The post below is what I wrote last year for my other blog. With Christmas Eve tomorrow, I thought it was fitting to relive my first Christmas at RMC! Enjoy!
This was my first Christmas serving at Raleigh Moravian Church. So I thought a few images from Christmas Eve would be fun to include in our blog. We have a congregational Lovefeast the Sunday before Christmas that I presided over. Then we have 3 lovefeasts on Christmas Eve. 2:30 is for families and children and is geared to the children--they do a skit to tell the Christmas Story (Steve made his directing debut this year with the skit and it went very well), sing some kid friendly songs like "Jesus Loves Me" and "This Little Light of Mine." They even include stand up and wiggle breaks to help the kids maintain attention throughout the service. They still get buns and candles, and substitute cider for the coffee. We also added baby Jesus to the manger/putz/nativity/creche that we had been building each week. The other two lovefeasts are at 5pm and 7:30pm and are more traditional.
Here are some images from Christmas:
This is our advent wreath signaling the 4th Sunday of Advent--Christmas is here!!
So at the 7:30pm Lovefeast, the dieneres (cough--specifically Dee Ann--but I don't want to name names) thought that SPAM would be a good addition to the Lovefeast buns. So here is my eyes wide open, smiling at me SPAM bun. They took my suggestion of Hot Chocolate seriously, so I had Hot Chocolate instead of Coffee. I can't recommend the SPAM, but the Hot Chocolate was YUMMY! I can't wait to see what the next Lovefeast brings...
1 comment:
Thank you so much! I'm in central Illinois too far from a Moravian church to even get to a Lovefeast and after almost 5 years away from RMC, my heart longs for the Christmas traditions which meant so much, for so many years. Your blog gives me a small link to "home" and helps to heal the homesickness.......Barb
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