{"id":2458,"date":"2021-12-04T13:08:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T13:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2021-12-04T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T13:08:10","slug":"worship-for-the-second-sunday-of-advent-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/04\/worship-for-the-second-sunday-of-advent-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship for the Second Sunday of Advent"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>First United Methodist Church of Schenectady<br \/>\nWorship for the Second Sunday of Advent<\/h1>\n<h2>December 5, 2021<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Page-1-Image-1.png\"><\/p>\n<h2>Getting Centered<\/h2>\n<p>It may help to center yourself into worship by lighting a candle, as a symbol of God&#8217;s presence with you during the time of worship.  You may also want to pay attention to lighting, the position of your body, and the availability of distractions.<\/p>\n<h3>Breath Prayer<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cMake our paths smoother, God of Peace.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>Breath prayers involve breathing in the first phrase, and breathing out the second.<br \/>\nYou may wish to simply pray for a moment before starting, or you may wish to pray while listening to the prelude.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Prelude<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Meditation on Veni Emmanuel by Hal Hopson<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meditation on Veni Emmanuel by Hal Hopson (b.1933)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1wVZ1foFKp0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Call to Worship<\/h3>\n<p>One: We are drawn to the promises:<br \/>\n<strong>Many: the road home is under construction.<\/strong><br \/>\nOne: It will be a better road soon:<br \/>\n<strong>Many: the ups and downs leveled out.<\/strong><br \/>\nOne: When we can walk it with ease,<br \/>\n<strong>Many: the compassion of God will be seen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Connecting in Prayer<\/h2>\n<h3>Shared Prayer<\/h3>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nGod Who Shows Us the Way,<br \/>\nWe ask that you remember your promise<br \/>\nto make straight the paths that lead to you,<br \/>\nand smooth the rough ways.<br \/>\nOur paths are quite curvy and rough,<br \/>\nand your work is appreciated.<br \/>\nWe see your work of healing and hope,<br \/>\nand we seek to share it with your world.<br \/>\nAmen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Silent Prayer<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Page-2-Image-2.png\"><\/p>\n<h3>The Lord&#8217;s Prayer<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Our Father (Creator) who art in heaven,<br \/>\nHallowed be thy name.<br \/>\nThy kingdom come.<br \/>\nThy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.<br \/>\nGive us this day our daily bread.<br \/>\nAnd forgive us our trespasses,<br \/>\nas we forgive those who trespass against us.<br \/>\nAnd lead us not into temptation,<br \/>\nbut deliver us from evil:<br \/>\nFor thine is the kingdom, and the power,<br \/>\nand the glory, for ever. Amen.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Page-3-Image-4.png\"><\/p>\n<h2>Word and Reflection<\/h2>\n<h3>Hymn #206: I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hymn 206: I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dZLz8qW161A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Scripture Reading: Malachi 3:1-4<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Malachi 3:1-4\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m_jFKDzTdLA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Mission Moment: Alternative Giving: Community Breakfast &#8211; Sylvester Doyer<\/h3>\n<p>I want to talk to you about considering the Community Breakfast Program for Alternative Giving. I want to share with you what and how the Breakfast Program during the pandemic, from the very beginning to the present, continued to serve those in the community who still needed a place to go to receive at least one nutritious meal for the day. Thanks to seven volunteers who committed themselves to making sure there was no disruption in the program.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Page-3-Image-3.png\"><br \/>\nAt the very beginning of the pandemic, a decision was made to continue the Breakfast Program and adjust it to fit the situation but still be able to feed people. When there was no indoor seating allowed in restaurants, the volunteers at the program put together every Sunday a bag Breakfast to go and usually enough food for breakfast and lunch. We were averaging every 2, 3 and 4th Sunday, and if there was a 5th Sunday, giving out 20 \u2013 30 bag breakfasts to individuals and families who came<br \/>\nto FUMC for our Community Breakfast.