Order of Service, Dec. 24, 2015 - 4pm Family Service
Date of Service:
December 24, 2015
December 24, 2015 Christmas Eve
4pm Family Service
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*Gathering Hymn Joy to the World! Lowell Mason
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.
Joy to the world! the Savior reigns; let us our songs employ
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains, repeat the sounding joy
Repeat the sounding joy, repeat, repeat the sounding joy.
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.
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.
Welcome
*Carol Jingle Bells James Lord Pierpont
Dashing through the snow in a one-horse open sleigh
O'er the fields we go, laughing all the way.
Bells on bobtail ring, making spirits bright.
What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh.
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh.
A day or two ago, I thought I'd take a ride
And soon, Miss Fanny Bright was seated by my side,
The horse was lean and lank, misfortune seemed his lot,
He got into a drifted bank and then we got upsot.
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh.
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh.
Now the ground is white, go it while you're young,
Take the girls tonight and sing this sleighing song;
Just get a bobtailed bay, two-forty as his speed,
Hitch him to an open sleigh and crack! you'll take the lead.
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh.
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh.
Chalice Lighting
Christmas Tree Traditions
Blessing the Ornaments
*Carol The Little Drummer Boy Katherine Kennicott Davis
Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum
A new born king to see, pa rum pum pum pum
Our finest gifts we bring, pa rum pum pum pum
To lay before the king, pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,
So to honor him, pa rum pum pum pum, when we come.
Little baby, pa rum pum pum pum
I am a poor boy too, pa rum pum pum pum
I have no gift to bring, pa rum pum pum pum
That's fit to give the king, pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,
Shall I play for you, pa rum pum pum pum, on my drum?
Mary nodded, pa rum pum pum pum
The ox and lamb kept time, pa rum pum pum pum
I played my drum for him, pa rum pum pum pum
I played my best for him, pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,
Then he smiled at me, pa rum pum pum pum, me and my drum.
Story The First Christmas Carol Marianne Jordan
Offering O Holy Night Adolphe Adam
Sharing the Light
Carol Silent Night, Holy Night Franz Xaver Gruber
Silent night, holy night.
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon virgin mother and child.
Holy infant, so tender and mild,
Sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace.
Silent night, holy night,
Shepherds quake at the sight,
Glories stream from heaven afar
Heavenly hosts sing, “Alleluia,”
Christ the savior is born, Christ the savior is born.
Silent night, holy night,
Son of god, love’s pure light
Radiant beams from thy holy face
With the dawn of redeeming grace
Jesus, lord at thy birth, Jesus, lord at thy birth.
*Benediction
Extinguishing the Chalice
*Please stand in body or in spirit