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The Season of Advent December 15, 2019
Welcome - We are so glad you’re here! ALL God’s created ones are welcomed.
Please note your presence in the registry of friendship so that members of our church family may welcome you. After worship, please join us for refreshments downstairs in Jefferson Fellowship Hall.
Nursery Care for infants – 3 years is available downstairs; ushers will be glad to assist you with directions.
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Ministers: All members of Oakhurst Presbyterian Church Amantha Barbee, Senior Pastor Heather Chase, Associate Pastor Tony McNeill, Sanctuary Mass Choir Director Matt Wauchope, Chancel & Children’s Choir Director Paul Essah, Youth Minister Raushanah Butler, Seminary Intern Parish Associates: Alan Jenkins, Peter Ward, Sylvia Wilson, Fred Wise Glenda Whitworth, Office Administrator
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oakhurst-logo-apparel! Sunday, December 15th - Third Sunday in Advent ♦ 9:30 a.m. Children’s Choir rehearsal ♦ 10:00 a.m. Sunday school ♦ 11:00 a.m. Worship ♦ 3:00 p.m. Christmas Pageant Dress Rehearsal in Sanctuary ♦ 5:00 p.m. Potluck Dinner - Jefferson Fellowship Hall ♦ 6:00 p.m. Christmas Pageant - Sanctuary ♦ 6:30 p.m. Deacons end of the year celebration - TBA Monday, December 16th ♦ 9:00 a.m. Clothes Closet ♦ 10:30 a.m. Senior Social ♦ 6:30 p.m. Mandatory Officer’s Training (standing & new officers) Tuesday, December 17th ♦ 10:30 a.m. Prayer Group Wednesday, December 18th ♦ 7:00 p.m. Chancel Choir (combined Choirs rehearsal) Thursday, December 19th ♦ 9:00 a.m. Clothes Closet Sunday, December 22nd - Fourth Sunday in Advent ♦ 8:30 a.m. Deacons meeting ♦ 9:00 a.m. Sanctuary Mass Choir rehearsal ♦ 11:00 a.m. Worship ♦ 12:30 p.m. Budget Team meeting ——————————————————————————————————— Prefer to Give ONLINE? In addition to PayPal, you may donate easy, secure, convenient, and a product of the Presbyterian Foundation (PCUSA). Go to Oakhurstpcusa.org and donate online today! https://oakhurstpcusa.org/give/ OR Scan with your Smartphone.
Deacons of the Month: Gaela Peters (415)876-4997 and Magnolia Walker (404)414-1803 Flowers are provided by Jackie Foster in honor of her brother, Thomas Turks’ birthday. Refreshments are provided by the Sanctuary Mass Choir. Oakhurst Presbyterian Church’s Boy Scout Troop #107 is the oldest troop in the county of DeKalb and is in need of a Scout Master. If you are interested please contact Joyce Holden Kuhstoss at 770-653-3722. There is still time to pledge. Pledge confidentially online at oakhurstpcusa.org/2020-pledge-form/. Poinsettias for sale: Today is the last day that the Worship Committee is offering a limited number of poinsettias for $20. You will pick up your poinsettia after church on December 22. See Mitzi Moran or Virginia Richards (text 912-531-7722).
OPPORTUNITIES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Become a member of OPC! Come forth during the Invitational Hymn or email us at: [email protected].
Columbia PCUSA is a Sanctuary Church. They now are housing a young man from Jamaica seeking asylum. We are one of 5 churches committed to taking one day per week to provide meals. (taking him a meal, taking him out to dinner, taking him to buy groceries, etc.) Please contact Clifton Green ([email protected]) or Anne Hughes ([email protected]) if you can go one Friday or make a monetary donation. Needed: Feast & Fellowship Leaders: We have 5 Feast and Fellowship Groups meeting at Oakhurst Presbyterian and 2 groups need new leaders. Can you help out? We have contact lists, but we need folks to host and coordinate the meetings. Please let Pastor Heather or Charlie Copp know if you are interested. Thanks!! 3rd-5th Grade Sunday school are raising money for Heifer International and has Christmas tree with ornaments to buy animals ranging from $20 for chickens and ducks to a pig for $120. You can go in as a group just work with the kids during coffee hour after church. Thanks! Advent Devotionals: “Do not be afraid; for see - I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” Luke 2:10-11 The Advent devotionals are being provided by Pittsburgh Theological Seminary written by members of the seminary community. You can read or listen to the daily messages online at pts.edu/devotional_1. They can also be delivered to your inboxes daily. For those that need a printed version, we will provide limited copies in the narthex. Items needed for Royal Baby Shower: December 15 - Baby Clothes; December 22 - Food/Formula. HOLIDAY CLOSURES: The Church Office and Clothes Closet will be closed December 23, 2019 - January 1, 2020. The Budget Committee is in need of COUNTERS for 2020. It's quick, it's easy, it's usually only once per month. Please contact Virginia Richards to join this pretty fun team at [email protected]. Christmas Joy Offering: By giving to the Christmas Joy Offering, you honor God's gift of Jesus Christ. Fifty percent goes to providing assistance to current and retired church workers in their time of need . Another fifty percent goes to developing our future leaders at Presbyterian-related schools and colleges equipping communities of color. Please give generously. Special offering envelopes are available in the pew racks or you may give online. No Lunch Bunch meeting for the month of December. They will resume in January, 2020. Christmas caroling for Thelma Thomas and other residents of Mountain View Personal Care Home. Meet at the church to carpool at 3:30 p.m. or at the home at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 21. The address is 3675 Kensington Road, Decatur, GA 30032.
