Advent and Christmas is always meaningful and fun at Central. It will be both this year even though COVID-19 WILL SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASE OUR TIME TOGETHER AND CURTAIL SOME OF OUR SINGING.

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You have already received a lot of information about the upcoming Advent services, so this short article will give you some of the music specifics, along with an update on our Music for at Home Devotions.

This coming Sunday is November 29th, the first Sunday of Advent. As has become customary, we will usher in the Advent season with the delightful children's song, Light One Candle. Come to church or tune in via our live - streamed service to see who will be singing this year! Later in the service, a new face and voice on temporary loan from Converse College, Kaylyn Good, will be singing a beautiful arrangement of My Lord, What a Mornin'. And finally, very near the end of the service following the Hanging of the Greens, Sarah Monroe and Al Jeter will sing a delightful arrangement of The Holly and the Ivy, with Brian Dailey providing the quirky accompaniment.

There will be no new Music for at Home Devotions (MFAHD) this week, out of deference to the Thanksgiving holiday. However, next week and throughout Advent we will have special guests for MFAHD. Heather Jones (my daughter) and her boyfriend, Chad Kranak, will record favorite Advent selections like "O thou that tellest", Comfort ye", and "Ev'ry Valley" from Handel's Messiah; and Schubert's iconic Ave Maria. More will come in the following weeks. To access these MFATD recordings to

come, check out Central's website and click on "Music for at Home Devotions." Past recordings are on the page marked, "Music for at Home Devotions Archive." All video recordings are also posted on Facebook each week.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Keith Jones

Light One Candle ... Children's Choir

My Lord, What a Mornin' ... arr. Mark Hayes

The Holly and the Ivy ... arr. Richard Shephard

*Gospel Lesson: Matthew 24:36-44

BIRTHDAYS

23 Lillian Zimmerman

24 Perry Henson

25 Dianne Mercer

27 Gina Hamer & Keith Parris

28 Kit Maultsby

29 Ann Leonard

30 Sue Hurlbert

1 Noah McPhail

4 Sherry Fridy, Sue Lansberry, Jan Richards, &

5 Janet Wilson

7 Emily Haun

9 Susie Dempsey, Don Knight, & John Quackenbush

10 Rylan Crocker

18 Vic Bilanchone

22 Becky Wyatt

23 Kay Lawrence

26 Andrew Berry & Jane Lewis

27 Crystal Eskola

29 Amanda Farmer, Paul Lofton, & Vila Petoskey

30 Marian Norman & Larry Rock

29 Sunday First Sunday of Advent

9:30 AM Upper Room Sunday School Zoom (Adult)

6:30 PM Transitions Women's Bible Study Zoom

December 2 Wednesday

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We continue to be deeply grateful for continued support of the mission and ministry of Central Church. Even though we have started back worshipping in the sanctuary, we have limited the handling of offerings and cash. There are a few ways to continue to make offerings extremely easy.