Monthly Archives: December 2019

Sunday Bulletin: Dec 29, 2019

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First Sunday After Christmas

December 29, 2019 

FOOTPRINTS

Held Every SUNDAY – In our Downstairs Fellowship Hall 

Dinner 6:30 pm –Meeting 7:00 – 8:00 pm

BIBLE STUDY 

Tuesday – Dinner 6:30 pm – Meeting 7:00 – 8:00 pm

Upstairs Fellowship Area

Sea Bright Acoustic Cafe

Next performance will be January 18, 2020 

Text Box: PASTOR: MICHAEL TURNER Cell Phone: 848-218-2171 LAY LEADER & MUSICIAN: GEORGE FINEGAN LAY SERVANTS: REILEE TURNER, GRACE DAKOGLOU, ROBERT LAMBERT


Outreach Ministry – Barbara Smith – 732-495-1672

1st UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF SEA BRIGHT

1104 OCEAN AVENUE, SEA BRIGHT, NEW JERSEY 07760

CHURCH OFFICE (732) 530-7003

E-mail:  seabrightumc1@verizon.net

WEB: www.seabrightumc.org

SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE 10 AM

MERIDIAN MINISTRY IN SHREWSBURY

1ST SUNDAY– 2PM

WELCOME TO SEA BRIGHT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

WHERE JESUS CHRIST IS LORD!

A Service of Word & Music

RINGING OF THE BELL

PREPARATION FOR THE WORD

PRELUDE      (A time to relax and enter the mindset of worship)

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Leader:  Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done.   

People:  Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts.    

Leader:  Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.     

INTRODUCTION   “Into My Heart” (Verse 1)               FWS 2160

HYMN OF INVOCATION                                                   UMH 240                                               

 “Hark!  The Herald Angels Sing” 

CALL TO WORSHIP

Leader:  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

People:  And also with you.

Leader:  With the whole congregation we will praise the great deed of God.

People:  With the whole congregation we will praise God, who has won a name by marvelous deeds in Jesus Christ.

PRAYER OF INVOCATION

Though you hear our unspoken prayers and the quietest whisper, O God, you rejoice also to hear the common voice we speak together in your in your praise and honor.  We come to you in the confidence of children to their own parent because you have come to us in Jesus Christ our brother.  Amen

HEARING OF THE WORD

FIRST READING                                                  

“Isaiah 63:7-9”                                                           PAGE 1162

HYMN OF PREPARATION                                     UMH 229          

“Infant Holy, Infant Lowly

PSALM          “148”                                                 UMH 861 

SECOND READING                                             

“Hebrews 2:10-18”                                                   PAGE 1862

GOSPEL 

“Matthew 2:13-23”                                                PAGE 1502 

MESSAGE       

“MORNING MESSAGE”                           Pastor Michael Turner

RESPONSE TO THE WORD

MOMENT OF SILENCE

AFFIRMATION OF FAITH

GLORIA PATRI                                                              UMH 70

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

PASSING OF THE PEACE           

OFFERING OF SELF AND RESOURCES

HYMN OF DEDICATION                                                   UMH 242                                              

     “Love Came Down At Christmas”

BENEDICTION AND SENDING FORTH                     FWS 2160

     “Into My Heart” (Verse 2)   

AS YOU ARE ABLE – PLEASE STAND TO PRAISE GOD

Advent Christmas Eve, 2019

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Christmas Eve 

Good news! Good news!

Our hopes and fears and all of years

     have met in this place tonight.

And we have beheld the glory of the coming of God’s Messiah.

Sing for joy! Salvation has come!

Light the Christ Candle

We light the Christ candle as a sign to the world

    that today, in the City of David, a Savior is born,

    who is Christ the Lord.

We no longer have to fear the darkness

     for our Light has come.

Glory to God in the highest heaven! 

And on earth, peace to all of God’s children!

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Amen. 

