Christmas in July!
Yes, yes that’s right! We wanted to let you in early on our Christmas plans for 2023…
As you will remember, our carols performances over the last three years have been high quality
musicianship. We ended up down this path through the pandemic and the stop-start approach to corporate signing – you can sing, you can’t sing!! Therefore, if we all couldn’t sing, we wanted a quality of production that would at least mean we could enjoy listening to the Christmas story in song. I’m not sure if you remember, but they were amazing performances! That level of quality comes at the cost of a lot of rehearsals, most weeks in Term 4 for our music team.
So, in Term 4 this year we want to protect our music team from the level of rehearsal. As we deliberated what we could do that would achieve this we noted that Christmas Eve falls on a Sunday and have come up with the idea of a Christmas Eve Family Service – part carols, part Christmas service. Everyone, all in together, in the hall! Kids and adults, some carols, some readings from the Christmas story and a short Bible talk. We liked the sound of it, but we thought “You know what would be super great? If we could throw some of the members of Quiz Worx into the mix!!”
They said YES!
So we are thrilled to be able to share that Quiz Worx will join us Sunday, December 24, for our Christmas Eve Family Service at Lismore High School*. We will have finer details regarding timing, program and community invites in early Term 4.
Even though it’s July, it’s still worth reflecting on the fact that the God of this world came into our world to save us!
All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
Matthew 1:22-23
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*Due to the Christmas Eve Service there will be no Christmas Day Service at 9:45am.
