November 27 Worship First Sunday of Advent

Join us as Pastor Ken Locke leads us in 9am In-Person Worship in the Sanctuary and on Zoom.

Pastor Ken Locke is serving as our Transitional Pastor. Pastor Locke has a great deal of experience in working with congregations in transition. He will lead the congregation through a time of study and discernment that will prepare us for our next full-time pastor.

You can view the bulletin here.

Scripture Lessons:

Old Testament Lesson:   Isaiah 2:1-5 

New Testament Lesson:   Romans 13:11-14 

Gospel Lesson:   Matthew 24:36-44 

YouTube Video can be accessed here. Pastor Ken Locke “Good News/Bad News”

The audio file can be accessed here. Pastor Ken Locke “Good News/Band News”

The Radio file for this day can be accessed here. Pastor Ken Locke “Brave New World”

Announcements for this week may be accessed here.

The sermon manuscript is here.

Scripture is read from NRSV Bible (New Revised Standard Version)

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Sermon:                                                                              
Rev. Ken Locke
Children’s Time                                                                   Jennifer Zander
Liturgist:                                                                              Graham A.
Cantor:                                                                                Carol Wetzel
Organist/Pianist:                                                                Kris Bartelt

Gathering Music:         PH 11 “O Lord, How Shall I Meet You?” vs. 1 & 2
TEXT: Paul Gerhardt, 1653; trans. Catherine Winkworth and others, 1863, alt.
MUSIC (VALET WILL ICH DIR GEBEN 7.6.7.6.D): Melchior Teschner, 1614; harm. William Henry Monk, 1861

                                             PH 38 “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear” vs. 1 & 4
TEXT: Edmund Hamilton Sears, 1849, alt.
MUSIC (CAROL, CMD): Richard Storrs Willis, 1850

                                             PH 22 “Angels, From the Realms of Glory” vs. 1 & 4
TEXT: Stanzas 1–3, James Montgomery, 1816, 1825; stanza 4, Salisbury Hymn Book, 1857
MUSIC (REGENT SQUARE 8.7.8.7.8.7): Henry Thomas Smart, 1867

GTG 85 “Light One Candle” vs. 1 (during the lighting of the candle)
TEXT: Wayne L. Wold, 1984; © 1984 Fortress Press (admin. Augsburg Fortress)
MUSIC (TIF IN VELDELE 10.7.9.6): Yiddish folk song; arr. Wayne L. Wold, 1984;
Arr. © 1984 Fortress Press (admin. Augsburg Fortress)
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 Hymn GTG 347   Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
TEXT: From Liturgy of St. James, 4th cent.; trans. Gerard Moultrie, 1864, alt.
MUSIC (PICARDY 8.7.8.7.8.7): French melody; arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1906

Hymn   GTG  583   Glory to God
TEXT: Trad. liturgical text
MUSIC (GLORIA (Taizé)): Jacques Berthier, 1979; © 1979, 1981 Les Presses de Taizé

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Hymn PH 434 Today We All Are Called to Be Disciples
TEXT: H. Kenn Carmichael, 1985; © 1989 H. Kenn Carmichael
MUSIC (KINGSFOLD, CMD): English Country Songs, 1893; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1906
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Offering A Welsh Melody         improv by Kris Bartelt
Hymn Tune: Blaenhafren

Offertory PH 427 Lord, Whose Love Through Humble Service  (vs. 1)
Text Albert F. Bayly, (1901 – 1984) 1961:alt © Oxford University Press
Hymn Tune: Blaenhafre, Welsh Melody
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Hymn PH 450 O Day of Peace
TEXT: Carl P. Daw Jr., 1982; © 1982 Hope Publishing Company, Carol Stream, IL 60188.
 All rights reserved. Used by Permission.
MUSIC (JERUSALEM, LMD): C. Hubert H. Parry, 1916; harm. Charles H. Webb, 1987;
Melody © 1916, 1944, this Arr. © 1977 Roberton Publications (admin. Goodmusic Publishing Ltd.);
harm. © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House (admin. The Copyright Company)
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Closing Refrain PH 9   O Come, O Come, Immanuel (vs 1)
TEXT: Latin prose, pre-9th cent.; trans composite
MUSIC (VENI EMMANUEL, LM with refrain): Plainsong; adapt. Thomas Helmore, 1852; arr. John Weaver, 1988; arr. © 1990 John Weaver

Postlude Jerusalem

      

Richard Proulx

From Presbyterian Blue Hymnal #252 “O Lord, You Are My God and King”
Psalm 145: 1-13, Hymn Tune Jerusalem LMD
C. Hubert H. Parry, 1916, Harm. Richard Prouix, 1986
Music: Melody © 1916, 1944, 1977 Roberton Publications, publisher, Theodore Presser Co.
U.S.A. Harmonization copyright © 1986 by G.I.A. Publications, Inc., Chicago, IL All rights reserved.

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