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Order of Worship | Epiphany Sunday

Prelude

Welcome 

Call to Worship

Peace Candle 

STS 30 | Arise, your light is come! | Paul Knapke

Children’s Time 

Offering/Dedication Prayer  https://www.columbusmennonite.org/donateget-involved/donate

Special Music | Mozart Piano Sonata 11 (excerpt) | Alexander Martin 

Scripture | Luke 2:21-40

Sermon | Life blessing life    (Manuscript below)

Silent Reflection

HWB 366 | God of Grace and God of glory | Fred and Marlene Suter, Julie and Phil Hart

Sharing of Joys and Concerns

Pastoral Prayer

Extinguishing the Peace Candle

Benediction 

Announcements 

Thanks to everyone who helped lead today’s service

Sermon: Joel Miller

Worship Leader: Sarah Werner

Music coordination: Paul Knapke

Children’s Time: Jon Lucas

Peace Candle: Shakita Kabicek

Scripture Reading: Shakita Kabicek

Zoom Host: Brent Miller

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Sermon Manuscript

The sociologist Elise Boulding suggests an expansive way of thinking about the present.  She calls it “the 200-year present.”  It’s a pretty simple concept.  You take the oldest person alive and include all their years of life experience and social connections, and you add to that the newborn child and include all the years ahead of them and everything their life will hold.  What we usually think of as the present moment is actually a touching point of 200 years of life – past, present, and future.

Elise Boulding didn’t just invent this as a thought exercise.  Along with being a sociologist, she’s a pioneer in peace research, a Quaker, and she offers the 200 year present as a way of thinking about peacemaking.  It encourages generational thinking and a long term commitment  to how past actions and patterns can be transformed over time.  The past is still present, and the future is already taking shape. 

I learned about this idea from the Mennonite peacemaker John Paul Lederach, who claims Boulding…

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Christmas Eve Worship Service December 24, 2020

The Prelude

Silent night, holy night | Henry Wyse, piano

Joy to the world | Reuben Wyse, piano

Angels we have heard on high | Nina Graber-Nofziger and Katie Graber, violin duet

Go tell it on the mountain | Addy Steiner, xylophone

The Play

Away in a manger | Debra Martin and CMC children, a cappella

O Holy Night | Mira Bixler, cello; Amy Bixler, piano

Christmas Eve Service

Welcome 

Candle Lighting

Call to Worship

HWB 212 | O come, all ye faithful | Congregational recording

First Reading | Isaiah 9:2-7 | Ivan Graber-Nofziger

HWB 206 | Infant holy, Infant lowly | Abbie Miller, vocalist; Joel Miller, guitar

Second Reading | Psalm 96 | Ivan Graber-Nofziger

HWB 191 |  O little town of Bethlehem | Congregational recording

Third Reading | Titus 2:11-14 | Shakita Kabicek

HWB 197 | Angels we have heard on high | Congregational recording

Fourth Reading | Luke 2:1-20 | Shakita Kabicek

Silence

HWB 199 | The first Noel | Congregational recording

Pastoral Prayer

HWB 193 | Silent night, holy night | Congregational recording; Alexander Martin, violin; Jim Myers, clarinet

Benediction and Sending

Thanks to those who led our service this evening

Children’s Play Directors | Debra Martin and Parents

Children’s Play Video Editor | Elisa Leahy

Music coordination | Phil Hart

Worship leader | Julie Hart

Zoom host | Elisa Leahy

Slides | Gwen Reiser

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Order of Worship | Christmas 1

Prelude: There’s a baby on my plate | Tom Blosser, accordion & vocals; Galen Martin, guitar & vocals

Welcome

Call to Worship

Peace Candle 

HWB 318 | Joy to the World | Galen, Debra, Sarah, & Elizabeth Martin, vocals

Children’s Time 

Offering/Dedication Prayer  https://www.columbusmennonite.org/donateget-involved/donate

Special Music | We Three Kings | Stella Bixler, flute and Amy Bixler, piano

Scripture | Isaiah 61:10-62:3, Galatians 4:4-7

HYMN | Awake | Written and accompanied on flute by Phil Hart. Vocals by many voices.