Christmas Eve, 2019

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Lighting the Advent Wreath

All: O come, Desire of nations bind all peoples in one heart and mind.  From dust thou brought us forth to life; deliver us from earthly strife.

 Our souls magnify the Lord and our spirits rejoice in God for God has looked with favor on us, God’s servants.

God has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly. God has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty.

God of Justice, God of Peace, we open our hearts to you. Give us grace to be instruments of your righteousness.

Give us courage to turn away from distractions and distortions and turn toward the home you have made, are making, and will complete through Christ.

All: We, God’s people, sing songs of joy with the prophet, “I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my whole being shall exult in my God.” (Isaiah 61:10, NRSV)

Light all four Advent candles.

Advent Week 4

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Lighting the Advent Wreath

All: O come, Desire of nations bind all peoples in one heart and mind.  From dust thou brought us forth to life; deliver us from earthly strife.

 Our souls magnify the Lord and our spirits rejoice in God for God has looked with favor on us, God’s servants.

God has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly. God has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty.

God of Justice, God of Peace, we open our hearts to you. Give us grace to be instruments of your righteousness.

Give us courage to turn away from distractions and distortions and turn toward the home you have made, are making, and will complete through Christ.

All: We, God’s people, sing songs of joy with the prophet, “I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my whole being shall exult in my God.” (Isaiah 61:10, NRSV)

Light all four Advent candles.

Sunday Bulletin: Dec 22, 2019

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Fourth Sunday of Advent

December 22, 2019 

FOOTPRINTS

Held Every SUNDAY – In our Downstairs Fellowship Hall 

Dinner 6:30 pm –Meeting 7:00 – 8:00 pm

BIBLE STUDY 

Tuesday – Dinner 6:30 pm – Meeting 7:00 – 8:00 pm

Upstairs Fellowship Area

CHRISTMAS EVE CANDLELIGHT SERVICE

Dinner at 6:30 p.m. – Please bring a dessert, if possible.

Service at 8:00 p.m.

Sea Bright Acoustic Cafe

Next performance will be January 18, 2020 

Text Box: PASTOR: MICHAEL TURNER Cell Phone: 848-218-2171 LAY LEADER & MUSICIAN: GEORGE FINEGAN LAY SERVANTS: REILEE TURNER, GRACE DAKOGLOU, ROBERT LAMBERT


Outreach Ministry – Barbara Smith – 732-495-1672

1st UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF SEA BRIGHT

1104 OCEAN AVENUE, SEA BRIGHT, NEW JERSEY 07760

CHURCH OFFICE (732) 530-7003

E-mail:  seabrightumc1@verizon.net

WEB: www.seabrightumc.org

SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE 10 AM

MERIDIAN MINISTRY IN SHREWSBURY

1ST SUNDAY– 2PM

WELCOME TO SEA BRIGHT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

WHERE JESUS CHRIST IS LORD!

A Service of Word & Music

RINGING OF THE BELL

PREPARATION FOR THE WORD

PRELUDE      (A time to relax and enter the mindset of worship)

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Leader:  Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done.   

People:  Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts.    

Leader:  Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.     

INTRODUCTION   “Into My Heart” (Verse 1)               FWS 2160

HYMN OF INVOCATION                                                   UMH 245                                               

 “The First Noel” 

CALL TO WORSHIP

Leader:  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

People:  And also with you.

Leader:  Beloved of God and  called to holiness, grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  

People:  We seek the face of God who is with us in Jesus Christ.        

PRAYER OF INVOCATION

We seek your face, O God, seen by Mary and Joseph, and the first disciples of Jesus Christ, and visible to the eyes of our hearts as we hear the Good News they have written in the scriptures and as we are open to the Spirit of Christ within us.  Be with us today and always.  Amen.  

