Natalie's Grace Notes

  Eastern Parkway United Methodist Church  A warm welcome to each worshiper today. We celebrate you and offer you our friendship and love. We are a congregation of people who seek to grow spiritually, to become more like Christ in His compassion and acceptance of everyone while growing more aware of what it really means to be Christians today. As a Reconciling Congregation, EPUMC affirms the sacred worth of persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities and welcomes them into full participation in the fellowship, membership, ministries, and leadership of the congregation.       943 Palmer Avenue, Schenectady, NY 12309 / 518-374-4306 epumc943@gmail.com / www.easternparkway.org Order of Worship December 31, 2023 New Year’s Eve 10:00 a.m. *You are invited to rise in body or spirit.   Prelude Greeting and Announcements Mission Statement: We are a faith community striving to be, to nurture, and to send forth disciples of Jesus Christ. Call to Worship: A new day has dawned, a new

  Eastern Parkway United Methodist Church  A warm welcome to each worshiper today. We celebrate you and offer you our friendship and love. We are a congregation of people who seek to grow spiritually, to become more like Christ in His compassion and acceptance of everyone while growing more aware of what it really means to be Christians today. As a Reconciling Congregation, EPUMC affirms the sacred worth of persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities and welcomes them into full participation in the fellowship, membership, ministries, and leadership of the congregation.       943 Palmer Avenue, Schenectady, NY 12309 / 518-374-4306 epumc943@gmail.com / www.easternparkway.org Order of Worship December 24, 2023 Christmas Eve 7:00pm *You are invited to rise in body or spirit.   Prelude Greeting Lighting of the Advent Wreath: Reader 1: To a people longing for hope and yearning for deliverance, the prophet Isaiah declared, The people who walked in darkness have seen a great lig