First week of Advent!

Even though we do not feel any yet it is coming, but the Advent is here!! :) I am very excited to sing those beautiful advent songs and Christmas carols with you all.
This Sunday is the first week of advent; the message is about "hope". At 8:00 o' clock service, Sonrise singers will lift up " O Come, o come, Emmanuel" and the Sanctuary choir will sing a beautiful advent anthem "The Yearning" by Craig Courtney at 11:00. The Advent is a time to be more closer to God with longing heart. I wish you all have a Happy Thanksgiving and come together on Sunday to worship our Lord!
Don't forget there will be "Celebration of Season" at 5:00 o' clock with lots of carols!
Here is the lyric of the Yearning.
There is a yearning in hearts weighed down by ancient grief and centuries of sorrow. There is a yearning in hearts that in the darkness hide and in the shades of death abide, a yearning for tomorrow.
There is a yearning, a yearning for the promised One, the Firstborn of creation. There is a yearning for the Lord who visited His own, and by His death for sin atoned, to bring to us salvation.
Emmanuel, Emmanuel within our hearts, the yearning.
There is a yearning that fills the hearts of those who wait the day of His appearing.
There is a yearning when all our sorrows are erased and we shall see the One who placed within our hearts the yearning.
Emmanuel, Emmanuel within our hearts, the yearning.