Candle Light Service, December 24, 2023
Rev. Eric S. Anderson, Pastor
WE GATHER TO WORSHIP GOD
Please note that audio and video of this service are being live streamed on the Internet and will be recorded. The right rear section of the sanctuary will not be captured by any cameras. Please be aware that in other sections you may be visible at times.
Prelude: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/Angels from the Realms of Glory Kayleen Yuda
Opening Carol #135: O Come All Ye Faithful (v. 1-4)
Lighting of the Christ Candle: Roach Family Roach Family
Family Member: The waiting ends, and the festival arrives.
Family Member: The delivery comes, and the child is born.
Family Member: Our Advent season passes to Christmas.
Family Member: Our hearts awake to sing our Savior’s praise!
All Sing:
O come, O come Emmanuel
The shadows of our hopelessness dispel
Let peace take root within every frame:
With joy we now your love and grace proclaim.
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel has come to us, O Israel.
Tune: VENI EMMANUEL
Family Member: With each candle, our wreath grows brighter. Bright with hope and its cycle of promise, fulfillment, and promise again. Bright with peace, sustaining all life. Bright with joy, celebrating life and growth. Bright with love and its embraces, bonds, and sharing.
Family Member: And now we light the candle in the center, the one bright for Christ, in the center of our wreath as Christ should be the center of our hearts. This candle glows for Hope. This candle glows for Peace. This candle glows for Joy. This candle glows for Love. This candle glows for all the world.
Unison Prayer: In Hope we raise our prayers, O God. May we ever worship you, and ever live among our neighbors, in your Peace. Let Joy lend ardor to our singing. Let Love both soothe our hearts, and open up our hearts for kindly sharing with the world. For you have come to us in Jesus Christ, a wonder and a marvel. Bless our worship with Christ’s spirit, God. Amen.
Service of Lessons and Carols
Please remain seated while singing these carols
Anthem: He Shall Feed His Flock Kayleen Yuda
Michael Springer
First Lesson: Isaiah 9:2, 6-7 Jennifer Tanouye
Carol #116: O Come, O Come Emmanuel (v. 1-2)
Second Lesson: Luke 1:26-35, 38 Woody Kita
Carol #124: Away in a Manger (v. 1-2)
Third Lesson: Luke 2:1, 3-7 Nalyn Ang
Anthem: O Holy Night Rachel Edwards
Kanako Okita
Fourth Lesson: Luke 2:8-16 John Narruhn
Carol #144: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (v. 1-2)
Fifth Lesson: Matthew 2:1-12 Gloria Kobayashi
Carol #139: The First Nowell (v. 1-3)
Sixth Lesson: John 1:1-5, 14 Jordan Nakamoto
Carol #132: Joy to the World
Meditation Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Christmas Prayer
Service of Candlelight
Carol #134: Silent Night (v. 1-3)
Benediction Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Postlude: Joy to the World/Hallelujah Chorus Kayleen Yuda
Permissions
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/Angels from the Realms of Glory,
arr. Albin Whitworth
Streamed by permission ONELICENSE A-735890
O Come All Ye Faithful
Text: Latin attrib. to John Francis Wade, 18th cent.
Trans. by Frederick Oakeley, 1841
Tune ADESTE FIDELES 18th cent. English melody
Public Domain
He Shall Feed His Flock
by George Friedrich Handel
Public Domain
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Text from Psalteriolum Cantionum Catholicarum, 1710
Trans. by John Mason Neale, 1852
Tune VENI EMMANUEL, 15th cent. French melody
Public Domain
Away in a Manger
Text Anon., 1885
Tune MULLER attrib. to James R. Murray, 1887
Public Domain
O Holy Night
by Adolphe Adam, 1847
trans. by John Sullivan Dwight, 1855
Public Domain
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Text by Charles Wesley, 1739
Tune MENDELSSOHN by Felix Mendelssohn, 1840
Public Domain
The First Nowell
Trad. English text
Tune THE FIRST NOWELL trad. English melody
Public Domain
Joy to the World!
Text by Isaac Watts, 1719
Tune ANTIOCH by Lowell Mason, 1836
Public Domain
Silent Night
Text by Joseph Mohr, 1818
Trans. by John F. Young, 1863
Tune STILLE NACHT by Franz Gruber, 1818
Public Domain
Joy to the World/Hallelujah Chorus, arr. Albin Whitworth
Tune: © 1985 Lorenz Publishing Company
Text: © 1985 Lorenz Publishing Company, assigned to Lorenz Publishing Company
Streamed by permission ONELICENSE A-735890
Pastor Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Moderator Woody Kita
Choir Accompanist Kanako Okita
Choir Director & Conductor Doug Albertson
Organist Kayleen Yuda
Hand Bell Director Anna Kennedy
Childcare Coordinator Evonne Shioshita
Movement Leader Genie Phillips
Projected Imagery Sue Smith
Web Master Ruth Niino-DuPonte
Videographers Eric Tanouye, Bob Smith, Eli Yamaki, Ruth Niino-DuPonte
Chapel Decorations Cynthia Debus
