CHRISTMAS LETTER 1997 ALL YE FAITHFUL

       

OH COME ALL YE FAITHFUL

O' COME ALL YE FAITHFUL TO BETHLEHEM

To our Heart To Heart Family
Christmas Letter 1997:

As we enter into this blessed season of rejoicing and jubilation, we want you to know how special you are to us and to the Lord.  Your gifts of love throughout the year encourage us and help us to carry out that which God has called us to do. You are very precious gifts to us.  Each one of you is so unique with matchless talents and abilities.  We appreciate your prayers and support, as they uphold and assure us that we are not alone.  Each one of you is a special treasure, and we thank God for you.

The theme God has given us for this Christmas is, “O come all ye Faithful”.   God has impressed upon our hearts this year again... that his “Faithfulness” knows no limits.

We believe God is calling his “faithful” (the ones who were willing to go through the testing fires) to “Come” now and drink of his refreshing, waters, and enter into his rest... free from lack of trust, fear, striving and offenses, unforgiveness, criticism and debt, and so much more. 

A year for the “Lion to lay down with the Lamb”.  Those who have been found “faithful” to Him will encounter a special measure of FAITH as they enter into the New Year.

That is what the Lord made clear.  He is the FAITHFUL ONE, FAITHFUL AND TRUE.  As we are Faithful to the Faithful One, He then fills us with miraculous faith to believe the impossible.  It is a gift to his Faithful.

May the wonder of the Christ Child be birthed afresh and anew in your hearts this year as we come together to worship and adore HIM.  Our hope is that you and the ones you hold near and dear will be filled with JOY and PEACE this Christmas. Our sincere desire is that you will experience MORE OF JESUS in 1998.  May you prosper in every area as you celebrate this … ”YEAR OF JUBILEE”!

 In His Service,

Pastors Bart & Donna Trexler           

Heart To Heart Christian Church

Summerville, SC

donnatrex@yahoo.com    

        

O Come All Ye Faithful!    The text to the Carol O Come All Ye Faithful was originally written in Latin (Adeste Fideles) and was intended to be a hymn, it is attributed to John Wade, an Englishman. The music to O Come All Ye Faithful was composed by fellow Englishman John Reading in the early 1700s. The tune was first published in a collection known as "Cantus Diversi" in 1751. In 1841 Rev. Frederick Oakley is reputed to have worked on the familiar translation of O Come All Ye Faithful which replaced the older Latin lyrics "Adeste Fideles".

O Come All Ye Faithful : Lyrics Oh Come All Ye Faithful Joyful and triumphant, O Come ye, O Come ye to Bethlehem Come and behold Him, Born the King of Angels; O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord. O Sing, choirs of angels, Sing in exultation, Sing all that hear in heaven God's holy word. Give to our Father glory in the Highest; O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord. All Hail! Lord, we greet Thee, Born this happy morning, O Jesus! for evermore be Thy name adored. Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing; O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord.