{"id":4096,"date":"2014-12-24T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/?p=4096"},"modified":"2021-01-02T13:16:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T18:16:58","slug":"prayers-december-24-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/prayers-december-24-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayers: December 24, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Prayers 12 24 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Welcome to our Annual Christmas Eve Service; 2 of our 6 new members who were recently baptized and joined the church are present to read the lessons tonight; please be prepared to read the lessons according to your most familiar language<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Reception on the 4<sup>th<\/sup> floor Fellowship Hall immediately follows our service tonight; we invite everyone to attend; thanks to all who brought something to share<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Come to Sunday Worship this Sunday: 10:00 English, 10:00 Cantonese and 11:20 English; Breakfast begins at 8:00 on the 4<sup>th<\/sup> floor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Appreciation to the ensemble in bringing special music to our service tonight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*We hope that you may sense God\u2019s presence tonight as we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Offertory<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We come unto the Lord with praise on the birth of Christ. Let gladness fill our hearts this night as God\u2019s people rejoice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O God, we bring to you an offering of faith with hope and anticipation for the dawning of Christ\u2019s light in the darkness, energizing the church in mission. We make this offering of our material resources for Christ\u2019s purposes. Bless our gifts in Jesus\u2019 name. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Benediction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go out and spread the good news of great joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salvation is offered to all of humankind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Glory to God in the highest heaven;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peace on earth and goodwill among all people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayers 12 24 2014 *Welcome to our Annual Christmas Eve Service; 2 of our 6 new members who were recently baptized and joined the church are present to read the<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/prayers-december-24-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prayers: December 24, 2014<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-4096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayers","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4097,"href":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions\/4097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}