Welcoming Strangers – 2 - Poem by Raymond A. Foss

Our lives in witness
to share the joy within us
the love of God for us
giving us reason to sing
to share the love of Jesus
to bear eternal witness
the redeeming of our Savior
bringing us before God
humble, yet certain
that he died to set us free

Needing to share this witness
to offer all we meet Jesus
welcoming strangers to us
as if they were angels
as if they were Jesus
standing right before us
treating them as our brothers
our sisters of long standing
opening our hearts, our doors
our lives that they would be connected
healed, like us, by Jesus
the reason for this season
the joy dripping from our lips
the love of our Savior
pouring out of us

December 19, 2010
Matthew 2:1-5
Hebrews 12:28-13.3
John 5:9 (bulletin cover)
Psalm 98:4-9 (“Joy to the World”, UMH #246)
Matthew 2:1-12 (“Star-Child”, TFWS #2095)
Luke 2:6-20 (“Angels We Have Heard on High”, UMH #238)
Advent Candle Liturgy, by Dean McIntyre (with Matthew 1:18-25)
Worship Theme: “You never know where you will encounter God.”
Unison Prayer
and sermon, “Meeting Angels”
by Reverend Huntley Halvorson
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
December 19, 2010
Fourth Sunday of Advent

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