Good morning, and welcome to church. A warm welcome to all visitors. We hope you enjoy your time with us. Please take our good wishes back to your own congregation on your return home.
Today we have our All-age nativity.
As we enter Church on Sunday mornings Margaret Auld is there to record names of anyone who ill or in hospital. This system only works if Margaret is given this information – don’t assume that ‘The Minister is bound to know’. Recently the Minister was unaware of people who had been in Crosshouse Hospital. Due to Privacy Laws, this information is not available from hospitals as it once was, and so we use the system outlined above. If we don’t give names to Margaret, you can imagine the embarrassment and poor image of the Church – why is the Minister not visiting? After all, this is a crucial part of the Church’s work.
We will be singing Christmas Carols in the PHT at 3pm Sunday 18th December, and Marsha Bain will be singing solos, and we are all promised mince pies! Please come along and boost the carol singing.
Arran Baptist Church invite you to ‘Carols for Christmas’ with Arran Brass on 21st December in Brodick Hall at 7pm. Refreshments to follow.
Music Matters is at 2pm on Thursday 29th December in the church hall. All volunteers who agreed to do so, are asked to be there at 1pm please to help set up. David & Samantha Payn will be helping to celebrate the end of our first wonderful year,
There will be a Watchnight Service at 10pm on Christmas Eve, with a collection for the work of the Salvation Army, and on Christmas Morning there will be a short Service of Celebration at 11.30am.We hope there will be some children there and all who come are invited to bring one of their Christmas gifts to be opened.
We are looking for volunteers to be on door duty at these services
Lily and Graeme thank you all for the lovely cards and good wishes you have sent, and we wish you all a joyful Christmas and a peaceful New Year.
Today’s Hymns:
306 O come, all ye faithful
315 Once in Royal David’s city
304 O little town of Bethlehem
310 See Him lying in a bed of straw
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321 Come and join the celebration!
We three kings of Orient are;
Bearing gifts we traverse afar,
Field and fountain, moor and mountain,
Following yonder star.
O star of wonder, star of light,
Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect light.
Born a King on Bethlehem’s plain
Gold I bring to crown Him again,
King forever, ceasing never,
Over us all to reign.
O star of wonde…,
Frankincense to offer have I;
Incense owns a Deity nigh;
Prayer and praising, voices raising,
Worshipping God on high.
O star of wonder…
Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume
Breathes a life of gathering gloom;
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying,
Sealed in the stone cold tomb.
O star of wonder…
Glorious now behold Him arise;
King and God and sacrifice;
Alleluia, Alleluia,
Sounds through the earth and skies.
O star of wonder…
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