Christmas Day Service – Christmas PJs and Ugly Sweaters December 25th, 2022 Worship

Thank You to Those Who Helped with Today’s Service: Worship Leader and Preacher: Pastor Karen Ward Acolyte: Lector & Communion Helper: Ushers: Organist: Doris Watts Tech Team: Derek Shelley, Greg Neal Special Music: Worship Team: Jean Barnard, Ann Lock, Ruth Nace, Derek and Hannah Shelley “Permission to reprint, podcast, and/or stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-736933.” Copyrights: The Prayers of the People and spoken and sung liturgies are adapted from Sundays and Seasons, © Augsburg Fortress. The Prayer of the Day is from Sundays and Seasons, ©2020 Augsburg Fortress. Used by permission of Augsburg Fortress. License #SB161835. Isaiah 52:7-10, Psalm 98, Hebrews 1:1-12 and John 1:1-14 are from the Revised Common Lectionary, copyright 1992 Consultation on Common Texts. Used by permission. Scriptural citations refer to the New Revised Standard Version Bible with Apocrypha. Copyright 2020 Augsburg Fortress ISBN 978-1-5064-4977-7. All liturgical texts were written and/or adapted by David Eck, Copyright 2011. Permission is granted for other churches to use this liturgy. Hymn: “Joy to the World.” Text: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748. Music: English melody, 18th cent.; arr. Lowell Mason, 1792-1872. Public Domain. Hymn: "This Little Light of Mine." Text: African American spiritual. Music: African American spiritual; arr. Horace Clarence Boyer, b. 1935. Public Domain. Hymn: " Angels, from the Realms of Glory." Text: James Montgomery, 1771-1854, alt., sts. 1-3; Salisbury Hymn Book, 1857, st. 4. Music: Henry T. Smart, 1813-1879. Public Domain. Hymn: “Good Christian Friends, Rejoice.” Text: Medieval Latin carol; tr. John Mason Neale, 1818-1866. Music: German carol, 14th cent.; arr. Robert L. Pearsall, 1795-1856. Public Domain. Hymn: “Go Tell It on the Mountain.” Text: African American spiritual, refrain; John W. Work Jr., 1872-1925, stanzas, alt. Music: African American spiritual. Public Domain. Communion Hymn: “Away in the Manger." Text: North American, 19th cent. Music: William J. Kirkpatrick, 1838-1921; arr. David Willcocks, b. 1919. Public Domain. Communion Hymn: “There’s a Star in the East." Text: African American spiritual. Music: African American spiritual. Public Domain. Hymn: "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing." Text: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788, alt. Music: Felix Mendelssohn, 1809-1847; arr. William H. Cummings, 1831-1915. Public Domain. Prelude: “When Christmas Morn is Dawning.” Steven Scott. Tune: Christmas Dawn. A traditional German folk song. 2010. Lorenz Publishing Company, a division of The Lorenz Cooperation.  Postlude: “Mendelssohn.” Music: Felix Mendelssohn, 1809-1847; arr. William H. Cummings, 1831-1915. Public Domain. Special Music: ? Offertory: "The Happy Christmas Comes Once More.” Gerald Peterson. Tune: Emmanuel by Carl C. N. Balle, 1806-1835. 2010. Lorenz Publishing Company, a division of The Lorenz Cooperation.