Zion Lutheran Church
Advent 2004
The Church was decorated inside and out.
Zion opened its doors to the Silverhill community after the annual Town of Silverhill Christmas Parade and Singing in the Park on the evening of December 3, 2004. Visitors enjoyed traditional Scandinavian Christmas delicacies such as Sill (Swedish marinated pickled herring), and Krumkage (a Norwegian Christmas cookie).
The Krumkage maker is very popular. - Click each picture to Enlarge.
Zion Church member and Church Council President, Peter Midgarden, is the master Kumkage maker.
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The necessary tools for making Krumkage.
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Peter Midgarden is also Silverhill's Boy Scout Master.
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The town's residents shared a warm time of fellowship after the parade.
The outside decorations invited the people to come closer.
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The inside decorations were welcoming.
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The Advent Wreath.
Miss Melanie and her second grade class from Silverhill School
visited Zion on Tuesday, December 14.
Children looking around and asking questions about Swedish Christmas
and the church decorations. Yes, they learned some Swede in this old
Swedish Lutheran church. Can you say, "Gud Jul"?
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Children listened to Mr. Pete discuss Christmas and Zion's fascinating
bell. And yes, that pink thing on the right is an Advent candle from
our Advent wreath, one of the things the class was curious about.
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Children looking over the Zion sanctuary decorated for Christmas.
There's the Christmas angel at the bottom of the picture looking out at
the children.
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Click here to Listen to Miss Melanie's second grade class sing Silent Night.
December 14, 2004
mp3 file
Zion's 2004 Christmas Choir.
Pianist Shirley Stephens accompanies the choir in its
practice on December 19, 2004.
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The Zion Christmas Choir discusses "Hark the Herald Angels
Sing" at practice on December 19, 2004. Henri Etta Burnett (l to r),
Phil Owen, Cindi Johnson (back to camera), Ed Engel, Charles Canning,
Bettina Langham, and Mike Coleman formed the nucleus of the Christmas
Eve effort.
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Christmas Eve Candlelight Service, December 24, 2004. - Click each picture to Enlarge.
Zion Church Sanctuary decorated for Christmas as seen from the loft.
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The Advent Candle Wreath.
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The Poinsettia Christmas Tree.
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Pastor Dave's Christmas Eve sermon, "Why Christmas?".
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The Christmas Choir, lead by Cindi Johnson.
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The Lighting of the Candles ceremony.
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100 Years of Christmas
Click here to Listen to a Lesson from Advent 2004
from Pastor Dave Johnson
December 12, 2004
mp3 file
Click here to Listen to a Lesson from Advent 2004
from Pastor Dave Johnson
December 19, 2004
mp3 file
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