Good morning! This page is intended to both serve as a continuing worship option for those participating in our worship service from home, and to serve in place of print resources during our in-person worship. Following the worship service on Sunday, one or more video recordings from the service will be placed on this page, including the sermon. This may take several hours, due to the time needed to process the videos. We will email the congregation when the recordings have been posted. If you would like to be added to our congregational email list, please contact pvcob.alive@gmail.com.
- Today, we will be having our Christmas Program during Sunday School. Make sure to be here to join in the festivities. Invite friends and family too.
- Youth Christmas Party – Sunday, December 11, 5:00-7:00pm All youth, 6-12 grade, are invited to come celebrate Christmas with dinner and a party. Invite friends and come have a great time!
- Christmas Kids Connect – Friday, December 16, 5:30-7:00pm. Dinner, games, activities, and crafts all centered around the Christmas story. In the middle of a busy season, families can come relax and enjoy a free dinner together with other families. Have fun and be together as we celebrate the love of God born to us.
- Christmas Eve Worship – Saturday, December 24, 7:00pmLed by the choir, through song and scripture we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. This beautiful worship concludes with candle lighting as we welcome Christ into our lives again.
- We will be having light refreshments following the Christmas Eve Service on December 24, 2022. A signup sheet will be placed in the narthex for anyone who would like to provide cookies, Chex Mix or Ginger Ale. Please place a note on your cookie container if your cookies are sugar free, gluten free or contain nuts. Thank you and Merry Christmas!
- Backpack Pals are in need of pudding cups, ramen noodles, and we ask that you continue to donate your plastic grocery bags. Thank you!
Children’s Service
Service
Gathering Praise
Gathering Prayer
Welcome & Announcements
Welcome to worship! Today is the Third Sunday of Advent, the Sunday of Joy. Joy Sunday says it all as we look forward to celebrating the birth of Christ, God with us! And we stand in that promise today, here, in this place, in your place – God is with you. There can be no greater joy than that. Open yourselves to experience this joy in our worship today.
Lighting of the Advent Wreath
Reading
Lighting Candles Light One Candle to Wait v.1-3
Sharing our Gifts
Invitation to Give
Offering
Presentation Good Christian Friends, Rejoice 2&3 No. 210
Responsive Prayer
Leader: Generous God, we present our gifts with joyful hearts.
People: We give thanks for the blessings you have given us, and we want to share these blessings.
Leader: We pray that today’s gifts might reach those in the greatest need,
People: that they might lift those in the deepest despair,
Leader: and that they might bring much needed joy at just the right time, in just the right place.
People: We pray this in the name of Jesus Christ, Emmanuel, God with us! Amen.
Life of the Church
Prayer
Advent Song The Angel Gabriel No. 180
Children’s Time
Choir
Luke 1:39-45
39 At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, 40 where she entered Zechariah’s home and greeted Elizabeth. 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! 43 But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44 As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. 45 Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!”
Sermon Wait Patiently and Leap for Joy
Christmas Carol The Virgnin Mary Had a Baby Boy No. 202
Benediction
