*Those that are able are invited to stand

 

Welcome and Announcements

 

- Gathering into worship - 

Introit                                   Morning Has Broken”                                                 Choir

 

Special Music of Praise                                                                             Jason Born

 

*Call to Worship

Leader:                       Shout with joy to God, all the earth!

Men:                          Come into God’s presence with singing!

Women:                   Worship the Lord with gladness!

 

Leader:                       Remember that our God is the only God—

Women:                   the One who made us,

Men:                          the One who sustains us,

All:                             the One whose Spirit lives within us.

 

Leader:                       Let us enter God’s house with thanksgiving;

Men:                          and come into God’s presence with praise.

Leader:                       For God is good,

Women:                   with unfailing love that lasts forever,

All:                             and faithfulness that extends to all generations.

*Hymn                                                “The First Noel”                                                         #245

  * Unison Opening Prayer – adapted from the prayers of Ignatius of Loyola, 16th c.

Teach us, good Lord,

            to serve you as you deserve;

            to give and not to count the cost;

            to labor and not to ask for any reward,

                        except that of knowing that we do your will.

Everything is yours; do with it what you will.

Give us only your love and your grace; that is enough for us.

Through Jesus Christ our Lord we pray, Amen.

 

*Chorus                                  “Glory Be to the Father” (Refrain)                                  #70

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost;

as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen.

 

- blessings to share –

 

Invitation to the Table and Great Thanksgiving

 

Celebrating Our Offerings and Receiving Communion

(The ushers will collect our weekly offerings and tithes.  The Celebration Sunday gifts are brought forward to the altar and communion is received.)

 

*Doxology                                          “Bless Thou the Gifts”                                                           #587

Bless thou the gifts our hands have brought;

bless thou the work our hearts have planned.

Ours is the faith, the will, the thought; the rest, O God, is in thy hand.

 

*Prayer of Thanksgiving

 

--Reflecting on the Story–

 

Children’s Sermon                                                              Rev. Ed Bailey, UM Foundation

 

Scripture                                                                                                               Matthew 2:1-12

 

Message                                  How Will You Respond?                 Rev. Kelly Smith

 

Yearly Star Words

 

 

Silent Prayer / Prayers of the People / Lord’s Prayer

(You are invited to share your prayer concerns with the congregation by writing them on the

Prayer Request cards in the pews and placing them in the offering plate.)

 

- Taking the Word to the World -

 

Honoring Our Church Leadership

 

*Closing Praise                                                                                                           Jason Born

 

*Benediction

 

*Chorus                          “Go, Tell It on the Mountain” (Refrain)                                #251

Go, tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere;

Go, tell it on the mountain, that Jesus Christ is born.

 

Postlude

 

 

 

 

 

 


www.mifflinave.org

412-731-2511

905 Mifflin Ave

 

Pastor: Rev. Kelly Smith

Pastor@mifflinave.org

214-202-9291