This is the start of Advent, and we have a beautiful series of services to take us into the waiting and the watching for what God is bringing forth. Our Advent series is inspired by four excerpts from Fredrick Buechner’s book, The Magnificent Defeat, with each passage taking us deeper into the thoughts of some of the central characters in the Christmas Story narrative. Our hope is that this series will invite us into a season of remembering that we are God's people and that something new is being born among us!