1. Bayshore Gardens Community Church
Believing, Again
Gaining Hope
Caring Relationships
Christ Jesus

3. THE WHITE ATTENDANCE PAD so that we may celebrate your
WE INVITE YOU TO SIGN
THE WHITE ATTENDANCE PAD
so that we may celebrate your
presence with us today!
Please pass it on
to the next person
and then back down the row

4. and Read the Announcements for fellowship and service
Please Take
Your Bulletins Home
With You
and Read the Announcements
We invite you to
take advantage
of the Opportunities
for fellowship and service

5. Coffee with the Pastor WILL RESUME JANUARY 10TH Wednesdays 9:30 am refreshments 10:00 am discussion

6. CONSISTORY MEETING JANUARY 9th 7:00 PM

7. CHOIR REHEARSAL THURSDAYS @ 5:00 in the choir room

8. To all who are weary and seek rest; to all who mourn and long for comfort; to all who struggle and desire victory; to all who sin and need a Savior; to all who are strangers and want fellowship; to all who hunger and thirst after righteousness; and to all who will come, this church opens wide her doors and offers welcome in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

9. Bayshore Gardens Community Church
Believing, Again
Gaining Hope
Caring Relationships
Christ Jesus

11. WE THREE KINGS
Hymn 288

12. We three Kings
Of orient are
Bearing gifts
we traverse afar
Field and fountain,
Moor and mountain
Following yonder star

13. O star of wonder
Star of night
Star with royal
Beauty bright
Westward leading
Still proceeding
Guide us to thy
Perfect light

14. Born a king
On Bethlehem’s plain
Gold I bring
To crown Him again
King forever
Ceasing never
Over us all to reign

15. O star of wonder
Star of night
Star with royal
Beauty bright
Westward leading
Still proceeding
Guide us to thy
Perfect light

16. Frankincense
to offer have I
Incense owns
A Deity nigh
Prayer and praising
All men raising
Worship Him
God on high

17. O star of wonder
Star of night
Star with royal
Beauty bright
Westward leading
Still proceeding
Guide us to thy
Perfect light

18. Myrrh is mine
Its bitter perfume
Breathes a life
Of gathering gloom
Sorrowing sighing
Bleeding dying
Sealed in
The stone cold tomb

19. O star of wonder
Star of night
Star with royal
Beauty bright
Westward leading
Still proceeding
Guide us to thy
Perfect light

20. Al-le-lu-ia, Al-le-lu-ia
Glorious now
Behold Him arise
King and God
And sacrifice
Al-le-lu-ia, Al-le-lu-ia
Earth to
Heaven replies

21. O star of wonder
Star of night
Star with royal
Beauty bright
Westward leading
Still proceeding
Guide us to thy
Perfect light

23. [ Pastor/CONGREGATION ]
THE CALL TO WORSHIP
(Psalm 118:24-27a)
[ Pastor/CONGREGATION ]

24. Minister: This is the day that the LORD has made; People: Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

25. Minister: Save us, we pray, O LORD
Minister: Save us, we pray, O LORD! People: O LORD, we pray, grant us your favor!

26. Minister: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD
Minister: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD! People: We bless you from the house of the LORD. All: The LORD is God, and He has made His light to shine upon us.

27. Congregational Prayer of Confession ALL:

28. Almighty and merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against You and one another in both our actions and our inactions. We recognize that in Jesus Christ our light has come, yet often we choose to walk in shadows and ignore the light.

29. Gracious God, forgive our sins and remove from us the veil of darkness that shrouds our lives. Illumined by your Word, may we rise to the radiance of Christ’s glory.

30. We wait upon You with ready hearts, O God, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Hear our prayers.

31. SILENT PRAYERS OF
THANKSGIVING
AND
CONFESSION

32. Words of Assurance and Pardon of the Gospel (1 John 1:7)

33. Minister: He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through Him.

34. Angels from the Realms of Glory Hymn # 259

35. Angels from the realms of glory, Wing your flight o’er all the earth; Ye who sang creation’s story, Now proclaim Messiah’s birth: Come and worship, come and worship, Worship Christ , the newborn King.

