Upcoming News + Events at Plantation UMC United Methodist Women Holiday Luncheon Family Christmas Service Today! Sunday, December 1, 2019, at 12:30pm, Fellowship Hall Tuesday, December 24th at 5:00pm in the Sanctuary Join United Methodist Women in fellowship as we joyfully celebrate the Christmas This fun, interactive service is specially designed for children and their Season! Ham and Turkey will be provided. Please bring a side dish or a dessert to families! All children who attend will be a part of our “Brown Bag share. All women are invited. Christmas Pageant”. This is a service led by children for children. At the South Florida Caribbean Chorale end of the service, we will “light” battery-powered tea lights to celebrate the Today! December 1st, at 6:00pm birth of . Join Steve Higgins and the South Florida Caribbean Chorale as we kick off the season with a joy-filled musical celebration! Free admission. Love offering Contemporary Candlelight Service to be collected to support the ministries and missions of our church. Tuesday, December 24th at 7:30pm in the Sanctuary Chair Yoga Class This candlelight service features modern, unique arrangements of beloved December 7th, at 9:00am, Fellowship Hall Christmas carols, sung in a warm, welcoming, homey atmosphere. Enjoy We will flow through a sequence of postures and breathing exercises that increases the talents of our house band Heaven’s Sake as you hear the Christmas story flexibility, stamina, and balance – the sequences can be described as a meditation in anew and worship the newborn King! motion, and a form of bodily prayer. You will leave the class relaxed and centered. Traditional Candlelight & Communion Service Join us and be ready to have a good time! You are also invited to stay for a Christian Meditation class which will begin at 10:30am. Please contact Dennis Royer with any Tuesday, December 24th at 10:00pm in the Sanctuary questions at [email protected] or at 954-802-6762. Join us for a beautiful Service of Lessons and Carols. We will use scripture and music to re-tell the story of Christmas, featuring our Chancel Choir. Breaking Bread With Friends Ornament Exchange Saturday, December 7th, 6:30pm We’ll also share in Holy Communion and Candlelight. Experience again Mark your calendars! Our annual Potluck will once again be at Kay Reinert’s home. the joy and hope of Christmas! Please bring a dish to share and an ornament (under $5.00) for the exchange. New Year’s Eve Watchnight Service Looking forward to a lot of fun! Please RSVP to Kay Reinert: [email protected]. Tuesday, December 31st from 11:00pm - Midnight Christmas Concert The history of this service goes back to the founder of the movement that Sunday, December 8th at 4:00pm became the , , who began Watch Join our Music Ministries for a free Christmas Concert: “The Song Heard ‘Round the Night Services in the 1740’s. Join us for this powerful service! As we say World.” The first half will feature our brand new Christmas cantata with orchestra. goodbye to 2019 and greet 2020, together we will celebrate, remember, The second half will feature light-hearted, joy-filled holiday music. Join the Chancel and re-commit to living a joy-filled life with God! Choir, Youth Choir, Resonate!, Resonate Jr. and Heaven’s Sake Band for an uplifting afternoon. Love offering will be collected. Nursery available. 2020 Calendar Requests December 1, 2019 Children’s Nativity & Petting Zoo To schedule a room reservation, event, or class, please fill out a Saturday, December 14th at 4:00 - 7:00pm request form online at plantationumc.org/reservations. If you prefer to Join us for our annual Children’s Nativity on the front lawn of the church. The call the Church office, contact Julie at 954-584-7500 during regular children dress as the nativity characters while we hear the Christmas story and sing business hours, Monday through Friday from 9:30am - 2:30pm. carols. Parents, if your child would like to have a part in the Nativity, please contact This applies to all ministries each new year! Thank you! Pastor Kathy at [email protected] by December 9th. Traditional Service Children’s Ministry Wish List: Board Games Flower Dedications The Children’s Ministry is seeking gently used board games for elementary-aged 8:00 & 11:00am children, ages 4-12. Suggestions include Sorry, Trouble, Monopoly Jr, Battleship, The Altar Flowers are Dedicated to the Glory of God: Guess Who, and Uno to name a few. These games will be used by our older kids In honor of the birthday of Beverly’s mother, Fredi Brown. during childcare times. Please bring all board games to the office. —Beverly & David Nash Article Submission - The Living Spirit Deadline December 10th Prayers + Concerns Our next edition of the Living Spirit will cover the first quarter months, January through March. If you would like to participate, please email submissions to Ecumenical Prayer Calendar: [email protected] by the deadline date. If you would like a digital version, Myanmar, Thailand please indicate in your email. Continued Prayers for the following Member: Youth Ugly Christmas Sweater Party & White Elephant Gift Exchange Christian Sympathies are extended to the Smith family, on the passing Sunday, December 22nd from 5:00-730pm of Robert Stewart on November 26th. Services TBD. Annual exchange. Wear a Christmas Sweater, preferably an Ugly Christian Sympathies are extended to the Brady family, on the passing one! All Middle and High school student welcome. Everyone will go home of Lovell Brady on November 24th. Services TBD. with a gift! We will have raffles and prizes for best and worst gift & best and worst sweater! Christian Sympathies are extended to Lorna McKenzie & her family, on the passing of her mother, Icelyn Brown. Services TBD. Born thy people to deliver, MESSAGE • How Mary Found Her Joy Marta Burke born a child and yet a King, born to reign in us forever, THE GREAT THANKSGIVING • On Screens now thy gracious kingdom bring. By thine own eternal spirit SHARING THE BREAD AND THE CUP rule in all our hearts alone; (11:00) Server: Elizabeth Moxley by thine all sufficient merit, All people are invited to the Communion table, regardless of church raise us to thy glorious throne. membership, denominational background, personal history, or age. Children are welcome! A gluten-free bread alternative is available — CHILDREN’S MOMENT (11:00) Kathy Nolasco, Associate Pastor just ask as you are being served.

