Who Wouldn't Jesus Bless?

Zach Martinez, pastor of Sojourn Mennonite Church, will preach from Luke 6:17-26.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“Prelude in E major, BWV 854 (from WTC Book 1)”
Composed by J. S. Bach, ca. 1722

“Give Me Jesus”
Based on the traditional spiritual; arr. John Purifoy; ©2002 Lorenz Publishing Co, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Poor Wayfaring Stranger”
Traditional Spiritual; arr. Mark Hayes; ©1998 Glory Sound, a division of Shawnee Press, Inc.; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Brethren, We Have Met to Worship”
Text: George Askins, Social and Camp-Meeting Hymns for the Pious, 1817, alt.; Music: The Columbian Harmony, 1825

“Some of us are exhausted”
By Joanna Harader, 2012

“O Prince of Peace”
Text & Music: Javanese; Saptojoadi (Indonesia); Text trans: Lawrence M Yoder, Mennonite World Conference International Songbook, 1990; ©1978 Mennonite World Conference; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Gracious God, when there is nothing we can say”
Presbyterian Church (USA), Book of Common Worship, 2018

“Jesus Loves Me”
Text: Anna B Warner, 1859; Music: William B Bradbury, The Golden Shower, 1862

“The Boys and Girls and Jesus”
By Ella K Lindvall, Read-Aloud Bible Stories, Volume 1. Moody Publishers, 1986

“Kum Ba Yah”
Text & Music: African American spiritual

“I Want Jesus to Walk with Me”
Text & Music: African American spiritual

“Blessed Are the Persecuted”
Text: Tonga; based on Matthew 5; anon.; adapt. Esther C Bergen, ©1990 Mennonite World Conference; Music: Tonga traditional; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Blessed Assurance”
Tune: Assurance by Phoebe P. Knapp; arr. Pepper Choplin; ©2012 Lorenz Publishing Co, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“We Are People of God’s Peace”
Text: based on Menno Simons, Reply to False Accusations, 1552; stanzas 1, 3, 4 vers. David Augsburger, 1978; adapt. Esther Bergen, 1990; Music: Johann Horn, Ein Gesangbuch der Brüder im Behemen und Merherrn, 1544; rev. In Catholicum Hymnologium Germanicum, 1584; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“O Healing River”
Text: Frances Minkoff; Music: Fred Hellerman; ©1964 (renewed) Appleseed Music, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

A Fishing Story

Pastor Glenn will preach from Luke 5:1-11.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“Give Me Jesus”
Based on the traditional spiritual; arr. John Purifoy; ©2002 Lorenz Publishing CO, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“His Eye Is On The Sparrow”
Music: Charles H. Gabriel; arr. Mark Hayes; ©1998 GlorySound, a division of Shawnee Press, Inc.; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Summoned by the God Who Made Us”
Text: Delores Dufner, OSB, ©1993 Delores Dufner (published by OCP); Music: American traditional, in John Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second, 1813; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Holy Spirit, Come to Us”
Text: adapt. from Latin liturgy, ca. 10th c.; John 13:35; 15:12-13; 1 John 3:16; 4:10, 16; Music: Jacques Berthier; ©1998 Les Presses de Taizé (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“In the beginning, before time”
By Wild Goose Resource Group, 2015

“Sing, Praise, and Bless the Lord”
Text: Latin; based on Psalm 117; Taizé Community, 1980; Music: Jacques Berthier, 1980; ©1991 Les Presses de Taizé (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Save us, God, from being self-centered”
By John Calvin, 16th c.

“Tú has venido a la orilla (Lord, You Have Come to the Lakeshore)”
Text: Spanish; Cesáreo Gabaráin; trans. composite Gertrude C Suppe, George Lockwood IV, Raquel Gutiérrez-Achon, Willard F Jabusch, alt.; Music: Cesáreo Gabaráin, 1979, Dios con nosotros; Spanish text and music ©1979 Cesáreo Gabaráin and Ediciones Paulinas (admin. OCP Publications); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Be Thou My Vision”
Text: Irish traditional, “Rob tum o bhoile, a Comdi cride,” ca. 8th c.; trans. Mary Elizabeth Byrne, Ériu, Vol. 2, 1905, alt.; Music: Irish traditional, Old Irish Folk Music and Songs, 1909; harm. Martin Shaw, Enlarged Songs of Praise, 1931, alt., ©1927 Oxford University Press; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Precious Lord, Take My Hand”
Music: George N. Allen; arr. Mark Hayes; ©1998 GlorySound, a division of Shawnee Press, Inc.; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“The Lord Lift You Up”
Text: Patricia J Shelly; Music: Patricia J Shelly; arr. Dennis Friesen-Carper; ©1983 Patricia J Shelly; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Strong, Peaceful Man of Galilee”
Text: Harry W Farrington, 1921, The Hymnal for Boys and Girls, 1935, alt.; Music: John B Dykes, Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861

Why Am I Here?

Pastor Glenn will preach from Jeremiah 1:4-10.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“I Will Arise and Go to Jesus”
Tune: Walker’s Southern Harmony, 1835; Arranged by John Carter; ©1987 Hope Publishing Company; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Waltz in A Flat Op. 39, No. 15”
Composed by Johannes Brahms, 1865

“He Leadeth Me”
Tune: “He Leadeth Me” by William B. Bradbury; Arranged by Larry Shackley; ©2008 Lorenz Publishing Co, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Song No. 5, from Sea Pieces Op. 55”
Composed by Edward MacDowell, 1898

“What Is This Place”
Text: Huub Oosterhuis, Zomaar een dak boven wat hoofden, 1968; trans. David Smith, ©1967 OCP Publications; Music: Nederlandtsche Gedenckclanck, 1626; harm. Bernard Huijbers, harm. ©1984 TEAM Publications, OCP Publications; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Open our ears”
By Carol Penner, 2019

“Morning Has Broken”
Text: Eleanor Farjeon, Enlarged Songs of Praise, 931, alt. © David Higham Assoc., Ltd.; Music: Scottish Gaelic traditional, Songs and Hymns of the Gael, 1888; harm. Martin Shaw, 1931, alt., © Oxford University Press; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“There Are Many Gifts”
Text: based on 1 Corinthians 12:4-12; Patricia Shelly, 1976, Many Gifts, 1977, alt.; Music: Patricia Shelly, 1976, Many Gifts, 1977; ©1977 Patricia Shelly; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Go, My Children”
Text: Jaroslav J Vajda, ©1983 Concordia Publishing House; Music: Welsh traditional, Musical and Poetical Relics of the Welsh Bards, 1784; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart”
Tune: Morecambre by Frederick C. Atkinson, 1841-1897; Arranged by Mark Hayes; ©2006 Lorenz Publishing Co, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Guide My Feet”
Text: African American spiritual; Music: African American spiritual; harm. Wendell Whalum, ca. 1984, ©Estate of Wendell Whalum; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Will You Let Me Be Your Servant”
Text: Richard Gillard, 1976, alt.; Music: Richard Gillard, 1976; adapt. Betty Pulkingham; ©1977 Scripture in Song (admin. Capitol CMG Publishing); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through CCLI License #200093153

The Spirit of the Lord is upon... say what now?

Amy Zimbelman, Conference Pastor of Mountain States Mennonite Conference, will preach from Luke 4:14-30.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“Be Thou My Vision”
Irish Folk Melody; Arranged by Mark Hayes; ©2004 Glory Sound, A Division of Shawnee Press, Inc; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Impromptu, Op. 142 No. 2”
Composed by Franz Schubert, 1827

“Praise to the Lord, the Almighty”
Tune: Lobe den herren from the Straslund Gesangbuch, 1665; Arranged by Larry Shackley; ©2006 Lorenz Publishing Co, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Come, Let Us All Unite to Sing”
Text: anon., ca. 1812, Millennial Praises, 1812; Music: Edmund S Lorenz, Notes of Triumph: For the Sunday School, 1886

“Come, Holy Spirit, enter our silences”
By Neill Thew, 1990, adapt. Mennonite Worship and Song Committee, 2019

“God of the Bible”
Text: Shirley Erena Murray, ©1996 Hope Publishing Company; Music: Tony E Alonso, ©2001 GIA Publications, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Confitemini Domino (Come and Fill Our Hearts)”
Text: Latin; Psalm 136:1; English and Spanish stanzas Taizé Community; Music: Jacques Berthier; ©1982, 1991, 2011 Les Presses de Taizé (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Praise with Joy the World’s Creator”
Text: Iona Community, 1985, alt. ©1987 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); Music: John Goss, The Supplemental Hymn and Tune Book, 1869; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Sicilienne, Op. 78”
Composed by Gabriel Fauré, 1898

“Go Now in Peace, Worship Continues”
Text: Mary R Bittner, ©2004 Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc., alt.; Music: David N Johnson, abridged; arr. Andrew Daniels, ©1968 and this arr. ©2020 Augsburg Publishing House (admin. Augsburg Fortress); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Will You Come and Follow Me”
Text: John L Bell and Graham Maule; Music: Scottish traditional; arr. Lloyd Kauffman, arr. ©2015 Lilly Chapel Press, LLC; ©1987 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

Jesus, NASCAR, & the Church

Pastor Glenn will preach from 1 Corinthians 12:1-11.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“I Want Jesus to Walk with Me”
Text & Music: African American spiritual 

“Lord, I Want to Be a Christian”
Text: African American spiritual, Folk Songs of the American Negro, 1907; Music: African American spiritual, Folk Songs of the American Negro, 1907; harm. anon.

