed be Mary, God’s favored one. Reader 2: And blessed be the fruit of her womb, the coming Christ child. Reader 1: Mary shows us what it means to say ‘yes’, Reader 2: and what it means to ‘let go and let God’. Reader 1: Like Mary, let it be – according to God’s word. Reader 2: Let the power of the Most High overshadow us. Mary, the mother of Jesus, is the very picture of what faith and obedience looks like. She takes a huge leap of faith, saying ‘yes’ to God. By hearing and keeping the word of the Lord, she becomes highly favored by God. She lets go of her own fears and insecurities, and in holy indifference, allows God to work through her. As we light the third candle, we remember that God has done great things, God has brought down the powerful and lifted up the lowly, and God remembers his promises to be merciful to his servants. Let us pray. God of mercy and mystery, you are the Word fulfilled in our hearing. As we hear the story of your incarnation, help us to follow the example of Mary and make Christ present in the world so that everyone might know of your mercy and love. Take away our fear, and let your work be done in us. With your spirit, we ask this in the name of the living Christ. Amen. Scripture Reading: Luke 1:26-45: Rev. Chelsey Hedglin In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.” But she was much perplexed by his words and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. The angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And now, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David. He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.” Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am a virgin?” The angel said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called Son of God. And now, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month for her who was said to be barren. For nothing will be impossible with God.” Then Mary said, “Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And why has this happened to me, that the mother of my Lord comes to me? For as soon as I heard the sound of your greeting, the child in my womb leaped for joy. And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her by the Lord.” Sermon: The Characters of Christmas – Mary: Rev. John Hill Instrumental Reflection: Mary, Gentle Woman: Caleb Dinger, Piano Pastoral Prayer: Rev. Chelsey Hedglin Invitation to Offer Tithes and Gifts: Rev. Chelsey Hedglin https://onrealm.org/CrievewoodUMC/Give Offertory Anthem: Magnificat (Holy Is His Name): Hailee Hunt-Hawkins Holy Is His Name Verse 1 My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord And my spirit exalts in God my Savior For He has looked with mercy on my lowliness And His name will be forever exalted For the mighty God has done great things for me And His mercy will reach from age to age Chorus And holy holy Holy is His name Verse 2 He has mercy in every generation He has revealed His power and His glory He has cast down the mighty in their arrogance And has lifted up the meek and the lowly He has come to help His servant Israel He remembers His promise to our fathers Repeat Chorus Prayer of Confession: Rev. John Hill Kyrie Words of Assurance:Hear the Good News: Christ died for us while we were yet sinners. That proves God’s love toward us. In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven. In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven. Glory to God! Amen. Closing Hymn: The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy Verse 1 The virgin Mary had a baby boy, the virgin Mary had a baby boy, the virgin Mary had a baby boy, and they say that his name is Jesus.Refrain He come from the glory, he come from the glorious kingdom. He come from the glory, he come from the glorious kingdom. Oh, yes! believer! Oh, yes! believer! He come from the glory, he come from the glorious kingdom. Verse 2 The angels sang when the baby born, the angels sang when the baby born, the angels sang when the baby born, and they say that his name is Jesus. Repeat Refrain Verse 3 The shepherd came where the baby was born, the shepherds came where the baby was born, the shepherds came where the baby was born, and they say that his name is Jesus. Repeat Refrain Verse 4 The Wise Men came where the baby born, the Wise Men came where the baby born, the Wise Men came where the baby born, and they say that his name was Jesus. Repeat RefrainBenediction: Rev. John Hill |