Longing for Healing
9:30 am Advent Alternative Worship
11:00 am Worship, Gordon Wiersma, preaching
4:00 pm Childcare available for pageant participants
4:00 pm Jubilate Rehearsal
4:15 pm Nativity Rehearsal – Rehearsal for speaking parts only
4:15 pm Advent Organ Recital
Hope Church Organist, Rhonda Edgington, will share Advent and Christmas tunes and texts during a concert that will feature music of 20th century France and Germany, as well as the music of Bach.
4:45 pm Pageant Participants Arrival
Children are asked to come costumed as a character in the story – a shepherd, sheep, angel, or magi. If you are in need of a costume, they will be available in the youth room. Please pick up your costume Sunday morning.
5:00 pm Nativity Pageant
The pageant is a wonderful event for the whole church community to gather and celebrate the music and meaning of this season as the children act out the events of the Gospel story. A light snack will end the evening in the Commons.
*Artwork by Kari Miller Fenwood