<p> CORONADO COMMUNITY CHURCH POST OFFICE BOX 181680, CORONADO, CALIFORNIA 92178 WWW.CORONADOCOMMUNITYCHURCH.COM (619) 437-6827</p><p>MINISTER: THE REV. STEPHEN J. MATHER (619) 437-8757</p><p>MINISTER EMERITUS: The Rev. Dr. Thomas P. Warmer Sunday, December 16, 2012 – 10:00 a.m. DIRECTOR OF MINISTRIES EMERITA: Marlys Simmons A Celebration of the Word ADMINISTRATOR: Candace Tyler CHRISTIAN LIFE: Sara Wood Third Sunday of Advent DIRECTOR OF MUSIC: Elizabeth Kimery “Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way…” -Matthew 1:18 PIANIST: Sharon Axelson TREASURER & FINANCIAL SECRETARY: Al Ovrom PRELUDE TO WORSHIP BOARD CHAIRPERSON: Don Hale “Passacaglia for Cello and Violin” Violin: Leonard Chen, Cello: David Mrdjenovich Child Care (age 3 & under) 9:45 - 11:00 AM Choir Rehearsals Thursdays 7:00 PM GREETINGS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, and FELLOWSHIP Church Copyright License 3078215 Exp 2/28/2013 Reviewing the Prayer Concerns Lighting of the Third Advent Candle by Val & Phil Papaccio</p><p>Continuing Prayers for Members of our Congregation: INTROIT “Carol of the Bells” Mykola Anita Bumgardner (Home Bound) Leontovich CCC Bell Choir Ruth Doherty (Assisted Living, La Mesa) Betsy Hendrickson (Return to Wisconsin with Illness) *CALL TO WORSHIP Susie Ovrom, (Recovery from Injury) One: Behold! God is good, and has set a star in the heavens to guide us to the Clark Shelby (Assisted Living) truth. Mary Sikes (Recovery from Surgery) All: Like the wise men, we follow it with joy, knowing God will give us Edie Walsh (Continuing Therapy) strength to climb the hills, and sight to conquer the darkness that Marty Williams (Home Bound) surrounds us. One: Behold! God is good, and has promised us a Savior to lead us on the path of Prayers for Family Members: life as God meant it to be lived. Carrie Allard (Carol Raiter’s Daughter) All: We await the Savior’s coming with gladness and expectation that in the Edie Flikkema (Jantina Perry’s Mother) holy birth our lives may be renewed. Gene Kimery (Elizabeth’s Husband) One: We wait with Mary for God’s promise to be fulfilled, though we do not Lee Mather (Pastor Steve’s Father) fully understand it. All: Let us join all people, rich and poor, to prepare a place in our lives for Prayers for Friends Christ to be born. Susan Mahler (Friend of Bill Autio ACTIVITIES CALENDAR *HYMN OF PRAISE Besancon Today – Sunday, December 16, 2012 “People, Look East” 10:00 a.m. Worship Celebration People, look east. The time is near of the crowning of the year. 11:05 a.m. Fellowship and Refreshments Make your house fair as you are able, trim the hearth and set the table. 11:20 a.m. After-church Lunch Bunch – Inquire at Entrance for location People, look east and sing today: Love, the guest, is on the way. Furrows, be glad. Though earth is bare, one more seed is planted there: Monday – December 17 Give up your strength the seed to nourish, that in course the flower may flourish. 4:30 p.m. Women’s Bible Study – Contact Laurie McCaull, 435-7019 People, look east and sing today: Love, the rose, is on the way. 4:30 p.m. Men’s Discussion Group- 765 Alameda Blvd. (Don Pope) Stars, keep the watch. When night is dim one more light the bowl shall brim, Being Wrong – Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz. Shining beyond the frosty weather, bright as sun and moon together. Chapter 2 People, look east and sing today: Love, the star, is on the way. Tuesday – December 18 Angels, announce with shouts of mirth Christ who brings new life to earth. Set every peak and valley humming with the word, the Lord is coming. 9:00 a.m. Conversation with Pastor Steve – Starbucks – 960 Orange Ave. People, look east and sing today: Love, the Lord, is on the way. Thursday – December 20 CALL TO CONFESSION 6:00 p.m. Bell Choir Rehearsal – Resurrection Lutheran Church The proof of God’s amazing love is this: when we and humanity were most th estranged from God, Christ was born, lived as a teacher, and died for us. Because we 5 Street and Orange Avenue have faith in him as the embodiment of God, we dare with confidence to approach 7:00 p.m. Choir Rehearsal (same location) God. Let us now ask God to forgive our aimless wandering that leaves us hungry for the true bread from heaven. Next Sunday, December 23, 2012 – Fourth Sunday of Advent *PRAYER