36. Shepherds in the fields abiding, Watching o’er your flocks by night, God with man is now residing, Yonder shines the infant Light: Come and worship, come and worship, Worship Christ , the newborn King.

38. Chancel Choir

39. The Proclamation of Scripture Luke 15 selected passages

40. To illustrate the point further, Jesus told them this story: “A man had two sons. The younger son told his father, ‘I want my share of your estate now before you die.’ So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons.

41. “A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money in wild living. About the time his money ran out, a great famine swept over the land, and he began to starve. He persuaded a local farmer to hire him, and the man sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.

42. The young man became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him. But no one gave him anything. “When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, ‘At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger!

43. I will go home to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired servant.”’ “So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming.

44. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him. His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. ’ “But his father said to the servants, ‘Quick! Bring the finest robe in the house and put it on him.

45. Get a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet
Get a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet. And kill the calf we have been fattening. We must celebrate with a feast, for this son of mine was dead and has now returned to life. He was lost, but now he is found.’ So the party began. “Meanwhile, the older son was in the fields working.

46. When he returned home, he heard music and dancing in the house, and he asked one of the servants what was going on. ‘Your brother is back,’ he was told, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf. We are celebrating because of his safe return.’ “The older brother was angry and wouldn’t go in.

47. His father came out and begged him, but he replied, ‘All these years I’ve slaved for you and never once refused to do a single thing you told me to. And in all that time you never gave me even one young goat for a feast with my friends.

48. Yet when this son of yours comes back after squandering your money on prostitutes, you celebrate by killing the fattened calf!’ “His father said to him, ‘Look, dear son, you have always stayed by me, and everything I have is yours.

49. “We had to celebrate this happy day
“We had to celebrate this happy day. For your brother was dead and has come back to life! He was lost, but now he is found!’” Luke 15:32

50. Message “Coming Home” Rev. Dustin Sedlak

51. The Lord’s Prayer OUR FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE THY NAME.
THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE,
ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.
GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD,
AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS;
AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION
BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM,
AND THE POWER, AND THE GLORY FOREVER
AMEN

52. As A Tangible Expression To Financially Support
OUR OFFERING
As A Tangible Expression
Of Our Gratitude To God,
We Joyfully Offer Our
Monetary Gifts
To Financially Support
God's Work At
Bayshore Gardens
Community Church

53. Offertory
“Prayer”

54. THE DOXOLOGY PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW; PRAISE HIM ALL CREATURES HERE BELOW; PRAISE HIM ABOVE YE HEAVENLY HOST; PRAISE FATHER, SON AND HOLY GHOST.

55. Go Tell It on the Mountain HYMN 258

56. Go tell it on the mountain, Over the hills and everywhere;
That Jesus Christ is born.

57. While shepherds kept their watching O’er silent flocks by night,
Verse 1
While shepherds kept their watching O’er silent flocks by night,
Behold, throughout the heavens
There shone a holy light

58. Go tell it on the mountain, Over the hills and everywhere;
That Jesus Christ is born.

59. The shepherds feared and trembled When lo! Above the earth
Verse 2
The shepherds feared and trembled
When lo! Above the earth
Rang out the angel chorus
That hailed our Savior’s birth.

60. Go tell it on the mountain, Over the hills and everywhere;
That Jesus Christ is born.

61. Our humble Christ was born, And God sent us salvation
Verse3
Down in a lowly manger
Our humble Christ was born,
And God sent us salvation
That blessed Christmas morn.

62. Go tell it on the mountain, Over the hills and everywhere;
That Jesus Christ is born.

64. THE PASTORAL BENEDICTION
Go forth from this place
as God’s elect and covenant people . . .
AMEN

65. Coffee with the Pastor WILL RESUME JANUARY 10TH Wednesdays 9:30 am refreshments 10:00 am discussion

66. CONSISTORY MEETING JANUARY 9th 7:00 PM

67. CHOIR REHEARSAL THURSDAYS @ 5:00 in the choir room