We Gather in God’s Name The congregation will read or sing all of the text in bold. Please stand, as able, in body or spirit
PRELUDE CREATOR OF THE STARS OF NIGHT
CHIMING OF THE HOUR INTROIT COME LET’S MAGNIFY THE LORD + CALL TO WORSHIP Children: Are we there yet? All: Yes, we are in the places of birth and new life.
Children: Are we there yet? All: Yes, we are listening for the voice of God.
Children: Are we there yet? All: Yes, God is with us even in the darkness.
Children: Are we there yet? All: Yes, God is in the storm and the calm.
Children: Are we there yet? All: Yes, we see clearly where we are through our tears.
Children: Are we there yet? All: Yes, this is a place of sharing bread.
Children: Are we there yet? All: Yes, we are at home with the holy.
Pastor: We are home! Yes!
Naramata Centre, Summer Community Worship, August 21, 2002, Naramata, B.C.
LIGHTING OF THE ADVENT CANDLE - CANDLE OF JOY ANN DAVIS, ANNE HUGHES, ANNE NICOLSON, ANN RHEA AND ANN STARKS ADVENT HYMN #88 - O COME, O COME EMMANUEL (VS. 1-3) CONGREGATIONAL ADVENT PRAYER This is Advent, the season of promise. In our worship, our hearts, and in our lives, we prepare for the birth of a baby in a dusty stable in Bethlehem, and remind ourselves that this child will become and already is the Saviour of the World who will return again in power and glory to draw all of his children together with songs of everlasting praise. The promise of the baby is also the promise of eternal life to all who believe. God of hope and promise, be with us throughout this Advent season and draw us ever closer as we sojourn together toward Christ your Son, our Saviour. Amen. ANNOUNCEMENTS + HYMN #100 MY SOUL CRIES WITH A JOYFUL SHOUT MINUTE FOR MISSION - REMEMBERING SOPHIA OLAITAN PRAYER OF CONFESSION AND ASSURANCE OF GRACE We have cut off access, O God. Each of us, in our own way, has cut off access out of
relationships, out of opportunities, out of our truest home, because we are too arrogant, or too stubborn, or simply too human. We have filled our lives and our world with darkness and death, because we have, all too often, put our own judgment and desires over yours and not cared for the desires of others. We are lost, in need of light and hope and joy.
SILENCE: Come, Lord Jesus; forgive us and restore us. Come, Lord Jesus; guide us and deliver us. Come, Lord Jesus; teach us and renew us. Come, Lord Jesus.
+ RITUAL OF FRIENDSHIP IN CHRIST Assured of God’s grace, we are set free to greet our neighbors with the peace of Christ. Please place prayer requests on green sheets and place in one of the baskets in the window.
+ JOYFUL RESPONSE #283 WA WA WA EMIMIMO CHILDREN’S TIME
Children gather at the front with a pastor, then PreK-1st graders may leave with their leaders for Mustard Seeds.
SHARING JOYS AND CONCERNS PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE & 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.
God’s Word Proclaimed PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION FIRST SCRIPTURE READING PSALM 146:5-10 ANTHEM MY HEART SINGS OUT SECOND SCRIPTURE READING LUKE 1:46b-55
SERMON OH MARY REV. AMANTHA BARBEE HYMN OF DISCIPLESHIP WE SHALL BEHOLD HIM In Response to God’s Word INVITATION TO THE OFFERING OFFERTORY ANTHEM PREPARE YE THE WAY OF THE LORD KENNETH LOUIS
DOXOLOGY #607 + PRAYER OF DEDICATION
We Go Out to Serve in God’s Name + HYMN #99 MY SOUL GIVE GLORY TO MY GOD + CHARGE AND BENEDICTION + CHORAL RESPONSE SWEET, SWEET SPIRIT + POSTLUDE HAIL TO THE LORD’S ANOINTED -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today’s worship leaders are Rev. Amantha Barbee and Rev. Heather Chase. Today’s ushers are Shera Collins, Joan DeWitt, Micheal Giles, and Loretta Jefferson. Elders Deacons
2019 2020 2021 2019 2020 2021 Teddy Brock Susan Brown Pam Epps Amelia Copp Magnolia Walker Steve Perkins Marcus Jefferson Clifton Green Suzette Gooch Kathy Hancock Vince Smith Gaela Peters Lorri Mills Joyce Holden-Kuhstoss Mike Kochel Micah Lipscomb David Schutten Patty Bonner Marcia Peters Jackie Randolph Deborah Thomas Mary Kottkamp Denise Boesel Craig Wilson Meredith Gordon
Clerk: Paula Couch
COME LET’S MAGNIFY THE LORD
Come, let’s magnify the Lord for He is worthy to be praised (repeat) Hosanna, blessed be the rock, Blessed be the rock of our salvation (repeat)
I will magnify the Lord . . .
MY HEART SINGS OUT Text: Ruth Duck | Tune: CAROL CMD
My heart sings out with joyful praise To God who raises me, Who came to me when I was low And changed my destiny. The Holy One, the Living God, Is always full of grace To those who seek their Maker’s will In ev’ry time and place.
The arm of God is strong and just To scatter all the proud. The tyrants tumble from their thrones And vanish like a cloud. The hungry all are satisfied: The rich are sent away. The poor of earth who suffer long Will welcome God’s new day.
The promise made in ages past At last has come to be, For God has come in pow’r to save, To set all people free. Rememb’ring those who wait to see Salvation’s dawning day. Our Savior comes to all who weep To wipe their tears away.
WE SHALL BEHOLD HIM (refrain) By Dottie Rambo
We shall behold Him, We shall behold Him Face to face in all of His glory We shall behold Him, We shall behold Him Face to face our Savior and Lord