HEARING OF THE WORD

FIRST READING                                                  

“Isaiah 7:10-16”                                                         PAGE 1071

HYMN OF PREPARATION                                   UMH 230            

“O Little Town of Bethlehem”

PSALM          “80:1-7,17-19”                                    UMH 801 

NEW TESTAMENT READING

“Romans 1:1-7”                                                       PAGE 1744

GOSPEL 

“Matthew 1:18-25”                                                 PAGE 1501 

MESSAGE       

“MORNING MESSAGE”                           Pastor Michael Turner

RESPONSE TO THE WORD

MOMENT OF SILENCE

AFFIRMATION OF FAITH

GLORIA PATRI                                                              UMH 70

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

PASSING OF THE PEACE           

OFFERING OF SELF AND RESOURCES

HYMN OF DEDICATION                                                   UMH 220                                              

     “Angels from the Realms of Glory”

BENEDICTION AND SENDING FORTH                     FWS 2160

     “Into My Heart” (Verse 2)   

AS YOU ARE ABLE – PLEASE STAND TO PRAISE GOD

Advent Week 3 12-15-2019 w Shoe Boxes

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Lighting the Advent Wreath        

Hymn: “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel,” stanza 6, The United Methodist Hymnal, 211

All: “O come, thou Dayspring, come and cheer our spirits by thy justice here;
disperse the gloomy clouds of night, and death’s dark shadows put to flight.”

Reader 1: “The LORD has done great things for us, and we are overjoyed. … Let those who plant with tears reap the harvest with joyful shouts.” (Psalm 126:3, 5 CEB)

Reader 2: God of Joy, you enter the wilderness of our world and proclaim that there is a way to reach home again.

Reader 3: God of Joy, you break through clouds of despair and sorrow to bring good news to your people.

Reader 4: God of Joy, you send hope into the world in the form of a tiny baby.

All: We, God’s people, sing songs of joy with the prophet, “I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my whole being shall exult in my God” (Isaiah 61:10, NRSV).

Reader: On this third Sunday of Advent, we light this candle, knowing that joy is our true home.

Light three candles. If you have a pink candle, light it for the first time today.

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Lighting the Advent Wreath        

Hymn: “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel,” stanza 6, The United Methodist Hymnal, 211

All: “O come, thou Dayspring, come and cheer our spirits by thy justice here;
disperse the gloomy clouds of night, and death’s dark shadows put to flight.”

Reader 1: “The LORD has done great things for us, and we are overjoyed. … Let those who plant with tears reap the harvest with joyful shouts.” (Psalm 126:3, 5 CEB)

Reader 2: God of Joy, you enter the wilderness of our world and proclaim that there is a way to reach home again.

Reader 3: God of Joy, you break through clouds of despair and sorrow to bring good news to your people.

Reader 4: God of Joy, you send hope into the world in the form of a tiny baby.

All: We, God’s people, sing songs of joy with the prophet, “I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my whole being shall exult in my God” (Isaiah 61:10, NRSV).

Reader: On this third Sunday of Advent, we light this candle, knowing that joy is our true home.

Light three candles. If you have a pink candle, light it for the first time today.

The Christmas gifts for the Homeless that have been collected will be donated to the Jersey Shore Rescue Mission.  Thank you for your support!

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Another mission project that will be on-going throughout the year is “Shoe Boxes for Kids”.

These boxes will contain items small enough to fit into a shoe box that would be used by children, such as pens, pencils, crayons, note paper, stickers, toothbrush, toothpaste. 

The receptacle to hold these items will be located in the nave. 

The filled boxes will be sent to children in the U.S. and around the world.   

Healthy Personal Hygiene Background

Future ‘Shoe Boxes’ will be for Women, and for Men.  If you have new personal hygiene items for Women or Men you can put them in the receptacle at any time.  We will separate as needed. 

