Come and See: An Invitation to Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love

Advent is a season of waiting, watching, and preparing for the coming of Christ. This year, we’ll journey through four of the promises at the heart of Advent: hope, peace, joy, and love. Each week, we’ll explore what these words mean not only as ideas we celebrate at Christmas, but as invitations to recognize where God is already at work in our lives and our world.

November 29 | Hope | Bleyl Middle School 

Isaiah 9:2–7

Come and see God's Hop. Advent begins in the dark, with a promise that light is coming. Isaiah speaks to people living with uncertainty and gives them a vision of a future shaped by God’s presence. Together, we’ll explore what it means to practice hope when we cannot yet see how the story will unfold.

December 6 | Peace | West Intermediate

Isaiah 11:1–9

Come and see God's Peace. Isaiah imagines a world transformed by God’s peace, where old enemies live together and violence no longer has the final word. On the second Sunday of Advent, we’ll consider the kind of peace Christ invites us to seek, practice, and help make possible in the world around us.

December 13 | Joy | West Intermediate

Luke 1:46–55

Come and see God's Joy. Mary’s song of joy comes before everything has been resolved. She celebrates a God who lifts up the overlooked, fills the hungry, and turns expectations upside down. This week, we’ll discover a joy rooted not in perfect circumstances, but in trusting that God is at work bringing something new to life.

December 20 | Love | West Intermediate

Psalm 136

Come and see God's Love. Again and again, Psalm 136 returns to the same reminder: God’s steadfast love endures forever. As Christmas draws near, we’ll reflect on the love that has been woven throughout God’s story and what it means for that enduring love to take shape in us.

Come and see what hope, peace, joy, and love can look like when they become more than words we light on an Advent wreath. Come and see the God who meets us in the waiting.