WELCOME AND CONCERNS OF THE CONGREGATION

PRELUDE “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”         Stan Pethel  

LIGHTING THE ADVENT CANDLES

*HYMN 110        Love Has Come

A Service of Lessons and Carols

FIRST LESSON             Genesis 3:8-15, 17-19

CAROL        “O Little Town of Bethlehem”       Hymn  121      

SECOND LESSON       Genesis 22:15-18

CAROL               “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”      Hymn 88     

THIRD LESSON          Isaiah 9:2, 6-7

CAROL      “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear”       Hymn 123

FOURTH LESSON       Isaiah 11:1-4a, 6-9

ANTHEM “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming”  arr. Kirchner

FIFTH LESSON           Luke 1:26-35, 38

ANTHEM            “Still, Still, Still” 

SIXTH LESSON           Luke 2:1-7

CAROL                  “Away in a Manger”            Hymn 115                         

SEVENTH LESSON      Luke 2:8-16

CAROL      “Angels We Have Heard on High”         Hymn 113         

EIGHTH LESSON        Matthew 2:1-11

CAROL               “The First Nowell”                 Hymn 147

NINTH LESSON          John 1:1-14

CAROL      “Gentle Mary Laid Her Child”            Hymn 146

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LORD’S PRAYER

OFFERTORY     

*DOXOLOGY          

*PRAYER OF DEDICATION

*HYMN 119        Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

*BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE    Christmas Postlude on “In Dulci Jubilo”   Gilbert Martin