Pastor John Veenstra
WE GATHER TO WORSHIP OUR GOD
Prelude
Welcome and Call to Worship (Adapted from Psalm 139:1-6,13-18)
God’s Greeting and Greeting One Another
Opening Song: For the Beauty of the Earth
OUR NEW LIFE IN CHRIST
Prayer of Confession and Assurance of Forgiveness
Song of Response: The Lord My Shepherd Rules My Life
PRAYERS AND OFFERINGS
Announcements
Offertory Prayer and Offering
Sunday School children are dismissed
Prayers of the People
WE HEAR GOD’S WORD
Scripture: Isaiah 7:1-17, Luke 1:26-38, 46-55
Sermon: Mother Mary, God’s Pioneer
Song of Response: Guide Me O My Great Redeemer
Testimony of Faith
Q. Why Did Christ command us to call God “our Father”
A. To awaken in us at the very beginning of our prayer what should be basic to our prayer
– a childlike reverence and trust that through Christ God has become our Father, and that just
as our parents do not refuse us the things of life, even less will God our Father refuse to give
us what we ask in faith.
Closing song: Go My Children with My Blessing
God’s Blessing to His People
Postlude