{"id":10643,"date":"2015-11-05T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=10643"},"modified":"2018-11-08T23:00:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T23:00:09","slug":"advent-offering-supports-church-ministries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2015\/advent-offering-supports-church-ministries\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Offering Supports Church of the Brethren Ministries, Focuses on the Magnificat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A children’s coloring picture from the activity sheet that is one of the worship resources for the 2015 Advent Offering. Find this resource and more at www.brethren.org\/adventoffering .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cMy soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior\u201d (Luke 1:46).<\/em><\/p>\n

The annual Advent Offering for Church of the Brethren ministries is scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 13, the third Sunday of Advent. The theme, \u201cRejoice: The Lord Has Done Great Things,\u201d is inspired by Luke 1:46-49, the opening verses of Mary\u2019s \u201cMagnificat.\u201d<\/p>\n

The special emphasis also includes worship resources as well as a biblical study of the theme scripture. Resources may be downloaded free of charge from www.brethren.org\/adventoffering<\/a> .<\/p>\n

The biblical exegesis for Luke 1:46-49 was written by Joshua Brockway, director of Spiritual Life and Discipleship for the Church of the Brethren, and a staff member of Congregational Life Ministries.<\/p>\n

Other worship resources include a communion service tailored to that Sunday in Advent, along with a call to worship, prayers, hymn suggestions, a children\u2019s sermon and a children\u2019s activity sheet, offering invitation and prayer, a benediction, and more, all written by Matt DeBall and Cherise Glunz of the denomination\u2019s Donor Relations staff.<\/p>\n

Following is an excerpt from the children\u2019s sermon, available in full at www.brethren.org\/offerings\/advent\/documents\/2015\/childrens-sermon-cherise-glunz.pdf<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a magnifying glass. We know that magnifying glasses were created to make objects appear bigger and easier to see. When we hold this magnifying glass over a Christmas light or even your hand, it makes it clearer to see and we can see it in better detail. In our Bible verse today, we hear Mary say: \u201cMy soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.\u201d … When we bring praise to God like Mary, we are like this magnifying glass–showing the world even the smallest details of how great God truly is!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The annual Advent Offering for Church of the Brethren ministries is scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 13, the third Sunday of Advent. The theme, \u201cRejoice: The Lord Has Done Great Things,\u201d is inspired by Luke 1:46-49, the opening verses of Mary\u2019s \u201cMagnificat.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1273,1278],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-10643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-spiritual-life","tag-stewardship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12928,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10643\/revisions\/12928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10643"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=10643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}