Choral Invocation

Opening Hymn
No. 378

God Rest Ye Mary Gentlemen!

God rest you merry, gentlemen,
let nothing you dismay,
remember Christ our Savior
was born on Christmas Day
to save us all from Satan's pow'r
when we were gone astray.
O tidings of comfort and joy,
comfort and joy;
O tidings of comfort and joy.
 In Bethlehem, in Israel
This blessed Babe was born
And laid within a manger
Upon this blessed morn
The which His Mother Mary
Did nothing take in scorn.
O tidings of comfort and joy,
comfort and joy;
O tidings of comfort and joy.
 From God our heav'nly Father
a blessed angel came
and unto certain shepherds
brought tidings of the same;
how that in Bethlehem was born
the Son of God by name.
O tidings of comfort and joy,
comfort and joy;
O tidings of comfort and joy.
 The shepherds at these tidings
rejoiced in heart and mind,
and on the darkened hillside
they left their flocks behind,
and went to Bethlehem straightway
this holy child to find.
O tidings of comfort and joy,
comfort and joy;
O tidings of comfort and joy.
 The shepherds at these tidings
rejoiced in heart and mind,
and on the darkened hillside
they left their flocks behind,
and went to Bethlehem straightway
this holy child to find.
O tidings of comfort and joy,
comfort and joy;
O tidings of comfort and joy.
AMEN.
Apostles Creed

Section 738
 Minister:

Let us unite in the historic

confession of our Christian faith
 Everyone:
I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth; And in Jesus
Christ his only Son, our Lord; who was
conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the
Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, dead, and buried; the third
day he rose from the dead; he ascended
into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand
of God the Father Almighty;
 from thence he shall come to judge the quick
and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the
holy catholic church, the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the
body, and the life everlasting.

Amen.
 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.

Pastoral Prayer followed
by Lord’s Prayer
Rev. Sharon Sawant
Holy Scripture reading

John 6 : 5 – 11
1 Corinthians 1 : 25 – 29
Philemon 1 : 7 – 11
 John 6 : 5 – 11
5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd
coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where
shall we buy bread for these people to eat?”
6 He asked this only to test him, for he already
had in mind what he was going to do.
7 Philip answered him, “It would take more
than half a year’s wages to buy enough bread
for each one to have a bite!”
New International Version
 8 Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon
Peter’s brother, spoke up,
9 “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves
and two small fish, but how far will they go
among so many?”
10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”
There was plenty of grass in that place, and
they sat down (about five thousand men were
there).
New International Version
 11 Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks,
and distributed to those who were seated as
much as they wanted. He did the same with
the fish.

New International Version

 1 Corinthians 1 : 25 – 29
25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than
human wisdom, and the weakness of God is
stronger than human strength.
26 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were
when you were called. Not many of you were
wise by human standards; not many were
influential; not many were of noble birth.
27 But God chose the foolish things of the
New International Version
 world to shame the wise; God chose the
weak things of the world to shame the strong.
28 God chose the lowly things of this world
and the despised things—and the things that
are not —to nullify the things that are,
29 so that no one may boast before him.

New International Version

 Philemon 1 : 7 – 11
7 Your love has given me great joy and
encouragement, because you, brother, have
refreshed the hearts of the Lord’s people.
8 Therefore, although in Christ I could be bold
and order you to do what you ought to do,
9 yet I prefer to appeal to you on the basis of
love. It is as none other than Paul—an old man
and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus—
New International Version
 10 that I appeal to you for my son Onesimus,
who became my son while I was in chains.
11 Formerly he was useless to you, but now he
has become useful both to you and to me.

New International Version

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Rev. Sharon Sawant

Praise and Worship
CHOIR
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Offertory Hymn No. 392
Joy to the World!
 Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King!
Let every heart prepare Him room,
and heav'n and nature sing,
and heav'n and nature sing,
and heav'n, and heav'n and nature sing.
 Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns!
Let men their 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.

AMEN.
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.

Amen.
Closing Prayer and Benediction

Rev. Sharon Sawant