Welcome to Worship and Celebration! Welcome to La Grange First Church on this Third Sunday of Advent. In this holy season, we remember that God keeps His promises. Let us rejoice in the covenant of God’s love. ______Opportunities for Service and Growth

Sun. Dec. 14 Third Sunday in Advent 9:15am Partners in Prayer 9:45am Sunday School 11:00am Worship & Celebration 3:00pm Children’s Play Practice 3:45pm Choir Rehearsal – Fellowship Hall 7:00pm Journey to Bethlehem / Dinner Theater Mon. Dec. 15 7:00pm Journey to Bethlehem / Dinner Theater Wed. Dec. 17 6:30am Teen Breakfast @ Kens 6:00pm Christmas Caroling Sun. Dec. 21 Fourth Sunday in Advent 9:15am Partners in Prayer 9:45am Sunday School 11:00am Worship & Celebration Children’s Christmas Program NO Evening Worship Wed. Dec. 24 10:00am Christmas Eve Worship Thu. Dec. 25 Christmas Day! Sun. Dec. 28 First Sunday after Christmas 9:15am Partners in Prayer 9:45am Sunday School 11:00am Worship & Celebration 6:00pm NO Evening Worship Wed. Dec. 31 NO Bible Study Sat. Jan. 3 6:30pm The CRIB (Grades 6 and up) 7:20pm The CRIB Worship Sun. Jan. 4 Celebration of the Epiphany 9:15am Partners in Prayer 9:45am Sunday School 802 South Caswell Street 11:00am Worship & Celebration La Grange, North Carolina 28551 4:50pm Choir Rehearsal www.lagrangefwb.org 6:00pm Sunday Night Live (All Ages) Ronnie V. Hobgood, Pastor Mon. Jan. 5 6:30pm Wilson/Creech Circle Joshua T. Hobgood, Youth Pastor 7:15pm Sunday Night Live Band Practice Wed. Jan. 7 7:00pm Bible Study Sat. Jan. 10 6:30pm The CRIB (Grades 6 and up) 7:20pm The CRIB Worship Average weekly donations received year to date...... $1,571.90 WE WISH YOU A HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Announcements 12- 3 Irene Wilson 12- 4 Jacob Maready Christmas Caroling 12- 8 Chris Roddy 12- 9 Mark Westbrook We will leave at 6pm to go Christmas caroling. After caroling we plan to stop 12-13 Angie Herring 12-13 Carrie Letchworth for pizza. Please join us! 12-16 Bryce Harrison 12-18 Mitzi Hobgood 12-19 Dean Johnson 12-19 Brody Soles Children’s Christmas Program 12-20 Christine Parrish 12-21 William Sutton The Children’s Christmas Program will be Sunday, December 21st @ 11:00am. 12-24 Tracey Roddy 12-26 David Letchworth Christmas Eve Worship 12-27 Shannan Harrison 12-27 Vickie Singleton The Christmas Eve Worship service will be on December 24th @ 10:00am. We 12-29 Aiden Wade 12-31 Brandon Harrison hope everyone will plan to attend as we celebrate the birth of our Savor, Jesus ______Christ! CHURCH WORKERS FOR DECEMBER Sanctuary Flowers The 2015 Sanctuary Flower calendar is on the church bulletin board. Please be Deacon of the Month: Jimmy D. Herring sure to sign up for the Sunday you desire to place flowers in the Sanctuary. Ushers for Worship Head Usher – Jimmy D. Herring New Time for Bible Study 14- Colburn Bigler, Jamie Ham, Brad Taylor, Wilbur Taylor Beginning Wednesday, January 4th we will begin Wednesday night Bible Study 21- Allen Sutton, James Sutton, Jimmy D. Herring, Royce Holmes at 7:00pm. We will continue our Bible study on “Jesus and The Twelve.” Our 28- C. J. Foster, Chuck Roman, Vernon Sorrell, Jeff Thomas, focus on January 4th will be the “Apostle James, Son of Zebedee.” Come learn from the example of these disciples of Jesus. Greeters for Worship North Vestibule South Vestibule Gathering Hall 2015 Bible Reading 14- Ushers Sue Shivar Jamie & Laura Beth Daughety Everyone is encouraged to read their Bible on a daily basis. On the Usher’s 21- Ushers Irene Wilson Robie & Eloise Killette Tables you will find a Bible reading guide for January 2015. Following this 28- Ushers Ted Harrison James and Jennifer Sutton plan, based on “Our Daily Bread” you can read through the Bible in a year. If you cannot follow the yearly plan, we hope everyone will read through the New Candlelighters Testament following this plan. 7- Janie Beth Harrison 14- Dallas Mayberry 21- McKinnon Wade 28- Bodie Taylor ______Children’s Church (ages 3-3 rd grade) 7- Kim Hipkiss & Tanya Craft 14- Asa & Tiffany Creech Financially Speaking 21- Children’s Play 28- Ted & Sheila Harrison Operating Account (As of November 2014) Infant Nursery (Birth – age 1 ) / Toddlers Nursery (Ages 1-2) Year to date Budget...... $ 181,352.38 14- Helen Harrison, Kendra Sullivan, & Judy Parrott Year to date Expense...... $ 184,306.48 21- Lucretia Creech, Laura Eason, & Sybil Killette Year to date Income...... $ 192,437.43 28- Mary Gresham, Ruth Scott, & Shirley Sorrell ______Average weekly needed to cover proposed budget...... $4,037.54 Average weekly donations received year to date...... $4,373.57 In the WORD Memory Verse for 2014 - Ephesians 3:20-21 NKJV Building Fund (As of November 2014) Book of the Month for December - Luke Year to date Budget...... $ 58,773.44 ______Year to date Expense...... $ 56,293.44 Year to date Income...... $ 73,879.65 Attendance for December, 2013 Average weekly needed to cover proposed budget...... $1,235.32 Sunday School...... 88 Worship & Celebration...... 158 Kendrick & Helen Harrison in Memory of Hannah Beth Roddy Lucille Harrison in Memory of Faye Sutton

