The Season of Advent allows us to prepare for God’s greatest gift of all: Jesus Christ. For most of us, this amounts to the busiest time of year: Hours spent shopping—cooking—preparing for house guests, all happening with Christmas music in the background.

Christmas carols—along with holiday music—remain one of the cherished traditions of this time of year, but the busyness of this time of year—plus the fact that carols start playing in Walmart and Lowes before Thanksgiving—can cause their remarkable witness to Christ to get tuned out.

Beginning next Sunday, December 1st, you are warmly invited to an new Adult Education Class that will explore the Scripture passages—not to mention Creeds and Confessions-- that undergird many of the carols we sing, come December.

Led by Pastor Todd, this survey will re-open your ears to carols well known—and also introduce carols from around the world that may be new to you. We will sample sacred Christmas music penned by composers both old--and new. And with all of the selected pieces, we will consider how the date, place, and situation of their composition impacts what has come down to us.

NOTE:

The Sunday morning classes will begin at 9:30 a.m. in Room 206 and end at 10:45 a.m., with Sunday, December 22nd marking the final offering

The course will be repeated on Wednesday afternoons, beginning December 4th starting 1:30 p.m. and ending at 3:00 p.m. These longer class sessions will allow all the selections for the course to be explored in THREE sessions, making the final class session Wednesday, December 18th.

All ages welcome!
And (yes) come prepared to sing