A Season of Preparation, Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love
As the days grow shorter and the year draws to a close, the Church enters one of its most meaningful seasons—Advent, a sacred time marked by both quiet longing and expectation. This year at FUMC, our Advent series is, The Wait of the World, a journey into what it means to prepare our hearts and lives for the coming of Christ.
Advent invites us to slow down, breathe deeply, and pay attention to the holy longing that sits underneath all our hurriedness. It is a season shaped by waiting—not a passive, empty waiting, but an active, hopeful, courageous waiting. The world waits for redemption. We wait for Christ to be born in us again. And in that waiting, God meets us.
Each week of this series will focus on one of the traditional themes of Advent—Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love—and how these gifts sustain us as we wait for God’s promises to unfold.
Throughout The Wait of the World, we will explore how preparation and longing shape our spiritual lives, asking what it means for Christ to come—not only into the manger, but into our homes, our relationships, our communities, and our world today.
We hope you’ll join us each Sunday as we lean into this holy season together, carrying one another through the waiting and watching for Christ’s light to dawn again.
Come, let us prepare Him room.
Come, let us wait with hope, peace, joy, and love.
Join us this advent season:
