Unlike Any Birth Announcement - Poem by Raymond A. Foss

Unlike any birth announcement
the world had ever known
the first to be told
the shepherds in the fields

Not the rulers,
not members of the family
strangers on the hillside
the first to hear the news

And the ones sharing the news
angels from on high
coming down from heaven
God’s kingdom drawing nigh

The ones like David
the line of the king
watching their flocks by night
sleeping in the field

Come to stable
to his manger bed
bowing before the Savior, there
just as the angel said

December 23, 2010
Luke 2:11:14
Verse of the Day for 12/23/2010
&
Luke 2:8-11
Verse of the Day for 12/22/2010
&
Matthew 2:1-5
Hebrews 12:28-13.3
John 4:9 (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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