Limehouse Presbyterian Church
The First Sunday of Advent
Service Notes and Announcements
Hymns
110 Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus
161 What Child Is This?
141 Good Christians, All Rejoice
133 Go, Tell It On the Mountain
Scriptures
OT Isaiah 40:1-8 (Comfort for God’s people)
NT 1 John 1:1-4 (We tell about what we have seen!)
Sermon: “Good Christians, All Rejoice!”
Announcements
• Congregational Meeting / Communion – Next week, on December 5th
, we will be celebrating Holy
Communion during worship. We will also have a congregational meeting after worship to consider our
finances as we prepare to head into 2022. Lastly, we will be appointing Cathy Brown as our new
Church Treasurer and Susan Cox as our new Congregational Secretary (commencing January 1st, 2022)!
Thank you, ladies, for stepping forward to serve!
• Food Bank Toonie Jar – We have realized that the Toonie Jar, by which we make donations to the local
food banks, has not been being used this year due to COVID! If you wish to make a donation to the
food banks through the church, please include it in your offering with a clear note regarding direction
before the end of the year!
• We are still looking for an Organist / Pianist to lead music on Sundays – Kathleen Boose can do it, but
we’d rather give someone else (such as a young piano student) the opportunity to play and gain some
experience (not to mention earn a little money for their work!).
• Christmas Concerts in at Knox – Michael Kelly Cavan will be performing a Christmas concert at Knox on
Sunday, December 12th at 7:00 p.m. The Knox Choir, plus Haydn Evans & Friends, will present a
concert of different Christmas music on Sunday, December 19th, also at 7:00 p.m. Mask-wearing and
social distancing for those in the pews will be enforced at these concerts.
• Do you have a hymn or a Christmas carol that you’ve been wanting to hear or sing? Please submit
such requests to Rev. Steve and he will slot it into the upcoming worship services!
• Christmas Eve will be celebrated on Friday, December 24th, at 5:00
• Pray also for:
o The people of British Columbia as they try to clean up the washed-out roads and broken rail
lines,
o The people of Newfoundland as they clean up from torrential rains and flooding this past week!
o Students trying to cope with a non-traditional learning environment as we approach the
Christmas break
o Shelters and social workers who are overloaded with clients trying to stay warm… and alive.
• Thanks, as always, to everyone for your continued support of the work and ministry of our
congregation!
