OCHEYEDAN CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
835 5th Street, Ocheyedan, Iowa 51354
Christmas Day - 2015
December 25, 2015 - 9:30 am
Worship Leader – Pastor Bill Van Der Heide
Pianist – Rhonda Weg Worship Team - One
Cantata Singers – The Ocheyedan Christmas Choir
SILENT NIGHT! HOLY NIGHT!
~ A Cantata for Christmas ~
Prelude
Let’s Worship and Adore Him – Celebration Hymnal 247
I Extol You – Celebration Hymnal 248
O Come All Ye Faithful – Celebration Hymnal 249
Reading – Isaiah 9:6
O Come All Ye Faithful – Celebration Hymnal 249
Joy Has Dawned – church files
Reading – Colossians 1:25-27
Words of Welcome
God’s Christmas Call to Worship: based on Psalm 126
Emmanuel Has Come Sunday School Children
God’s Christmas Greeting
We Greet Each Other
Once in Royal David’s City – Celebration Hymnal 286: vs 1 and 2
Advent Reading & Candle lighting
O Little Town of Bethlehem – Celebration Hymnal 250: vs. 1, 2, 4
God’s Christmas Word – Matthew 1:22-23 – page 1501
22All this took place to fulfill what he Lord had said through the prophet: 23“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
Message Set: Christmas Activities for God’s Celebrating People
Message: Enjoying Immanuel
Prayer of Application
Offering – World Renew
Offertory: Piano Duet by Rhonda Weg & Dawn Witte
Christmas Cantata – Silent Night! Holy Night!
Love’s Pure Light Opener
(Silent Night! Holy Night! With Birthday of a King)
Narration
Let There Be Light
We Three Kings
Narration
My Soul Magnifies the Lord ~with~
Angels from the Realms of Glory
Narration
Blessings
Narration
Tell the World
Narration
Shepherds Quake Underscore
Narration
Infant Holy Medley – for which the Congregation Stands and joins
The Ocheyedan Christmas Choir in Singing:
Silent Night! Holy Night!
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
We Will Glorify
Narration
What Christmas Really Means ~with~
Birthday of a King
Narration
Tell of His Wonder – Finale
Silent Night! Holy Night!
Jesus, What a Wonderful Child
Go, Tell It on the Mountain
*God’s Christmas Blessing
*Joy to the World! The Lord Is Come – Gray Psalter Hymnal 337
Postlude
Enjoying Immanuel – This brief Christmas meditation begins by focusing on a phrase which we hear a lot each Christmas season "The true meaning of Christmas." Matthew's most insightful line in his account of the birth of Jesus is: "All this took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet: A virgin will give birth to a son and they will call Him Immanuel - God with Us!" This Christmas mediation points out simply and basically that the true message of Christmas is that we are reconciled to God in Jesus when he takes away our sin. That restored fellowship of close, personal, intimate friendship with God which Jesus makes possible is what our lonely souls crave even when we don't realize it. The longing to know God truly and sincerely in genuine friendship is the hope and fear of all the years that are met in Jesus.
Merry Christmas
Nursery: Emily H & Karen D