Estes Park United Methodist Church
December 12, 2021
Third Sunday of Advent
Come Home This Christmas
Announcements
- Finance Meeting on Tuesday at 3:00 PM on Zoom.
- UMW Meeting this Wednesday at 1:00 PM.
- Ad Council Meeting this Thursday at 4:00 PM.
- Easy Hiking Group Meeting Today, Tuesday and Friday.
Birthdays
Lee Criswell 12/12
Janis Angermayr 12/15
Ellen Schroeder 12/16
Order of Worship
Prelude
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming
Greeting/Welcome
Lighting of the Third Advent Candle Janis and John Angermayr
Call to Worship
Leader: A path to our God, winding through the ordinary,
People: Weaving through the busyness, overcoming roadblocks and detours.
Leader: A way to go home, leaving the past in the past,
People: Moving from darkness and exile, coming into the light.
Leader: Advent is a path to our God, a way to come home, a discovery of God’s voice:
People: Rejoice, rejoice. God is with us!
Opening Prayer (Unison)
Loving God, in this third week of Advent, the week of Joy, be with us and help us to find our way back home to you. We’re all so very busy right now, God, but we pray that you will break through our busyness and bring of the joy of this Advent season! Amen!
Opening Hymn
The King of Glory Comes
Affirmation of Faith
Leader: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress, or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?
People: No! In all things we are more than conquerors through the One who loved us. We are sure that neither death nor life, Nor angels, nor principalities, Nor things present, nor things to come, Nor powers, nor height, nor depth, Nor anything else in all creation, Will be able to separate us from the love of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. Thanks be to God, Amen!
Offering
Prayer of Blessing
First Lesson
Zephaniah 3:14-20
Pastoral Prayer
Special Music
Gospel Lesson
Luke 3:7-18
Sermon
The Joy of Home
Closing Hymn
Blessed Be the God of Israel
Benediction
Postlude
Rise Up, Shepherd and Follow
Service Participants:
Pastor: Rev. Ann Steiner Lantz
Recorded Worship Liturgist: Cay Lacey
Zoom Worship Liturgist: Denise Shank
Director of Music: Jim Flanigan
Pianist: Nancy Gunter
Videographer: Jim Ecklund