by The Church @ HP | Jan 19, 2023 | Advent 2022
It’s amazing to me that we’re here again. Another Advent season gone by and we’re celebrating the gift of Christ in our lives. When did the world speed up? It seems like just yesterday our family was celebrating the first Christmas with our first grandchild and now we...
by The Church @ HP | Jan 19, 2023 | Advent 2022
As a child, Christmas Eve was most definitely one of my favorite days of the year. I always found actual Christmas day quite boring. There is so much anticipation, and you wake up on Christmas morning and open your presents…and then what? Nap? My favorite day was...
by The Church @ HP | Jan 19, 2023 | Advent 2022
As we think about how we experience this season through our senses, your HP Staff came together to make a list of what we think of during Advent: Hot Chocolate, Harry Connick Jr., mulled wine, Christmas cookies, turkey and dressing, smell of a fresh cut tree,...
by The Church @ HP | Jan 19, 2023 | Advent 2022
When did you become aware the Christmas season was around the corner? Was it something some one did or said? Was it a place, a smell or a sight or an experience never before happening for you? For me it was the tree color! Not the Christmas tree green color or...
by The Church @ HP | Jan 19, 2023 | Advent 2022
Oh the senses that only this time of year can bring! They have been a part of my life for as far back as I can remember. In fact, there may be nothing else in all creation that emotionally ties me to my parents and my childhood the way that this time of year does. At...
by The Church @ HP | Jan 19, 2023 | Advent 2022
I hope it’s been a great year for you. 2022 has had its ups and downs but through those ups and downs we grow closer as a community, a congregation and as friends. Through those relationships we build the foundation of many things, without those meaningful...
