Presence

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

Isaiah 12:2-6, Luke 3:7-18

Advent is not a secret that we can keep to ourselves. It is an announcement that we – together – live in a way that issues an invitation, a call a new way of living in the world, a new way of being. And it begins with being present to and with one another.

• Hail to the Lord’s Anointed UMH 203
• The First Song of Isaiah TFWS 2030
• Forever W&S 3023
• I Will Enter His Gates TFWS 2270
• Cuando el Pobre UMH 434
• In the Bleak Midwinter UMH 221
• Living Hope CCLI # 7106807
• King of My Heart CCLI # 7046145