Thursday, 24 December 2020 – Christmas Eve, Year B

Welcome to Church@Home for this week!

Church@Home Worship Service

Merry Christmas!

We have prepared a Christmas Lessons and Carols service for people to use at home or in small groups this year.

In addition to the usual PowerPoint and Printed Service Order, you will find a PPT which has all the readings and backing tracks for all the hymns embedded, so that when you press ‘Begin Slideshow’ on the PPT you get a full service with visuals and sound. All you need to do is click between slides as the audio plays. This could be really helpful if you want to use it in church or a small group and you don’t have a lot of readers or a musician.

 You can find this service on Youtube at the link below as well as a Spotify playlist of the featured carols!

The service does not include a sermon in the order, but if you would like to read one, we have provided a selection below.

All the readings, prayers and music suggestions in this Church@Home section are related to the Christmas Lessons and carols service. Please feel free to explore the other Christmas Eve services available on the Service Orders section.

Here are the resources you need to worship in your home or small group this week. Feel free to select what works best for your family and situation.

Printable Church@Home Service Order for this week

Church@Home PPT for This Week

Other Resources for Church@Home Service

• Christmas Lessons and Carols PPT with backing tracks embedded
• Christmas Lessons and Carols on Youtube
• Christmas Carols on Spotify

You can choose a sermon from the selection for the week. You may like to watch Youtube Clips of the suggested hymns or access the backing tracks so you can sing along at home.

Printable Bible Readings for the week

Sermons

Select one of the following to add to your service (or view one of the Livestreaming options)

Printed Sermons

• Sermon 1, Isaiah 9:6-7
• Sermon 2, Luke 2: 1-20
• Sermon 3, Luke 2:1-20
• Sermon 4, Isaiah 9:6-7

Music Suggestions

Traditional

• Once in Royal David’s City (LH 632) | Backing Track |
• Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus (LH 17) | Backing Track |
• Hark the Glad Sound (LH 9) | Backing Track |
• OR Hark the Glad Sound (Koine) | Backing Track |
• O little town of Bethlehem (LH 633) | Backing Track |
• O Come, O come Immanuel (LH 2) | Backing Track |
• From heaven above to earth I come (LH 23) | Backing Track |
• Silent night (LH 629) | Backing Track |
• Hark! the herald angels sing (LH 33) | Backing Track |
• OR Hark! the herald angels sing (Chris Tomlin) | Backing Track |
• As with gladness men of old (LH 40) | Backing Track |
• Joy to the world (LH 627) | Backing Track |
• O come, all ye faithful (LH 34) | Backing Track |

Prayers

Contemplative Prayer Sheet for This Week

Prayer of the Church for This Week

Additional Prayer Points