“There Are Many Gifts”
Text: based on 1 Corinthians 12:4-12; Patricia Shelly, 1976, Many Gifts, 1977, alt.; Music: Patricia Shelly, 1976, Many Gifts, 1977; ©1977 Patricia Shelly; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“As I Went Down to the River to Pray”
Text & Music: African American spiritual

“For the times we have lied”
By Anne Macksoud, 1981

“Just a Closer Walk with Thee”
Text: African American traditional, ca. 20th c.; Music: African American traditional, ca. 20th c.; acc. David Berry, 2019

“This Little Light of Mine”
Text & Music: African American traditional, ca. 20th c.

“In the Morning When I Rise”
Text: African American spiritual; Music: African American spiritual; arr. Wendell Whalum, ©1978 Lawson-Gould Music (admin. Alfred Music Publishing Co., Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Lift Every Voice and Sing”
Text: James W Johnson, 1900; Music: J Rosamund Johnson, 1905

“There Is a Balm in Gilead”
Text & Music: African American spiritual

Meet Jesus

Pastor Glenn will preach from Luke 3:15-17; 21-22.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“All Creatures, Worship God Most High”
Text: Saint Francis of Assisi, “Laudato sia Dio mio Signore,” 1225; trans. William H Draper, Hymns of the Spirit, 1926, alt.; Music: Geistliche Kirchengesäng, 1623; adapt. and harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams, The English Hymnal, 1906, simplified

“If you are delighted”
By Marlene Kropf, 2007

“Over My Head”
Text: African American spiritual; Music: African American spiritual; arr. John L Bell, alt.; ©1998 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Let This Mind Be in You”
Text: Philippians 2:5; Music: James E Clemens, 2008; ©2008 James E Clemens; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“You Are Salt for the Earth”
Text & Music: Marty Haugen, 1985, Gather, 1988; ©1986 GIA Publications, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

Longing, Waiting, Hoping

Pastor Glenn will preach from John 1:1-18.

Worship Resources Acknowledgements

“Morning Has Broken”
Text: Eleanor Farjeon, Enlarged Songs of Praise, 1931, alt., ©David Higham Assoc., Ltd.; Music: Scottish Gaelic traditional, Songs and Hymns of the Gael, 1888; harm. Martin Shaw, 1931, alt., ©Oxford University Press

“The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy”
Text & Music: West Indian carol, from the Edric Conner Collection of West Indian Spirituals; ©1945 Boosey & Co., Ltd.; copyright renewed; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“To Worship is to Stand”
By Jacob Trapp, 20th c., adapt.

“Solemn Stillness, Weary Streets”
Text: Christopher Clymer Kurtz and Maria Clymer Kurtz, 2014; Music: Christopher Clymer Kurtz and Maria Clymer Kurtz, 2014; arr. Mennonite Worship and Song Committee; ©2018 Christopher Clymer Kurtz and Maria Clymer Kurtz; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Santo (Holy)”
Text: Spanish; variation on traditional liturgical text (Argentina); Music: Argentine traditional; arr. Iona Community, based on two-part version as taught by Pablo Sosa, ©1990 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Longing for Light”
Text & Music: Bernadette Farrell; ©1993 OCP Publications; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Vamos Todos al Banquete”
Text & Music: Guillermo Cuéllar, Misa Popular Salvadoreña; ©1988 GIA Publications; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Celtic Alleluia”
Text & Music: Fintan O’Carroll and Christopher Walker; ©1985, 1996 OCP Publications; All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Go, My Friends, in Grace”
Text: David Wright, 2004, A Field of Voices, 2007, ©2004 David Wright; Music: James E Clemens, 2004, A Field of Voices, 2007, ©2004 James E Clemens; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

One of Us

Pastor Glenn will preach from Luke 2:1-20.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“Breath of Heaven”
Authors: Amy Grant & Chris Eaton; ©1992 Hal Leonard Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence”
Music: French traditional, Chansons populaires des provinces de France, 1860

