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Christmas Cantata 2022

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Join us on Sunday, December 18 at 10:00 a.m. when the Chancel Choir will present “Christmas Canticles” composed by Benjamin Harlan. Filled with familiar carols, original music and incorporating congregational singing, you won’t want to miss this wonderful tradition at NSUMC! Complete with orchestra and narration, come and be filled with the spirit of Christmas on this festive day!
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CHRISTMAS MUSICAL Celebration
​in Review 2021



​Sunday,
Dec. 19th, 2021
@ 10:00 am

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​Christmas Musical Celebration
December 19, 2021
Please join us at the 10:00 a.m. service on Sunday, December 19 for a special Christmas musical celebration featuring our Chancel Choir, Donna Marie Hartley, narrator and instrumental ensemble.  It is sure to warm your heart and fill you with the spirit of the Christmas season! 

Christmas Cantata 2019 Highlights

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And Glory Shone Around!

Come celebrate the third Sunday of Advent with this special performance.   Sunday, December 15 at 10:00 a.m. NSUMC     Chancel Choir and full orchestra with narrator Pastor David Rennick will present   “  And  Glory  Shone    Around ”    by Lloyd   Larson   and Douglas   Wagner.
 
Blending new melodies and familiar Christmas   carols, this work recalls the dark days of anguish for    ancient Israel,  only to  give way to  the dawning  of a  new  day  of  light  and love when  Christ is  born. In  a world filled with darkness and pain, Christmas, the  season of   light, is  the  ideal  time  to  celebrate God's    perfect gift, Jesus!
 
The Cantata is best suited for children ages 12 and up.  North Scottsdale United Methodist Church is offering One Room Sunday School in our fellowship hall during the 10am service on Sunday, Dec. 15th while the adults are in the sanctuary enjoying the CANTATA.  NSUMC will not have children’s moments or the regular Sunday School that day, instead all children ages 3-18 are asked to join us in the fellowship hall (the large room just east of the sanctuary where the coffee and snacks are located). Please send your children over (or walk them if that is more comfortable for you). Two-year old’s may visit the nursery. NSUMC is hosting a Mad Science Winter Experiment Experience. You know your child and what works best for them. They are welcome at either experience.
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North Scottsdale United Methodist Church celebrates the love of God through Christ by having two services on Sunday (8:30 am and 10:00 am).  Sunday school and the nursery are available for newborns through twelve-year-old children at both services.  Youth Sunday school (grades six through twelve) have Sunday school during the 10:00 a.m. service.  Some of the other children and youth activities include; children’s choir, volleyball, mission trips, small groups, festivals and youth groups.  N.S.U.M.C. also offers adult Bible studies, men and women’s groups, choirs, retreats, holiday events, turn-around trips, mission trips and more. 
 
If you are interested in additional information about N.S.U.M.C. or any of these events, please call the church office at (480) 948-0529; visit them at 11735 North Scottsdale Road (85254), check out our websites (www.nsumc.com  or   www.nsumckids.info ) or find us on Facebook and Pinterest.

Christmas Cantata 2018 Highlights

Christmas Cantata
“A Carol Fantasia” by Benjamin Harlan
 Sunday, December 16th at 10:00 a.m.
Join us December 16th  in the Sanctuary when the NSUMC Music Department presents “A Carol Fantasia” by Benjamin Harlan.   The Chancel Choir, our children and youth choirs, Kids of Grace and AngeliX, and the NSUMC Handbell Choir will participate, accompanied by a musical ensemble of brass, percussion, piano and organ.  We hope you will join us for this most sacred and traditional event.

Come celebrate the third Sunday of Advent with this special performance.
The Cantata is best suited for children ages 12 and up.  North Scottsdale United Methodist Church is offering One Room Sunday School in our fellowship hall during the 10am service on Sunday, Dec. 17th while the adults are in the sanctuary enjoying the CANTATA.  NSUMC will not have children’s moments or the regular Sunday School that day, instead all children ages 3-18 are asked to join us in the fellowship hall (the large room just east of the sanctuary where the coffee and snacks are located). Please send your children over (or walk them if that is more comfortable for you). Two-year old’s may visit the nursery. NSUMC is hosting a Mad Science Winter Experiment Experience. You know your child and what works best for them. They are welcome at either experience.
North Scottsdale United Methodist Church celebrates the love of God through Christ by having two services on Sunday (8:30 am and 10:00 am).  Sunday school and the nursery are available for newborns through twelve-year-old children at both services.  Youth Sunday school (grades six through twelve) have Sunday school during the 10:00 a.m. service.  Some of the other children and youth activities include; children’s choir, volleyball, mission trips, small groups, festivals and youth groups.  N.S.U.M.C. also offers adult Bible studies, men and women’s groups, choirs, retreats, holiday events, turn-around trips, mission trips and more. 
 
