Come join us for a Children’s Christmas Program beginning at 5 p.m. in the fellowship hall followed by our “Lighting the Word for the World” program out under the shelter. After we ‘turn on the lights’, we’ll return to the fellowship hall for cookies, hot chocolate, coffee and hot cider. All we need now are some cookies and YOU! more…

Once again this year, Hickory Bend UMC is participating in the Bethlehem Center’s Toys for Tots program. If you’d like to donate a toy or toys, please bring them (unwrapped ) to the church by December 7th and Becky Williamson will get them to the Bethlehem Center for us. Suggestions for toys are . . . toys for infants & toddles, baby dolls, board games, boy and girl gift sets, books, age appropriate card games, sport items (basketballs, footballs, baseballs & gloves), computer & video games, age appropriate CD’s, MP3 Players, CD & DVD Players, Action Figures, Purses, Make-up sets, scrapbook sets, sleeping bags, toy cooking sets.
This holiday season, remember those who are less fortunate and join us in our efforts to make this
a great Christmas for our community! If you have any questions, give Becky a call.

Luke 1:46-59

Celebrates the fulfillment of all the expectations and all the promises made by God, giving us a –

·         a new look at God,

·         a new look at the world, and

·         A new look into ourselves.

We see what salvation “looks like” when it enters into history.  “Behold, I am doing a new thing.  Can you see it?” [Isaiah 43:19].  What do we see?  What do we hope to see?  What “blinds’ us?