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Advent includes the four Sundays before Christmas. The word ‘Advent’ means ‘coming.’ During the Advent season we prepare for the coming birth of Christ, and for the renewal of our faith. We also reflect on the coming of God’s realm in all its fullness at the end of time. The colour blue has emerged in recent years as a symbol of hope. This is the colour you will see in our sanctuary throughout the season. 

Advent 2 Bulletin

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Shining Waters Regional Council Prayer Cycle:

Today we pray for: Cheltenham United Church, Heritage United Church, Markham, Dalston-Crown Hill United Church, Barrie, Countryside United Church, Thornton

Prayer:

May Your Peace Prevail: An Advent prayer

Help Us to Be Brave:  An Advent prayer

 

Minute for Mission:

Disability, Who Me: People sometimes share that they forget I am a person who is totally blind. I experience this as a good thing, an acknowledgment that they feel acceptance, and embrace me for who I am, my abilities and disabilities.

Gifts with Vision Solves the What-to-Buy Dilemma: YGM 2022: December 4. Every Gift with Vision provides support for a specific Mission & Service partner offering a unique project. Without Mission…

 

The hymns and music today… 

Hark the Glad Sound (w. Philip Doddridge, m. Thomas Haweis)– Public Domain

Silent Night (w. Joseph Mohr, m. Franz X. Gruber) - Public Domain.

There's a Voice in the Wilderness (w. James L. Milligan, m Henry H. Brancroft) - Reprinted and podcast with permission under One License #A-718074

Hope is a Star (B. Wren) – Reprinted and podcast with permission under One License #A-718074

As We Offer Gifts (m. Conrad Kocher)

We Call to You O God (Mayberr, Kai) - Reprinted and podcast with permission under One License #A-718074 

Hope Shines as the Solitary Star (w. Catherine F. MacLean, m. Janet B. Tissander) - Reprinted and podcast with permission under One License #A-718074

Chorale Prelude on 'Eis ist ein Rose entsprungen' (Johannes Brahms)– Podcast with permission under One License #A-718074

Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming (German Trad. Melody, trans. T. Baker, M. Praetorius) - Podcast with permission under One License

Peace, Peace  (Rick & Sylvia Powell, arr. F. Bock) - Podcast with permission under One License

Someday at Christmas  (Stevie Wonder) 

Do You Hear What I Hear (Regney, Shayne) 

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