If you are interested in additional information about N.S.U.M.C. or any of these events, please call the church office at (480) 948-0529; visit them at 11735 North Scottsdale Road (85254), check out our websites (www.nsumc.com or www.nsumckids.info ) or find us on Facebook and Pinterest.
ALSO:
Prayer and Communion Station
on December 16 @ 8:30am 
            There will be no regular 8:30am service this week. Instead, Fellowship Hall will be set up with a prayer and communion station at 8:30am to prepare for the morning. Please come and listen to music, take communion, and write a prayer to place on our prayer tree. The nursery will be open as usual, at both 8:30 and 10:00.  ​

Christmas Cantata 2017 Highlights

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Join North Scottsdale United Methodist Church on Sunday, December 16 at 10:00 a.m. in the Sanctuary when the NSUMC Chancel Choir presents The Incarnation.  The Chancel choir, under direction of Darin Read, will be accompanied by brass, timpani, and organist Donna Marie Hartley.

Come celebrate the third Sunday of Advent with this special performance.
The Cantata is best suited for children ages 12 and up.  North Scottsdale United Methodist Church is offering One Room Sunday School in our fellowship hall during the 10am service on Sunday, Dec. 17th while the adults are in the sanctuary enjoying the CANTATA.  NSUMC will not have children’s moments or the regular Sunday School that day, instead all children ages 3-18 are asked to join us in the fellowship hall (the large room just east of the sanctuary where the coffee and snacks are located). Please send your children over (or walk them if that is more comfortable for you). Two-year old’s may visit the nursery. NSUMC is hosting a Mad Science Winter Experiment Experience. You know your child and what works best for them. They are welcome at either experience.
North Scottsdale United Methodist Church celebrates the love of God through Christ by having two services on Sunday (8:30 am and 10:00 am).  Sunday school and the nursery are available for newborns through twelve-year-old children at both services.  Youth Sunday school (grades six through twelve) have Sunday school during the 10:00 a.m. service.  Some of the other children and youth activities include; children’s choir, volleyball, mission trips, small groups, festivals and youth groups.  N.S.U.M.C. also offers adult Bible studies, men and women’s groups, choirs, retreats, holiday events, turn-around trips, mission trips and more. 
 
If you are interested in additional information about N.S.U.M.C. or any of these events, please call the church office at (480) 948-0529; visit them at 11735 North Scottsdale Road (85254), check out our websites (www.nsumc.com or www.nsumckids.info ) or find us on Facebook and Pinterest.


Christmas Cantata 2016 Highlights

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"The Christmas Light"
Sunday, December 18th, 2016 --- 10:00 a.m.
  
North Scottsdale UMC Chancel Choir will present "The Christmas Light" with full orchestra and narrated by Senior Pastor Nancy Cushman on Sunday, December 18, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. in the 600 seat sanctuary.  Children are welcome to enjoy the Cantata  but we also have  a Mad Science WInter Experiments option in the fellowship hall.  Click here to read more about the children option.
 
From the hopeful darkness of early Advent to the heavenly radiance of the birth of Christ, "The Christmas Light" masterfully conveys the wonder of God's promise fulfilled. Subtitled  A Masterwork Cantata For Advent Or Christmas,  this is a superb cantata of great quality. The choruses are adapted from the works of J.M. Haydn, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Praetorius and Schubert, as well as Christmas carol melodies of Gruber, Handel, Mendelssohn and Wade. The performance includes narration and biblical passages. 
 
North Scottsdale United Methodist Church celebrates the love of God through Christ by having two services on Sunday (8:30 am and 10:00 am).  Sunday school and the nursery are available for newborns through twelve year-old children at both services.  Youth Sunday school (grades six through twelve) have Sunday school during the 10:00 a.m. service.  Some of the other children and youth activities include; children’s choir, volleyball, mission trips, small groups, festivals and youth groups.  N.S.U.M.C. also offers adult Bible studies, men and women’s groups, choirs, retreats, holiday events, turn-around trips, mission trips and more. 
 
If you are interested in additional information about N.S.U.M.C. or any of these events, please call the church office at (480) 948-0529; visit them at 11735 North Scottsdale Road (85254), check out our websites (www.nsumc.com or www.nsumckids.info ) or find us on Facebook and Pinterest.

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Christmas Cantata 2015 Highlights

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"The Winter Rose"
by Joseph Martin
with Narration by Pamela Martin
Orchestrated by Brant Adams
 
North Scottsdale UMC  Chancel Choir will present "The Winter Rose" with full orchestra and narrated by Senior Pastor Nancy Cushman on Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. in the 600 seating sanctuary.
 
"It is our sincerest prayer that as Christ, the Rose of Sharon, opens before you this Christmas, your spirit will be encouraged by the beauty of God's greatest gift. Let the words and music of this cantata remind you that even in the deepest winter, we are people of joy and life...children of the garden"  -Joseph and Pamela Martin.

This is an orchestral performance that the youth in middle and high school will appreciate.  The Director of Christian Education will offer one room Sunday School in our Fellowship Hall and will show a Christmas movie as an alternative for the younger children. The NSUMC Sunday School staff is invited to take the morning off and enjoy the Cantata!

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