1st Sunday after epiphany

We welcome everyone to our services at Yetholm (10am) and Morebattle (11.15) on the First Sunday after Epiphany. Please stay for refreshments after the service.

• The Flower rotas for 2025 are in the porch at Morebattle and the vestibule at Yetholm. Flowers beautify the church and enhance our worship, so please consider adding your name.
  
• Craft Group meets on Mondays at 2pm in Yetholm Kirk.
  
• Coffee and chat at Yetholm Kirk on Tuesdays from 10.30 -12 noon. All welcome.
• Prayer Service is on Tuesdays at 12 noon in Yetholm Kirk.
• The funeral Of Henry Sawyer will be on Friday 17th January at 11.45am at Morebattle Kirk. Burial thereafter.
  
• The Kirk Session will meet on Thursday 30th January at 7pm by Zoom.
  
• Services next Sunday are at Yetholm (10am) and Morebattle (11.15am)
  

 
Call to Worship
O Lord, open our lips,
And our mouths shall declare your praise.
O Lord, open our eyes,
So that we may behold your presence.
O Lord, open our ears,
So that we may hear your call to follow.
O Lord, open our hearts,
That we may offer you worship in love and joy.
 
Hymn 327 – Brightest and best
 
Prayer of Adoration and Confession
Lord’s Prayer
 
Readings – Isaiah 43: 1-7 (Pg 728)
Luke 3: 21-24, 36b-38 (Pg 1030)
 
Hymn 191 – Do not be afraid
 
Weekly Prayer
Loving God thankyou you for instruction to "fear Not" for you have redeemed and summoned us by name and we belong to you. Creator God, and Holy Spirit who in the beginning hovered over the waters and at Jesus’ baptism descended in the form of a dove, come to us, open our hearts and minds, so that we too may hear your life-giving word and be renewed by the power of the spirit. Amen
 
Sermon
 
Hymn 331 – Unto us is born a son
 
Prayers of Dedication/Thanksgiving & Intercession
 
Hymn 235 – God is working his purpose out
 
Benediction