9 a.m.
Please arrive by 8:30 a.m. Downloadable PDF Lesson Plans for 9:00 a.m. Service:
10:45 a.m.
Please arrive by 10:15 a.m. Downloadable PDF Lesson Plans for 10:45 a.m. Service:
Leader Devo
During Advent and Christmas, I usually spend time thinking about what traditions will help my kids understand who Jesus is. Storybook Bibles. Family devotionals. Songs and carols. Wreaths and candles. What will point them to Jesus? If I’m honest, it all makes me a bit anxious. What if I mess it up or say the wrong thing? Sometimes teaching them about God’s big story feels daunting.
Read Luke 1:5–25. The story of Elizabeth and Zechariah—and the promised birth of John the Baptist— shows how God was preparing the way for Jesus. He was getting the world ready. Perhaps God’s preparations feel as finished to you as the expected conclusion of the Nativity story, but God is still working. He is still preparing people to meet Jesus. He works through all kinds of things to kindle and nurture a person’s faith. He might even work through a dad who sometimes says the wrong thing or a kids’ ministry volunteer who feels in over her head.
God invites us to be part of His big story as we follow Jesus day by day, year by year. What does God have in store for you this week? How is He preparing you to know Jesus more? And how might He work in you and through you to nurture another person’s faith? God prepares the way for Jesus, from ancient days until kingdom come. God is at work. He hasn’t stopped.
—Michael Rade
Care & Support Ministry Assistant; Itinerant Preacher
Contributor to Wonder Ink
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Word of Wonder:
“A child will be born. A son will be given to us. He will be the Prince of Peace.”
—from Isaiah 9:6
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