Join us for a Christmas Eve service filled with stories and song. Pastor Glenn and Isabel M will lead the service; Emily M and Sonia G will lead music; musicians include Romaine A, Sonia G, Emily M, and Sam M; Pastor Glenn will offer a short reflection; and many other individuals will help read the Christmas story. All the offerings from this service will go to Joseph's Storehouse.
Acknowledgement of Worship Resources
Service adapted from A Christmas Gift: A Christmas Eve Service by C E Cowen, 1998. CSS Publishing Co.
“Lo, How A Rose”
Tune: Es ist ein' ros', German 15th century melody; Arranged by David Paxton, ©2012 Lorenz Publishing Co, a division of The Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084
“While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks”
(from DINO Christmas Favorites); From Weyman's Melodia Sacra (1815), George Handel; Transcribed by Bill Wolaver; ©1984 Communique Music, Inc. / ASCAP Arr. 1988
“I Wonder as I Wander”
Composed by John Jacob Niles, ©1934 (Renewed), G. Schirmer, Inc.; Arranged by Mark Hayes, ©1991, G. Schirmer, Inc.; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084
“I Wonder as I Wander”
Text & Music: John Jacob Niles, ©1934 G. Schirmer, Inc.; All rights reserved. Streamed by permission through CCLI License #200093153.
“A La Nanita Nana”
Traditional Spanish Carol; Arranged by Victor C Johnson, ©2021 Alfred Music; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084
“I Saw Three Ships”
Traditional English Carol; Arranged by Lindsey Stirling and Stephen Anderson, ©2017 Lindseystomp Music LLC
“What Child Is This”
Traditional 16th c. melody Greensleeves; Arranged by Linsey Stirling, Debi Johnson, and Stephen Anderson, ©2012 Lindseystomp Music LLC
“Mary’s Little Boy Chile”
Traditional West Indian carol
“Mary, Did You Know?”
Text: Mark Lowry, 1984; Music: Buddy Greene, 1991; ©1991, 1993 Rufus Music; Curb Word Music; All rights reserved. Streamed by permission through CCLI License #200093153.
“Lost in the Night”
Finnish folk carol; Arr. Kyle Haugen, ©2000 Ausburg Fortress; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084
“O Come, All Ye Faithful”
Text: Latin; stanzas 1, 3, 4 trans. attr. John F Wade, ca. 1743, “Adeste fideles læti triumphantes,” Office de St Omer, 1822; trans. Frederick Oakeley and others, alt.; stanza 2 Etienne J F Borderies, 1822; trans William Mercer, 1854; Music: attr. John F Wade, ca. 1743, Essay on the Church Plain Chant, 1782
“O Come, O Come, Immanuel”
Text: anon., O Antiphons, ca. 8th-9th c.; “Veni, veni Emmanuel,” 12th c.; stanzas 1-5 trans. John M Neale, Medieval Hymns and Sequences, 1851, alt.; stanzas 6-7 trans. Henry Sloane Coffin, Hymns of the Kingdom of God, 1916; Music: trope melody, 15th c.
“O Little Town of Bethlehem”
Text: Phillips Brooks, 1868, Sunday School Services and Hymn Book, 1870, alt.; Music: Lewis H Redner, 1868, The Church Porch: A Service Book and Hymnal for Sunday Schools, 1874
“What Child Is This”
Text: William C Dix, Christmas Carols New and Old, 1871; Music: English traditional
“Away in a Manger”
Text: stanzas 1-2, anon., Little Children’s Book, 1885; stanza 3 Vineyard Songs, 1892; Music: James R Murray, Dainty Songs for Little Lads and Lasses, 1887
“Angels We Have Heard on High”
Text: French; Nouveau recueil de cantiques, 1855; trans. Anon.; alt. Earl Marlatt, New Church Hymnal, 1937; Music: French traditional, Nouveau recueil de cantiques, 1855
“While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks”
Text: based on Luke 2:8-14; Nahum Tate, 1700; Music: George F Handel, 1728
“We Three Kings of Orient Are”
Text & Music: John H Hopkins, Jr. (1820-1891), alt.
“Ave Maria”
Composed by Franz Schubert, 1825; Arranged by Lynne Latham, ©1997 Latham Music, a division of Ludwig Masters Publications
“Joy to the World”
Text: based on Psalm 98; Isaac Watts, The Psalms of David, 1719, alt.; Music: Lowell Mason, Occasional Psalm and Hymn Tunes, 1836
“Silent Night, Holy Night” (Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht / Noche de paz, noche de amor)
Text: German; Joseph Mohr, 1818, Leipziger Gesangbuch, 1838; English trans. John F Young, The Sunday School Service and Tune Book, 1863; Spanish trans. Federico Fliedner, ca. 19th c.; Music: Franz Gruber, 1818, Leipziger Gesangbuch, 1838
“Angels We Have Heard on High”
Tune: Gloria, French Tradition; Arranged by Mary McDonald, ©2007 Lorenz Publishing Co, a division of The Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084