{"id":386,"date":"2013-12-03T21:15:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T01:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=386"},"modified":"2017-12-22T09:52:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T13:52:13","slug":"annual-christmas-cantata-122213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Annual Christmas Cantata (12\/22\/13)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Concert of Carols<\/h3>\n<p>Our choirs and praise teams will present our 83rd annual Christmas Cantata on Sunday 12\/22 at the traditional time of 4:15 PM.<\/p>\n<p>The cantata is entitled &#8220;<strong>Concert of Carols<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_903\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Choir2011-IMG_3859-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-903\" class=\" wp-image-903\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Choir2011-IMG_3859-small-300x133.jpg\" alt=\"Voices in Praise Choir\" width=\"239\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Choir2011-IMG_3859-small-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Choir2011-IMG_3859-small.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voices in Praise Choir<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The &#8220;Christmas Story&#8221;isn&#8217;t just a &#8220;story.&#8221;\u00a0 It is redeeming love come to earth in Jesus Christ our Savior.\u00a0 Over the years, musicians have tried to celebrate and capture this message of God&#8217;s saving grace come to earth as a babe.\u00a0 Our church &#8220;Candelight Cantata&#8221; has been celebrating Christmas in song since 1920.\u00a0 It began in our church as a town musical event, with standing room only crowds in the church on Broadway and Holly Avenues.<\/p>\n<p>It has continued over the years as we have presented various cantatas, concerts, and oratorios such as Handel&#8217;s Messiah.\u00a0 It has been a tradition to end with a candelight recessional to &#8220;Silent Night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This year we present a &#8220;Concert of Carols&#8221; to inspire you, to draw you closer, to know Jesus who came to earth to save us from our sins and provide a way to God.\u00a0 Celebrate with us this night in this 83 year old tradition, as we use music to proclaim, &#8220;Joy to the World, the Lord is Come!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concert of Carols Our choirs and praise teams will present our 83rd annual Christmas Cantata on Sunday 12\/22 at the traditional time of 4:15 PM. The cantata is entitled &#8220;Concert of Carols&#8220;. The &#8220;Christmas Story&#8221;isn&#8217;t just a &#8220;story.&#8221;\u00a0 It is redeeming love come to earth in Jesus Christ our Savior.\u00a0 Over the years, musicians have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,9,14],"tags":[123,93],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mus","category-evann","category-worship","tag-christmas","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17030,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/17030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}