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Pastoral Word and Announcements

Pastor Dave shares a word of encouragement from Ezekiel 34 and goes through how to use this guide and the week’s announcements.

Family Prayer

Pause the playlist and use the Church Prayer List to pray for your church family.

You can also pray for:

God to glorify his name during this crisis

The safety of everyone in the Indianapolis area, including your neighbors
Wisdom for the leaders who have to decide when and how to get life back to normal
God’s care for our church family

Lottie Moon Video

A look into how God uses our Lottie Moon Christmas Offering

Giving of Offering

To give online with a credit card, click here and follow the instructions. Before clicking “Submit,” pray the prayer below.

To give by mail, place your gift (no cash please) in an envelope, and address it to the following address. Before you seal the envelope, pray the prayer below. (If you want to give in cash, please visit the church office on Monday or Wednesday.)

Calvary Baptist Church
PO Box 7728
Greenwood, IN 46142

If you aren’t part of Calvary, this is a good time to find your home church’s online giving portal.

Finally, if you don’t have a home church, let this liturgy be our gift to you. Rather than giving financially, spend this time in prayer for our church.

LEADER OR INDIVIDUAL PRAYS:

“Father, would you keep your church faithful in worship and giving through this strange season. Amen.”

Seal your envelope or click “Submit.”

Teaching

Isaiah 40 – Preparing for a Dark Christmas

Song of Response

Go Tell It on the MOUNTAIN

Go tell it on the mountain
Over the hills and everywhere
Go tell it on the mountain
That Jesus Christ is born

While shepherds kept their watching
O'er silent flocks by night
Behold throughout the heavens
There shone a holy light
Shepherds feared and trembled
When low above the earth
Rang out the angel chorus
That hailed our saviour's birth
Down in a lowly manger
The humble Christ was born
And God sent our salvation
That blessed Christmas morn
Led be Dave Cook, Sandy Phelps, and Paul Webb

Advent Reading

Isaiah 11:1-5, Rose Howard

1 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse,

and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.

2 And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,

the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,

the Spirit of counsel and might,

the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

3 And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.

He shall not judge by what his eyes see,

or decide disputes by what his ears hear,

4 but with righteousness he shall judge the poor,

and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;

and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,

and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.

5 Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist,

and faithfulness the belt of his loins.

Second Advent Hymn

Joy to the World

Joy to the World, the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And Heaven and nature sing,
And Heaven and nature sing,
And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing.
Joy to the World, the Savior reigns!
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy.
He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders, wonders, of His love.
Led by Paul Webb, Karen Towles, Sandy Phelps, and Dave Cook. Accompanied by Bill and Linda Deal.

Benediction

Leader or individual reads

May the Light of the world guide your way through the darkness.
Go and make disciples.

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