OF CONFESSION – Congregation Scriptures: Micah 5:2-5a; Luke 1:39-49 O Lord God, in the light of your approaching goodness, we confess our Sermon: "Mary: 'Why Has This Happened to Me?'" slowness to see the good in our brothers and sisters. We confess our blindness to the suffering of others, and our slowness to be taught by our own suffering. We confess our failure to apply to ourselves the standards of conduct we December 24, 2012 Christmas Eve – The Nativity of Jesus Christ demand of others. We admit our complacency toward wrongs that do not touch 5:00 p.m. us and our over-sensitiveness to those that do. We confess our hardness of heart Scriptures: Titus 3:4-7; Luke 2:1-14 toward our neighbor’s faults and our readiness to make allowances for our own. Meditation: “Sitting Beside Joseph on Christmas Eve” Turn us around and surprise us by your perfect joy, soon to be announced in Children's Sermon by Dr. Tom Warmer - "Only the Ornament" the birth of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.</p><p>The Altar Flowers are Given Today With Deepest Thanks to Our Church Family for All Their Love. Susie and Al Ovrom SILENT MEDITATION AND THE LORD’S PRAYER Our custom is to join hands for the Lord’s Prayer. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day, our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the ANNOUNCEMENTS kingdom, and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.</p><p>Getting to Know One Another is much easier if you will register your name, WORDS OF ASSURANCE address and phone number and relationship to the church on the Friendship Pad that Who is in a position to condemn? Only Christ, and Christ died for us, is circulated during the Welcome and Announcements. If you are near any visitors (or Christ someone you don’t know), note their name and invite them to join you for rose for us, Christ reigns in power for us, Christ prays for us. If anyone is in refreshments after Worship. Christ, he becomes a new person altogether – the past is finished and gone, everything has Audio Recordings of Today's Service may be ordered on the literature table become fresh and new. Friends, believe the good news of the gospel. In Jesus by the door. The Compact Discs are $ 3.00 each and will be available the following Christ, Sunday. we are forgiven. </p><p>Save the Date: December 16, 2012, CCC Christmas Party. Please sign up *AFFIRMATION OF FAITH – Congregation at the back table so the Membership and Outreach Committee can plan for numbers. I believe that Christmas is more than a time for parties and ornaments; (See insert) it is a time for remembering Christ and the incarnation of God’s love in human flesh. I believe there are gifts more important than what is under the Christmas st SU4K is in Need of Volunteers for Meals on the 1 Wednesday of each tree, such as what we teach our children, the way we share ourselves with month for 2013. The sign-up sheet is on the back table. friends, and the calling from God to reshape the world. I believe in the angels’ message that we should not be afraid – that the Child of Bethlehem is able to overcome all anxieties. I believe in going away from Christmas as the wise men went – “another way.” I want to be different when these days are past – more centered, more thoughtful, more caring. And I know Jesus is with me every day Head Usher: Christine Duryea on that journey. Greeters: Jeanne Bowers, Edie Walsh Ushers: Jeanne Bowers, Dotti McSwain, Edie Walsh *THE HYMN RESPONSE Paul E. Cookies: Penny and Candy with AnnieBeth Young’s Famous Christmas Cookies Hoffman Coffee: A. Ovrom, S. Strickland, B. Sturgeon, S. Zylstra Juice: Shirley Zylstra There is nothing in the heav’ns above, nor in hidden depths of earth that can keep the Savior’s love from us, for by his sinless death God’s Son has conquered ev’ry foe. There is nothing left to fear. For God’s love, God’s love is always near.</p><p>THE GIVING OF OUR TITHES and OFFERINGS</p><p>OFFERTORY: Beethoven's First Duet Violin: Leonard Chen, Cello: David Mrdjenovich *DOXOLOGY – No. 253 Old 100th Praise God, from whom all blessings flow, Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.