Cleo Hinson in Honor of Donnie & Lucille Harrison

NC & Virginia Holmes in Memory of Hannah Beth Roddy

NC & Virginia Holmes in Honor of Chris, Tracey & Cooper Roddy

Christmas Poinsettias Wayne Carlyle, Elsie & Royce Holmes In Memory of Margaret Vail Wayne Carlyle in Memory of Christie Carlyle Edna & Dean Johnson in Darlene & Pat Creech Memory of Flossie Johnson and Andrew & Louise Shepard In Memory of Kenneth Creech, James & Lottie Morris Bethany & Jimmy Jones in Honor of our Families and Bonnie Dail in Honor of Sybil and Robie Killette In Memory of Margaret Vail

Carter & Emily Daniels in Honor of Griffin Daniels Marian Kennedy in Memory of Louie & Teeny Kennedy

Jamie & Laura Beth Daughety in Honor of our Parents Sybil & Robie Killette in Memory of Margaret Sutton and Joel Sutton

CJ & Delores Foster in Memory of Carl Foster, Sr. Joyce Martin in Memory of Leroy Martin

Jeff, Pam, Hunter & Payne Thomas in Memory of Shawn Thomas Jerry and Avery Mills in honor of Annie Ruth and Harold Herring

Jeff, Pam, Hunter & Payne Thomas in Memory of Vance Murphy Ellie and Adam Mills in honor of Ted and Sheila Harrison

Jeff, Pam, Hunter & Payne Thomas in Memory of Muriel Murphy Donald and Christine Parrish in memory of Sally Parrish

Fran Gibbons in Memory of Terry Gibbons Preschool Sunday School Class in memory of Hannah Beth Roddy

Ben Wade & Mary Gresham in Memory of Gwen Wade Chris, Tracey, and Cooper Roddy in honor of our church family

Bed Wade & Mary Gresham Sally Scott in memory of Leland Scott, Jr. In Memory of Mark & Cora Pelletier and Joe & Sally Wade Mr. & Mrs. Leland Scott, Sr. and Mr. & Mrs. J. P. Wade