“When Peace like a River”
Text: Horatio G Spafford, Gospel Hymns, No. 2, 1876, alt.; Music: Philip P Bliss, Gospel Hymns, No. 2

“If you are delighted”
By Marlene Kropf, 2007

“In the Beginning”
Text: based on John 1:1-14; Chris Shelton, ©2015 GIA Publications, Inc.; Music: Geistliche Kirchengesäng, 1623; adapt. and harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams, The English Hymnal, 1906, simplified; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“What Child Is This”
Text: William C Dix, Christmas Carols New and Old, 1871; Music: English traditional

“He Came Down”
Text: Cameroon traditional; Music: Cameroon traditional; arr. John L Bell; ©1990 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“The First Noel, the Angel Did Say”
Text: English traditional, Some Ancient Christmas Carols, 2nd ed., 1823; Music: English traditional, Christmas Carols, 1833

“Mary Had a Baby”
Traditional Spiritual; Arr. Roland Carter, ©2021 Walton Music Corp; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Go Tell It on the Mountain”
Text: African American spiritual; adapt. John W Work Jr. (1871-1925); Music: African American spiritual; arr. Valeria A Foster, alt., ©2000 GIA Publications, Inc.; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

Christmas Eve 2021

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

A Mother's Vision for Christmas

The fourth Sunday of Advent will be a mostly musical service that includes a full choir and a men's ensemble. Pastor Glenn will offer a meditation based on Luke 1:39-55, a mother's vision for Christmas.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“Sing We Now of Christmas”
Noel Nouvelet French Carol, 15th century; Arranged by John Carter; ©2010 Hope Publishing Company; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“What Child is This?”
Tune: Greensleeves, 16th century English ballad; Arranged by Patricia Lou Harris; ©2012 Lorenz Publishing Company, a division of the Lorenz Corp.; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Away in a Manger”
Tune: Mueller by James R. Murray; Arranged by Joseph Martin; ©1997 Malcolm Music, a division of Shawnee Press; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Canon de Noel”
Tunes: Canon and Gigue by Johann Pachelbel; The First Nowell, English Carol. Sandys' Christmas Carols, 1833; Arranged by Joseph Martin; ©1997 Malcolm Music, a division of Shawnee Press; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“To Us a Child of Hope is Born”
Text: based on Isaiah 9:6-7; John Morison, Scottish Paraphrases, 1781; Music: Lowell Mason, Occasional Psalm and Hymn Tunes,1837 or 1838, alt.

“Hope Is a Candle”
Text: Richard Leach, 1994, ©1995 Selah Publishing Co., Inc.; Music: Scottish traditional; acc. James E Clemens, 2006; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“There Shall a Star Come Out of Jacob”
Text: Numbers 24:17; Music: Felix Mendelssohn

“Of the Father’s Love Begotten”
Text: Aurelius C Prudentius; tr. John M Neale and Henry W Baker; Music: 13th c. Plainsong; Arranged by Paul Wohlgemuth; ©1973 Hope Publishing Co; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“O Magnum Mysterium”
Text: Responsory, Feast of the Nativity; tr. Ellen S Beebe; Music: Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1572; edited by Ellen S Beebe; ©1984 Broude Brothers Limited

“The Star and the Wise Men”
Text & Music: Charles H Gabriel

“Still, Still, Still”
Text: Marilyn Keith and Alan Bergman; Music: Norman Luboff; ©1960 Walton Music Co; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Angels’ Carol”
Text & Music: John Rutter; ©1988 Oxford University Press; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Good Christians All Rejoice and Sing”
Text: traditional; Music: traditional English melody; Arranged by Douglas Macomber, ©1983 Clarion Call Music, Inc

“How Far Is It to Bethlehem?”
Text & Music: English traditional; Arranged by Paul Christiansen, ©1950, renewed 1977 by Neil A Kjos Music Co

“Mary Had A Baby”
Text & Music: William L Dawson; ©1947, renewed 1974 by William L Dawson, Tuskegee Institute (admin. Neil A Kjos Music Co); All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through 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

“Hark! the Herald Angels Sing”
Text: Charles Wesley, Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739, alt.; Music: Felix Mendelssohn, 1840; adapt. William H Cummings, 1855, Congregational Hymn and Tune Book, 1857

“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

“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

“Go, Tell it on the Mountain”
Text: African American Spiritual; adapt. John W Work, Jr., 1871-1925; Music: African American Spiritual