“A Service of Lessons and Carols”December 14, 2014

8:00, 9:30 & 11:00 am Hyde Park Community

Sanctuary

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Welcome to WorshipWe are glad you have joined us today! Please sign the friendship/attendance pad and join us in the Welcome Center after worship for coffee, fellowship & information. If you are a visitor, please stop by our Hospitality Desk in the Welcome Center as we have a gift for you. The following assistive devices are available: assistive listening devices integrated with the sanctuary sound system and large print hymnals & order of worship.

News & Happenings is included in your worship bulletin and in our weekly e-mail news. Visit us online at hydeparkchurch.org for a comprehensive view of our ministries.

View live worship every Sunday at 9:30 am online. In addition, recordings of the sermons are updated weekly on our website in both video and audio format. The 9:30 am service from the previous week can be heard each Sunday on WCVX (1050 AM) at 1:00 pm.

Nursery (9:30 am & 11:00 am) Drop off your child in Room 120: Infants - Room 120 1 year olds - Room 119 2 year olds - Room 118

Children’s Sunday School (9:30 am - Lower Level): Preschool (Ages 3 & 4) Room 12 Early Elementary (Ages 5 – Kindergarten) Room 15 Middle Elementary (1st & 2nd Grade) Room 8 Older Elementary (3rd Grade) Room 6 Tweens (4th, 5th, & 6th Grade) Room 9

Kids Worship (11:00 am) (2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th Sundays)Children (3 years old to 2nd grade) begin worship with their families in the sanctuary and then are invited to attend a special children’s program after the Children’s Moment. Pick up your child in Room 8. There will be no Kids Worship on December 14th so families can worship together during Lessons & Carols.

Children’s Choirs (11:00 am)Children’s Choirs will resume meeting in the new year on Sunday, January 25. Children in grades K-2 are directed by Tracey Payling; children in grades 3-6 by Dana Calhoun.

Student Ministry Bible Study (9:20 am) Middle School Room 301 High School Room 302

Adult Sunday School 9:30 am FaithWeavers Room 205 Embracing Our Roots Library

11:00 am Soul Builders Room 205 New Ventures Parlor

Hyde Park Community United Methodist ChurchSharing the love of Jesus to transform lives, Cincinnati and the world.

Enter to hear the Good News of God’s love and to experience God’s hope and peace.

WE ENTER GOD’S PRESENCE

WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTSSign and pass the friendship/attendance pad located in the pew rack.

PRELUDE: Prelude on “Irby” David WillcocksBrenda Portman, organist

SILENT PRAYER OF PREPARATION: O living and loving God, prepare our hearts for what You have for us this morning. Give us ears to hear Your good news, hearts to receive it, minds to comprehend it, and the faith to live it. We offer ourselves in worship and praise. Amen.

PROCESSIONAL CAROL: (Seated) “Once In Royal David’s City” Agatha Hickerson, Treble Soloist

Soloist: Once in Royal David’s city stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a mother laid her baby in a manger for his bed; Mary was that mother mild, Jesus Christ her little child.

Choir: He came down to earth from heaven Who is God and Lord of all, And his shelter was a stable, and his cradle was a stall; With the poor and mean and lowly lived on earth our Savior holy.

All sing: Jesus is our childhood’s pattern, day by day like us he grew, He was little, weak and helpless, tears and smiles like us he knew; And he feeleth for our sadness, and he shareth in our gladness.

And our eyes at last shall see him, through his own redeeming love, For that child so dear and gentle is our Lord in heaven above; And he leads his children on to the place where he is gone.

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*INVITATION (Standing):

Friends in Christ, in this Christmas season let us hear again the message of the angels, and, in our hearts and minds, journey to Bethlehem and see this thing which is come to pass, and the Babe lying in a manger. Therefore, let us read in Holy Scripture of the loving purposes of God from the first days of our disobedience unto the glorious Redemption brought to us by this Holy Child. Let us lift our voices together in prayer:

We pray for the needs of the whole world, for peace on earth and goodwill among all God’s people. We remember, in Christ’s name, the poor and helpless, the cold, the hungry, the oppressed, the sick and them that mourn. We remember those who rejoice with us, but upon the heavenly shore and in a greater light; the multitude of saints which no one can number, whose hope was in Christ and with whom in the Lord we are one for evermore. These prayers we offer in the name of him who taught us to pray:

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 trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory for ever. Amen.

*LIGHTING OF THE ADVENT WREATH 9:30 Liza Swaile 11:00 Patrick Wantz

Today we remember Joseph, worn-out traveller and worried husband, doing what was necessary to care for his family, one who responded to God’s call upon his life with obedience. There was no room for him at the inn, yet he always knew to whom he belonged. Today we give thanks for the Josephs among us, migrating far from home when there is no choice, fiercely devoted to the ones they love, unwavering in their belief that there is room for all in the kingdom of God. On this third Sunday of Advent, we light this candle as a symbol of Joseph, who knocks at the door, ready to take his place in God’s kingdom. Sung Response: Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel shall come to Thee, O Israel.

