{"id":12782,"date":"2025-12-09T12:11:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/?p=12782"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:14:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:14:54","slug":"last-sunday-december-7-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/?p=12782","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, December 7, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Listen to the full sermon here<\/a>.
Listen to the full service here<\/a>.
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Worship Team<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Worship Leader: Doreen Martens
Speaker: Lori Unger
Song Leader: Jeff Taylor
Pianist: Ken Salsman
Ushers: Sherry and David Nelligan
Tech Team (In-Person \/ Online): Bob Loewen\/ Ben Thiessen
Activity Period: Brad & Jana Lepp
Coffee Hour: Sherry & David Nelligan
Sunday School Snack: Jennifer Stolte<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Order of Service<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Gathering Songs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

57 Holy Spirit, Come with Power,
212 comfort, comfort, oh my people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ezekiel\u2019s Vision (based on Ezekiel 37: 1-13)
Call to Worship
Welcome and introductions
Time of Gratitude
Land Acknowledgement
Hymn: #218 \u201cCome thou long expected Jesus\u201d
Lighting of the Peace candle
Children\u2019s time
Hymn #225: \u201cWe Come\u201d
Scripture: John 11: 25-26
Sermon
Moment of silent reflection
Hymn #237: \u201cNow the Heavens Start to Whisper\u201d
Congregational Sharing & Prayer
Announcements
Hymn: #485 \u201cPut Peace into each other\u2019s hands\u201d v 1-2
Benediction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just as on earth, there wastelands in the landscapes of our journeys here. If we sit here, if we wait, and if we hold still instead of running away, can a new breath bring new life again? Lori Unger has some thoughts to share on this, and they just might reignite more light into your Advent season. <\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12782","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\/12782","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=12782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12794,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12782\/revisions\/12794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}