Order of Worship 

  December 3, 2023
How Will We Know ... how long?
Pre-Service Music
Welcome & Announcements
Call to Worship: O God, tear open the heavens and come down so that the mountains would quake at your presence!
        High voices:     No one has heard,
        Low voices:      no ear has perceived,
         All:  no eye has seen any God besides You who works for those who wait for you.
No one knows when the time will come.
        How long must we wait?
             (pause)
       Together, we wait.
A prayer for peace
Songs:  #218 Come, Thou long-expected Jesus (vs. 1 & 2)
              #228 Wait for the Lord (3 Xs)
Children’s time
Drama:  Words from a wise Biblical person & someone waiting for an important text message
Song: #213 Poor of the earth (vs. 1, 2)
Scripture readings: Isaiah 64:1-9 and Mark 13:24-37
Message: In Sunshine and in Fog
Song: #213 Poor of the earth (vs. 3)
Child Dedication:  Jim Barahona and Nuria Kehr-Yoder
Congregational response:  #970
Offering & Congregational Prayer
Song & Candle lighting: #211 Hope is a candle (vs 1)
Benediction & Congregational response:
Hear these words: Together we wait.
      How long must we wait?
No one knows when the time will come. 
Keep alert, strengthened by God’s faithfulness to you.
Sharing of Joys and Concerns
Blessing
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​The service is available live on YouTube and will be recorded.

Participants
Preservice & Offertory music: Doris Bewley
Worship leader:  Marc Schlegel-Preheim
Message:  Karen Martens Zimmerly
Song leader:  Nathan Swartzendruber
Children's time:  Mary Forney
Drama:  Rachel & Angie Lamb
Scripture readers:  Marc Schlegel-Preheim, Karen Martens Zimmerly
Candle Lighters:  Cindi & Roger Schrock
Ushers:  Pat & Arden Miller
Greeters:  Wendell Miller, Orlando Redekopp
Technical Assistance:  John Yutzy, Nate Elliott

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