Sermon 25th Dec 2024 10am Christmas Communion

We have recorded our talk in case you missed it or want to listen again.

Here is the OOS and the reading is below.
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Welcome Prayer – Furthest travelled and earliest up!

OPENING Sonns
O Come Let us Adore Him (chorus)
We are here for you
O Come all yea faithful
TOYS

Thank God for gifts and those who given them. Thank God for Jesus.

SONG: 12: Days of Christmas (Christ-centred one!)

Reading. LUKE 2: 8-20

TALK

SONG: See him lying on a bed of Straw

PRAYERS Family Prayers – thank you God for. . . OR all age activity

Communion (family communion words)

CLOSING CAROL: Hark the Herald Angels Sing

BLESSING

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LUKE 2: 8-20
8 In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10But the angel said to them, ‘Do not be afraid; for see—I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: 11to you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is the Messiah, the Lord. 12This will be a sign for you: you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger.’ 13And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying,
14 ‘Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and on earth peace among those whom he favours!’

15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.’ 16So they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the child lying in the manger. 17When they saw this, they made known what had been told them about this child; 18and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds told them. 19But Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart. 20The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.