the advent

Our first of six Christmas concerts was last night. This year, the concert is called The Advent and is organized around the tradition of lighting advent candles to share the Christmas story. For those not accustomed to this tradition, there are 5 candles lit the 4 Sundays before Christmas and Christmas Eve: Prophecy, Bethlehem, Shepherds, Angels and Christ. With each candle is a corresponding reading from the Bible.

Here's some pictures from our dress rehearsal Wednesday night.

Gabriel's Message

The set was inspired by Chicago's Millenium Park and our department's trip to Saddleback Church this summer (the plasmas and trusses). Our production team did a phenomenal job!

Sing Noel, Sing Hallelujah from Michael W. Smith's new Christmas project

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks as performed by Andrew Peterson (but Rick does it better!)

Jesus Messiah