We welcome everyone to our services at Yetholm (10am) and Morebattle (11.15) on the Second 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
  
• Coffee and chat at Yetholm Kirk on Tuesdays from 10.30 -12 noon. All welcome.
• Prayer Service is on Tuesdays at 12 noon at Yetholm
• Kelso Churches Together are holding a service to mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity on Tuesday 21st January at 2.30 in Kelso Old Parish. All welcome.
  
• The Kirk Session will meet on Thursday 30th January at 7pm by Zoom.
  
• We are reviewing the membership roll and adherent roll. If you wish to be added, please speak with Pippa Emerson, Susan Stewart or Rev Colin.
  
• Services next Sunday are at Yetholm (10am) and Morebattle (11.15am). We hold an evening communion at Morebattle at 6pm
  

 
Call to Worship
How precious is God’s steadfast love!
We will find refuge in the shadow of God’s wing
Come and feast on God’s abundance.
We will drink from the river of God’s delights.
For with God is the fountain of life
Let us worship God with joy and thanksgiving!
 
Hymn 124 – Praise to the Lord
 
Prayer of Adoration/Confession/ Lord’s Prayer
 
Readings – Isaiah 62: 1-5 (Pg 748)
                         John 2: 1-11 (Pg 1064)
 
Hymn 601 – Look upon us, blessed Lord
 
Weekly Prayer
Gracious God, your Son Jesus began his ministry at a wedding celebration in Cana and through the miracle of the water been changed into wine showed us the abundance of your wonderful love for us.  May Jesus continue to transform the water of our everyday lives into the new wine of your kingdom on earth, transforming by his love the ordinary into the extra-ordinary. Amen
 
Sermon
 
Hymn 696 – We come, dear Lord, to celebrate
 
Prayers of Dedication & Intercession
 
Hymn 700 – As man and woman we were made
 
Benediction

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

We welcome everyone to our united service for Epiphany Sunday. Because of the weather forecast, we have made the decision to transfer the service to MOREBATTLE, instead of Linton. It will still be at 11am. However, if the weather is bad, please do not attempt to get to church. There will still be refreshments afterwards.

• The Craft Group will resume on Monday 6th January at 2pm in Yetholm Kirk (weather depending).
• 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 Linkage sub-committee meets on Tuesday at 2pm at the Roxburghe Hall.
• Bill Thomson’s Funeral will be held on Wednesday 8th January. There will be a private burial followed by a Thanksgiving service in Morebattle Kirk at 1.30pm.
• The Guild meeting will be on Thursday 9th January at 2pm in Morebattle Institute, when we will be hearing about the new Guild projects. All are welcome.
• Services next Sunday are at Yetholm (10am) and Morebattle (11.15am).
  

 
Call to Worship
Arise, shine: for your light has come!
The glory of the Lord has risen upon us.
 
For the Lord will be our everlasting light and our glory!
And so we worship God in humble expectation.           
 
Carol 326 – As with gladness
 
Prayer of Adoration and Confession
Lord’s Prayer
 
Reflection 1
 
Readings – Isaiah 60: 1-6 (Pg 747)
                    Matthew 2: 1-12 (pg 966)
 
Carol 325 – Bethlehem of noblest cities
 
Weekly Prayer
Gracious God, as we begin a New Year, remind us of the things that are truly important and worthwhile. Enable us to put aside anxiety about the future because your Light has come into our world. Help us to arise and shine giving God the glory as we live out our lives in 2025. Amen
 
Reflection
 
Offertory Carol – We three kings (MP 740)
 
Prayers of Dedication
 
Hymn159 – Lord for the years
 
 Prayers of Thanksgiving & Intercession
 
Carol 323 – The first Nowell (vv 1,3,5,6)
 
Benediction