Christmas Program 2008

ChristmasStoryTriviaCountdown Start Video @6min after 10 Offering F/F  V1/Ch/V2/Ch/Br/E (we)   Clap Your Hands G/B AW   Shout Hallelujah F/A  AW   Welcome Good morning! I want to wish you a warm welcome today, and especially welcome you if you are worshipping with us for the first time. If you're new to us, please sign in on the top of the pink friendship sheets that are circulating around. Jon is holding one up right now so you can see what they look like. If you fill in the top with some information about yourself, we won't phone you or come to your house - we'll only send you a nice letter, unless you indicate that there is some other way you'd like help in meeting your spiritual needs. Please join us for coffee/cookies following the service right here. And now let us take a moment to prepare ourselves for worship...please pray with me.... Curtis Comments O Come All Ye Faithful 997   A/A   V1/Ch/V3/CH   Mary(Kalista) and Angel(Computer Generated) Luke 1:26-38 Breath of Heaven       O Come, O Come, Emmanuel e/e V1/Ch/V2/CH   While scripture is read, Mary, Joseph(Matt Bergstrom), and child come to the center of the "stage," freezing in the first position of the classic nativity scene. Luke 2:1-7   Away In A Manger #1017   F/C   V1/V3   Silent Night Holy Night #1003   C/G   V1-MM/V2  Matthew Marshall O Holy Night #1028 (2) C/E    V1/Ch/V3/Ch   as scripture is read shepherds stand...spread through congregation...and wait for Kyrie song Luke 2:8-16   Curtis Comments Kyrie Eleison Shepherds gather on stage around nativity scene(Brent, TJ Panther, Rich Jacob Bergstrom,...   C/A   V1unison/V2round/V3unison   Magi (John Sutherland, Ben Stinson) enter from rear of auditorium and have dialogue with congregation...about location of Christ child...King Herrod (Jim Crume) (within congregation tells them to look in Bethlehem) Mathew 2:1-11 Curtis Comments Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem #1005 G/D    V1/Ch/V3/Ch   Angels We Have Heard on High #1002   F/A  V1/Ch/V4/Ch   All Angels Chosen from other children and parents in congregation, shepherds and others get on stage and gather round baby Jesus Joy To The World #1018 D/D    V1/V3  All people exit stage after song Holy Ground #100 & 101 Eb/Eb    AW   Curtis Comments The Power Of The Cross  C/C   V1/V2/Ch/V3/Ch/V4/Ch   Communion       Worthy is the Lamb # 234   A/E   Worthy Holy Jesus Glory   Curtis Comments Be Unto Your Name C/E    AW   Blessed Jesus 218 C/C   AW   Prayer for Offering Announcements and Offering       Beautiful One Db/Bb    AW   Here I Am to Worship (3) E/G#    AW + CH

 

 

 

Mathew 2:1-11

Bradley
-  1After
Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east
came to Jerusalem…

 

MAGI-(John) "Where is the
one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have
come to worship him."

 

Bradley
-  3When King
Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. 4When he had called together all the people's chief
priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born

 

MAGI-(John) "In Bethlehem in
Judea," they replied, "for this is what the prophet has written:

 6" 'But
you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,

      are by no means least among the rulers of
Judah;

   for out of you will come a ruler

      who will be the shepherd of my people
Israel."

 

Bradley - 7Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from
them the exact time the star had appeared. 8He sent them to Bethlehem and said…

 

HEROD (Jim)- "Go
and make a careful search for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me,
so that I too may go and worship him."

 

Bradley - 9After they had heard the king, they went on their way,
and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over
the place where the child was. 10When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. 11On coming to the house, they
saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then
they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense
and of myrrh. 12And having been warned in a dream
not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.