The Service in PDF format is at: December 15, 2024 Service
Video of service is at: YouTube
Peace Lutheran Church
We welcome you in the name of the Lord Jesus. We are honored with your presence. If you do not have a church home, you are invited to join us regularly. Please introduce yourself to Pastor Jeremy Lucke or one of the Ushers as you leave today and sign the guest book in the entryway. We continue to observe the guidelines for health safety. If you have any questions, please see an usher. Everyone is welcome.
The ringing of the bell and the lighting of the Christ candle mark the beginning of our service and a time for quiet meditation, prayer and inward reflection as we begin our worship.
Children are welcome at our worship services. If you prefer, Peace Lutheran has a playroom equipped for children three years old and younger. The room is unstaffed and can be accessed in the fellowship hall where the service is also being live streamed for your convenience and enjoyment.
Holy Communion is celebrated every first and third Sunday and will follow the order of service in the bulletin. If you are a baptized Christian and share our faith in Jesus as Savior and have been instructed in the meaning and use of the Lord’s Supper, you are invited to partake. We have pre-wrapped communion wine or juice and wafers. We also have gluten-free wafers available. If you desire a gluten-free wafer, ask the server. May the body and blood of Jesus, present in the bread and wine, be a blessing to you.
There are times during the service when you will be asked to stand if you are able. Please feel free to remain seated if standing is difficult.
Offering. Peace Lutheran Church understands and teaches that Offerings are voluntary and to be from the heart. Whether we give or do not give does not determine our salvation. Whether we give much or little does not determine our standing before God. Sharing an Offering is an opportunity to quietly practice generosity with our neighbors.
Serving You
Pastor Pastor Jeremy Lucke
Music Director Colleen Schulze
Choir Director Diane Crocker
Supt. Of Sunday School Anne Schroeder & Karyn Stanley
Admin Assistant Daniel Dusek
Parish Nurse Kathy Durling
Webmaster Jim Holroyd
Audio-Visual Johnathon Holroyd, George Abele, Nicholas Abele, Merv Munster, Callie Santora, Joyce Long, Oscar Gutbrod, Sam Worth, Rick Durling, Jim Holroyd, Debbi Weiler, Dan Dusek
Praise Team Rick Durling, Patrick Kamins, Ginny Tonelli, Karyn Stanley, Nora Stanley, Diane Crocker, Kaia Lucke, Anne Schroeder, John Mergl
Today December 15, 2024
Musical Directors Diane Crocker/Karyn Stanley
Claire Lucke & Alyssa Stanley
THE YOUTH OF PEACE PRESENT:
“THE TALE OF THE DROWSY SHEPHERD”
MUSICAL SONGS:
“There’s No Business Like Sheep Business”
“All Things Are Possible” (Reprise)
“From Stuck to Unstuck”
Pastor Jeremy Lucke
Leader: Gathered as God’s people and as heirs of an eternal inheritance, let us pray for the whole Church and for all people according to their needs, confidently bringing our prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, who is our light and our salvation.
Leader: Our Lord Jesus, we follow in the steps of those who knelt in humble adoration at Your manger so many years ago. Like shepherds of old, we thrill to hear the message that the herald angel brings: “Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” We, too, go to see this thing that has happened. The glory shines around us as well. Our hearts grow warm before the meaning of the miracle. God is love, indeed, and there is hope for all who humbly open up their lives to You. You have come to do for us what we are so helpless to do for ourselves. Empower us to fulfill in faithfulness the things that You have given us to do, so that like ancient shepherds, our daily walk may become for us a road of glory and a mission of peace. Lord, in your mercy,
People: hear our prayer.
Leader: Our Lord Jesus, as You did with Mary and Joseph, so make Your home in our human lives and hearts. As Joseph and Mary went up from Galilee to Judea, lead us wherever we may help to carry out Your plan for humankind. As Mary brought into this world “a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to Your people Israel,” so enable us, too, to bring Your peace to desperate people. In this moment of silence, we ask that You search our hearts for those people in our lives that are desperate for Your peace.
(Moment of Silence)
Leader: Our Lord Jesus, grant that all who see our worship of the newborn babe wonder at the way we keep this day. And O Bethlehem’s royal prince, let there be some who, because of us, ponder these things deep within their hearts. Lord, in your mercy,
People: hear our prayer.
Leader: We praise You, Jesus, who has risen with healing in Your wings; we praise You now and evermore.
People: Amen.
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 kingdom,
And the power, and the glory,
Forever and ever. Amen
Leader: The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord look upon you with favor and + give you peace.
CLOSING HYMN “Go Tell It On the Mountain”
Chorus: Go tell it on the mountain,
Over the hills and ev’rywhere;
Go tell it on the mountain
That Jesus Christ is born!
While shepherds kept their watching
O’er silent flocks by night,
Behold, throughout the heavens
There shone a holy light.
Chorus
The shepherds feared and trembled
When, lo, above the earth
Rang out the angel chorus
That hailed our Savior’s birth.
Chorus
Down in a lonely manger
The humble Christ was born;
And God sent us salvation
That blessed Christmas morn.
Chorus
Dismissal
Leader: Go in Peace. Serve the Lord.
People: Thanks be to God!
CAST LIST
NARRATOR 1 Seamus Harrington
NARRATOR 2 Archer Schroeder
AARON Wilson Schroeder
SHEM Kaia Lucke
REUBEN Alyssa Stanley
RACHEL Cennedee Durling
I.B. EWEING Chandler Durling
SHEEP 1 Claire Lucke
SHEEP 2 Sylvie Schroeder
SHEEP 3 Miles Lucke
SHEEP 4 Andrew Santora
ANGEL 1 Sienna Smith
ANGEL 2 Elliott Durling
ANGEL 3 April Thompson
MARY Sienna Smith
JOSEPH Seamus Harrington
Announcements
December 18 – 6:00pm Midweek Advent Service
December 22 – 10:00am Worship Service
December 24 – 7:00pm Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
December 25 –10:00am Christmas Day Service
December 29 – 10:00am Worship Service