Meditation| Austin McCabe Juhnke 

Silent Reflection

Meditation | Shirley Miller

Silent Reflection

HYMN | Wake up, it’s Christmas morning | Sung by Becca Lachman; Michael Lachman, piano

Sharing of Joys and Concerns

Pastoral Prayer 

Extinguishing the Peace Candle 

Benediction 

Announcements 

Thanks to everyone who helped lead today’s service

Meditations: Austin McCabe Juhnke, Shirley Miller

Worship Leader: Jen Cartmel

Music coordination: Phil Hart

Children’s Time: Jen Cartmel, Bill and Maya Plessinger

Peace Candle: Jen Cartmel 

Scripture Reading: Gretchen Geyer

Zoom Host: Elisa Leahy

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Order of Worship | December 20, 2020 |Advent 4

Prelude

Welcome 

Call to Worship

Peace Candle 

STS 11 | No wind at the windows | Phil Hart, Abbie Miller, vocals. Alexander Martin, violin.

Children’s Time

Offering/Dedication Prayer  https://www.columbusmennonite.org/donateget-involved/donate

Hymn | Awake | Music and words by Phil Hart. Sung by many voices.

Scripture | Luke 1:26-38

Video | Come to us, Emmanuel | Noonday Films- Elisa and Matthew Leahy

Sermon | Solitude, Solidarity, Salvation    Manuscript Below

Scripture Reading | Luke 1:39-45; 46-56

Silent Reflection

HWB 178 | Come thou long expected Jesus | Jacqui and Ryan Hoke, vocals

Sharing of Joys and Concerns

Pastoral Prayer 

Extinguishing the Peace Candle 

Benediction 

Announcements 

Christian Education | 11:00 am

Thanks to everyone who helped lead today’s service

Sermon: Joel Miller

Worship Leader: Jennifer Cartmel 

Music coordination: Katie Graber

Children’s Time: Diane Mueller

Peace Candle: Adam Glass

Scripture Reading: Stella and Mira Bixler

Zoom Host: Sarah Werner

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Sermon Manuscript

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1. Solitude
The world is not a friendly place for an unmarried pregnant teenage girl.  Especially when you’re poor. Not in our time.  Not in Mary’s time. 

The Franklinton neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, is just as good a place as any to consider this.  The Leahys shot the video a number of years ago, and the imagery holds true.  Furniture thrown haphazardly in a front yard – a telltale sign of eviction, an abandoned warehouse, a burned out house owned by a slumlord who ignored faulty electrical wiring, barbed wire fences: These are not marks of a hospitable environment into which to birth a child. 

But there is life here.  There is playfulness.  And there is a strong – even unbreakable chord – that connects this story with…

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Order of Worship | Awake in the Dark | Advent 3 | Music Sunday

Prelude

Welcome 

STS 15 | Hope is a candle | Tom Blosser vocal and piano, Quinn Blosser violin

Call to Worship 

Peace Candle 

Hymn | Awake | written by Phil Hart, sung by many voices

Advent Candle lighting | The Coble family

Offering/Dedication Prayer https://www.columbusmennonite.org/donateget-involved/donate

Pastoral Prayer

STS 26 | Helpless and Hungry / HWB 215 What Child is this | CMC choir and congregation (2019)

Scripture | Isaiah 64:1-4,8-11, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24

CMC Choir | recordings from past years 

In Dulci Jubilo | German carol 15th century | CMC choir (2016)

Lovey Child, Holy Child | Text and arr. David Johnson/Trad folk melody | CMC choir (2019)

Riu, Riu, Chiu | 16th century Spanish villancico | CMC choir (2016)

STS 28 | Holy Child within a manger | Text and Music: Marty Haugen | CMC choir (2019)

Congregation

HWB 211 | Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming | CMC choir and congregation (2017)

CMC Choir | recordings from past years

HWB 203 | Break forth, O beauteous heav’nly light | Text: Johann Rist/Harmonized by J.S. Bach | CMC choir (2018)

While by my sheep | English text: Theodore Baker/arr. by Hugo Richard Jungst | CMC choir (2018)

Wexford Carol | Traditional Irish, 12th Century, arr. by Elaine Hagenberg | CMC choir (2019)

And the Glory of the Lord | From Messiah by G. F. Handel | CMC choir (2019)

Extinguishing the Peace Candle 

Benediction 

Announcements 

Christian Education | 11:00 am

Thanks to everyone who helped lead today’s service

Worship Leader and Peace Candle: Jennifer Cartmel

Music coordination: Tom Blosser, Phil Hart

Advent Candle: The Coble Family

Scripture Reading: Maya Plessinger, Nancy Franke

Advent Artwork: Elisa Leahy

Zoom Host: Brent Miller

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