We, Our Savior’s family of believers, welcome all to share Christ’s love, to grow in faith and to live a life of service glorifying God.

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Red Willow Bible Camp Holiday Bake Sale is at Our Savior’s this morning. Your choice for $5 each: Lefse (3 rounds), Flat bread, 10 Krumkake, a variety of breads and jellies. Thank you for your support of Red Willow Bible Camp ministries. __________________________________________________________________________________

Free-will offering at the Nativity set display last Sunday totaled $535 and was given in support of ELCA missionaries, Phil and June Nelson. Thank you to Sarah Circle for sponsoring the event and for the generous gift towards the missionary sponsorship calendar. __________________________________________________________________________________

The Olivewood Project helps Palestinian Christians in Bethlehem to remain in the Holy Land by providing them with income from the sale of their carvings. All of the money from the sale of their carvings goes back to Bethlehem and supports 46 Christian families. The carvings are made from dried branches pruned from olive trees. Trees are not cut down to make the carvings. Please visit with Pastor Randy about purchasing carvings. __________________________________________________________________________________

HOSPICE Patient Care Volunteers are needed to provide companionship in many ways, including: reminiscing & sharing stories, giving wheelchair rides, writing letters or keepsake cards, sitting with a patient so the caregiver can have a break. To volunteer or for more information, contact Jodi Rae Ingstad at 701-490-2605. __________________________________________________________________________________

The OSLC Choir & Director Tricia Lebahn, invite you to join the choir! We meet for rehearsal in the balcony at 9:45 AM on Sunday morning and sing a variety of styles including spirituals and contemporary Christian at worship. __________________________________________________________________________________

January –November 2012 Income: Year to date: $257,802.06 Expenses Year to date: $251,868.88 Income in Excess of Expenses $ 5,933.18 ___________________________________________________________

A week of OSLC ministry costs $5,960.00 Last Sunday’s general fund offering $10,823.00

Our Savior’s Lutheran Church Valley City, North Dakota

8:30 & 11:00 a.m. Worship (BROADCAST OVER KOVC-11 a.m.)

December 9, 2012, 2nd Sunday of Advent

Prelude (8:30 Charlie Kreidelkamp) Welcome and Announcements An Advent Confession and Forgiveness (inside hymnal back cover) Gathering Hymn #257 Red “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” (v.1-3, 7) Let the children come…Lighting of the Advent wreath Advent Hymn #253 Red “He Came Down” (v.2) Kyrie Page 98

Prayer of the Day: Stir up our hearts, Lord God, to prepare the way of your only Son. By his coming give to all the people of the world knowledge of your salvation; through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen

Blessing of Reader

Lesson-Malachi 3:1-4 Pew Bible page 778 Psalm-Luke 1:68-79 Pew Bible page 832 Special Music (8:30 Choir, 11:00 Trisa Olson) Gospel-Luke 3:1-6 Pew Bible page 834 Hymn of the Day #249 Red

“On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist’s Cry”

Sermon Music for Reflection Nicene Creed Page 104 Intercessory Prayers/Sharing the Peace Page 106 Offering Offertory (8:30 Charlie Kreidelkamp) (11:00 #186) Lord’s Prayer Page 112 Blessing Page 114 Sending Hymn

#581 Red “You Are Mine”

WELCOME TO WORSHIP TODAY! We are glad you are with us and pray that your worship experience at Our Savior’s will truly be a blessing. Families with young children, we welcome and encourage your children’s presence in worship! Visitors, please fill out a visitor card found in your pew and learn more about Our Savior’s @ www.oursaviorsvc.org Lay reader Jack Hanson Organist Tricia Lebahn Senior Choir Director Tricia Lebahn Office Coordinator Brenda Skramstad Youth Director Sandi Ley Pastoral Intern Karl Breddin Pastors Randall Schlecht & Emmy Isaackson

The Radio Broadcast is given in memory of Stan & Betty King by Bob & Nancy King, Darcy & Duane Schauer and family, Darin & Deb King and family. Radio broadcast of the 8:30 worship is on Sunday morning at 11:00 a.m. on KOVC 1490 AM. To sponsor a broadcast and/or reserve a sponsorship date for 2012, please contact the church office. The cost to sponsor a broadcast is $100 and you may provide this gift in memory of or in honor of someone, an anniversary or another significant event. Your gift to this important ministry is appreciated.

2012 Missionary Sponsorship Calendar is on the bulletin board across from the Church Office. For $20/day you can sponsor a day and faithfully support the work of our ELCA Missionaries, June and Philip Nelson in Cameroon; and also the work of Global Health Ministries. Thank you for your faithful and generous mission support.

Monday Morning Prayer is a time to pray for people of Our Savior’s as well as other prayer needs. Come on Monday mornings at 9:30a.m. in the Chapel. Stay afterward for coffee and fellowship. This Monday, we pray for: Evangeline Badger; David & Patty Bass, Jada; Don & Sandy Bauer; Rebecca Baumgartner, Zachary; Kristen Bear, Derek, Ethan; Lorney & Jeri Behm; Leon & Tweety Bellmore.

Prayer Candle has been placed on the altar reminding us to keep our military personnel and their families in our prayers.

