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St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church 962 Gold Street | Evans Center | Angola NY 14006

Mid-Week Advent

Worship Service 1 December 2, 2020 - 7pm

Rev. Alex Knowles, Pastor

Preacher: Pastor Alex Knowles

Assisted by: Pastor Travis Grubbs

Immanuel-Gowanda & Trinity-Silver Creek and Seminarian Aaron Parkhurst

St. John Ev. Lutheran Church-Angola NY Mid-Week Advent Worship Service 1 – December 2, 2020

2020 Mid-Week Advent Services: Wednesdays-December 9 & 16 at 7pm here at St. John’s

Advent 2 - December 9th – The Power of Hope

Text: Romans 5:1-10 Preacher: Pastor Tom Lutz, St. Paul Lutheran Church-Eden NY Assisted by: Pastor Travis Grubbs, Immanuel-Gowanda & Trinity-Silver Creek; Pastor Alex Knowles, St. John-Angola, NY

Advent 3 - December 16th – Being a Messenger of Hope

Text: 2 Corinthians 1:3-7

Preacher: Pastor Travis Grubbs, Immanuel Lutheran Church-Gowanda & Trinity Lutheran Church-Silver Creek NY Assisted By: Pastor Alex Knowles, St. John-Angola; Pastor Tom Lutz, St. Paul-Eden

All services are at St. John Lutheran Church – 962 Gold St. – Evans Center – Angola NY

Click stjohnangola.org or facebook.com/stjohnangola for directions and other announcements related to these services and other church events, including cancellations due to weather or other conditions.

***COVID-19 UPDATE: FEELING SAFE IN THE SANCTUARY: We have made adjustments to our services and operations to ensure everyone’s safety until this situation improves. We have necessary precautions in place for your participation but if you do not currently feel comfortable and choose not to attend, we fully understand and appreciate your concerns. If you cannot be with us in person, be sure to watch online via Facebook Live and let us know how we can keep you connected to our church family. Here are our "rules of engagement" for worship:

1. If you are ill or not feeling well, please refrain from attending until you feel better or are cleared medically. You can continue to watch the worship services online.

2. The following activities are suspended until further notice: a. Communion distribution b. Post-worship fellowship activities c. Weekly men's breakfast gathering

3. Unless otherwise necessary, please enter and leave the church through the narthex door. 4. Please wear an appropriate face covering AT ALL TIMES while in church buildings. 5. Hand sanitizer is available for your convenience on the table in the Narthex as you enter, in your pew,

and at other locations throughout the sanctuary. All horizontal surfaces in the sanctuary and balcony are sanitized prior to worship.

6. Please sit in staggered half-pews where a tissue box, hand sanitizer and bulletins are present, and sit only with your family unit (or with other congregants you consider family), or where all parties are comfortable sitting near each other

7. All services will continue to be streamed via Facebook Live and we will keep everyone updated via email and our website as this situation develops.

8. Click stjohnangola.org or facebook.com/stjohnangola for other announcements related to church events, including cancellations due to weather or other conditions.

We are collecting NEW MITTENS GLOVES and HATS to send to

the community of Kingfisher Lake where temperatures drop below zero during the winter months.

Please bring any child or adult size of these items to church and place them in the box located in the Narthex.

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St. John Ev. Lutheran Church-Angola NY SERVICE OF EVENING PRAYER Mid-Week Advent Service 1

December 2, 2020

Lutheran Service Book (LSB) Page 243

• Pre-Service Music & Bell

• Lighting of the Candles

• Welcome and Greetings

Service of Light

LSB 357 O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

5 O come, Thou Key of David, come,

And open wide our heav’nly home;

Make safe the way that leads on high,

And close the path to misery. Refrain

6 O come, Thou Dayspring from on high,

And cheer us by Thy drawing nigh;

Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,

And death’s dark shadows put to flight. Refrain

7 O come, Desire of nations, bind

In one the hearts of all mankind;

Bid Thou our sad divisions cease,

And be Thyself our King of Peace.

