WE INVITE YOU TO SIGN THE WHITE ATTENDANCE PAD so that we may celebrate your presence with us today! Please pass it on to the next person and then back down the row
Please Take Your Bulletins Home With You and Read the Announcements We invite you to take advantage of the Opportunities for fellowship and service
CHOIR PRACTICE Thursday @ 5:00 PM
Coffee With The Pastor Wednesdays 9:30 refreshments 10:00 discussion
Thank you to all those who donated poinsettas. You may take them home after the Christmas eve service.
ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL FOLLOWING SUNDAY SERVICES IN THE CHOIR ROOM
To all who are spiritually weary and seek rest; to all who are sad and long for comfort; to all who struggle and desire victory; to all who sin and need a Savior; to all who are strangers and want friendship; to all who hunger and thirst for something real and lasting; and to all who come here, this church opens wide her doors and offers welcome to you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Bayshore Gardens Community Church Believing, Again Gaining Hope Caring Relationships Christ Jesus
O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL #249 [ All who are able please stand ]
(1) O come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem! Come and behold Him, born the King of angels. O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, Christ, the Lord.
(2) Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation; O sing all ye bright hosts of heaven above! Glory to God, all glory in the highest. O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, Christ, the Lord.
(3) Yea, Lord, we greet Thee, born this happy morning; Jesus, to You be all glory given; Word of the Father now in flesh appearing! O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, Christ, the Lord.
Lighting the Advent Candles
The Chancel Choir
THE CALL TO WORSHIP (Psalm 118.24-27a)
Minister: This is the day that the LORD has made; People: Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Minister: Save us, we pray, O LORD! People: O LORD, we pray, give us success!
Minister: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD! People: We bless you from the house of the LORD.
All: The LORD is God, and He has made His light to shine upon us.
Prayer of Confession All: O Lord, I marvel that You purposed to become flesh so that You might be crucified, dead, and buried for me.
Grant me to die with You that I may rise to new life. Purge me from selfishness, pride, and the fear of man.
Lord, high and holy, meek and lowly, let me learn that the way down is the way up, that to be low is to be high,
that the contrite spirit is the rejoicing spirit, that to have nothing is to possess all,
that to give is to receive, that the valley is the place of vision. Come, Lord Jesus.
Have mercy on us, O God. Lord, hear our prayers.
SILENT PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING AND CONFESSION
Words of Assurance and Pardon of the Gospel (John 1:12-13)
Minister: But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
Angels from the Realms of Glory Hymn # 259
Angels from the realms of glory, Wing your flight o er all the earth; Ye who sang creation s story, Now proclaim Messiah s birth: Come and worship, come and worship, Worship Christ, the newborn King.
Shepherds in the fields abiding, Watching o er your flocks by night, God with man is now residing, Yonder shines the infant Light: Come and worship, come and worship, Worship Christ, the newborn King.
Sages, leave your contemplations, Brighter visions beam afar; Seek the great Desire of nations, Ye have seen his natal star: Come and worship, come and worship, Worship Christ, the newborn King.
Saints before the altar bending, Watching long in hope and fear, Suddenly the Lord, descending, In his temple shall appear: Come and worship, come and worship, Worship Christ, the newborn King.
Tho an infant now we view Him, He will share His Father s throne; Gather all the nations to Him; Every knee shall then bow down. Come and worship, come and worship Worship Christ the new born king
Message The Great Gift Exchange, Joy Pastor Dustin Sedlak
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, AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS; AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL. FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM, AND THE POWER, AND THE GLORY FOREVER AMEN
OUR OFFERING As A Tangible Expression Of Our Gratitude To God, We Joyfully Offer Our Monetary Gifts To Financially Support God's Work At Bayshore Gardens Community Church
Offertory The Birthday Of A King
THE DOXOLOGY PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW; PRAISE HIM ALL CREATURES HERE BELOW; PRAISE HIM ABOVE YE HEAVENLY HOST; PRAISE FATHER, SON AND HOLY GHOST.
Prayer of Gratitude
JOY TO THE WORLD #270
(1) Joy to the world! The Lord is come; Let earth receive her King. Let every heart, prepare Him room, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven, and heaven and nature sing.
(2) Joy to the world! 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.
(3) No more let sin and sorrow 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.
(4) 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.
THE PASTORAL BENEDICTION God has a plan for you and, you are EXACTLY where God wants you to be.