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Greenbank Parish Church, Edinburgh
Sunday 30th November 2025
First Sunday in Advent
In-Person and Livestreamed Worship, 10.30am
Worship Leaders: Mr Duncan Macniven and Mrs Anne Kinnear
Organist: Alberto Massimo
Order of Service
(Hymns are from CH4 and readings are from NRSV, except where stated otherwise)
Organ:
TBA
Introit: On Jordan's Bank, by Malcolm Archer
Welcome and Intimations
Call to Worship
Hymn 273: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel [Tune: Veni Emmanuel]
Prayers of Adoration and Confession, Led by, Lyndsay Kennedy
Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer
Young Church: Waiting and Advent candles, Duncan Macniven
Lighting of first Advent candle: Luke 21: 25-26 (GNB) [Reader - Elspeth Whitty]
Candle song 282 (verse 1): F Christmas is coming and the church is glad to sing
Hymn 543: Longing for Light [Tune: Christ be our light] [The Band]
Reading: Isaiah 2: 1–5 (OT pp641-642) [Reader: Catherine Cameron]
Hymn 475: Christ is coming! [Tune: Neander (Unser Herrscher)]
Reading: Mathew 24: 36–44 (NT p26) [Reader: Crichton Ramsay]
Anthem: A Choral Hymn for Advent, by Henry G Ley
Address: Patience and Preparedness - Anne Kinnear
Hymn 274: Comfort, comfort now my people [Tune: Genevan 42]
Prayers of thanksgiving and for others, led by Alison Murison
Hymn 277: Hark the glad sound! the Saviour comes [Tune: Crediton]
Benediction, with sung Amen at Hymn 822
Organ:
TBA