Refrain Tune and text: Public domain


Stand

Phos Hilaron LSB 244

[CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE]


Thanksgiving for Light LSB 245

Sit


Psalmody Psalm 141 LSB 245



L Let us pray.

Let the incense of our repentant prayer ascend before You, O Lord, and let Your loving-kindness descend

on us that, with purified minds, we may sing Your praises with the Church on earth and the whole

heavenly host and may glorify You forever.

C Amen.

Readings Reading Psalm 121

1I lift up my eyes | to the hills.*

From where does my | help come? 2My help comes | from the LORD,*

who made | heaven and earth.

3He will not let your | foot be moved;*

he who keeps you will not | slumber. 4Behold, he who keeps | Israel*

will neither slum- | ber nor sleep.

5The LORD is your | keeper;*

the LORD is your shade on your | right hand. 6The sun shall not strike | you by day,*

nor the | moon by night.

7The LORD will keep you from all | evil;*

he will | keep your life. 8The LORD will keep

your going out and your | coming in*

from this time forth and for- | evermore.

Reading 1 Corinthians 13:1—13:13 1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging

cymbal. 2And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all

faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up

my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5or rude. It does not insist on its own

way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7Love bears

all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge,

it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when the perfect comes, the partial will

pass away. 11When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I

became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know

in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

13So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

L In many and various ways, God spoke to His people of old by the prophets.

C But now in these last days, He has spoken to us by His Son.


LSB 347 Comfort, Comfort Ye My People

Tune and text: Public domain

Sermon


Canticle

Stand

Magnificat LSB 248

Offering: You may drop your offering envelope or donation in the collection plates located in the front and the

back of the church, or via US Mail, or via PayPal or common credit cards at: stjohnangola.org

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Prayer

Litany LSB 249 The congregation’s response may begin just as the leader’s petition ends so that the word “Lord” is sung

simultaneously by both leader and congregation.

L For the peace from above and for our salvation, let us pray to the Lord:

C Lord, have mercy.

L For the peace of the whole world, for the well-being of the Church of God, and for the unity of all, let us

pray to the Lord:

C Lord, have mercy.

L For this holy house and for all who offer here their worship and praise, let us pray to the Lord:

C Lord, have mercy.

L For [names of synodical and district presidents], for all pastors in Christ, for all servants of the Church,

and for all the people, let us pray to the Lord:

C Lord, have mercy.

L For [name of president or monarch], for all public servants, for the government and those who protect us,

that they may be upheld and strengthened in every good deed, let us pray to the Lord:

C Lord, have mercy.

L For those who work to bring peace, justice, health, and protection in this and every place, let us pray to

the Lord:

C Lord, have mercy.

L For those who bring offerings, those who do good works in this congregation, those who toil, those who

sing, and all the people here present who await from the Lord great and abundant mercy, let us pray to the

Lord:

C Lord, have mercy.

L For favorable weather, for an abundance of the fruits of the earth, and for peaceful times, let us pray to the

Lord:

C Lord, have mercy.

L For our deliverance from all affliction, wrath, danger, and need, let us pray to the Lord:

C Lord, have mercy.

L For . . . [additional bids for prayer may be inserted here] . . . let us pray to the Lord:

C Lord, have mercy.



The prayers then continue:

Silence for individual prayer may follow.

Collect For Peace L O God, from whom come all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works, give to us, Your servants,

that peace which the world cannot give, that our hearts may be set to obey Your commandments and also

that we, being defended from the fear of our enemies, may live in peace and quietness; through Jesus

Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and

forever.

C Amen.

Lord’s Prayer LSB 251 L Taught by our Lord and trusting His promises, we are bold to pray:

C 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

and the power and the glory

forever and ever. Amen.


Benedicamus LSB 252

Benediction LSB 252

LSB 886 The Day Thou Gavest

Tune and text: Public domain

Acknowledgments

Evening Prayer from Lutheran Service Book

Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®),

copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Created by Lutheran Service Builder © 2020 Concordia Publishing House.

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