Pastor Ted Bootsma
WE GATHER TO WORSHIP OUR GOD
Prelude
Welcome
Call to Worship and Lighting of Advent Candles
Opening Prayer
God’s Greeting and Greeting One Another
Gathering Song: Come Thou Long Expected Jesus
OUR NEW LIFE IN CHRIST
Confession of Sins and Promise of Forgiveness
*Song of Response: King of Heaven
PRAYERS AND OFFERINGS
Announcements and Sunday School Kids Dismissed
Prayer for the offerings
Offerings – He Knows My Name
Prayers of the People and Prayer for Illumination
WE HEAR GOD’S WORD
Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 32:1–15
Message: God is Like a Gardener
Song of Response: For the Beauty of the Earth
WE GO OUT TO SERVE
Testimony of Faith Our World Belongs to God #23
Remembering the promise to reconcile the world to himself,
God joined our humanity in Jesus Christ— the eternal Word made flesh.
He is the long-awaited Messiah, one with us and one with God, fully human and fully divine,
conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.
Sending Song: While We Are Waiting Come
God’s Blessing to His People
Postlude