Worship Connection for December 3, 2023

by | Dec 2, 2023 | Growing, Online Worship Services

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.

       

          • Don’t forget to grab your Jimmy Fortune Tickets by going to our website at pleasantvalleyalive.org or visiting us in our office during regular office hours!
          • The Highlighter’s Christmas Luncheon will be on December 5 in our Fellowship Hall!
          • Back Pack Pals have begun distributing for this school year and are in need of pudding cups and Ramen Noodles! Please leave your donations in the blue bin located in our Narthex. Thank you!

          • Erin Weldon with the Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir:

            Put yourself into the Christmas spirit by attending “Hearts All Aglow,” Christmas concerts by the Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir accompanied by The Washington Symphonic Brass Quintet, Saturday, December 9, 7pm and Sunday, December 10, 4pm in Eastern Mennonite University’s Lehman Auditorium. Ticket prices range from $10 – $22.  Go to svcc.org/performances for more information and to purchase tickets.
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      Call to Worship and Candle Lighting Reading  by Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed | A Sanctified Art LLC | sanctifiedart.org.

      Gathering Music

             

      Welcome and Announcements

      Call to Worship   

      In God’s house, we can be joyful. 

      We can be grateful. 

      We can be hopeful.

      In God’s house, we can be weary. 

      We can be anxious. 

      We can be grieving. 

      In God’s house, we can be honest—

      inspired or tired, 

      delighted or doubtful, 

      connected or curious,

      and everything in between. 

      This is God’s house. You are welcome exactly as you are. 

      Let us worship our loving God.

       

      Gathering Prayer

      Carol

      O Come, O Come Immanuel vs. 1,3, & 6   172

      Candle Lighting

      Scripture             Luke 1:5-17

      Reading & Candle Lighting

      Carol of Hope

      To Us, a Child of Hope is Born        189

      Sharing our Gifts

      Invitation to Give

      Offering                                          

      Presentation               

      Prayer

      Sharing our Praises and Prayer Requests

       

      Praying Together

       

      Ministry In Music

      Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus

      Arr. Donald McCullough

       “Hope of all the earth thou art, Joy of every longing heart.”

      Children’s Time

      Carol

      Infant Holy, Infant Lowly        206

      Scripture                                                     Luke 1: 18-23

      Ministry in Music

      O Holy Night/Silent Night

      Bethany House, Amanda Wilson,
      Linda Swope, and Jeremiah Padilla

      Meditation

      How Does a Weary World Rejoice?
      We Acknowledge Our Weariness

      Carol

                                                          Oh, How Shall I Receive Thee                                      182

           

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