Series: Words For The Beginning
December 22, 2024 | Rev. Brooke Heerwald Steiner
This week is always a yearly highlight, when our children and youth put on the annual Christmas program. We share the story of Jesus’ birth through a journalism lens. Reporters and producers will give eyewitness accounts of the events happening in Bethlehem. There may be a few commercial breaks as well, but we’ll make sure all the breaking news is shared in a timely matter! Stick around after worship for Christmas Fest—snacks and treats, crafts, and activities. It’s a wonderful way to hear the story of God with us.
Series Information
Advent is a season of endings and beginnings. As a calendar year comes to a close, a new church year begins. Christ's birth ushers us into new ways of living and loving; and yet, the world as we know it spins madly on. In many ways, pregnant Mary was surrounded by endings—large and small, personal and political. But Mary proclaimed hope in a God who was and is making all things new. Christ's birth offered a beautiful new beginning for shepherds and Magi alike—all the while, King Herod tried to bring Christ's story to an end. When we ourselves navigate seasons filled with endings and beginnings, we need reminders. We need words that can feel like steady ground, like a path for our feet to find as we step forward into the unknown.
