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Shropshire and Marches Methodist Circuit

Online Worship 30th November 2025
(1st Sunday of Advent)

Welcome to worship

Pre-service music

Lighting the Advent Ring

Response: May Advent be for us a time of giving and receiving

Hymn StF 185

Sing we the king who is coming to reign

A call to worship
Prayer of confession

Reading: Romans 13: 11-14
...now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; the night is far gone, the day is near.

We make our offerings...

Hymn StF 495

Dear Lord and Father of mankind

Reading: Matthew 24: 36-44
But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father ... Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.

Reflection

Hymn: StF 169

Come thou long expected Jesus

Prayers

We join together in prayer for the world, the church and all in need today

Hymn: StF 186

Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord

We bless one another...

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
the love of God
and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit
be with us all, evermore
Amen

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