Sunday, December 31, 2017 CHRISTMASTIDE Happy New Year

Church Office: (330) 832-1891 / Email: richvilleucc@att.net Website: richvilleucc.com / Wi-Fi Password: mudkm?=fg+ju

Will Stuart. Pastor Worship Musician (330) 704-2164 --cell Steve Gerber pdubillspeak@gmail.com Gary Bickel, Director of Youth & Family Ministries (330) 880-6368 g.bickel@aol.com

Our accessible/family friendly restroom (equipped with

changing table) is located at the back of the Fellowship

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Adult Bible Groups @ 9:15 AM Updates in the Life & Work of the Church @ 10:30 AM

Worship Service @ 10:30 AM Sunday School: Children Dismissed from Worship

6125 Richville Dr. SW, Navarre OH 44662

No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, YOU ARE WELCOME HERE!

GATHERING OF THE FAITH COMMUNITY + Designates all who are able please stand.

10:30 am - Updates in the Life and Work of the Church

10:30 am - Ringing of the Church Bell

Prelude “He is Born!” Dale Wood

WELCOME

+ Opening Hymn #192 [vs. 1,2,4] “Angels, From the Realms of Glory”

Advent Lantern Greetings [Lynette Collins]

+ Call To Worship (with Prayer of Confession & Assurance of Pardon)

(responsive) [inspired by Isaiah 61:10-62:3]

Leader: We gather to delight greatly in The LORD. PEOPLE: Our souls rejoice in our GOD. Leader: The Holy One has clothed us with salvation -wrapping us in robes of Divine Righteousness. PEOPLE: May we then prepare ourselves to serve as priests of our GOD and may we be rightly wed to our Redeemer. Leader: Forgive us, Sovereign LORD, when we fail to tend the soil and seed YOU have entrusted to us. PEOPLE: Bless us afresh, we pray, to tend the gardens of our lives in such a way that holiness and praise would spring up before all nations.

Something to Think and Pray About:

"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm." -Henry David Thoreau

"Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples!”

“Whatever we do, we must not treat the Great Commission like it's the Great Suggestion." -Rev. Charles Swindoll

"Each new day on earth is a sacred moment." -Lailah Gifty Akita

CHRISTMASTIDE Happy New Year

Leader: For the sake of The Heavenly City, let’s not keep silent; for the sake of earthly communities, we will not remain quiet. PEOPLE: We will continue proclaiming our faith and hope until YOUR Light shines from us like a blazing torch -illuminating the way to salvation for all people. Leader: Let all the nations see GOD’s goodness in us. Let us shine like the dawn -radiant with thanksgiving for the fresh starts YOU grant us. ALL: May our lives be so full of godly beauty, that we bring YOU, Sovereign GOD, the glory YOU are due; AMEN!

Sung Response #182 [vs. 1] “Good Christian Men, Rejoice” Good Christian men, rejoice, With heart and soul and voice.

Give ye heed to what we say: News! News! Jesus Christ is born today! Ox and ass before Him bow, And He is in the manger now.

Christ is born today! Christ is born today!

UNITING AROUND THE LIVING WORD OF GOD The Christian Scriptures (New Testament)

The Good News According to Luke 2:22-40

Children’s Message (Children up to grade 6 are dismissed for their special time of learning in Sunday School. Confirmation

age children and above are to stay in worship, unless they are requested to help in Sunday School.)

Sung Response #168 [vs. 1,2,4] “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear”

RESPONDING TO THE GIFT OF THE CHRIST CHILD (Committing Ourselves and Our Gifts)

Prayers of The People (Joys and Concerns) and The Lord’s Prayer

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer Response #179 [refrain only] “What Child Is This?” This, this is Christ, the King,

Whom shepherds guard and angels sing. Haste, haste to bring Him laud,

The Babe, the Son of Mary.

Bringing our Gifts and Thanksgiving Before The LORD

Call to Offering

Offertory “A Manger Medley” Rebecca K. Owens

+ Offertory Response #190 [refrain only] “Angels We Have Heard on High” Gloria in excelsis Deo! Gloria in excelsis Deo!

+ Prayer of Dedication [based on Galatians 4:4-7] (responsive)

Leader: LORD of Perfect Timing, In deepest thanks for sending YOUR Son to be born as our Brother, we

bring these gifts before YOU. PEOPLE: In gratitude for being made family with YOU and receiving the inheritance of being YOUR children, we lift up these offerings. Leader: By The Spirit YOU entrust to us, may the whole of our living and giving invite others to know what it means to be able to call YOU “Abba, Father.” ALL: And bless our tithes, we pray, to set others free from the slavery YOU have liberated us from -to YOUR Glory and in Jesus’ Name; AMEN!

Proclaiming Emmanuel to The World

+ Charge and Benediction (Challenge & Blessing)

+ Sending Hymn #181 “Go, Tell It on the Mountain”

+ Postlude “Infant Holy, Infant Lowly” David M. Cherwien

WELCOME GUESTS: If you are visiting us today, our prayer is that you would see and experience

the whole-life transformation offered us in Jesus.

Large print bulletins are at the entry doors of the sanctuary.

Please visit our Welcome Center. Most any information you would want to know about our ministry and/or all sign up sheets are centrally located there.

Also make sure to pick up your welcome gift!

FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN: Please remember to visit our Children's Area located to the right of the

sanctuary doors. There you may sign your kids in, grab a children’s bulletin and a busy box. Also be sure to fill out a Sunday School attendance raffle form.

Our education wing is located downstairs in the lower level. We have education classes for children (during worship) and also have a nursery.

Please join us for our hospitality social after worship in our Fellowship Hall directly behind our sanctuary.

COMING NEXT WEEK:

Epiphany / “3 Kings” Sunday

Baptism of Christ Sunday

Celebration of The Lord’s Supper

Theme/Communion Meditation: “A Jumbo Assortment (Powers to Proclaim)”

Focus Text: Matthew 2:1-12

(with Isaiah 60:16 and Acts 19:1-7)