Within the Shining of a Star –
A Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
Sunday, December 24, 2023, 7:00 pm
Online on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/738363620
Passcode: BUF
Zoom by phone, for audio only: (346) 248-7799
Meeting ID: 738 363 620
Passcode: 306220
Gathering Music # 224, Let Christmas Come
#225, O Come, O Come Emmanuel
#235, Deck The Hall
#246, O Little Town of Bethlehem
#254, Sing We Now of Christmas
Welcome Revs. Barbara W. ten Hove & Paul Beckel
Prelude Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
Kevin Allen-Schmid & Andrea Rackl, piano duet
Call to Worship Words by David Rhys Williams
Carol # 253, O Come, All Ye Faithful
Lighting of the Flaming Chalice
Choral Anthem In This Very Room
The Christmas Story from Matthew
Carol # 259, We Three Kings
Offering for Interfaith Council
Offertory What Child is This Arr. R.Vaughan Williams
Reading The Camels Speak Lynn Ungar
Carol # 243, Jesus, Our Brother
Reading The Queens Came Late Norma Farber
Carol # 238, Within the Shining of a Star
Homily Within the Shining of a Star Rev. Barbara ten Hove
Carol # 241, In the Bleak Midwinter
Candle Lighting Ceremony
Silent Night
Closing Words by Howard Thurman
Afterward
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