Advent is here! A season of waiting and expectation. I love the hymns of advent. Take time to listen to the words and appreciate this season.
This year our theme for advent is “Is it Amazon or is it Advent?” What similarities and differences are there? When do we experience waiting these days or is everything delivered within two days?
In our time and place many of us are not used to waiting. We can listen to any song at any time on our devices. We can see something we want to buy, order it and it will arrive in two days. But there are times and places where we do wait. Waiting for the birth of a child is still nine months. Waiting for a diagnosis or prognosis or someone in surgery. We know what it is like to wait. In Advent we wait, and we trust and we know the God who created the universe is with us. In our lives when we do have to wait, we trust in the one who created us and loves us to be with us in the waiting – the expectant excited waiting and the dreaded waiting.
God is with us. E m m a n u e l !
This season of expectation leads up to our celebration of Jesus’ birth.
Come Let Us Adore Him!
After the 4 weeks of waiting, join us to celebrate the birth of Jesus and sing Christmas Carols! Christmas Eve worship will be held at 2:00pm, 4:00pm, and 7:30pm this year. All services will include Candlelight and Holy Communion. Special music at 4:00 and 7:30pm. You are also welcome and invited to join us outside around the fire pit at 9:30pm to sing Christmas Carols
and hear the Christmas story. Dress for the weather and bring a chair (weather permitting). Invite your family, friends, and neighbors to join us to celebrate worship at Holy Trinity this year!
May you feel Christ’s presence in the waiting and in the joy and celebration!
God’s Peace,
Pastor Kristin Hoyer
Contact information:
410-299-4853
(I will be taking Mondays as my day off.)