Good afternoon!  I have some very exciting news ……. this past Sunday, we started worship time during all three services of Sunday School.  We have been without corporate worship in the SS program for a while now which has really saddened me.  We’ve been praying for that to change.  This past September a couple SS teachers mentioned that they wanted worship back, I said “knock your self out” and they did!  (Way beyond what I expected!!)  We are blessed to have Mark LaBranche as our worship leader.  Thanks Mark  “)

Each week, or when we start a new song, I will post the lyrics to the song, scripture readings and a couple of questions to think about (these questions will be discussed on Sunday morning).  While thinking through what we hope to accomplish in Sunday morning worship and through this blog, we decided our main goals are;

• to bring glory to God
• encourage worship in our kids (not just singing songs)
• encourage family worship time
• create a bridge between Sunday School worship (downstairs) and adult worship (upstairs)
• move worship beyond 15 minutes on Sunday morning

Enjoy worshiping!

Diggin’ Deeper Into…………

Joy To The World (will be singing December 6th & 13th)

Scripture Readings:

1 Chronicles 16:33 (New International Version)

³³ Then the trees of the forest will sing,
they will sing for joy before the LORD,
for he comes to judge the earth.

2 Chronicles 30:26 (New International Version)

²⁶ There was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the days of Solomon son of David king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem.

Psalm 28:7 (New International Version)

⁷ The LORD is my strength and my shield;
my heart trusts in him, and I am helped.
My heart leaps for joy
and I will give thanks to him in song.

Psalm 66:1 (New International Version)

Psalm 66

For the director of music. A song. A psalm.

¹ Shout with joy to God, all the earth!

John 15:11 (New International Version)

¹¹I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

Questions:

What makes you so happy that you could sing?

What is the most joyous thing about Christmas to you?

Joy To The World

Verse 1

Joy to the world
The Lord is come
Let earth receive her King
Let every heart prepare Him room
And heaven and nature sing
And heaven and nature sing
And heaven and heaven
And nature sing

Verse 2

Joy to the world
The Savior reigns
Let men their songs employ
While fields and floods
Rocks hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat repeat the sounding joy

Verse 3

He rules the world
With truth and grace
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness
And wonders of His love
And wonders of His love
And wonders wonders of His love

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This entry was posted on Monday, December 7th, 2009 at 2:12 pm and is filed under kids worship.