BETHEL COLLEGE MENNONITE CHURCH
December 1, 2024
First Sunday of Advent 
 
Prelude Music—What Child Is This [VT 267]; Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming [VT 216]
In Lonely Mountain Ways [VT589]; Hark, I Hear The Harps Eternal (arr. Alice Parker)    
Open Road
 
Advent Candle Lighting— Dale & Margo Schrag; Mara & Adam Oswald
 
Scripture Reading—Isaiah 40:27-31
 
Litany:
Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Holy One is the everlasting God,
Creator of heaven and earth.
 
God’s energy flows through the world
even when we are bone-tired.
God’s power gives strength
to the vulnerable and weak.
 
Do you not know? Have you not heard?
When we wait on the Holy One,
God will renew our strength.
We shall run! We shall fly!
We shall walk boldly together
toward the promises of God.
 
Lighting the candle of Hope
 
Land Acknowledgement, Welcome & Prayer—Adam Robb
 
*Hymn—Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus—VT 218
 
Children’s Conversation—Jill Robb
 
Worship Music— Nearer, My God, To Thee (arr. James L. Stevens)—
Open Road
 
Scripture Reading—Genesis 38:1-27—Esther Kreider Eash, Raylene Hinz Penner, Brad Kohlman, Kevin Neufeld
  
*Hymn—There is a Line of Women—VT 546
 
Sermon—Tamar: Advent Waiting—Joanna Harader
 
*Hymn—Poor of the Earth—VT 213
 
Communion—Nathan Koontz, Joanna Harader
 
Prayers of God’s People—Adam Robb
 
*Hymn—My Soul Proclaims with Wonder—VT 222
 
*Benediction
 
Postlude— O Come, O Come Emmanuel  (Held)—Verlene Garber

* You are invited to stand
VT—Voices Together
Keyboard- Verlene Garber
Audio visual—Francis Toews