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Today No Sunday School 11:00 ! Worship Monday, 12/24 Christmas Eve 7:00p! Family !Service ! 11:00p !Candlelight Service Sunday, 12/30 No Sunday School 11:00 ! Worship Tuesday, 1/1 Noon! Prayer Service

Ione Community Church

December 23, 2012

Today Lay Leader! Diaconate! Coffee Hour! Backpacks!

Servants
Kerry Rietmann Team 4 Lorrene M./Betty G. Christmas break

Sunday 12/30 Lay Leader! Betty Rietmann Diaconate! Team 4 Coffee Hour! Judy Rea Backpacks! Christmas break

Upcoming Scripture Readings

12/24 Isaiah 9:2-7 & Luke 2: 1-20 12/30 Luke 2: 22-52 01/1 Ecclesiastes 3:1-13 01/6 Isaiah 60: 1-6 01/13 Luke 3:15-22

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Rev. Tim Graves, Interim Pastor Phone 541-256-0565 EMail rev.timgraves@gmail.com Tims in-town schedule this week will be Mon. 12/24, Tues. 12/25 (tho celebrating with family), gone Wednesday & Thursday, and back Friday, Saturday, & Sunday. Ofce hours on Friday 9 to 12 as usual. Call, email, or stop by.

New Years Day Prayer Service

Resolve to grow your faith in 2013. Begin by gathering for prayer. Noon | New Years Day Ione Community Church Ione, Oregon When Elizabeth heard Marys greeting, the child leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was lled with the Holy Spirit. With a loud voice she blurted out, God has blessed you above all women, and he has blessed the child you carry. Luke 1:41-42 CEB

541-422-7530 www.ionecommunitychurch.org

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Order of Worship
Prelude Fourth Sunday of Advent

Offering of Ourselves Meditation Doxology Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow #46 Blessing of gifts Special Music Gesu Bambino Beth Heagy, Yvonne Morter

Welcome & Announcements *Call to Worship (Please say responsively.) L: Out of little Bethlehem comes one who is to rule in Israel. P: He shall be great to the ends of the earth. L: Our spirits rejoice in God our Savior. P: Gods mercy extends from generation to generation. Holy is Gods name!
Feasting on the Word Liturgies for Year C, Vol. 1

Scripture Luke 1: 39-45 Luke 1: 45-55 Song of Mary #131 Sermon Joy Within the Womb Rev. Tim Graves

*Closing Hymn Christians All, Your Lord Is Coming #136 Invitation & Blessings Afrmation of Faith (Please say together.) We believe in one body, one Holy Spirit, one hope to which we are called, one Lord Jesus, one faith, one baptism, one God of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Based on Ephesians 4, Chalice Worship #496, Modied

*Gathering Hymn O Come, O Come, Emmanuel #119 *Invocation (Please say together.) May all I say and all I think be in harmony with thee, God within me, God beyond me, maker of the trees. Amen.
Chinook Psalter, Earth Prayers, p. 181

*Passing of the Peace (Please greet one another.) Lighting the Advent Wreath Kendrick Family Meditation Hymn: One Candle is Lit #128 v. 1, 2, 4, & 3 Prayer Music with the Worship Team Pastoral Prayer Joys & concerns Prayer Hymn Jesus, Remember Me #569 (1x) Pastoral Prayer Lords prayer (Debts & Debtors) Response Jesus, Remember Me #569 (2 x)

*Benediction (Please gather in a circle.) Please stand if youre able where marked with an asterisk.

Prayer Requests
Renee Allen Christy Correa Beth Dickenson Karen Dubuque Troy Hyatt Jean Jepsen Janette Johnson Cory Peterson Family of Jim Martin Yvonne Morter Mary Ann Palmer Family of Don Shelton Marge Zivelonghi