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THE FIRST LESSON: Genesis 22:15-18 Pew Bible OT page 18

CAROL: (Seated) “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming”

Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming from tender stem hath sprung!Of Jesse’s lineage coming, as those of old have sung.It came, a floweret bright, amid the cold of winter,When half spent was the night.

Isaiah ‘twas foretold it, the Rose I have in mind;With Mary we behold it, the Virgin Mother kind.To show God’s love aright, she bore to us a Savior,When half spent was the night.

O flower, whose fragrance tender with sweetness fills the air,Dispel in glorious splendor the darkness everywhere.True man yet very God, from sin and death now save us, And share our every load.

THE SECOND LESSON: Isaiah 9:2, 6-7 Pew Bible OT page 638

ANTHEM: 8:00 “I Saw a Maiden” Arr. Edgar PettmanThe Wesley Choir, Neal Hamlin conducting

9:30/11:00 “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence” Arr. Gustav Holst The Cathedral Choir, Neal Hamlin conducting

THE THIRD LESSON: Isaiah 11:1-9 Pew Bible OT page 640

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*CAROL: (Standing) “The First Nowell” arr. Willcocks

All sing: The first Nowell the angel did say was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay; In fields where they lay keeping their sheep On a cold winter’s night that was so deep:

Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, born is the King of Israel!

Choir: They look-ed up and saw a star Shining in the east, beyond them far; And to the earth it gave great light, And so it continued both day and night:

All sing: Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, born is the King of Israel!

Choir: And by the light of that same star, Three wise men came from country far; To seek for a king was their intent, And to follow the star wherever it went:

All sing: Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, born is the King of Israel!

This star drew nigh to the northwest; O’er Bethlehem it took its rest, And there it did both stop and stay Right over the place where Jesus lay:

Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, born is the King of Israel!

Then let us all with one accord Sing praises to our heavenly Lord, That hath made heav’n and earth of naught, And with his blood all people hath bought:

Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, born is the King of Israel!

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THE FOURTH LESSON: Luke 2: 1-7 Pew Bible NT page 58

ANTHEM: “Away in a Manger” W. J. Kirkpatrick, arr. Willcocks

CAROL: (Seated) “O Little Town of Bethlehem”

O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie;Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.Yet in thy dark streets shineth the everlasting light;The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight.

For Christ is born of Mary, and gathered all above,While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.O morning stars together, proclaim the holy birth,And praises sing to God the King, and peace to all on earth!

How silently, how silently the wondrous gift is given;So God imparts to human hearts the blessings of His heaven.No ear may hear his coming, but in this world of sin,Where meek souls will receive him, still the dear Christ enters in.

O Holy Child of Bethlehem, descend to us we pray;Cast out our sin and enter in, be born in us today.We hear the Christmas angels the great glad tidings tell;O come to us, abide with us, our Lord, Emmanuel!

MEDITATION Rev. Dr. Cathy Johns

OFFERTORY: “Greensleeves” Richard Purvis

THE FIFTH LESSON: Luke 2: 8-16 Pew Bible NT page 58

ANTHEM: 8:00 “Ding Dong! Merrily on High” Arr. Charles Wood

9:30/11:00 “Gloria in Excelsis Deo Mark Hayes

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*CAROL: (Standing) “Angels We have Heard on High”

Angels we have heard on high sweetly singing o’er the plains,And the mountains in reply echoing their joyous strains.(Refrain) Gloria in excelsis Deo!

Shepherds, why this jubilee? Why your joyous strains prolong?What the gladsome tidings be which inspire your heavenly song? (Refrain) Gloria in excelsis Deo!

Come to Bethlehem and see Christ whose birth the angels sing;Come, adore on bended knee, Christ the Lord, the newborn King.(Refrain) Gloria in excelsis Deo!

See him in a manger laid, whom the choirs of angels praise;Mary, Joseph, lend your aid, while our hearts in love we raise.(Refrain) Gloria in excelsis Deo!

THE SIXTH LESSON: Matthew 2:1-11 Pew Bible NT page 2

ANTHEM: 8:00 “Coventry Carol” Arr. Martin Shaw

9:30/11:00 “Star Carol” John Rutter

THE SEVENTH LESSON: John 1: 1-14 Pew Bible NT page 91

ANTHEM: 8:00 “Christmas Lullaby” John Rutter

9:30/11:00 “The Snow Lay on the Ground” Leo Sowerby

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*CAROL: (Standing) “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” Arr. Willcocks

Hark! The herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King;Peace on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled!”Joyful, all ye nations rise, join the triumph of the skies;With th’angelic host proclaim, “Christ is born in Bethlehem!”