</p><p>WITNESS TO THE WORD “Bethlehem Joy” A Celebration of the Christmas Story</p><p>*BENEDICTION and POSTLUDE</p><p>*Those who are able, please stand </p><p>A Prayer for New Light</p><p>O Lord, the gift of new life, new light, can be a gift truly only if we open ourselves to receive it. So this is our prayer, Lord: that thou wilt open our eyes to see thy glory in the coming again of light each day, open our ears to hear the angels’ hymn in the stirring within us of joy at the coming of the child, open our hearts to the transforming power of thy love as it comes to us through the love of all those who hold us most dear and have sacrificed most for us. Be born among us that we may ourselves be born. Be born within us that by words and deeds of love we may bear the tidings of thy birth to a world that dies for lack of love. We ask it in the child’s name. Amen. -Frederick Buechner, “Come and See,” Secrets in the Dark Reflection</p><p>A Christmas Prayer O LORD, the house of my soul is narrow; enlarge it that thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous, O repair it! It displeases thy sight; I confess it, I know. But who shall cleanse it, or to whom shall I cry but unto thee? Cleanse me from my secret faults, O Lord, and spare thy servant from strange vanities. – St. Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 400)</p><p>The Blind Faith of Mary and Joseph</p><p>Kingdom people are history makers. They break through the small kingdoms of this world to an alternative and much larger world, God’s full creation. People who are still living in the false self are history stoppers. They use God and religion to protect their own status and the status quo of the world that sustains them. They are often fearful people, the nice proper folks of every age who think like everybody else thinks and who have no power to break through, or as Jesus’ opening words put it, “to change” (Mark 1:15, Matthew 4:17). How can we really think that Mary, if she thought like any good Jewish girl was trained to think, could possibly be ready for this message [from the angel]? She had to let God lead her outside of her box of expectations, her comfort zone, her dutiful religion of follow-the-leader. She was very young. Perhaps theology itself is not the necessary path but simply integrity and courage. –Richard Rohr, Preparing for Christmas</p><p>Tenors: Penny Duermeyer, Andy Hamilton, Al Ovrom, David Perry, Paul Protzman</p><p>Bass: Steve Duermeyer, Harry Gunter, Don Pope, Matt Roehl, Jeff Tyler</p><p>Flute: Lexie Adamson Violin: Leonard Chen Cello: David Mrdjenovich Keyboard: Alec Hamilton</p><p>Program: Vicky Gunter, Candy Tyler</p><p>Choir: Readers Sopranos: Channing DeVoueraix, Vicky Gunter, Bonnie Marie Kinosian Carolyn Ayres, Ken Kaminski, Chris Duryea, Lamia Mazegue, Jantina Perry, Delores Reed, Doug St. Dennis, Glenn Welch, Gwyn Bent, Glynn Ayres. Pastor Stephen Mather Altos: Marcia Banks, Karen Erickson, Sandy Strickland, Suzanne Ware, Erin Wishek “Gloria in Excelsis Deo” Mark Hayes Soloists: Jantina Perry, Andy Hamilton Flute: Lexie Adamson, Violin: Leonard Chen Cello: David Mrdjenovich “Bethlehem Joy” Scripture: Matthew 1: 18-23 Rev. Stephen J. Mather A Celebration of the Christmas Story A Reading Carolyn Ayres</p><p>Presented by the Coronado Community Church Chancel Choir "Welcome the Child of Light" Mark Hayes Violin: Leonard Chen, Flute: Lexie Adamson Director: Elizabeth Kimery Accompanist: Sharon Axelson Script: Doug St. Denis Scripture: Luke 2: 8-14 Rev. Stephen J. Mather A Reading Ken Kaminski </p><p>“The First Noel" Dan Forrest Flute: Lexie Adamson, Cello: David Mrdjenovich Violin: Leonard Chen</p><p>Scripture: Luke 2: 16-20 Rev. Stephen J. Mather A Reading Christine Duryea</p><p>“Bethlehem Joy” Susan Caudill</p><p>Scripture: Matthew 2: 2-6 Rev. Stephen J. Mather A Reading Glenn Welch</p><p>“Heavenly Star” Pepper Choplin</p><p>"Baby Born a King" Mark Hayes and John Parker</p><p>Scripture: Luke 4: 4-7 Rev. Stephen J. Mather A Reading Gwyn Bent</p><p>“The Hands That First Held Mary's Child” Thomas Troeger and Dan Forrest Soloist: Marcia Banks, Matt Roehl, Andy Hamilton Cello: David Mrdjenovich</p><p>"Never-Ending Peace" Cynthia Gray Soloist: Matt Roehl</p><p>A Reading Glenn Ayres</p><p>"Cradle the Child" Lynn Shaw Bailey and Lloyd Larson Flute: Lexie Adamson</p><p>A Reading Rev. Stephen J. Mather</p><p>"Sing Gloria" Joel Raney Flute: Lexie Adamson, Violin: Leonard Chen Cello: David Mrdjenovich, Keyboard: Alec Hamilton</p>