Our church service was AWESOME this morning, so I wanted to share!!
It started out with an orchestra playing beautiful music. The choir sang with the congregation & then separately. While a lady sang "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", there was a slideshow of pictures that our congregation sent in for use today. I included these for our family. We were told to send in Christmas-themed pictures.
There was a video montage of clips from famous Christmas movies (Charlie Brown, the Santa Clause, White Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life). The highlight (for me) was when the band & our music pastor did Christmas Eve/Sarajevo (Trans-Siberian Orchestra) complete with a light show. Amazing! It was very cool to see b/c our pastor was playing TWO keyboards at the same time for this song! Then the focus shifted to the spiritual end of Christmas.
The kids came up & sang for us. After they sang & exited the stage, our music pastor sat at the piano & did Chris Rice's "Welcome to Our World". I loveeeee that song so it was quite fitting. The choir sang another song. We had communion. They quickly set up a stable with a wooden backdrop, 2 bails of hay for Mary/Joseph to sit on & a little manger for baby Jesus. They got it set up between songs under the cover of dimmed lights and then our LIVING nativity characters entered the sanctuary. The people playing Mary & Joseph and a little baby to be Jesus came in first, then shepherds (with live sheep & a donkey), then 3 wisemen bearing gifts. It was very pretty. Once everyone was in place, the children got back on the stage & the whole congregation sang Silent Night and the orchestra played Joy to the World.
It was such a lovely service & so different from the "usual" Christmas service. I'm glad we were there. I'm including pictures below of our kids on stage. It was just the kids up through 5th grade, so Savannah was sitting with us---in fact, she is the one who snuck over & took pictures of Samuel!
Here he is, right in the middle of the picture in a red shirt.
And here's Sarah with her little girlfriends. She's in the red sweater vest.
I love Christmastime!!!!
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