Watch Live Services Sunday at 10:45

Prelude            Charlotte Rathke, organist

Welcome and Announcements   please pass attendance pads

           Mary Meckenstock, lay speaker

Announcement:

Silent Reflection and Opening Prayer                      

Greeting Time  (You may stand up and greet those around you with a

hand shake or an elbow bump.)

*Opening Hymn     Once in Royal David’s City                      UMH 250 

Vision Recitation      Hays First UMC--------

Mission Recitation at Hays First UMC we----

*Call to Worship

Leader:  The Lord calls His children to rise and follow.

People:  We awaken to His voice and trust His direction.

Leader:  Through dreams and divine leading, God protects His plan.

People:  We walk by faith, not by sight, trusting His hand.

Leader:   Even in the face of danger, the Savior is preserved.

People:   God’s promises stand firm, and His word is fulfilled.

Leader:    Come, let us follow the One who leads us home.

People:    We will go where He sends us---in faith, obedience, and love.

Children’s Time                 

Special Music   

Prayer Hymn Come and Find the Quiet Center

Prayers of the People        Troy Miller, Assoc. Pastor             Lord’s Prayer     UMH 895

Chancel Choir

Charlotte Rathke, pianist                      

Scripture                           Luke 2:41-52          Matt Dumler

Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom.  After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it.  Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him. After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers.  When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.”  “Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?” But they did not understand what he was saying to them. Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

Sermon God Cares Mary Meckenstock, lay leader

Faithful Stewardship           

            Offertory      

           *Doxology     Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow           UMH 95

Offertory Prayer                                       Troy Miller                     

*Closing Hymn        Hark! The Herald Angels Sing      UMH 240

                 *Benediction                 

             *Postlude