The Pastors’ Pen
Our Family Carols Event is almost here! It is so exciting to partner once again with terrific gospel partners like Quiz Worx and their gifted team of presenters and puppeteers!…
Our Family Carols Event is almost here! It is so exciting to partner once again with terrific gospel partners like Quiz Worx and their gifted team of presenters and puppeteers!
If you can, please park in the SCU carpark to free up the LHS parking for members of our community.
As you would know, we will be holding the event on the large quad area at Lismore High with the puppets and stage area under the large shaded area to protect the equipment. Still bring your picnic rugs and outdoor chairs (we will have an area where you can set up chairs to allow visibility of the stage, particularly for young children and their families so they can get close to the action). There is also some tiered seating on the northern side of the large quad.
Our free BBQ and drinks are back and will serve from 6pm-7pm along with some other fun (face painting, bubbles, photo booth, temporary tattoos and more!). The carols will start at 7pm and we expect it to run for just under 90 minutes.
After carols we’d welcome some of you to stick around as we set up for our Christmas Day service back over in the hall.
Carols is always very popular with friends and families and members of our community and so we expect up to 300 people to attend. We are unaware of any threat, but in the interests of community safety we have invited security to attend the event. We will aspire to mark off areas to stop little people (or little big people – teenagers) from wandering too far afield. However, it is always such a positive night and we very much look forward to you and friends and family joining us for the twilight event.
Then, of course, join us for our Christmas Day service (Wednesday 25 December, 9:30am at LHS) where I will guide us through the second half of Matthew chapter 2 to meet a king from an unexpected place – for isn’t Jesus the most unexpected royal this world has ever seen? So I’ll leave us with this incredible section of Philippians chapter 2…
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature[a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature[b] of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
SP
