Advent 2024

This year, our Advent theme is Words for the Beginning, which was created by the very talented ministry and worship team of A Sanctified Art. As we enter into a new church year, and watch our calendar year draw to a close, we were inspired by this question posed by our friends at A Sanctified Art:

What are the reminders we will need in order to move faithfully through this threshold?

 

Our Advent journey will move through a season of many blessings, accompanied by words that we all might need to hear again as we start a new season. The lessons that we learn may feel like those we often share with children. That’s okay! The hard truth is that the lessons offered to the youngest among us are also lessons that adults learn and relearn too.

 

These season’s scriptures, stories, art, and devotionals might feel very familiar to you. They’re all drawn from major moments in our faith journeys, such as baptisms, weddings, ordinations, and other special occasions. Each of these moments is an invitation into a new chapter. And so is this invitation that you’re reading right now. We think that God is calling us, as Central, to enter into what is new and next! Last year, we talked about what Mary might have experienced in this season: hope, comfort, fear. Those are all things that you might be feeling right now too. So, we hope that you and your family will join us in this new season. Even amid Mary’s discomfort and fear, she began to proclaim her steadfast hope and belief in a God who would call us all into something new.

 

The still speaking, still-calling Voice of God is calling until something new too.

Will you join us for this season?

 

Because of who you are and where you are on life’s journey, whether you’ve attended Central every Sunday for years, or you’re a Christmas/Easter only kind of person: you are always welcome here.