December 8 Service

December 8 Service Groveport UMC, Groveport Ohio WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS BREAKTHROUGH PRAYER: Amazing God, we pray that through the Holy Spirit Your preferred future for Groveport United Methodist Church will be made clear to us. Give us the courage we need to follow You wherever You may take us. We ask that You bind us together in love so that we can bring the Good News of Jesus Christ to our friends, families, and community. Open our eyes so that we may see the amazing things You are already doing among us. AMEN. PRELUDE & LIGHTING OF ALTAR CANDLES “The First Noel” *OPENING HYMN “Hail to the Lord’s Anointed” - #203 CALL TO WORSHIP: Leader: Come, Joy, All: Lighten our spirits. Leader: Come, hope, All: Lift us from despair. Leader: Come, peace, All: Ease our frantic worry. Leader: Come, love, All: Shine in all we do. Leader: Come, Jesus, All: Be born in us. Leader: Come, Lord, All: Set us free. Leader: Come, God, All: Rule in our hearts and teach us to sing with joy! HYMN ”Good Christian Friends, Rejoice” - #224 FIRST SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 1:68-79 LIGHTING OF THE SECOND ADVENT CANDLE (refer to screen) HYMN “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus” - #196 OUR TIME OF PRAYER (During our time of prayer, the altar rail is open for all who wish to come forward.) HYMN “Sanctuary” PASTORAL PRAYER THE LORD’S PRAYER OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS Chancel Choir – “Is There Room at the Manger for Me?” *DOXOLOGY *PRAYER OF DEDICATION CHILDREN’S MOMENTS (Children 1st-6 grades are invited to Junior Church at this time.) SECOND SCRIPTURE READING: Isaiah 42:1-10 SERMON “Sing to the Lord a New Song!“ HOLY COMMUNION HYMN (to be sung during Communion) “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear” - #218 *BENEDICTION *SENDING FORTH “As We Go” POSTLUDE “O Little Town of Bethlehem”