Pine River United Methodist Church
Third Sunday of Advent
December 14, 2025
Worship Service 10:30 a.m.
*please stand if you are able
SPECIAL MUSIC “What Child Is This?” Jody Wilson
RINGING OF THE BELL
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND JOYS AND CONCERNS
ADVENT HYMN Faith We Sing #2090 Advent Song verse 1,2,3
LIGHTING OF THIRD ADVENT CANDLE
HYMN: Faith We Sing #2164 Sanctuary
*Call to Worship
Leader: Come with your questions, your burdens, and your blessings.
All: We come, seeking sanctuary in God and in one another.
Leader: When companionship is offered, joy comes alive.
All: We, too, are called to rejoice together.
Leader: This is a place for honest hearts and open hands.
ALL: Come, Emmanuel, and renew our joy.
*HYMN #240 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
*Unison Prayer
God of joy, you meet us in the gift of relationships that hold us and strengthen us. Thank you for the companions who encourage, for friends who celebrate, and for the community that shelters us. Teach us to be a sanctuary for one another, where joy can leap even in hard times. Fill us with your joy and send us to share it with the world. It is in the name of the One who is our joy we pray. Amen.
HYMN #224 Good Christian Friends, Rejoice
SCRIPTURE LESSONS:
Micah 5:2-5a page 818 in OT of Pew Bible
2 But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah,
who are one of the little clans of Judah,
from you shall come forth for me
one who is to rule in Israel,
whose origin is from of old,
from ancient days.
3 Therefore he shall give them up until the time
when she who is in labor has brought forth;
then the rest of his kindred shall return
to the people of Israel.
4 And he shall stand and feed his flock in the strength of the Lord,
in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God.
And they shall live secure, for now he shall be great
to the ends of the earth,
5 and he shall be the one of peace.
Psalm 93 page 529 in OT of Pew Bible
1 The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty;
the Lord is robed; he is girded with strength.
He has established the world; it shall never be moved;
2 your throne is established from of old;
you are from everlasting.
3 The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
the floods have lifted up their voice;
the floods lift up their roaring.
4 More majestic than the thunders of mighty waters,
more majestic than the waves of the sea,
majestic on high is the Lord!
5 Your decrees are very sure;
holiness befits your house,
O Lord, forevermore.
Luke 1:23-25, 39-45 page 56 in NT of Pew Bible
23 When his time of service was ended, he returned to his home.
24 After those days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and for five months she remained in seclusion. She said, 25 “This is what the Lord has done for me in this time, when he looked favorably on me and took away the disgrace I have endured among my people.”
39 In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, 40 where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit 42 and exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. 43 And why has this happened to me, that the mother of my Lord comes to me? 44 For as soon as I heard the sound of your greeting, the child in my womb leaped for joy. 45 And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her by the Lord.”
Leader: The word of God for the people of God.
People: Praise be to God.
MESSAGE “Room for Relationships” Pastor Jen Matthees
SPECIAL MUSIC: Mary Did You Know? Jody Wilson
HYMN #246 Joy to the World
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
SILENT PRAYER
THE LORD’S PRAYER
*HYMN #251 Go Tell It on the Mountain
*BENEDICTION
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Saturday, December 13: 4:15 p.m. Warm up and Wait – opening church to serving hot cocoa and candy canes before the Parade of Lights at 5:00 p.m.
Tuesday, December 16: 10:00 a.m. Coffee at Lifehouse
Sunday, December 21: 10:00 a.m. Coffee Fellowship
10:30 a.m. Worship 4th Sunday
in Advent
**We still need a reader for scripture and Lighting of 4th Advent candle
Please join us on Wednesday, December 24 for our Christmas Eve Candlelight Service at 4:00 p.m.
December Mission: Gifts and appreciations
Poinsettia order sheet is on the back table also. Poinsettias are $20. A separate check or cash would be appreciated by the treasurer for the poinsettia(s) if possible.
Extra printed December Newsletters are on the back table.
Church Office Hours:
Tuesday 8:00 – Noon, 1:00 –3:00 p.m.
Thursday and Friday 8:00 – 12:30 p.m
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For prayer requests please contact the church office: prmethodist@gmail.com OR 218-587-4091.
The beginning of each month we will be starting a new prayer list. If you want continued prayers for a loved one, please contact church office.
GOD HEARS AND ANSWERS OUR PRAYERS
“You will show me the path of life;
In Your presence is fullness of joy;
At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”
Psalm 16:11 NKJV
10 Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people.” Luke 2:10 NKJV
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