I know we talk about hope and peace and the birth of christ. What is the Christmas Season as you define it supposed to be about . Well, we go back to the birth of christ. Born in a rough time. A very difficult season. And the theological point of view is that god sent himself into the world to bring hope, and peace and joy. And to everybody. That is the basis of celebration. I bring you good tidings of peace. I would imagine you agree. That we should try to center our thought this is time of year. Well, the birth of jesus is the main event. And in the gospels we get two different kinds of scenarios of how people respond. We get the shepherds having this revelation of light and music and a message. And they run to the manger to find this baby. And then we have in matthews gospel, the majii who come from the far east following a star and was because they are willing to follow the star it leads them to the child and they bring them this magnificent gifts of frankincense and mur. And there
1968. Evelyn green is Program Director at Bethany Center at m Street Village. Welcome all of you. Reverend, you wrote this book, congratulations first off. Thank you. You call this the story of a Community Written by a community. Tell us about that. Well, i think the wonder of the book is pulling together a variety of peoples stories and having it be done sort of with each other allowing people to be interviewed, to create stories from that and then giving people a chance to look back at what they shared and sort of edit their own stories. Another group of people weaving it altogether. So definitely a group effort. So sort of a collection of short stories. Uhhuh. Written in chronological order, so to speak. Yes. Luther place ministries alone could fill their own book. But in this book you zeroed in on one of the churchs ministries, n Street Village. Why was it so important to write about n street . I think given our close proximity to n Street Village right across the street as well as
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