This Week: December 9-16, 2012 Today: 2 Advent 8:30 a.m. Worship Service 9:30 a.m. Coffee & Fellowship 9:45 a.m. Sunday School, Choir 10:00 a.m. Adult Learning 10:30 a.m. Youth Committee 11:00 a.m. Worship Service 2:00 p.m. Community Service of Remembrance-Epworth Mon: 9:30 a.m. Morning Prayer in the Chapel 12:17 p.m. Sr. High Lunch Break Tues: 5:30 p.m. Contemporary Worship Music Practice Wed: 9:30 a.m. Bible Study 12:10 p.m. Christmas Music-Carole Flatau No Kids 4 Christ 5:30 p.m. Hand Bell Choir 6:00 p.m. Confirmation Supper 6:30 p.m. Confirmation Adventure Night 7:00 p.m. Committees 8:00 p.m. Council Thurs: 5:15 p.m. Advent Vespers Worship No WELCA Bible Study Leaders Fri: Annual Reports, Newsletter Articles due Sat: 7:30 a.m. Men’s Bible Fellowship 10:00-11:30 a.m. Sunday School Program Practice Next Sun: 3 Advent/ APOC Sunday 8:30 a.m. Worship w/Holy Communion 9:30 a.m. Coffee & Fellowship 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Adult Learning 11:00 a.m. Contemporary Worship w/Holy Communion 2:00 p.m. Sunday School Christmas Program in Sanctuary

SERVING US TODAY …AS USHERS 8:30 a.m. Don & Sandy Bauer, Dave & Sue Carlsrud 11:00 a.m. Dan & Jill Taylor and family …AS GREETERS 8:30 a.m. Larry & Carmen Svenningsen, Dallas & Kirsten Dockter 11:00 a.m. Larry & Carmen Svenningsen, Dallas & Kirsten Dockter Coffee Hosts: Larry & Carmen Svenningsen, Dallas & Kirsten Dockter

Christmas Plants at Our Savior’s Share a poinsettia plant and help decorate the sanctuary of Our Savior’s this Christmas. Complete the information below and return to the church office or offering plate by Sunday December 16. I wish to contribute a poinsettia plant: Given by ________________________________ In appreciation/honor of ___________________ In memory of ____________________________ Please bring the plant to Our Savior’s by the time of the Christmas worship services. You may pick up your donated plant following the Christmas Eve or Christmas Day worship. A list of those providing poinsettia plants will be included in the December 23 bulletin. Thank you

Christmas Plants at Our Savior’s Share a poinsettia plant and help decorate the sanctuary of Our Savior’s this Christmas. Complete the information below and return to the church office or offering plate by Sunday December 16. I wish to contribute a poinsettia plant: Given by ________________________________ In appreciation/honor of ___________________ In memory of ____________________________ Please bring the plant to Our Savior’s by the time of the Christmas worship services. You may pick up your donated plant following the Christmas Eve or Christmas Day worship. A list of those providing poinsettia plants will be included in the December 23 bulletin. Thank you

SCRIPTURE READINGS FOR 2 Advent

Malachi 3:1-4 The Lord announces a covenant with Israel. A messenger like Malachi

(his name means “my messenger”) shall prepare the way for the coming of the Lord by purifying and refining God’s people, as silver and gold are

refined. PLEASE TURN WITH ME TO THE PEW BIBLE PAGE 778.

See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts. 2But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap; 3he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the descendants of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, until they present offerings to the LORD in righteousness. 4Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years. Reader: Here ends the Lesson Congregation: Thanks be to God.

PSALM-Luke 1:68-79 Please turn to your pew Bible. The Psalm begins on page 832. Reader: Here ends the reading Congregation: Thanks be to God

PLEASE STAND FOR THE READING OF THE GOSPEL. Congregation Sings: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. John the Baptist is a herald of the saving Lord, whose way is prepared by “repentance for the forgiveness of sins.” As we hear the careful record of human leaders, we sense the spectrum of political and religious authority that will be challenged by this coming Lord. Reader: The Holy Gospel According To Luke 3:1-6 Congregation: Glory to you, O Lord. In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, 2during the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to Johnson of Zechariah in the wilderness. 3He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, 4as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, ‘The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth; 6 and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.” ’ Reader: The Gospel of the Lord. Congregation: Praise to you, O Christ.

Youth & Family Ministry 12/9/12 Just 1 week before the Christmas Program Prek-6th grade Christmas program practice is during Sunday school so please watch for speaking & reading parts being sent home, assure

attendance at Sunday school, and mark your calendars: *Sat., Dec. 15th 10am-11:30am Extra practice *Sun., Dec. 16th 9:45-10:45am Final practice *Sun., Dec. 16th 2pm Christmas Program Goodies, icecream and punch to follow Thank you to Midwest Dairy for providing the icecream!

Next Youth Committee Meeting: TODAY @ 10:30am in

the Youth Room…what activities or events do you

want for the youth? Come and hear their ideas, too Education Committee: 1/9 @ 7pm, Sandi’s office *Please mark your calendars* Kids 4 Christ 12/12…No Kids 4 Christ

12/19, 12/26 kind-6th grade, 3:30-5pm on school

Wed….learning and living out God’s Word with friends! Delicious snack provided Learn It! :Jesus Is Born Live It!: Christmas Party

Confirmation 12/12 7th-9th graders are elcome to gather in the

YOUTH ROOM after school for movies, games and homework 6-6:20pm Supper-Brandts 6:30-7:30pm Singing at the SCC…meet at the church and ride with adults 7:30-8pm Christmas Goodies

*For decorating the church with the beautiful Christmas decorations!

*For the wonderful Nativity Displays that benefit missionary

sponsorship and provided beautiful fellowship for the community! *For the time and patience organizing and practicing for Christmas Programs! *For ringing the Salvation Army Bells! Please note: *No Sr. High Lunch 12/17 *No Kids 4 Christ 12/19 *No Sunday School 12/23 or 12/30

Red Willow Bible Camp…Skiing and Tubing @ Frostfire Ski Resort! Watch for details in the Dec. newsletter! Sandi Ley, Youth Ministry sandioslcvc@msn.com 845-1328 490-1672