HBC will ring in Christmas with a Family Candlelight Communion Service Friday, Dec. 24 at 7 PM.  Read on for the order of service.  Merry Christmas!

Heritage Baptist Church 

December 24, 2010

Candlelight Communion Service

Prelude            “Carols of Christmas” 

Pastoral Greeting                                                       Rev. Henry Green

Invocation                                                                             Bill Darnell                                                      

Lighting of the Christ Candle – Rob and Linda Garverick

            Isaiah 59:15b-21

            This is the Word of the Lord

            Thanks be to God

Carol 110        “Away in a Manger”

Reading 101   “A Child Is Born for Us”                          Barbara Smith

Carol 114        “Gentle Mary Laid Her Child”

Reading 130    “Jesus, the Light of the World”                 Congregation

 Carol 107        “O Little Town of Bethlehem”

 Pastoral Prayer

The Lord’s Prayer

We Bring Our Gifts This Christmas

Piano Solo      “Angels We Have Heard on High”       Jane Willingham                                                        

Reading 141    “The Word Became Flesh”                  Catherine Taylor

Carol 127        “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”

Reading 135    “God’s Peaceable Kingdom”       

 Carol 112        “Child in the Manger”

 Scripture Reading       Luke 2:1-20                                    Amanda Hurt

            This is the Word of the Lord

            Thanks be to God

Carol 124        “The First Nowell”

The Lord’s Supper

Vocal Solo      “O Holy Night”                                         Natalie Green

A Christmas Meditation                                                         Rev. Green

A Prayer for Christ’s Light in Our Hearts

Receiving the Light

Sharing the Light     Exit Singing Carol 134

            “Silent Night, Holy Night”

         (See back of program for Words)

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 To make our experience as safe as possible, we receive light for our candles by holding the unlit candle horizontal to receive the light from the vertical lit candle.  Please pass the flame carefully and keep it a safe distance from anything flammable.  Children may have candles at parent’s discretion.

Patricia, Amy, Clyde, Clair, Edie, Sally, Helen, Ellen, Ruth Anne, Eleanor, Charles, Everett, Ralph and Henry join in wishing you a truly blessed Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year.