ADVENT PODCAST Ep. 3: Mutuality In Mission // What Makes Christmas, Christmas?

Episode 3 (Season 2) of The Oak Grove UMC Podcast 🎙️✨ : "What Makes Christmas, Christmas?" with guests Pastor Chad Hyatt (Pastor of Mercy Community Church) and Virginia Sowell (OGUMC Graphic Designer & Mobile Soup volunteer) along with host Rev. Dr. Joseph McBrayer (Pastor for Connection and Digital Ministry). In this episode, Pastor Chad and Virginia share about the ways Oak Grove UMC partners with Mercy Community Church to come alongside folks experiencing homelessness and poverty in the Poncey-Highlands area. We'll talk about how the themes of Advent and Christmas (food, music, art, & connection to others) are expressed and experienced at Mercy Community Church through their ministries of feeding, listening, and being present with folks in their community. 
 __ Mercy Community Church Mercyatl.org Instagram.com/mercychurchatl/ https://www.youtube.com/@mercycommunitychurch-atlan1281 Ogumc.org/missions Email [email protected] +Sandwich making: Thursdays at 1pm in the back of Fellowship Hall +Mobile Soup/Soup Sisters: Fridays 12noon-230pm at back of church building at the kitchen (Email [email protected]) Advent Offering: ogumc.org/donate & make for “Advent offering”
 __ In Season 2 of the Oak Grove UMC Podcast we are exploring "What Makes Christmas, Christmas?" looking at the themes of Advent and Christmas: anticipating the incarnation of God – God being born in human form in Jesus. We have a great lineup of guests for this season and we’ll be looking at themes of generosity, mutuality in mission and service, and how music, and family make Christmas, Christmas. As usual, episodes will release on Tuesdays and we’re also going to be trying something new with what we’re calling “Digital Contemplative Practices” which come out on the Podcast feed every Thursday. These visual and audio meditations will invite you to take a few minutes, breathe, and enjoy a quiet, meditative practice with supporting visuals from around our neighborhoods – some weeks it might be walking along a wooded stream with Nature Sounds and other weeks it might be a guided meditation on the theme of the week. Be sure to subscribe to the Oak Grove Podcast on + Spotify ⁠⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ogumc + Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-oak-grove-umc-podcast/id1695962000⁠⁠ + Video version on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@OGUMC/podcasts⁠ #ngumc #umc #advent #christmas #adventpodcast #churchpodcast