Christmas through the Carols {O Come, O Come Emmanuel}
Christmas through the Carols
Narration and Production Notes for a Complete Christmas Eve Service
Take advantage of the revised and expanded, newly formatted Christmas through the Carols for your church’s Christmas presentation this season.
Download includes sample service order, production notes, master script, 8 separate narrator scripts (adaptable for 2 or 7 narrators), and 5 presentation graphics (including PowerPoint slides, bulletin header, and print graphics).
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Paperback script includes sample service order, song selection, 8 complete narrations (adaptable for 2 or 7 narrators), and production notes.
Narration 1
NARRATOR A
It’s Christmas Eve and tonight we celebrate the single most joyous event in all of history – the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. In attempt to remember well the gift God sent 2,000 years ago, we’d like to share the Christmas story recorded by some of the greatest Christmas carols of our faith.
NARRATOR B
We celebrate what happened on the first Christmas nearly 2,000 years ago, but there were those before that, who longed greatly for His coming. The observance of Christ’s birth started first with a promise from God and anticipation in the heart of Israel. Christ was first prophesied to Israel when they were in Babylonian captivity, and for centuries after they waited expectantly for the Messiah that would ransom them and set them free.
NARRATOR A
The Christmas Carol “O Come O Come Emmanuel” speaks strongly of this longing. Christ is our Emmanuel-deliverer. The “Rod of Jesse,” “Dayspring,” and “Key of David” are all Old Testament prophetic references to the coming birth of Christ. Christ is God with us in all things. As the people of Israel waited for the coming Messiah we know as Jesus, so too we are able to remember, and wait for Christ’s return.
Carol 1
O Come O Come Emmanuel, unknown
Verse 1
O come, o come, Emmanuel
And ransom captive Israel
That mourns in lowly exile here
Until the Son of God appear
Chorus
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel
Verse 2
O come, thou rod of Jesse free
Thine own from Satan’s tyranny
From depths of hell thy people save
And give them victory o’er the grave
Verse 3
O come, thou Dayspring come and cheer
Our spirits by thine advent here
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night
And death’s dark shadows put to flight
Verse 4
O come, thou key of David come
And open wide our heavenly home
Make safe the way that leads on high
And close the path to misery
Please see the post entitled Christmas through the Carols {Christmas Eve Production Notes} for a complete service order, links to remaining narrations and carols, and service transition ideas.