Jamie & Heather Ham in Memory of Evelyn Carlyle Vernon and Shirley Sorrell in honor of Great-grandson Colton’s 1st Christmas Cliff & Carol Hardison in Memory of Marjorie Fisher Jake Suggs in memory of Mr. & Mrs. Harry Suggs Cliff & Carol Hardison in Memory of Florence Hardison Carrol Suddreth in memory of Judy Parrish Ward Cliff & Carol Hardison in Memory of Roy Hardison Mike, Kendra, Grayson, Logan Sullivan Cliff & Carol Hardison in Memory of Vivian Phillips In memory of our sweet Hannah Beth Roddy Hilda Sutton in honor of Kathryn Hart (As of December 12, 2014) And in memory of Marvin, Ruby, and Clifton Gray 802 South Caswell Street • La Grange, N. C. 28551 Ronnie V. Hobgood, Pastor Josh Hobgood, Youth Pastor

______Worship & Prayer Ministry PRAISE… Praise the Lord for the great and mighty things He has done. SICK… Celebration Tommy Allen (Brother-in-law of Irene Wilson), Rex and Jeannie Bannister (Parents of Bruce Bannister), Joyce Cherry , Steve Corbett, Estelle Creech (Mother of Pat Creech), Lou Criscola (Friend of Ray Kennedy), Laura Beth Daughety, Kari Elwart (Darlene Creech), ______Cindy Ervin (Friend of Hailey Bigler),Ethan Gallagher (Sue Shivar), Jill Gurley (Friend of Lucretia Creech), Grace Dawson Hardy (Shirley Sorrell), Helen Harrison, Kendrick Harrison, Sr., Martha Harrison, Mary Margaret Harrison, Angie Herring, James Herring (Grandfather of Braxton Holland), Marjorie Hines, Dalton Hinson, Pat Hinson, N. C. Holmes, Virginia Holmes, Carol Jones (David Letchworth), Lester Jarman (Harrison Family), Christian Jones (David Letchworth), Robie Killette, Ronnie King (Sandra Rouse), Karen Kozel (Sandra Rouse & Gale Yarobrough), Barbara Lambert (Friend of Bethany Jones), Dickie December 14, 2014 Lane, Janet Langston (Vicki Bannister), Tiffany Langston (Zack & Alex Liles), Bob and Nancy Lee (Brother-in-law of Vickie Singleton), Fay Letchworth, Cindy Lewis (Mary Eleven O’clock Gresham), Jayden Manning, Linda Manning, Roger Mewborn, Cherish Naylor (Pam ______Thomas), David Nipple (Wade Family), Drew Owens (Darlene Creech), Jack Rouse (Brad & Angela Taylor), Glennie Rumschlag (Herring family), Riley Sasser, Christy Smith, Jean Suber, Gene Taylor, Danny Tucker (Ted & Sheila Harrison), Wade Tucker (Dalton & Frances Hinson), Gerale Turner (Sue Shivar), Crystal Wackerman, Cindy Wackerman (Step-mother of Chuck Wackerman, Christopher Whiting (Ray Kennedy), and Veronica Wooten (Jennifer Sutton). Third Sunday of Advent SYMPATHY… To Laura Eason in the loss of her Mother, Sherry Whitehead. HOMEBOUND… Joyce Edwards, Nan Fields, Rev. J. B. Narron (Hobgood Family), Stan Rouse (Husband of PREPARATION FOR WORSHIP Sandra Rouse), Enzie Singleton. Prelude Organist CHURCH AND DENOMINATIONAL… Welcome and Announcements Pastor First Church, Pastor, Youth Pastor, Deacons, Sunday School Leaders/Teachers, College Quiet Reflection with God People Students, Convention of Original FWB, Denominational Ministries, Convention Lighting of the Candles Acolyte President, Rev. Al Warrick, Convention Vice-President Ronnie V. Hobgood, Rev. Chris Singleton (Interim Minister @ Friendship Church), the Lost, and all Christians. SPECIAL CONCERNS… CALL TO WORSHIP Our military & their families, Josh & Holly Ballance [Korea (Son-in-law of Hilda O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, and be light for our darkness. Sutton)], Alex Ferrell (nephew of Bethany Jones-service), Adam Harrison (Service - Be comfort in our grief, a guide for our path. Jordan), Mike Hammond, Josh Ormond [Service / Texas (Son of C. J. & Dee Foster)], Sons Be a friend for our loneliness, an oasis for our searching. Family (Service – Ray Kennedy), Revival in the church. O come, O come, Emmanuel, restore our joy, heal our CIVIC LEADERS… US: President Obama, Vice-President Biden, Cabinet, Congress, and the Supreme Court. wounds and bring us peace. NC: Governor McCrory, NC Senators and NC Representatives. La Grange/Lenoir County: Mayor Gurley, Town Commissioners, County INVOCATION Youth Pastor Commissioners, County & Private Schools, and Lenoir Community College. CHRISTMAS CAROLS “Angels We Have Heard on High” TIME OF PRAYER Angels we have heard on high, Sweetly singing over the plains, Sharing our prayer concerns People And the mountains in reply Echoing their joyous strains Morning Prayer (Chorus) Glory on high Glory on high Sing glory on high SCRIPTURE LESSON Pastor Shepherds why this jubilee? Why your joyous strains prolong? Luke 1:26-55 What the gladsome tidings be Which inspire your heavenly Leader: This is the Word of the Lord. song? People: Thanks be to God. th (Chorus) Glory on high Glory on high Sing glory on high (Children age 3 – 5 grade are dismissed to Children’s Church) (Ending) Gloria in excelsis deo Gloria in excelsis deo. WORSHIP CHORUS “Jesus, Name Above All Names” (sing twice)...... Number 112 “Joy to the World” MESSAGE FROM GOD’S WORD Pastor Joy to the world, the Lord is come; Let Earth receive her King; Let "Christmas Joy" Luke 1:46-56 every heart prepare Him room, And Heaven and nature sing, And Heaven and nature sing, And Heaven, and Heaven and nature sing. TIME OF INVITATION AND COMMITMENT Joy to the world, the Savior reigns; Let all their songs employ; “O come, O come, Emmanuel” While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains Repeat the O come, O come, Emmanuel, and ransom captive Israel, That sounding joy, Repeat the sounding joy, Repeat, repeat the sounding mourns in lonely exile here, until the Son of God appear. joy. (Chorus) Rejoice! Rejoice! (Chorus) Joy, unspeakable joy An overflowing well Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel! No tongue can tell Joy, unspeakable joy O come, Thou Dayspring, come and cheer Our spirits by Thine Rises in my soul Never lets me go advent here; Disperse the gloomy clouds of night, And death’s dark He rules the world with truth and grace, And makes the nations shadows put to flight. prove, The glories of His righteousness, And wonders of His love, (Chorus) Rejoice! Rejoice! And wonders of His love, And wonders, wonders of His love. Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel! (Chorus) Joy, unspeakable joy An overflowing well O come, Desire of nations, bind In one the hearts of all mankind; No tongue can tell Joy, unspeakable joy Bid Thou our sad divisions cease, And be Thyself our King of Rises in my soul Never lets me go Peace. (A time of Fellowship for the family of God.) (Chorus) Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel! LIGHTING OF THE ADVENT CANDLE Joy for the Taking Eric and Vicki Lemmond (Chorus-Alternate) Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel has come! Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel has come! TIME WITH THE CHILDREN Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel has come! He has come! He has come! OFFERTORY Offertory Prayer Laity O come, O come, Emmanuel, and ransom captive Israel, That Giving His Tithes and Our Offerings People mourns in lonely exile here, until the Son of God appear. (Chorus-Soft) Rejoice! Rejoice! SCRIPTURE LESSON Jamie Ham Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel! Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 and John 1:14-18 Leader: This is the Word of the Lord. ALTAR PRAYER AND BENEDICTION Pastor People: Thanks be to God. POSTLUDE` Musicians Christ-First • Bible-First • Ministry-First Rejoice in the Lord Christ is First at La Grange First Church. Always! Everything we do grows out of our shared commitment to Jesus Christ as Lord. Bible is First at La Grange First Church. We believe the Bible was inspired by the Holy Spirit and is God’s revealed word to man.

Ministry is First at La Grange First Church. Our calling is to nurture and serve the people of God. 802 South Caswell Street La Grange, North Carolina 28551

Ronnie V. Hobgood, Pastor Joshua T. Hobgood, Youth Pastor

802 South Caswell Street La Grange, North Carolina 28551 www.lagrangefwb.org

Ronnie V. Hobgood, Pastor Joshua T. Hobgood, Youth Pastor

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