EIGHTH
STREET MENNONITE CHURCH
602 South Eighth Street
Goshen, IN 46526-4019
Tel.: 219/533-6720
Fax: 219/533-8324
Email: eighthst@bnin.net
Web
site: www.bnin.net/~eighthst/
Myron D. Schrag, Pastor
[mschrag@bnin.net]
Brenda Sawatzky Paetkau, Associate
Pastor [bpaetkau@bnin.net]
Laura Sue
Dueck, Pastoral Intern [dueckls@msn.com]
6:30 P.M. December
24, 2001
Prelude:
Pastorale Lovelace
*Call to Worship:
Isaiah 40:1-2
Hymn: #176
Comfort, comfort, O my people (v 1)
Isaiah 40:3-4
Hymn: #176
Comfort, comfort, O my people (v 2)
Isaiah 40:5
Hymn: #176
Comfort, comfort, O my people (v 3)
*Invocation
*Hymn:
#178 Come, thou
long-expected Jesus
Special Music: Coventry Carol Instrumental
Duet
Jeremiah 33:14-16
Hymn: #211
Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming
Luke 1:26-38 – The Annunciation
Hymn: #180
The angel Gabriel (vv 1 & 3)
Luke 2:1-7 – The Birth of Jesus
Hymn: #191
O little town of Bethlehem (vv 1, 2 & 4)
John 1:1-5, 10-14
Congregational
Reading: #841
Lighting of the Christ Candle
*Hymn:
#212 O come, all ye faithful
Luke 2:8-14 – The Angels
Hymn: #197
Angels we have heard on high (v 1)
Luke 2:15-20 – The Shepherds
Hymn: #197
Angels we have heard on high (vv 2-4)
Luke 2:25-35 – Simeon
Hymn: #203
Break forth, O beauteous heav'nly light (vv 1-2)
Luke 2:36-38 – Anna
Hymn: #204
Gloria
Matthew 2:1-12 – The Magi
Special
Music: Christmas Lullaby J
Rutter Choir
Isaiah 2:2-4
White Gift Offering: Building Churches in Ethiopia John Nyce
Prayer
Offering:
In dulci jubilo Bach
You are invited to bring your gifts forward and place them in the
manger.
Special Music: Stille Nacht Davis Violin
& Piano duet
*Hymn:
#193 Silent night, holy
night
Candle Lighting (during hymn)
Share your light with the one beside you.
Only unlit candles should be tipped.
*Benediction
*Postlude:
Silent night, holy night Karen
Hershberger, Violin solo
Please
extinguish candles before leaving the sanctuary.
*All who are able are invited to stand
Worship Leaders: Myron Schrag, Brenda Sawatzky Paetkau
Song Leader: Karen Hershberger
Organist/Pianist:
Christine Thögersen
Instrumental Duet:
Steve Johnson (guitar) & Erica Johnson (violin)
Violin & Piano Duet:
Karen Hershberger & Christine Thögersen
Choir Director: James
Nelson Gingerich