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Page-4-Image-6.png\"><br \/>\nThe program throughout the worst of the pandemic and now to this present day continues to serve a nutritious and now hot Breakfast every Sunday to the community surrounding FUMC. We have noticed new faces and seen a slow increase in the elderly and children who are coming to the Community Breakfast. It is only due to the support of you and the commitment of seven volunteers that we have been able to continue providing a nutritious and hot meal to those who come to the doors of FUMC seeking nourishment for their body and a bit of companionship or just looking for someone to listen to them and share some for a moment.<br \/>\nSo I am asking you to consider the Community Breakfast Program when you are thinking about Alternate Giving. Help us to continue being a place known where no matter who you are, you are not judged but made to feel important, accepted and welcome, and given a safe place to be who you are and get a warm and nutritious meal.<\/p>\n<h3>Children&#8217;s Time<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Advent 2 Time with Young People\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XYnBh59ed3s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Passing of the Peace<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Page-5-Image-6-2-e1630096883671.png\"><br \/>\n<em>If you are worshiping with others, please pass the Peace of Christ.<br \/>\nWhether you are alone or with others, please take a moment to find God&#8217;s peace within, and then to share it with the world. You may want to reach out to speak peace to another during this week.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Scripture Reading &#8211; Luke 3:1-6<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Luke 3:1-6\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HMklrkbTS14?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Sermon: \u201cThe Road Home is Under Construction\u201d &#8211; Rev. Sara Baron<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Road Home is Under Construction\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b9ffdviCZwg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Responding<\/h2>\n<h3>Advent Song: Come and Find the Quiet Center<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hymn 2128: Come and Find the Quiet Center\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8fe3pOO6XfM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Advent Wreath Lighting<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Advent 2 Wreath Lighting\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ILeM0LX0crQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Offering<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Page-8-Image-10-1.png\"><br \/>\nPhoto by Larry McArthur<br \/>\nIf you wish, you are welcome to use this time to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eservicepayments.com\/cgi-bin\/Vanco_ver3.vps?appver3=3_CMn6vY3gbXWj2GvkW32xVh5LubqSJdgKX6KHFre1VuMdS3Q8kj_eIJXGJN8RG-0gmHZvX_Lw1ha8ZXgn-54Krv7ImQMfM68o70RRXIZtDlvXRu7Icp8meYpri-7vHbdSHJK5fST8PKv5rD7H0pV4u2FYADh6CtWzBcTpjLo9qDxBXK0S3J8MPHZwZCFVXkDJkCUTrur4Wm694FEfvylg==&amp;ver=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">make a donation to the church online<\/a>, or to put a check in the mail.<br \/>\nThe time of offering is not only about our financial gifts to the church, it is about offering our lives to God and the building of the kindom. This is a time for reflection: What is being asked of us? What is being given to us? What are we able to offer? What do we need?<\/p>\n<h3>Prayer of Presentation<\/h3>\n<p>God, our home and our way home,<br \/>\nPeace that passes understanding,<br \/>\nin you is the stillness that often evades us,<br \/>\nin you is the wholeness we seek.<br \/>\nOpen our hearts, our minds, our spirits, our beings to your peace,<br \/>\nso that we may let our lives ring with the aim of<br \/>\nletting there be peace on earth.<br \/>\nAmen<\/p>\n<h3>Benediction<\/h3>\n<p>Children of God\u2019s Light, People of Peace,<br \/>\nmay God steady you to traverse the roads ahead. Amen<\/p>\n<h3>Postlude<\/h3>\n<p>Postlude on Wachet auf by Johann Gottfried Walther<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Postlude on Wachet auf by  Johann Gottfried Walther (1684-1748)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tVBhdQDcl6Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Page-5-Image-7.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First United Methodist Church of Schenectady Worship for the Second Sunday of Advent December 5, 2021 Getting Centered It may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/04\/worship-for-the-second-sunday-of-advent-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Worship for the Second Sunday of Advent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-online-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}