ADVENT PODCAST Ep. 4: "Family" and Christmas through the Eyes of Children // What Makes Christmas, Christmas?

Episode 4 (Season 2) of The Oak Grove UMC Podcast 🎙️✨ : "What Makes Christmas, Christmas?" with guests Terese and Steven Sanders (church members) along with host Rev. Dr. Joseph McBrayer (Pastor for Connection and Digital Ministry). In this episode, The Sanders and Pastor Joseph talk about how family makes Christmas, Christmas covering a variety of ways that family comes about through foster care and adoption--and how seeing Christmas through the eyes of children and family can help us to see things anew. We'll also talk about the Sanders' traditions of movie nights and sacred music during this Advent and Christmas season. __ Season of Promise Christmas Concert recording: https://youtube.com/live/_V6oQXNUGrk Wellroot family Services (Foster Care) info: https://wellroot.org/ __ 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