Third Sunday Of Advent 12.12.21 - Order Of Worship
THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT
ORDER OF WORSHIP
12.12.21 10:30 AM
Zoom Meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/607990439
Meeting ID: 607 990 439
Meeting Teleconferencing Number: (301) 715-8592
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Welcome & Announcements
Charge Conference today @ 3:30 PM - access link in News page
Christmas Sunday worship - next Sun 12/19 @ 10:30 AM
Christmas Eve worship - next Thu 12/24 @ 7:30 PM
As of last week, total pledge amount $16,580 (out of goal of $60,000) -
pledge/talent cards in offering plate, they will be collected through until the end of the yearSinging rehearsal after today’s worship for next week’s Advent Sunday worship
Prelude
Joy To The World (246)
Lighting Of Advent Candle
Monica & Juancho Borja
Call To Worship
Reader: Our Advent journey of listening and waiting continues.
All: We listen to God, and we wait for the coming of Jesus into our lives again.
R: As we wait, hear these words from the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 35:1-10):
1 The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom. Like the crocus,
2 it will burst into bloom; it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon;
they will see the glory of the Lord, the splendor of our God.
3 Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way;
4 say to those with fearful hearts, “Be strong, do not fear; your God will come,
he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you.”
5 Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
6 Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy.
Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
7 The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs.
In the haunts where jackals once lay, grass and reeds and papyrus will grow.
8 And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness;
it will be for those who walk on that Way.
The unclean will not journey on it; wicked fools will not go about on it.
9 No lion will be there, nor any ravenous beast;
they will not be found there. But only the redeemed will walk there,
10 and those the Lord has rescued will return.
They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Reader: Isaiah talks about a time when the desert will bloom and people will sing with joy.
All: The blind will see, and the lame will leap and dance.
Reader: There will be a highway for God’s people to travel on, a place where no dangers wait.
All: It will be a place of joy.
Reader: God of joy, how wonderful Your promises are!
Help us to wait with patience, always trusting in you.
Amen.
Congregational Hymn
O Come, All Ye Faithful (234), v. 1
Praise
Lord I Lift Your Name On High
Still
Pastoral Prayer
Pastor John Oh
Musical Response
Now Thank We All Our God
Piano: Nathan Stephens
Invitation To Offering
Liturgist (May Adan)
Offering
Give Online/AmazonSmile link: missioncommunityumc.org/give
Musical Offering
O Little Town Of Bethlehem
Piano: Nathan Stephens
*Doxology
We Are An Offering
*Prayer Of Dedication
Liturgist
*Prayer For Illumination
Liturgist
Anthem
O Holy Night
Chancel Choir
*Scripture
Psalm 98:1-9 (NIV)
1 Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things;
his right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.
2 The Lord has made his salvation known
and revealed his righteousness to the nations.
3 He has remembered his love and his faithfulness to Israel;
all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
4 Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth,
burst into jubilant song with music;
5 make music to the Lord with the harp,
with the harp and the sound of singing,
6 with trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn -
shout for joy before the Lord, the King.
7 Let the sea resound, and everything in it,
the world, and all who live in it.
8 Let the rivers clap their hands,
let the mountains sing together for joy;
9 let them sing before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples with equity.
Today’s Message
Make Room For Joy
Quan Nguyen
Consecration Praise
God Will Make A Way
*Closing Prayer & Benediction
Rev. Deborah Oh
*Postlude
Hark! The Herald Angel Sing (240)
*(Please stand as able, in body or in spirit)