Live Nativity – December 23 and 24
Presented by the Youth Group
Outside on the 23rd from 7 – 7:45 pm
In the Common Ground worship space on Christmas Eve after the 7:30 service
Tag Archives: Christmas
Christmas Music, Part 17 – Night of the Father’s Love (2 of 4)
Did you miss the Christmas Cantata at Pender yesterday?
Here’s another choir singing their version:
Performance of “Night Of The Father’s Love” at Highland Academy, Portland, TN on 11 December 2010
Christmas Music, Parts 13-15 – The Alfred Burt Carols
I could have turned the Alfred Burt Carols into the next 15 parts of this series but I decided that was a bit too easy on me!
I love this story – it’s a wonderful family tradition from the Burt family.
Starting in 1922, Alfred Burt’s father created a Christmas card for family members and parishioners. On these cards were original Christmas carols, with both the words and music by the Reverend Bates Burt. For the family Christmas card in 1942, Bates asked his son to write the music for that year’s carol, “Christmas Cometh Caroling.”
From then on, Alfred would write the music for the family’s Christmas cards, and the “Alfred Burt carols” were born.
More about the Burt family and the Christmas Carol tradition: http://www.alfredburtcarols.com/
Alfred Burt’s Carols:
- “Christmas Cometh Caroling” (1942)
- “Jesu Parvule” (1943)
- “What Are the Signs” (1944)
- “Ah, Bleak and Chill the Wintry Wind” (1945)
- “All on A Christmas Morning” (1946)
- “Nigh Bethlehem” (1947)
- “Christ in the Stranger’s Guise” (1948)
- “Sleep Baby Mine” (1949)
- “This Is Christmas” (also known as “Bright, Bright, the Holly Berries”) (1950)
- “Some Children See Him” (1951)
- “Come, Dear Children” (1952)
- “O, Hearken Ye” (1953)
- “Caroling Caroling” (1954)
- “We’ll Dress the House” (1954)
- “The Star Carol” (1954)
Burt finished the last of his carols, “The Star Carol”, on February 5, 1954. He died less than 24 hours later, at the age of 33.
One of the best known of these today is Caroling Caroling (lyrics by the church organist at his father’s church, Wihla Hutson)
The Salt Lake Vocal Artists perform 2 carols; “Caroling, Caroling” and “We’ll Dress the House” by Alfred Burt live in concert on December 17, 2011 in Holy Family Catholic Church, South Ogden, Utah under the direction of Dr. Brady Allred.
What’s your Christmas tradition?
Comfort at Christmas (or Blue Christmas) – Decmber 19 at 7:30 pm
Comfort at Christmas (or Blue Christmas) – Dec. 19 at 7:30 pm
When Christmas brings pain and loneliness, let’s share together in the comfort of Christian friends and the living Christ.
This moving service will be at Pender United Methodist Church on Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 7:30PM
Read the Christmas Story… with Everyone in the World
The story of our Savior’s birth has been told and retold for thousands of years, but this year, for the first time, you’ll be able to see how many people are actually reading it.
The Christmas Story Tracker is a fun live map we created to watch the world read about the birth of Jesus. When someone uses the Bible App to read a verse about the Christmas story, the map lights a star on their country. A counter at the top right shows the total number of readings from the YouVersion community since December 1.
Whether you’re reading a Christmas Bible Plan or just a verse about Jesus’ birth, you’ll light up a star on the map and add to the running tally. And it’s easy to get your friends in on the fun: look for the Facebook and Twitter icons.
Go check out christmas.youversion.com!
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