KILRENNY PARISH CHURCH

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Kilrenny Parish Church

 

Sunday 10^th December 2023

 

2^nd Sunday in Advent

 

 

 

Welcome

 

 

 

Intimations

 

 

 

Call to Worship

 

 

 

Lighting of the Advent Candle

 

 

 

Hymn CH 282                                  Christmas is coming (V1 & V2)

 

 

 

Opening Prayer and “The Lord’s Prayer”

 

 

 

Reading:       Isaiah 40: 1 – 11    

 

 

 

Hymn CH 274                                  Comfort, comfort now my people

 

 

 

Readings: St Mark 1: 1 – 8

 

 

 

Hymn CH 334                                  On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry

 

 

 

Prayers for Peace

 

 

 

Hymn CH 281                                  People look east. The time is near

 

 

 

Reflection: “Preparing for our Lord”

 

 

 

Hymn CH 191                                  Do not be afraid, for I have redeemed you

 

 

 

Prayers of Dedication and Intercession

 

 

 

Hymn CH 279                                  Make way, make way, for the King

 

 

 

Blessing

 

 

 

Sung Amen.

Intimations:

Sunday 17th December:

• Worship will commence at 10:45 with a service of Holy Communion
• All are invited to the Christmas social lunch in the Church Hall immediately following worship..

Christmas - giving to Charity:

Over recent years we, in Kilrenny, have donated our Christmas collections to charity. This year we would like to expand on this act of giving in two ways.

 

• Donations given to the Book and Jigsaw cafe in December will also be for our charity fund.
• We would also like to suggest, that within the congregation, instead of giving each other Christmas cards we each write just one card to everyone, which will then be displayed in the church, adding to the decorations. We would like to ask that any money that would have been spent by individually buying extra cards, should be donated by each one of us in the congregation, to our charity fund.
• The charity selected is Crisis. This is a national charity to help people experiencing homelessness.

 

Sunday 24th December

 

Morning worship at the usual time of 0945

Watchnight Service at 7 pm .

 

 

Advent Bible Study.

 

The Four Churches of the Rural Alliance are each hosting and leading an Advent Study on Thursday afternoons at 2.30 pm as follows:

 

Thursday 7th December at Kingsbarns Church

Thursday 14th December Largoward Church.

Thursday   21st December at Arncroach Hall

 

Everyone is welcome. Please join us.