Worship, Dec 10

VIDEO. On this Second Sunday of Advent, we are treated to a beautiful service with readings from Howard Thurman’s The Mood of Christmas and Scripture Music by Chancel Choir and Chancel Bell Choir. View the video on our livestream webpage.

The carols include:

• “There is No Rose of Such Virtue” by Jessica Nelson
• “Good King Wenceslas” arr. by Reginald Jacques
• “What Sweeter Music” by Ralph Vaughan Williams
• “The Shepherds” by Hyun Kook, Solo: Tim WIllson
• “Jesus Christ the Apple Tree” by Mark Schweitzer, Solo: Nina Brown
• “The Work of Christmas” by Dan Forrest

Howard Thurman (pictured above) was one of the principal architects of the modern, nonviolent civil rights movement and a key mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Thurman grew up in Daytona, Florida and was raised by his grandmother, a former slave. Read more about this man who served as a caretaker and spiritual advisor to those Civil Rights leaders of his time, among them Jesse Jackson, Marian Wright Edelman, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Read his biography: Who Is Howard Thurman?

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