Sunday Bulletin: Dec 15, 2019

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Third Sunday of Advent

December 15, 2019

FOOTPRINTS

Held Every SUNDAY – In our Downstairs Fellowship Hall 

Dinner 6:30 pm –Meeting 7:00 – 8:00 pm

BIBLE STUDY 

Tuesday – Dinner 6:30 pm – Meeting 7:00 – 8:00 pm

Upstairs Fellowship Area

CHRISTMAS EVE CANDLELIGHT SERVICE

Dinner at 6:30 p.m. – Please bring a dessert, if possible.

Service at 8:00 p.m.

GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS

The gifts that have been collected will be delivered next week.  If you have anything more you would like to donate please let us know by putting a note in the Offertory Plate or by calling    Barbara (732-495-1672) or Grace (908-303-9695)

Sea Bright Acoustic Cafe

Next performance will be in January. 

Text Box: PASTOR: MICHAEL TURNER Cell Phone: 848-218-2171 LAY LEADER & MUSICIAN: GEORGE FINEGAN LAY SERVANTS: REILEE TURNER, GRACE DAKOGLOU, ROBERT LAMBERT


Outreach Ministry – Barbara Smith – 732-495-1672

1st UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF SEA BRIGHT

1104 OCEAN AVENUE, SEA BRIGHT, NEW JERSEY 07760

CHURCH OFFICE (732) 530-7003

E-mail:  seabrightumc1@verizon.net

WEB: www.seabrightumc.org

SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE 10 AM

MERIDIAN MINISTRY IN SHREWSBURY

1ST SUNDAY– 2PM

WELCOME TO SEA BRIGHT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

WHERE JESUS CHRIST IS LORD!

A Service of Word & Music

RINGING OF THE BELL

PREPARATION FOR THE WORD

PRELUDE      (A time to relax and enter the mindset of worship)

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Leader:  To you, Lord, I call; 

People:  You are my Rock,  

Leader:  For if you remain silent, I will be like those who go down to the pit.   

People:  Hear my cry for mercy as I call to you for help,  

Leader:  I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.    

INTRODUCTION   “Into My Heart” (Verse 1)               FWS 2160

HYMN OF INVOCATION                                            UMH 218      

 “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” 

CALL TO WORSHIP

Leader:  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

People:  And also with you.

Leader:  Be patient, and stouthearted, for Christ’s coming is near.

People:  We will be patient, and stouthearted, for Christ’s coming is near.      

PRAYER OF INVOCATION

Worshiping you, O God, strengthens our resistance to the evil in the world around us and still within us.  We declare our allegiance to your rule in the world through Jesus Christ, who has come and is coming again.  Amen. 

HEARING OF THE WORD

FIRST READING                                                  

“Isaiah 35:1-10”                                                         PAGE 1113

HYMN OF PREPARATION                                      UMH 219        

“What Child Is This”

PSALM          “Canticle of Mary”                             UMH 199 

SECOND READING                                             

“James 5:7-10”                                                          PAGE 1884

GOSPEL 

“Matthew 11:1-11”                                                 PAGE 1516 

MESSAGE       

“MORNING MESSAGE”                           Pastor Michael Turner

RESPONSE TO THE WORD

MOMENT OF SILENCE

AFFIRMATION OF FAITH

GLORIA PATRI                                                              UMH 70

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

PASSING OF THE PEACE           

OFFERING OF SELF AND RESOURCES

HYMN OF DEDICATION                                                UMH 430                                               

     “O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee”

BENEDICTION AND SENDING FORTH                     FWS 2160

     “Into My Heart” (Verse 2)   

AS YOU ARE ABLE – PLEASE STAND TO PRAISE GOD

Second Sunday of Advent

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In those days a fiery preacher from the desert came to tell the people:

“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near!”

He is the one the prophet Isaiah spoke about when he said:

“The voice of one crying in the wilderness:

    ‘Prepare the way of the Lord,

      make his paths straight.”

We light the second Advent candle in preparation for the coming of the Messiah,

 in anticipation of the fullness of God’s justice and righteousness,

 and remembering the call of John the Baptist

    to make paths straight,

    repent of our sin,

    and live holy lives devoted to God.

