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Please join us on September 7 from 4-7 P.M. for our Community BBQ - Rain or Shine!!
08/23/2024

Please join us on September 7 from 4-7 P.M. for our Community BBQ - Rain or Shine!!

This a night geared towards families, youth and young adults but all are welcome! This service will be focused on missio...
10/31/2023

This a night geared towards families, youth and young adults but all are welcome! This service will be focused on missions with a talk from Tom Mosterd, youth who have gone on missions, and worship led by the youth of Stratford and Bethel. Please join us after for fellowship and early soup and bun dinner!

Please join us this Saturday, September 9 for our annual Church and Community BBQ from 4-7 P.M. - Rain or Shine!!!
09/05/2023

Please join us this Saturday, September 9 for our annual Church and Community BBQ from 4-7 P.M. - Rain or Shine!!!

02/21/2023

THIS FRIDAY. Experience revival. Love. Peace. See what happens when we open our doors and open our hearts. JESUS REVOLUTION is in theaters nationwide in just 4 days! Will we see you at the theaters?

https://tickets.jesusrevolution.movie/

Valentine's Day At 55+ Luncheon
02/17/2023

Valentine's Day At 55+ Luncheon

Christmas lights actually started out just as candles. These candles were attached to the tree using wax or pins. The pr...
12/21/2022

Christmas lights actually started out just as candles. These candles were attached to the tree using wax or pins. The practice began in Germany during the 17th century.

The practice was originally started in order to bring illumination to the ornaments that were placed on the tree. This practice continued until around 1900 when candleholders became popular and people started to use them instead of wax or pins to hold the candles to the trees.

It was not until around 1915 that glass balls and lanterns were also used replacing the candles on trees as the main form of illuminating. The world of Christmas lights really became something amazing with the invention of the light bulb and electricity. In 1882, the first Christmas tree to be lit by electric lights was seen in New York. It was lit by Edward Johnson who happened to be a friend of Thomas Edison. The Christmas tree was lit with beautiful red, white, and blue lights. It also led to the creation of the first string of Christmas lights which were massed produced and available for sale around 1890.

The first White House Christmas tree to have electric lights was seen in 1895 and lit by President Cleveland.

The first sets of sting lights were too expensive for the majority of people to afford but by 1900, many department stores were using Christmas lights to liven up their holiday displays and attract customers. The American Eveready company produced the first Christmas light set however in 1903.

Outdoor light displays were started in North America. The idea however, was catching and these beautiful displays quickly became a worldwide phenomenon for everyone to enjoy. These lighting displays were started after the first safe outdoor Christmas light bulbs and Christmas light strings were seen in 1927.

In the 13th century, in France, Germany, and particularly, Italy, under the influence of Francis of Assisi a strong trad...
12/19/2022

In the 13th century, in France, Germany, and particularly, Italy, under the influence of Francis of Assisi a strong tradition of popular Christmas songs in regional native languages developed. Christmas carols in English first appear in a 1426 work of John Awdlay, a Shropshire chaplain, who lists twenty five "caroles of Cristemas", probably sung by groups of 'wassailers', who went from house to house. The songs now known specifically as carols were originally communal songs sung during celebrations like harvest tide as well as Christmas. It was only later that carols began to be sung in church, and to be specifically associated with Christmas.

Carols gained in popularity after the Reformation in the countries where Protestant churches gained prominence (as well-known Reformers like Martin Luther authored carols and encouraged their use in worship). This was a consequence of the fact that the Lutheran reformation warmly welcomed music. During the years that the Puritan ban on Christmas was in place in England, semi-clandestine religious services marking Christ's birth continued to be held, and people sang carols in secret.

The earliest nativity scene has been found in the early Christian catacomb of Saint Valentine - it traces back to A.D. 3...
12/14/2022

The earliest nativity scene has been found in the early Christian catacomb of Saint Valentine - it traces back to A.D. 380!

Saint Francis of Assisi is credited with creating the first LIVE nativity scene in 1223 in order to cultivate the worship of Christ. He himself had recently been inspired by his visit to the Holy Land, where he'd been shown Jesus's traditional birthplace. The scene's popularity inspired communities throughout Christian countries to stage similar exhibitions.

In 1846, the popular royals, Queen Victoria and her German Prince, Albert, were sketched in the Illustrated London News ...
12/12/2022

In 1846, the popular royals, Queen Victoria and her German Prince, Albert, were sketched in the Illustrated London News standing with their children around a Christmas tree. Unlike the previous royal family, Victoria was very popular with her subjects, and what was done at court immediately became fashionable—not only in Britain, but with fashion-conscious East Coast American Society. The Christmas tree had arrived.

By the 1890s Christmas ornaments were arriving from Germany and Christmas tree popularity was on the rise around the U.S. It was noted that Europeans used small trees about four feet in height, while Americans liked their Christmas trees to reach from floor to ceiling.

The early 20th century saw Americans decorating their trees mainly with homemade ornaments, while the German-American sect continued to use apples, nuts, and marzipan cookies. Popcorn joined in after being dyed bright colors and interlaced with berries and nuts. Electricity brought about Christmas lights, making it possible for Christmas trees to glow for days on end. With this, Christmas trees began to appear in town squares across the country and having a Christmas tree in the home became an American tradition.

Germany is credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition as we now know it. In the 16th century, devout Christians...
12/07/2022

Germany is credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition as we now know it. In the 16th century, devout Christians brought decorated trees into their homes. Some built Christmas pyramids of wood and decorated them with evergreens and candles if wood was scarce. It is a widely held belief that Martin Luther, the 16th-century Protestant reformer, first added lighted candles to a tree. Walking toward his home one winter evening, composing a sermon, he was awed by the brilliance of stars twinkling amidst evergreens. To recapture the scene for his family, he erected a tree in the main room and wired its branches with lighted candles.

Most 19th-century Americans found Christmas trees an oddity. The first record of one being on display was in the 1830s by the German settlers of Pennsylvania, although trees had been a tradition in many German homes much earlier. The Pennsylvania German settlements had community trees as early as 1747. But, as late as the 1840s Christmas trees were seen as pagan symbols and not accepted by most Americans.

But why a wreath?Research points to Johann Hinrich Wichern (1808–1881), a Protestant pastor in Germany and a pioneer in ...
12/05/2022

But why a wreath?

Research points to Johann Hinrich Wichern (1808–1881), a Protestant pastor in Germany and a pioneer in urban mission work among the poor, as the inventor of the modern Advent wreath in the 19th century. During Advent, children at the mission school Rauhes Haus in Hamburg, would ask daily if Christmas had arrived. In 1839, he built a large wooden ring (made out of an old cartwheel) with 20 small red and 4 large white candles. A small candle was lit successively every weekday and Saturday during Advent. On Sundays, a large white candle was lit. This tradition did not make its way to North America until the 1930's.

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