{"id":11948,"date":"2024-12-17T12:46:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T17:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/?p=11948"},"modified":"2024-12-17T12:48:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T17:48:34","slug":"advent-iii-waiting-for-god-and-loving-the-wait-by-j-d-penner-sunday-december-15-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/?p=11948","title":{"rendered":"Advent III: Waiting for God and Loving the Wait by J.D. Penner – Sunday December 15, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You can listen to the service here.<\/a>
You can listen to the sermon here.<\/a>
You can read the sermon text here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worship Team<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Worship Leader: <\/strong>Roxanne Wright
Speaker: <\/strong>J.D. Penner
Song Leader: <\/strong>Geoff Wichert and Damaris Schmucker
Pianist: <\/strong>Lori Unger
Ushers: <\/strong>Tobi and Harold Theissen
Tech Team (In-Person \/ Online): <\/strong>Brad Lepp and Jonah Thiessen
Coffee Hour: <\/strong>Mareike Meyer and Thane Ladner
Activity Period: <\/strong>Laura Giesbrecht<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Order of Service <\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Opening Hymn: VT 47 Angels we have Heard on High 
Welcome to TUMC and Land Acknowledgement
Announcements
Call to Worship VT 870 Maggie Lepp
Scripture: Zephaniah 3:14-20 (NRSV) David Hamm
Lighting Advent Candle 3: Joy
Children sing VT 97 Magnificat 
Hymn VT 240 Joy to the World
Grade 2-4 Sunday school class poem reading: A Promise of Hope, Joy, Peace and Love 
Hymn VT 252 Go Tell it on the Mountain
Giving with Gratitude
Hymn VT 268 Helpless and Hungry\/VT 67 What Child is This
Hymn VT 244 Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht (Silent Night, Holy Night) 
Congregational Prayer: Alternativa del Padre Nuestro, Jacqui Schmucker
Scripture: Luke 3:7-18, Levi Stolte
Sermon: \u201cWaiting for God and Loving the Wait\u201d J.D. Penner
Hymn VT 212 Comfort, Comfort, O My People 
Benediction: Philippians 4:4-7 Tasha Wright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Sunday was the third service in Advent. The children, led by Damaris Schmucker, led us in worship singing songs including Angels We Have Heard on High and Silent Night. J.D. Penner was the speaker and preached about Waiting for God and Loving the Wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons-a-worship-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11950,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11948\/revisions\/11950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}