Light the candle

Come, Lord Jesus.

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Amen.

Sunday Bulletin: Dec 08, 2019

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Second Sunday of Advent

December 8, 2019

FOOTPRINTS

Held Every SUNDAY – In our Downstairs Fellowship Hall 

Dinner 6:30 pm –Meeting 7:00 – 8:00 pm

BIBLE STUDY 

Tuesday – Dinner 6:30 pm – Meeting 7:00 – 8:00 pm

Upstairs Fellowship Area

NORTHERN SHORE CLUSTER CHOIR 

The Northern Shore Cluster Choir will be performing ‘A Christmas Cantatas’ on SUNDAY – TODAY @ 3:30 pm

Lutheran Church of the Reformation 

992 Broadway, Long Branch, NJ 

GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS

It’s that ‘time of year’ when we think about the Gift we received from God – ‘The Birth of His Son”.  

Let’s take this time to think about those that are less fortunate, many without homes.  Will you share with others by donating Gift Cards, Socks or Mittens?  See the enclosed insert for details.  

Sea Bright Acoustic Cafe

Next performance to be announced.

Text Box: PASTOR: MICHAEL TURNER Cell Phone: 848-218-2171 LAY LEADER & MUSICIAN: GEORGE FINEGAN LAY SERVANTS: REILEE TURNER, GRACE DAKOGLOU, ROBERT LAMBERT


Outreach Ministry – Barbara Smith – 732-495-1672

1st UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF SEA BRIGHT

1104 OCEAN AVENUE, SEA BRIGHT, NEW JERSEY 07760

CHURCH OFFICE (732) 530-7003

E-mail:  seabrightumc1@verizon.net

WEB: www.seabrightumc.org

SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE 10 AM

MERIDIAN MINISTRY IN SHREWSBURY

1ST SUNDAY– 2PM

WELCOME TO SEA BRIGHT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

WHERE JESUS CHRIST IS LORD!

A Service of Word & Music

RINGING OF THE BELL

PREPARATION FOR THE WORD

PRELUDE      (A time to relax and enter the mindset of worship)

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Leader:  I was pushed back and about to fall, but the 

              Lord helped me.

People:  The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. Amen.

Lighting of the Second Candle – See Insert

INTRODUCTION            “INTO MY HEART”      (Verse 1)  FWS 2160

HYMN OF INVOCATION                                                           UMH  213

“Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates”                

CALL TO WORSHIP

Leader:  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

People: And also with you.

Leader:   With one mind and one voice, praise God the Parent of our Lord Jesus Christ, and ours.   

People: We will glorify God, who is merciful, and sing hymns to God, who has many hallowed names.  

PRAYER OF INVOCATION 

We hallow your name, O God, and join our hearts, and minds and voices in prayers and hymns and responses.  You graciously receive our worship inspired by the Spirit, through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen

HEARING OF THE WORD

FIRST READING                                          

 “Isaiah 11:1-10”                                                        Page 1077

HYMN OF PREPARATION                                       UMH 203

“Hail to the Lord’s Anointed”

PSALM                    “72”                                             UMH 795                         

SECOND READING

“Romans 15:4-13”                                                     Page 1765        

GOSPEL             

“Matthew 3:1-12”                                                       Page 1503

MORNING MESSAGE                             Pastor Michael Turner

RESPONSE TO THE WORD

OFFERING OF SELF AND RESOURCES

AFFIRMATION OF FAITH                                         

GLORIA PATRI                                                                  UMH 70

PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE             

OFFERING OF SELF & RESOURCES 

INVITATION TO COMMUNION                                 UMH 12

THE GREAT THANKSGIVING                                  UMH 13

HYMN OF DEDICATION                                            UMH 617

     “I Come With Joy”

BENEDICTION AND SENDING FORTH             FWS 2160

     “Into My Heart” (Verse 2)   

AS YOU ARE ABLE – PLEASE STAND TO PRAISE GOD