WORSHIP
All are welcome to join us for Sunday Worship:
Sunday, January 4, 2026 10:15 am Epiphany/Children’s Pageant
This week, we focus on the visit and gifts from the wise men to Jesus as we observe Epiphany. If you have not yet taken down your nativity set, we will be making a few changes to it…I hope you don’t mind.
Most of us display the nativity scene with the three wise men within it on the same day…however, if we were to explore the true timelines with the arrival of the wise men, we would learn that Jesus would have been closer to a year old at the time. You see, the wise men had to travel approximately 1900km to see the baby Jesus and they would have travelled by foot. This would have been a very long journey! Many throughout the years have written songs about travelling miles for loved ones, but I think the wise men have them beat.
This week, we are going to re-script our nativity set; we are going to make it more “Biblical”. If we were to make our nativity proper…we would place the baby Jesus on the west side of our home and have the wise men on the east side of our home. AFTER the birth of Jesus, we could slowly move them each day across the house closer to Jesus and by the end of the year, they would have arrived only to be moved back for the next Christmas creche!
Tomorrow, during our time of worship and observance of Epiphany, we have invited the children to present their gifts to Jesus. This will be done through talent, generosity, and thoughtfulness. We have planned a fun skit with wise men, gifts and talents from children, and an opportunity for each in attendance to present a gift to Jesus. We will have lots of laughs and learn about gifts and talents we may use to glorify our Lord. Just as the little drummer boy had no gift to bring and played his song for Jesus, we too will bring what we can for our Lord.
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Download Order of Worship for Sunday January 4, 2026 here.
