1st Sunday of Advent, Year B
Worship Leader: Rev. Jeannine Cline, B.A., M.Div.
Let us worship together as we read! You can follow along with the service which will be livestreamed on Facebook at 10AM Sunday morning. https://www.facebook.com/kerrobertunited
For those who are not on Facebook, we will be posting the video onto our YouTube channel early in the week.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
MEDITATION
As we gather for this 1st Sunday of Advent, we anticipate the Christ child, and wish for renewal. We come to reclaim hope. We come wanting to reshape how we view our Christmas season. And we remember why we wait for and welcome the Christ child in the world, and into our lives.
WELCOME & TIME OF GREETING
God be with you
And also with you.
Let us look to one another with love and reconciliation.
(Exchange gestures and looks of the peace of Christ.)
CALL TO WORSHIP
Keep shadows without and light within;
Let your face shine that we may be saved.
Keep fear without and justice within; Comfort, comfort your people.
Keep chaos without, and life within;
May those who sow tears reap with shouts of joy.
Keep despair without, and hope within; Deliver us that we may rejoice.
Come O advent God, and reveal your promise to us now.
Our cry is one of longing, O God, For a restored relationship with you.
As we enter the season of advent, our longing is at its greatest.
It can be hard to find you in our world,
Yet we believe you are here with us, renewing all that is broken.
Come among us, and in flesh abide with us,
That we may witness your presence around us,
And be filed with a new vision of our world. Amen.**
ADVENT READING & CANDLE LIGHTING+
“Hope”
Leader: Today is the first Sunday in the season of Advent. In this season we prepare for the coming of Christ. One of the ways we celebrate Advent is lighting candles on an Advent wreath to remind us of the gifts Christ brings to the world. It also helps us count the Sundays on our journey to Christmas.
“Hope”
Leader: Today is the first Sunday in the season of Advent. In this season we prepare for the coming of Christ. One of the ways we celebrate Advent is lighting candles on an Advent wreath to remind us of the gifts Christ brings to the world. It also helps us count the Sundays on our journey to Christmas.
Reader: The Advent wreath includes many symbols. The wreath is in the shape of a circle. Like God's love, a circle has no beginning or ending. The evergreen branches are a sign that God’s love and caring for us never fades. The candles tell us of the light which came into the world with Jesus Christ. The white candle which we light on Christmas Eve signifies the coming of Christ.
Leader: Today we light the first candle, the candle of hope.
(light the first candle.)
Reader: Like the ancient Hebrew people, we cry out to God from a broken and hurting world. We acknowledge that our lives are not what God meant them to be. And like the ancient Hebrews, we welcome Isaiah’s words of hope which tell us that we are like clay and God is the potter. God created us and will recreate us, shaping us in love.
Leader: With the lighting of this candle, we celebrate the hope of Israel, and the hope that we have in Jesus Christ. We continue to have hope in God’s promise that Christ will come again to fill our lives and the life of the world with love, and joy, and peace. Let us pray together.
All: O God, help us to be open to your shaping of our lives, that we may be channels of hope, love, peace, and joy in our hurting world. Amen.
HYMN
Voices United #7 “Hope is a Star” verse 1
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Psalm 80:1–7, 17–19 (Voices United p. 794 Part One)
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
God loves each of us, and accepts each of us as wonderful, beloved children.
We are a forgiven people. Thanks be to God! Amen.
HYMN
Voices United #2 “Come Thou Long Expected Jesus”
SCRIPTURES
Isaiah 64:1–9 Tear open the heavens and come down.
1 Corinthians 1:3–9 In every way, you have been enriched in Christ.
Mark 13:24–37 You will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds.
MESSAGE & HYMN Voices United #365 "Jesus Loves Me"
Leader: Today we light the first candle, the candle of hope.
(light the first candle.)
Reader: Like the ancient Hebrew people, we cry out to God from a broken and hurting world. We acknowledge that our lives are not what God meant them to be. And like the ancient Hebrews, we welcome Isaiah’s words of hope which tell us that we are like clay and God is the potter. God created us and will recreate us, shaping us in love.
Leader: With the lighting of this candle, we celebrate the hope of Israel, and the hope that we have in Jesus Christ. We continue to have hope in God’s promise that Christ will come again to fill our lives and the life of the world with love, and joy, and peace. Let us pray together.
All: O God, help us to be open to your shaping of our lives, that we may be channels of hope, love, peace, and joy in our hurting world. Amen.
HYMN
Voices United #7 “Hope is a Star” verse 1
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Psalm 80:1–7, 17–19 (Voices United p. 794 Part One)
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
God loves each of us, and accepts each of us as wonderful, beloved children.
We are a forgiven people. Thanks be to God! Amen.
HYMN
Voices United #2 “Come Thou Long Expected Jesus”
SCRIPTURES
Isaiah 64:1–9 Tear open the heavens and come down.
1 Corinthians 1:3–9 In every way, you have been enriched in Christ.
Mark 13:24–37 You will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds.
MESSAGE & HYMN Voices United #365 "Jesus Loves Me"
MINUTE FOR MISSION
INVITATION TO OFFERING
Let us give as we have received.
PRAYER OF DEDICATION (unison)
In the name and the spirit of Jesus, we give our gifts to you, O God.
Help us to give with them a ready mind, a willing spirit, and a faithful heart. Amen
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE & THE LORD’S PRAYER
Gracious God,
In these troubling and anxious times, help us to reflect on who you are calling us to be. Help us to see the hope, the restoration, the reconciliation in our towns, our provinces, our country, and our world.
Let us pause now for reflection & private prayers…
(silent reflection & prayers….)
As children turn to a mother who watches over them,
Let us turn to God saying,
Our Father who art in heaven…. Amen.
HYMN
Voices United #651“Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah”
BENEDICTION
Let’s go into the world as people of gratitude.
Let’s go into the world as people of hope.
Let’s go into the world as people of faithfulness.
Let’s go into the world ready to share Christ’s love!
We go knowing this: we are never, ever alone.
The peace of Christ holds us, the love of the Creator enfolds us,
and the wings of the Holy Spirit carry us, today and always. Amen!
Voices United #964 “Go Now in Peace”
**Prayers for All Seasons, Year B, edited by Ellen Turnbull. Pp.,7,8,
INVITATION TO OFFERING
Let us give as we have received.
PRAYER OF DEDICATION (unison)
In the name and the spirit of Jesus, we give our gifts to you, O God.
Help us to give with them a ready mind, a willing spirit, and a faithful heart. Amen
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE & THE LORD’S PRAYER
Gracious God,
In these troubling and anxious times, help us to reflect on who you are calling us to be. Help us to see the hope, the restoration, the reconciliation in our towns, our provinces, our country, and our world.
Let us pause now for reflection & private prayers…
(silent reflection & prayers….)
As children turn to a mother who watches over them,
Let us turn to God saying,
Our Father who art in heaven…. Amen.
HYMN
Voices United #651“Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah”
BENEDICTION
Let’s go into the world as people of gratitude.
Let’s go into the world as people of hope.
Let’s go into the world as people of faithfulness.
Let’s go into the world ready to share Christ’s love!
We go knowing this: we are never, ever alone.
The peace of Christ holds us, the love of the Creator enfolds us,
and the wings of the Holy Spirit carry us, today and always. Amen!
Voices United #964 “Go Now in Peace”
**Prayers for All Seasons, Year B, edited by Ellen Turnbull. Pp.,7,8,
+Advent Readings – The Whole People of God™ • Unit 3, 2020 Copyright © Wood Lake Publishing
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