December 24 Online Worship  - Christmas Eve
Channel: Peace United Church of Christ
Date: 23/12/2020

Peace UCC wishes you a very Merry Christmas and is praying for you to have a joyous new year!!

The bulletin for this service is available here:
https://peaceunitedchurch.org/wp-content/uploads/ONLINE-Worship-Resources-12-24-20.pdf

If you know of a member who does not have access to the internet, we invite you to give them a call and worship together and share the service with them over the phone.

We will meet again online in worship next week!
Our church office is always available to serve you, reach us at (717) 484-4400 or online at
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Credits:
Order for Lighting Advent Candles: “Christmas: Good News”
“Celebrating Advent in the Congregational Service of Worship”
Advent: A Congregational Life / Intergenerational Experience
© 1997 1997 United Church Press. Used by permission. Source: UCC Book of Worship, 1989

Joy to the World
Words: Isaac Watts, 1719.
Music: ’Antioch’ pieced together from “Messiah” George F. Handel, 1741.
Setting: Lowell Mason, 1836.
Copyright: Public Domain.
This score is a part of the Open Hymnal Project, 2005 Revision.

Credits for Poems
“A Moment of Nativity” – Virginia Kimball
“Joseph’s Song” – Michael Card
“I Was Just A Little Star” – Amy Lane
“A Song Was Heard At Christmas” – Timothy Dudley Smith
“The Shepherds – a narrative” – Pieter Stok
“We Wise-men Three” – Fr. Thomas Flynn, LC
Full copyright disclosures for these works are kept on file at the church office. Please direct inquiries to copyright@peaceunitedchurch.org

O Little Town of Bethlehem
Words: Phillips Brooks, 1867.
Music: ’St. Louis’ Lewis H. Redner, 1868.
Setting: “The Chapel Hymnal”, 1898.
Copyright: Public Domain.
This score is a part of the Open Hymnal Project, 2005 Revision.

It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
Words: Edmund H. Sears, 1849.
Music: ’Carol’ Richard S. Willis, 1861.
Setting: “Order of worship for the Reformed Church in the United States”, 1866.
Copyright: Public Domain.
This score is a part of the Open Hymnal Project, 2005 Revision.

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Words: Charles Wesley, 1739, alt.
Music: ’Mendelssohn’ from ’Festgesang’ Felix Mendelssohn, 1840.
Setting: William H. Cummings, 1857.
Copyright: Public Domain.
This score is a part of the Open Hymnal Project, 2005 Revision.

O Come, All Ye Faithful
Words: John F. Wade, circa 1743. v.1-3, 6 Translated by Frederick Oakeley, 1841; v. 4, 5 Translated by William T. Brooke (1848-1917).
Music: ’Adeste Fideles’ or ’Portuguese Hymn’ John F. Wade, 1743.
Setting: “A Hymnal” (Episcopal), 1916.
Copyright: Public Domain.
This score is a part of the Open Hymnal Project, 2007 Revision.

Away In A Manger
Words: stanzas 1,2 anonymous published Philadelphia, 1885. stanza 3 John T. MacFarland (1851-1913).
Music: ’Mueller’ James R. Murray, 1887.
Setting: “Hymnal for American Youth”, 1919.
Copyright: Public Domain.
This score is a part of the Open Hymnal Project, 2006 Revision.

The First Noel
Words: Traditional English carol, possibly dating from as early as the 13th Century.
Music: ’The First Noel’ Traditional English carol, possibly dating from as early as the 13th Century.
Setting: “The Methodist Sunday School Hymnal”, 1911.
Copyright: Public Domain.
This score is a part of the Open Hymnal Project, 2006 Revision.

Silent Night
Words: Josef Mohr, 1818. stanzas 1,3 Translated by John Freeman Young, 1863. stanzas 2,4 translator anonymous.
Music: ’Stille Nacht’ Franz Xaver Gruber, 1818.
Setting: “Concordia Kinderchöre”, 1908.
Copyright: Public Domain.
This score is a part of the Open Hymnal Project, 2005 Revision.

Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, Copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

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