Christmas Lights
Are you familiar with the term bittersweet? Yeah, it's when something feels good and bad at the same time. That is always how our semesters end here for our staff. We hate to see a semester come to an end with so many amazing opportunities for relationships with students. Wednesday night worship gatherings can be incredible times of experiencing God. Sunday night discipleship times at The Link are so valuable for pouring into the lives of our small group of student ministry volunteers.
But I will have to be honest with you. It is nice to have a little break. Nobody on our staff is really all that good at keeping a healthy work schedule so at the end of each semester, we are all usually pretty spent. It is a good tired, but tired nonetheless and in desperate need of some time to get the batteries juiced back up.
So here we find ourselves, with Christmas right on our heals. And this week has really been all about Christmas for us. Sunday night was our final Link of the semester so we had a Christmas party for our student ministry with lots of really tasty junk food and crazy gifts for one another.
And then Wednesday night was our final Well gathering of the semester so we used a Christmas theme and a Christmas message. The title for the evening was Light, and the message was really trying to communicate both the darkness that fills our lives all around, as well as the light that Christ is and brings in that darkness. We used a number of elements on stage to create sources of light as well as using candles all throughout the crowd of students at one point. It was really a powerful night just focusing on Christ as light and what that means in our lives.
It has been a privilege to serve students this semester and to share with you what God has been doing in and through us. Our prayer is that as this Christmas season is upon us, we would begin focusing our hearts toward this amazing invasion of God into our world, this incarnation of God in flesh that we call Jesus. We pray that God wrapping himself in our flesh, in our joys, in our pains, in our lives would never become ordinary, everyday or commonplace. The birth of Christ should be beautiful for us to believe but not easy, not routine.
Into a world consumed by darkness, there came light, Light. May this Christmas be about His Light in your life, His Light in our world.
Merry Christmas from everyone here at The Well!
The Well Staff
But I will have to be honest with you. It is nice to have a little break. Nobody on our staff is really all that good at keeping a healthy work schedule so at the end of each semester, we are all usually pretty spent. It is a good tired, but tired nonetheless and in desperate need of some time to get the batteries juiced back up.
So here we find ourselves, with Christmas right on our heals. And this week has really been all about Christmas for us. Sunday night was our final Link of the semester so we had a Christmas party for our student ministry with lots of really tasty junk food and crazy gifts for one another.
And then Wednesday night was our final Well gathering of the semester so we used a Christmas theme and a Christmas message. The title for the evening was Light, and the message was really trying to communicate both the darkness that fills our lives all around, as well as the light that Christ is and brings in that darkness. We used a number of elements on stage to create sources of light as well as using candles all throughout the crowd of students at one point. It was really a powerful night just focusing on Christ as light and what that means in our lives.
It has been a privilege to serve students this semester and to share with you what God has been doing in and through us. Our prayer is that as this Christmas season is upon us, we would begin focusing our hearts toward this amazing invasion of God into our world, this incarnation of God in flesh that we call Jesus. We pray that God wrapping himself in our flesh, in our joys, in our pains, in our lives would never become ordinary, everyday or commonplace. The birth of Christ should be beautiful for us to believe but not easy, not routine.
Into a world consumed by darkness, there came light, Light. May this Christmas be about His Light in your life, His Light in our world.
Merry Christmas from everyone here at The Well!
The Well Staff
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