12.19.2021
THIS WEEKEND SUBMIT YOUR PLEDGE We are 85% to our pledge goal of $4,885,000. This is a bit behind previous years, so if you have not submitted your pledge, please know how important it is in assisting our Finance Committee in finalizing our 2022 budget. To return your pledge you can mail in or drop off the physical card that was mailed to your home, call it in to (317) 846-3404, or submit it electronically at stlukesumc.com/give. CONNECTIONS BOOKSTORE OPEN SUNDAYS • 9AM - NOON CONNECTION CENTERS OUTSIDE THE SANCTUARY & ROBERTSON CHAPEL Stop by the Connection Centers to get your questions answered, sign up for groups, serving opportunities, and events, and learn about ways to connect here. RESTLESS CHILD AREA GATHERING AREA (LEFT OF SANCTUARY) & CENTRAL PASSAGE Enjoy our live services in these spaces if your child needs a break during worship. DONUTS & COFFEE FELLOWSHIP HALL • 10AM – NOON After service come meet new people while grabbing a coffee and donut. Stop by the Adult Discipleship Table to learn more and sign up for group, classes, and book studies kicking off in 2022!
CHRISTMAS AT ST. LUKE’S stlukesumc.com/christmas
LONGEST NIGHT SERVICE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21 AT 7PM • ROBERTSON CHAPEL & ONLINE Navigating the Christmas season during grief can be hard. Join us for a service of hope on the day each year that we have the least hours of sunlight, the longest night. This service symbolizes a move out of the darkness and is for anyone who has had a loss of any kind at any time in their life. Grief is a journey that no one can put an end date on. Let us be a part of your journey, your journey of hope into lightness. This service will be in-person as well as streamed online at stlukesumc.com/live. CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICES FAMILY SERVICE @ 3PM | SANCTUARY & ONLINE TRADITIONAL @ 5PM, 7PM, 9PM | SANCTUARY & ONLINE CONTEMPORARY @ 5PM, 7PM | ROBERTSON CHAPEL & ONLINE CANDLELIGHT COMMUNION @ 11PM | ROBERTSON CHAPEL Christmas Eve, one of the most special nights of the year, is always a time to worship and reflect on the story of Jesus’ birth. This year, we find hope through the music of Christmas and rejoice in Christ. Services are offered online and in-person. Due to Covid, we are limiting capacity at all in-person services. Registration will be available beginning December 5 at stlukesumc.com/christmas. SPONSOR A POINSETTIA THROUGH DECEMBER 23 Worshippers have the opportunity to sponsor a poinsettia in memory or honor of a loved one, which will be on display in our worship spaces throughout December. The list of dedications will be published to the website. We request a donation of $10 to cover the cost of each sponsored poinsettia. Sponsorships will go through December 23. Visit stlukesumc.com/christmas to sponsor a poinsettia. NEW YEAR’S EVE LABYRINTH WALK FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31 • 5PM • FELLOWSHIP HALL Usher in the New Year with a time of remembering 2021 and looking forward to 2022. Perhaps choose a word for 2022 and contemplate how that word will be evidenced in your life as you walk. If you have never walked a labyrinth, someone will be present to introduce you to the practice. Vaccination required.
CHRISTMAS SERVING OPPORTUNITIES Throughout December ANGEL TREE When you read the Christmas story do you ever wonder if angels are real? Every year we come together to be angels for others by sponsoring and supporting hundreds of children and their families with Christmas gifts and household items. So what are you waiting for? Get outfitted for your halo today and sponsor a child. Please drop off all your gifts at St. Luke’s outside your worship space or at the main office December 5-12. You can also join the “heavenly chorus” by joining one of our wrapping and sorting shifts December 12-17. Signup at stlukesumc.com/christmas. SUPPORT AFGHAN REFUGEES A core belief of our faith is to “love our neighbors as ourselves.” As thousands of refugees from Afghanistan became our new neighbors in the fall of 2021, we recognized an opportunity to put our faith in action. We invite you to join us in partnering with Exodus Refugee as we sponsor Afghan families who fled to the United States, many with just the clothing on their backs. The funding we raise will help to provide housing, transportation, furniture, food, and other basic needs as Afghan refugees make Indiana home. Please give today as we love our neighbors as ourselves. Learn more and give at stlukesumc.com/christmas.
FIND SUPPORT
SUPPORT GROUPS Are you looking for support groups on topics like grief, cancer, depression, infancy loss, single parenting, and more? See a quick list of what we have to offer: • DivorceCare • Stephen Ministry • Caregiver Support • Cancer Support • Single Parenting • Grief Support • Military Ministry Support • Chronic Pain Support Visit stlukesumc.com/group-finder to sign up for and get details about a group that will walk alongside you and care for you in your greatest time of need. NEED PRAYER? Submit your prayer request at stlukesumc.com/prayer.
CONDOLENCES
To the family of Barabara Pedersen. To Ellen and Brian Hostetler (members) on the death of Ellen’s mother Cecelia Hamric.
TRADITIONAL ORDER OF WORSHIP Prelude | Celebrate the Christ Child Overture | arr. Camp Kirkland New Song; St. Luke’s Orchestra; Bob Zehr, Director Arrival of the Light | Greensleeves | arr. Matt Riley St. Luke’s Orchestra; Ella Ringham, Acolyte Anthem | Angels from the Realms of Glory | arr. Dan Forrest New Song; Kathrine Kouns, Director; St. Luke’s Orchestra Advent Litany | Rev. Rob Fuquay Opening Hymns | Emmanuel, Emmanuel #204 & Come Thou Long Expected Jesus #196 Chancel Choir and Orchestra Advent Candle Lighting | The Jackson Family – Dave, Leanne, and Emily Offertory Song | The Dream Isaiah Saw | Glenn Rudolph Chancel Choir, New Song, & Orchestra Prayer Time and the Lord’s Prayer | Dr. Rev. Jevon Caldwell-Gross Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Announcements Call for Offering | Whosoever on the Night of Christ’s Nativity | Glenn Rudolph Chancel Choir , New Song & Orchestra Scripture | Luke 1:26-40,56 | Matthew Kennedy Message - Monologue | Rev. Rob Fuquay Closing Song | Fathers and Daughters Rob Eads and Sherry Dubois, vocalists; Matt Trefethen, cello; Michael Conley, piano Benediction | Dr. Rev. Jevon Caldwell-Gross Postlude
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