Christmas Eve Candlelight Service 2024

Grace Lutheran Podcast

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service 2024
Produced, Remixed and Edited by Bill Abella

Worship Leader · Gary Stueckle
Artistic and Choir Director · John Hendrix
Piano / Organ · Randi Teigland Hendrix
Flute · Marilyn Swanson
Senior Pastor: Tim Johnson
Livestream Director · Bill Abella
Livestream Co-Director · Brandon Abella

Intro · Prelude

00:00 Still, Still, Still
02:08 Nativity Carol
04:45 Sussex Carol
06:46 The Carols of Christmas

11:35 Welcome · Gary Stueckle

13:04 Come Thou Long Expected Jesus · Hymn 5

15:25 Call to Worship · John 1:1,3-4, Isaiah 9:2

16:19 O Come All Ye Faithful · Hymn 19

19:07 He is Born · Choir

21:34 Lighting of the First Advent Candle Prophecy
Connie Hermer – Isaiah 9:6-7
22:10 Where Shepherds Lately Knelt · Choir
25:29 Let Every Heart Prepare a Throne · Alyson & Jesica Abella

28:10 Lighting of the Second Advent Candle Bethlehem
Kimberly, Emma & Trudy Lund · Micah 5:2, Matthew 2:1-12
30:13 Once in Royal David’s City · Hymn 37
32:50 Winds Through the Olive Trees · Mixed Octet

35:56 Lighting of the Third Advent Candle Shepherds
Huyn & Alicia Chung · Luke 2:8-20
37:37 Rise Up, Shepherds, and Follow · Men’s Ensemble

40:38 Lighting of the Fourth Advent Candle Angels
Dan & Kari Fordice · Luke 1 :26-37
42:09 Angels from the Realms of Glory · Hymn 25
44:15 Nowell, Nowell, Emmanuel! · Choir

47:25 Lighting of the Fifth Advent Candle Christ
Tim & Linda Johnson · Luke 2 :25-32, John 8 :12
48:55 Do You Know? · Women’s Ensemble
50:44 O Savior Sweet · Stephen Kraakmo

53:18 Congregational Singing of Christmas Carols
Joy to the World
The First Noel
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Angels We Have Heard on High
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Away in a Manger
Silent Night

1:01:59 Closing – Pastor Tim Johnson
1:04:33 Good Friends Christian Rejoice

Grace Choir:
Alyson Abella · Bill Abella · Jesica Abella · Kim Eisinger
Connie Hermer · Karisa Kraakmo · Leanna Kraakmo
Stephen Kraakmo · Victor Kraakmo · Anna Stueckle
Gary Stueckle · Peggy Sutherland · Alan Swanson

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Hymns:
Come Thou Long Expected Jesus
O Come, All Ye Faithful
Once In Royal David’s City
Angels From the Realms of Glory
Joy to the World
The First Noel
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Angels We Have Heard on High
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Away in a Manger
Silent Night

AMBASSADOR HYMNAL © 1994 The Coordinating Committee of the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations

“Still, Still, Still”
Dennis & Nan Allen
© 1992 Van Ness Press, Inc.

“Nativity Carol”
John Rutter
© 1997 & 2020 Oxford University Press

“Sussex Carol”
Ralph Vaughan Williams

“Carols of Christmas”
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, The First Noel, O Come, All Ye Faithful
Arranged by Carol Foss
© 2009 Lillenas Publishing Company

“He is Born”
Traditional 19th cent, French carol; arr. Dave and Jean Perry
© 1990 Alfred Publishing Co.

“Where Shepherds Lately Knelt”
Words: Jaroslav J. Vajda – Music: Carl Schalk
© 1987 Jaroslav J. Vajda and Music: Carl Schalk
© 1987 Augsburg Publishing House

“Let Every Heart Prepare a Throne”
Quoting from the first stanza of Hark, the Glad Sound
Phillip Doddridge, 1702-1751
Mark Patterson, additional lyrics
Music by Mark Patterson
© 2013 Choristers Guild.

“Winds Through the Olive Trees”
Katherine Parker, Carolyn Jennings
George W. Wilmot, arr. Carolyn Jennings
© 2004 Kjos Music Press

“Rise Up, Shepherds, and Follow”
Jack Schrader
© 1997, 2004 Hope Publishing Co.

“Nowell, Nowell, Emmanuel!”
Gilbert M. Martin and Terry Kirkland
© 1995 Triune Music, Inc. a division of The Lorenz Corporation

“Do You Know?”
Linda Steen Spevacek
© 1996 Triune Music, a division of The Lorenz Corporation.

“O Savior Sweet”
Philip E. Baker / J. S. Bach, arr. Philip E. Baker
© 1983 Augsburg Publishing House

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