Worship & Wonder: What is it?
Hello HPC Community,
As you have likely heard, this Advent season, we are taking a different approach to our traditional “Wisdom & Wonder” time. Instead of meeting before our worship service from 9:15-10:00, we will be meeting after worship from 11:45-12:30. This new meeting time also comes with a name change. We are calling this new time “Worship & Wonder,” a subtle name shift, but an intentional one that comes with new meaning. Each Sunday in Advent, our youngest worshipers will be unwrapping a gift in our worship service during the Call to Offering. Each of these gifts will be a special Advent symbol, such as Advent wreaths and ornaments, that come with a beautiful history that links them to Christian communities throughout the ages. After learning about these Advent symbols in worship, everyone is invited to gather in Fellowship Hall to make these Advent symbols and spend time in community with one another. In this way, we are intentionally connecting what we are doing in our worship together with a time of education and community, hence the name “Worship & Wonder.”
This shift is in part motivated by continued COVID-19 precautions and the cold winter weather that quickly approaches. As you know, we have been gathering outside the Welcome Center after the service to share a time of fellowship and food. As the winter weather sets in, continuing our outdoor fellowship time will become increasingly difficult. Therefore, instead of forgoing our fellowship time, we are merely changing its form. Although there will be no food or drink to comply with masking guidelines, all are welcome to participate in this intergenerational time of fellowship and creativity. It is our sincere hope that this time of “Worship & Wonder” invites you into a renewed sense of expectation for the arrival of the Christ Child this Advent season. We hope that these Advent symbols will take on new meaning as we craft them together and that they will evoke new memories that you will create as you share in this time of intergenerational fellowship with one another.
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Student Pastor Ryan