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4th Sunday of Advent Year A:  December 22, 2019 First Reading:  Isaiah 7:10-16 That’s Not Fair! Emma Tenayuca’s Struggle for Justice by Carmen Tafolla (Written for ages 4-9) Comment:  King Ahaz and the people were scared. Samaria and Syria were going to attack them. 

4th Sunday of Advent Year 2: December 22, 2019 Luke 1:5-13 [14-25] 57-80 Peaceful Pieces by Anna Grossnickle Hines (Written for ages 4-8) Comment: There is a lot going on in Luke this week, and it all centers on John the Baptist. If we focus on Zachariah’s song in verses 67-80,

3rd Sunday of Advent Year A:  December 15, 2019 First Reading:  Isaiah 35:1-10 The Boy Who Grew a Forest: The True Story of Jadav Payeng by Sophia Gholz (Written for ages 5-8) Comment:  We are not certain when these words were written but they seem to describe the time when

2nd Sunday of Advent Year A:  December 8, 2019 First Reading:  Isaiah 11:1-10 Rulers of the Playground by Joseph Kuefler (Written for ages 4-8) Comment:  Jonah declares himself king of the playground. He sometimes rules well and sometimes doesn’t, but Lennox decides that

2nd Sunday of Advent Year 2: December 8, 2019 Isaiah 40:1-11 Monkey Not Ready for Kindergarten by Marc Brown (Written for ages 3 to 7) Comment: Advent is a time when we try to follow the call to “prepare the way of the Lord” as we anticipate Jesus’ return to the world. This

1st Sunday of Advent Year A:  December 1, 2019 First Reading:  Isaiah 2:1-5 Can’t You Sleep, Litte Bear? by Martin Waddell (Written for ages 3-7) Comment: Isaiah has given the people of Judah some very bad news.  The people’s disobedience will bring God’s judgement on the

1st Sunday of Advent Year 2: December 1, 2019 Jeremiah 33:14-18 Howard B Wigglebottom on Yes or No by Howard Binkow (Written for ages 4 to 8) Comment:  This passage does something remarkable, at once looking both backward and forward in time in order to discover hope. Jeremiah,

Fourth Sunday of Advent Year C:  December 23, 2018 First Reading: Micah 5:2-5a The Youngest Marcher by Cynthia Levinson (Written for ages 5-10) Comment:  Audrey Faye Hendricks was just nine years old in 1963 when she joined the Children’s March in Birmingham, Alabama. She is

Fourth Sunday of Advent Year 1: December 23, 2018 Preaching Text: Matthew 1:18-25 Ooko by Esme Shapiro (Written for ages 3-7) Comment: Jesus’ very name, as proclaimed by the angels and prophets, is comforting to us: Emmanuel, which means God is with us. His name and his coming

Third Sunday of Advent Year C:  December 16, 2018 First Reading: Zephaniah 3:14-20 Maybe Something Beautiful by Isabel Campoy & Theresa Howell (Written for ages 4-7) Comment:  At the heart of Zephaniah’s poem is the concept of transformation – from fear to hope, from weakness