TRINITY ADVENT KIT 2022
for your use at home
during this holy season!
From Generation to Generation
(if you are reading this online, you may pick up candles and candle holders at church)
Advent is a season of preparation: we prepare our lives, our homes, our neighborhoods, our church, our community, and the wide world, to make room for the Christ Child.
DIY Advent Kits include:
- 4 Advent Candles, 3 blue and 1 pink
(The color blue represents hope; some use purple, which represents royalty.
The pink candle is used on the 3rd Sunday (Gaudete Sunday) and is the color of JOY.)
*please consider a gift of $5 to help defray cost of candles/ Brass Advent Candleholder available for an additional $10 - 1 pillar Christ candle, to be lit on Christmas Eve and until Epiphany, January 6
- A devotional booklet
- Christmas Concert and Cookie Walk Flier
- Thomas Mousin Advent Calendar
- A Reverse Advent Calendar
- An Advent Calendar for All Ages
- Family Advent Guide
- Advent/Christmas Events @Trinity
- Explanation of Advent
- Simple Actions to reach out to those in need
- Family activity: Make your own Nativity puppets! Use them to tell the story of Jesus’ Birth on Christmas Eve. (Luke 2:1-20). Pick up a set of puppet craft sticks at the church.
Celebrate Advent with these simple actions:
- Before Dec 11: Purchase a gift and bring it to church, for families in need at Salt Creek School in Elk Grove (click here):
- Bring hats, gloves, mittens, scarves (for adults and children) for our “Mitten Tree” at church
- Collect food for the hungry, using the Reverse Advent Calendar
- Go caroling with us to a few of our Trinity homebound — meet at the church at 2 pm on Sunday, Dec. 18. We’ll go to sing to our homebound and those in nursing homes.
- Purchase a “scrip” gift card through Trinity, for a teacher, neighbor, friend, by Dec. 4 (forms are in the narthex/church lobby)
Save the date! Advent/Christmas @ Trinity:
Every Sunday: Worship at 10:30, in person/online Link
Wednesday Evening Advent Candelighting/Prayer begins Nov. 30th, 6:30 on zoom (click here)
Sunday, November 27 at 5 pm: Hanging of the Greens and Christmas Pageant Practice!
Join us to “deck the halls” of our sanctuary and church lobby (narthex).
We’ll enjoy hot cocoa, goodies and crafts for kids. All ages welcome to help decorate and begin practicing for the Dec. 18 Christmas Pageant!!
Saturday, Dec. 3: Mt. Prospect Community Band Concert at 4:00 pm and
United Women in Faith Cookie Walk and Craft Fair begin at 3:00 pm
Proceeds from both support Outreach and Missions in our Community!
Sunday, Dec. 18, 2 pm: Caroling to Trinity’s Homebound, meet at the church!
Sunday, Dec 18 in Worship–DIY Pageant: The Christmas Story for All Ages!
All ages invited to participate in this beloved Trinity Tradition
Saturday, Dec 24: Christmas Eve Worship 7 pm
Contemporary Lessons and Carols, with candle-lighting and Chancel Choir
Sunday, Dec 25: Christmas Day Worship, with Carols and a Christmas Message 10:30 am
Wear your favorite cozy Christmas attire for this spirit-filled day after Christmas!
Sunday, January 1: New Year’s/Epiphany (3 kings) Sunday
Start the new year with worship, including our Trinity Tradition of “Star Words”
What is Advent?
The season of Advent, which comes from the Latin word adventus meaning “coming” or “visit,” begins four Sundays before Christmas and ends on Christmas Eve. Advent is the beginning of the church year for Christians. During Advent, we prepare for and anticipate the coming of Christ. We remember the longing of Jews for a Messiah and our own longing for and need of forgiveness, salvation and a new beginning. Even as we look back and celebrate the birth of Jesus in a humble stable in Bethlehem, we also look forward to anticipating the second coming of Christ as the fulfillment of all that was promised by his first coming. Although we are accustomed to celebrating Christmas on a single day, in both Christian tradition and on the church calendar, the Christmas season lasts from sundown on Dec. 24 (Christmas Eve) through Epiphany of the Lord (Jan. 6). This is sometimes referred to as “the 12 days of Christmas.” Advent begins with the fourth Sunday before Christmas Day. The color for Advent has traditionally been purple, but many churches, including Trinity, have adopted blue. In practice, however, as churches increasingly incorporate the symbols and decorations of Christmas during Advent, more and more red, green and gold are appearing. The United Methodist Book of Worship upholds the traditional color of purple for Advent, signifying penitence and royalty, but also allows blue, the color of hope.
-Adapted from an article by Dean McIntyre @ What is Advent? resourceumc.org
