Preparations

We invite your church community to consider the Preparations and the Passion of Advent so that we might embrace the Presence and Promise of the Christ who comes. And through it all, we will gather to worship. So, come, let us adore him.

Abbreviations:

• UMH - United Methodist Hymnal
• TWFS - The Faith We Sing
• W&S - Worship and Song

Theme Hymns and Songs for the Series

• Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus UMH 196
• Refiner’s Fire CCLI# 426298
• I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light UMH 206

Service Music

• O Come, All Ye Faithful – Refrain only UMH 234
• The First Song of Isaiah TFWS 2030

Contemporary Music

• Come As You Are – CCLI 7017790
• Light of the World (Sing Hallelujah) – CCLI 7163734

• Doxologies and Offertory Responses for Advent and Christmas
• Advent Sanctus
• Handbell and Piano Scores for Christmas Eve and Post-Christmas Season
• Two New Advent Pieces for Choir and Congregation
• Carol Improvisations for Christmas Worship

Music for Candlelighting Liturgy

At the end of each week’s candlelighting liturgy as a congregational action all may sing

• O Come All Ye Faithful, UMH 234 – refrain only
• He Came Down, TFWS 2085 – follow this order of verses: hope, joy, peace, love (be saved)
• I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light UMH 206 – play verse quietly underscoring the reading and lead them to sing the refrain “In Him there is no darkness...”

Music Notes

Jeremiah 33:14-16, Luke 21:25-36

Advent is not something we endure; it is something we become, something that we are. We are people who live in anticipation, who live in hope. It is the essence of our being.

• Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus UMH 196
• Blessed Be the God of Israel UMH 209
• O Come, O Come, Emmanuel UMH 211
• The King of Glory Comes TFWS 2091
• People, Look East UMH 202
• In the Bleak Midwinter UMH 221
• You are Holy CCLI #2332149
• Even So Come CCLI # 7036288
• Waiting for You