Save The Dates
December 6 and 7 are the dates for our Christmas choir presentation. Both performances begin at 3:00 p.m. There are invitation cards in the Connect Center, foyer, and in the choir room. Please feel free to hand them out to your friends and family. The message and the music will be a blessing to all.
What Child is This?
One of the most beautiful songs from our music presentation is the carol, “What Child is This?”
William Chatterson Dix, is the writer of this carol. As a young man, William moved to Glasgow Scotland, where he pursued a career managing a marine insurance company. However, his true passion was poetry. Dix became very sick and was in bed for a long time recovering. He had plenty of time to pray and read the Word of God. From this experience his life was truly changed for the better. He began to write hymns. Three of these we may be familiar with today: “As With Gladness, Men of Old,” “Alleluia, Sing to Jesus,” and “What Child is This?”
“What Child is This?” was set to the ever-popular “Greensleeves.” written a full century before Dix’s hymn.
What child IS this? This is Jesus, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, Who loved us so much that HE gave that we might have life eternal. We look back at the manger, but ahead to the PROMISE!