(Refrain) Hark! The herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!”

Christ, by highest heaven adored, Christ the everlasting Lord;Late in time behold him come, offspring of the virgin’s womb.Veiled in flesh, the God-head see; hail th’incarnate Deity,Pleased with us in flesh to dwell, Jesus, our Emmanuel. (Refrain)

Hail the heav’n born Prince of Peace! Hail the sun of Righteousness!Light and life to all he brings, risen with healing in his wings.Mild he lays his glory by, born that we no more may die,Born to raise us from the earth, born to give us second birth. (Refrain)

*BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE: “God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen” John Rutter

*Congregation stands as ableJoin together in reading/singing the bold type.

Liturgist: 8:00 Jeff Sheldon, 9:30 Bettye Beaumont, 11:00 Denis Larrick

9:00 Grace Chapel Communion: Rev. Dave Weaver

The Altar Flowers are given to the glory of God in memory of Richard Berghamer and our Wedding Anniversary December 19th by Ellen Berghamer.

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INVITATION TO PRAY“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” Romans 12:12

BIRTH: Newell Densmore was born on December 8th to proud parents Stefan & Heidi Densmore, sister Rose, and brother Wulffgang.DEATHS: Sympathy to Susan Anthony and her family, in the death of her father, Kenneth Shelly. Kenneth’s memorial service was this past weekend. HOSPITAL: Cathy Duerler (Jewish), Robin Sontag (Good Samaritan) HOSPITAL DISCHARGE: Mary Jane SchmuellingOUR CHURCH FAMILY:

Staff & Their Families: Brenda Portman, Lisa FoleyMen & Women in the Military*: Samuel D. Pennington Commander, U.S. Navy (son-in-law of Kathy Thornton-Keith and Bob Keith)Our Church Ministries: Hospitality Desk, Tween’s Ministry, Ushers

A Daily Prayer for Advent: 1. Gracious and Loving God, we thank You and praise Your holy name!2. Help us to watch and wait for You and listen to Your voice (Luke 2:8-9). 3. Fill us with a longing to seek the Christ-Child, Jesus. Open us fully to receive the gift of Your Son and then respond with a joyful heart (Matthew 2:10-11).4. Grant us wisdom so that we can be faithful to Your leading, and give us courage to act with faith (Matthew 1:22-24).5. Remind us that You call each one of us to serve You in unique ways. Help us to respond in joyful obedience (Luke 1:28, 37-38). 6. The Spirit of joy, peace, love, hospitality and generosity to permeate the church, our homes and in our hearts. In Jesus name, Amen. We want to include prayers for any active duty men & women in the military. Please send the information to lgarrison@hpcumc.org.

Prayer & Healing (Hyde Park Community):

Tuesday - 6:30 pm, Sanctuary - Prayer Gathering**Except the 2nd Tuesday of the Month. Join us at 7:30 pm for Taizé Worship.

3rd Sunday of the Month - 11:00 am, Little Theater - Come for Healing Prayers

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Next Sunday 12/21: “Lessons from the Manger,” our Advent series, continues with the message: “Mary: Trust God for the Impossible!” This message, based on Luke 1:26-38, will examine what we can learn from Mary, who believed that God would lead her through a challenging chapter of her life. We will celebrate the angel’s visit to Mary, the amazing announcement, assignment, and Mary’s acceptance. Pastor Doug will preach in Hyde Park; Pastor Cathy will preach at Nast Community.

Hyde Park Community Worship: Sunday - 8:00, 9:30 & 11:00 am, Sanctuary 1st Sunday of the Month - 11:00 am, Little Theater - Blended Worship

September - May2nd Tuesday of the Month - 7:30 pm, Sanctuary - Taizé Worship

Nast Community Worship: Sunday - 9:30 am, Sanctuary

Sunday - 5:00 pm, Sanctuary - In conjunction with UC’s Wesley Foundation.

Holy Communion: 1st Sunday of the Month at all Services

All other Sundays 9:00 am, Chapel

Christmas Eve Candlelight Worship on Wednesday, Dec. 24:4:00 pm Families of all ages gather to experience the Christmas story. Hyde Park Community UMC, childcare provided.

5:30 pm Celebrate Christmas with the gospel band at Nast Community UMC.

6:00 pm Sing carols of the season, celebrate Holy Communion, and celebrate Christmas. Hyde Park Community UMC. Childcare provided.

8:30 pm Enjoy 30 minutes of music with the Cathedral Choir and the brass. At 9:00 pm celebrate Christmas as we pray, encounter God in scripture, and sing carols of the season. Hyde Park Community UMC. Childcare provided.

11:00 pm Celebrate Christmas as we pray together, hear God’s Word, and are led by the Wesley Choir and brass in singing carols of the season. Hyde Park Community UMC.