Can you believe that Christmas is this week?
This past weekend at Faith was awesome! On Sunday morning the preschoolers and their families braved the -25 degree windchill to come and celebrate Jesus’ birthday at the 9:15 service. I don’t know what was cuter: the little kids dressed up in their Christmas outfits singing their little hearts out or their parents sitting on the edge of their seats mouthing all the words to the songs their kids were singing!
And to top it all off, on Sunday afternoon there were 2 performances (cause there are sooooo many kids here we can’t fit them all at 1 service!) of grade school children retelling the Christmas story to a packed house of papparazzi parents and smiling grandparents.
And in the message at all the weekend services, we used cartoons to help us see the meaning behind the mystery of Advent. Here are two of my favorites. Happy ‘End of Advent’ and Merry Christmas!
video from Igniter Media
image from Cagle’s Professional Cartoonists Index
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Tags: Advent, faith, jesus, kids, Merry Christmas
I love that first video. It’s fun to start talking to people about the popular traditions and their relationship to the day of Christmas. We had fun last night doing our exploration of pop culture Christmas videos and the themes of Christmas with the youth. It’s neat to see people
Oh, as a sidenote, some of the research I did a couple years ago suggested that they may have actually stayed in a little room attached to houses where animals were often brought in at night out of the cold, and where people sometimes stayed as well. Not a cave, but not the house proper either.
To finish a comment above, “It’s neat to see people looking at the themes that are driving these movies, things like acceptance, joy in the simple things, family, changes of heart, etc, and then discovering that the Christmas story and the baby in the manger has the answers to these deep questions and yearnings of our hearts.