It Came Upon The Midnight Clear - Audio
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Let's give a round of applause to our worship team this morning, all right. Well done, especially Randy, Sierra, and Tori. Well done. Thank you so much. Good morning. Merry Christmas. Hey, the Ushers are going to be passing out the handouts today. I hope you're not the only one, Hank. Can we get some more? Oh, there they are. There's the Ushers right there. Nate and Sam. We're going to give one to everybody, including children today. So everyone gets a handout today. So make sure that we get every single person accounted for today. Hey, as we're getting ready for our time in the word and our message this morning, our family service message, I did want to make mention that right now, as we speak, well actually in about 25 minutes or so, Jesse and Christina are scheduled to be induced for labor. So baby Sadie is going to be coming very, very soon into this world, and we want to be praying for them, as John and Nate prayed earlier, just praying for Jesse and Christina that all would go well, and that we would be able to welcome their first baby, a little girl Sadie, into the world, so we're looking forward to that. So as you go through the rest of these next few days, keep in mind the Haiti team. Doug Harrison, Kerry and Mike Gibson, along with their sons, Jake and Jude are all in Haiti right now, along with others, serving the children and bringing them Christmas gifts. Some of you might have seen some updates if you're on Facebook. We've been posting some some updates as well on our church page. Be sure to be praying for the team in Haiti as they continue to minister to the children there and bring them a merry Christmas. Well before we pray, I wanted to make mention of one more group of people because they got honored last week, but I wanted to honor them one more time, children. If you were in the coast kids musical, we three spies, would you please stand up where you are and be recognized? All right, wow. We had an amazing play, okay, you can be seated. We had an amazing play last Sunday night. We three spies, it was incredible. All the kids did an amazing job, all the parents, all the grandparents, the friends and neighbors that came, we were wowed and we really appreciated that. And special thanks to Estella Harnett in the back. Thank you Estella for being our director, thank you so much. All right, one more thing, one more thing for the kids, kids, today I need your help. I need your help. I need you to color. Don't color yet, but I have four baskets of crayons. Will all the children walk slowly up here and I want you to get five crayons, just five. Walk slowly, find five crayons, there's some baskets over there behind you, five crayons, here's some more baskets. Get five crayons and head back to your seats. And if anyone else needs a handout, John's got a few more in the middle there.
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For our Family Worship Service, Pastor Neil expounds on the origins and meaning of the beloved Christmas carol "It Came Upon The Midnight Clear".