It's Holiday Time (Can we still call it "Christmas"?)

(From the Flora Christian, November 30, 2007 edition)

Rob’s Ramblings. . . .

With the Thanksgiving holiday behind us, it’s time to turn our attention to the Christmas holiday season. (NOTE: I have been assured by the editorial staff of the Flora Christian—Bill and Chris—that it is still o.k. to call it “Christmas” in this newsletter.) We always have a lot of activity around the church family during this season, and I don’t want anyone to miss an opportunity to celebrate the season with us. Don’t forget that on Sunday, December 9, we will have our annual congregational dinner and meeting. On Sunday evening, December 16, we will go Christmas caroling in the community. And of course, on Christmas Eve, we will have special candlelight communion services to celebrate the gift of Jesus. There are also a lot of benevolent projects which go on each year inside the congregation and in the community at large, and everyone is encourages to participate in as many of these projects as are feasible for you and your family.

Each year at this time, I get requests to write or reprint some of the articles I have written in past years about the backgrounds of certain Christmas carols and hymns. Space and time do not permit me to do that this year in the Flora Christian, but I will be sharing some of those stories in a series of devotions I am putting together to be aired on WNOI on December 3-7. If you are interested in listening, be sure and tune in to 103.9 FM on those dates a little before 9:00 each morning.

If you love the music of the season as much as I do, be sure and join us in worship during the month of December. We will have a steady diet of Christmas music, to honor the birth of Jesus and glorify God. See you Sunday! Rob