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Friday, September 8, 2023
Advent Unwrapped: Get Ready! 🍂☕
It’s beginning to look a lot like Halloween.
Hello Revolutionaries!
I am feeling a bit stressed by all of these Halloween decorations because it means that ADVENT is COMING!!
After prayer, my little family listens to Feeling Good. It’s our hype song! I hope that it helps you feel “blessed and highly favoured” during this fall season, however you find yourself (too busy or not busy enough).
The Advent Unwrapped team are excited to offer you new content this year to help support you and the communities you love unwrap the reason for the season (as we love to say). If you have any awesome original (you created it) advent ideas that really worked for you please consider sharing them with fellow revolutionaries on social media.
If you are with us through a United Church Community or are a subscriber to Gathering, make sure to check out the music section of the upcoming Gathering Issue for a new score of last year’s Advent Unwrapped song “The Giver” by Mia McClain, as well as a beautiful new Advent tune “We Wait for God” words by William S. Kervin, and music by Tom Reynolds and Deborah Park.
We are thrilled to be partnering with Mia McClain (composer of The Giver), Cheryl Lindsay (United Church of Christ writer and liturgist) the Go Project and Pacific Mountain Region once again. We are also delighted to welcome Catherine Faith McLean who has created a pocket resource for worship leaders, Stephen Milton who has developed a blog series answering all of your advent wonderings and other gifted reflectors and liturgist that we will introduce to you in the upcoming months.
Don’t worry this newsletter is not SPAM. I promise, we will work hard to fill these short messages with nourishing, shareable timbits (and a few guilty pleasures) to help deepen your advent celebrations and preparations.
This letters timbits:
This Advent is a short one. If you feel like you need more time to prepare, why not take a look at the Advent Project. This is a group of liturgical scholars who are encouraging communities to expand the season of Advent by two weeks. What do you think?
Have you ever used EngageWorship.org? The accounts are free and they have a lot of handy images, prayers and artwork that can be inserted into your worship service (with full credit ofcourse). Check out their waiting video.
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