GREETING & CONNECTING Kathy Nolasco COMMUNION HYMNS Today's Worship O Come, O Come, Emmanuel • Hymnal No. 211 (v. 1-4) CONNECTING CARDS Lay Reader (8:00) Samuel Hussey Away in a Manger • Hymnal No. 217 WELCOME Marta Burke, Senior Pastor It Came upon the Midnight Clear • Hymnal No. 218 PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE Marta Burke What Child Is This • Hymnal No. 219 ANNOUNCEMENTS THE LORD’S PRAYER PRAYER AFTER RECEIVING PRELUDE Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom (8:00) A Juden Hillside • Arr. Wilson Sheryl Shafer come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day HYMN• Lo, How a Rose E’er Blloming • Hymnal #216 (11:00) December Prayer • Arr. MacHuff Ladies Ensemble our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming from tender stem hath sprung! who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver Of Jesse’s lineage coming, as those of old have sung. LIGHTING • Hope Candle Stephen Ministry us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, It came, a floweret bright, amid the cold of winter, forever. Amen. when half spent was the night. Leader: Come, Lord Jesus! Isaiah ‘twas foretold it, the Rose I have in mind; People: Today we begin the journey of Advent. Let us pray that we may be OFFERING Lay Reader with Mary we behold it, the Virgin Mother kind. ready and able to welcome the Christ child into our lives again. To show God’s love aright, she bore to us a Savior, Leader: May the keeping of Advent be upon our hearts and lives. OFFERTORY when half spent was the night. People: Come, Lord Jesus! (8:00) December Prayer • Arr. MacHuff Ladies Ensemble (11:00) Will We Know Him • by Besig Chancel Choir O Flower, whose fragrance tender with sweetness fills the air, Leader: May this constantly remind us to prepare for Christ’s dispel in glorious splendor the darkness everywhere. coming. DOXOLOGY • Hymnal No. 95 True man yet very God, from sin and death now save us, and share our every load. People: Come, Lord Jesus! Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures St 3 ©1940, 1943, renewed 1971 The Church Pension Fund; CCLI#954650 Leader: The first candle is the candle of HOPE. It was hope that gave people here below; praise him above, ye heavenly host; praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen. the courage to go on, and it was hope that directed their prayers toward a BENEDICTION Marta Burke Messiah. “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.” OFFERING PRAYER Kathy Nolasco [Lighting of the Hope Candle] POSTLUDE • Recessional on ‘In Dulci Jubilo’ • Young Sheryl Shafer People: Jesus said, “I am the light of the world. May our light so shine before SCRIPTURE • Luke 1:39-42, 46-50 (NRSV) Lay Reader others that they will give glory to our Father in heaven! Amen. In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. HYMN OF PRAISE • Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus • Hymnal #196 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Check us out online! Come, thou long expected Jesus, Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud cry, weloveplantation.org born to set thy people free; “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. facebook.com/plantationumc from our fears and sins release us, And Mary said,“My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God let us find our rest in thee. my Savior, for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant Israel’s strength and consolation, Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed; for the Mighty One hope of all the earth thou art; has done great things for me, and holy is his name. His mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation. dear desire of every nation, * Our worship services are streamed live on our facebook page, for those who are joy of every longing heart. Leader: The word of God for the people of God. unable to attend our services. Please make yourself comfortable in the pews All: Thanks be to God! closer to the back if you wish not to be on video. Thank you!