Call To Worship
Rejoice, for today is a new day, and the beginning of a season to celebrate! This is indeed a new day. For today we begin a journey, a journey to prepare our hearts for the coming of the Son. Let us set our minds on the God of love, and prepare our hearts for God's great gift.

Invocation
O Lord, on this first Sunday of the Advent Season, as we gather in your house of prayer and praise, we ask that the weeks ahead may be a very special time for us. May we arrive at a new awareness of your claim on our lives; may we gain a new appreciation of what it means to have God with us through the incarnation of your Son; and may we make a new commitment to the rule of justice and peace which Christ came to establish upon the earth. Amen.

Ritual Of Friendship
As we enter upon this…