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Your Virtual Advent Workshop! Welcome to your Virtual Advent Workshop! On the following pages, you’ll find an exploration of our Christmas theme - “What Child Is This? “ through the eyes of some children who changed the world in which they lived. Our Advent “Stations” are: What Child is This? A Child of Hope! Learn about Ruby Bridges, a child who had an important role bringing hope for equal rights in this country. You can also read Paul’s words about hope, and say a prayer for hope in our world. What Child is This? A Child of Peace! Learn about the teenagers from Parkland, Florida, who won the 2018 International Children’s Peace Prize for their activism about creating safe and peaceful schools. You can read several biblical passages about peace, and say a prayer for peace in our world. What Child is This? A Child of Joy! Learn about Stevie Wonder, who brought joy to so many through his music. You can also read Mary’s joyful song of praise - the Magnificat - from the Gospel of Luke, and say a prayer asking for joy. What Child is This? A Child of Love! Learn about Alex Scott, who spent her life raising money for children with cancer with a lemonade stand. You can also read Paul’s famous words about love from 1 Corinthians, and pray a prayer for love based on that passage. What Child is This? A Child who is God With Us! Read the Nativity story from the Bible, as well as Isaiah’s words of prophecy about the child. End with a prayer of Thanksgiving. If you would like to hear stories about these children, we will have recordings of five children’s books about Ruby Bridges, peacemaking, Stevie Wonder, Alex Scott, and the Christmas Story on our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd8Ck-m7J3wOoq8TdbO947w/playlists ​ Each Station has an ornament for you to make! They’re at the end of this document. Here are instructions for building the ornaments: 1. Cut out the three circles. 2. Write your answer to the question in the blank space. 3. Fold each circle in half vertically. 4. Stick the back of the right half of one circle to the back of the left half of another using tape or glue. 5. Fold a piece of yarn or string - or even a pipe cleaner! - to make a loop. 6. Stick the yarn loop in the center of the two halves using tape or glue. 7. Take the final circle and stick the back halves to the open backs to finish the ornament. Happy Crafting! Ruby Bridges - A Child of Hope At the tender age of six, Ruby Bridges advanced the cause of civil rights in November 1960 when she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South. Born on September 8, 1954, Bridges was the oldest of five children for Lucille and Abon Bridges, farmers in Tylertown, Mississippi. When Ruby was two years old, her parents moved their family to New Orleans, Louisiana in search of better work opportunities. Ruby’s birth year coincided with the US Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka Kansas, which ended racial segregation in public schools. Nonetheless, southern states continued to resist integration, and in 1959, Ruby attended a segregated New Orleans kindergarten. A year later, however, a federal court ordered Louisiana to desegregate. The school district created entrance exams for African American students to see whether they could compete academically at the all-white school. Ruby and five other students passed the exam. Her parents were torn about whether to let her attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School, a few blocks from their home. Her father resisted, fearing for his daughter’s safety; her mother, however, wanted Ruby to have the educational opportunities that her parents had been denied. Meanwhile, the school district dragged its feet, delaying her admittance until November 14. Two of the other students decided not to leave their school at all; the other three were sent to the all-white McDonough Elementary School. Ruby and her mother were escorted by four federal marshals to the school every day that year. She walked past crowds screaming vicious slurs at her. Undeterred, she later said she only became frightened when she saw a woman holding a black baby doll in a coffin. She spent her first day in the principal’s office due to the chaos created as angry white parents pulled their children from school. Ardent segregationists withdrew their children permanently. Barbara Henry, a white Boston native, was the only teacher willing to accept Ruby, and all year, she was a class of one. Ruby ate lunch alone and sometimes played with her teacher at recess, but she never missed a day of school that year. While some families supported her bravery—and some northerners sent money to aid her family—others protested throughout the city. The Bridges family suffered for their courage: Abon lost his job, and grocery stores refused to sell to Lucille. Her share-cropping grandparents were evicted from the farm where they had lived for a quarter-century. Over time, other African American students enrolled; many years later, Ruby’s four nieces would also attend. In 1964, artist Norman Rockwell celebrated her courage with a painting of that first day entitled, “The Problem We All Live With.” Ruby graduated from a desegregated high school, became a travel agent, married and had four sons. She was reunited with her first teacher, Henry, in the mid 1990s, and for a time the pair did speaking engagements together. Ruby later wrote about her early experiences in two books and received the Carter G. Woodson Book Award. A lifelong activist for racial equality, in 1999, Ruby established The Ruby Bridges Foundation to promote tolerance and create change through education. In 2000, she was made an honorary deputy marshal in a ceremony in Washington, DC. - By Debra Michals, PhD. What Paul wrote to the church in Rome about Hope (Romans 5:1-5): Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. A Prayer of Hope for a Better World For the people whose lives have touched ours, for the love they show, the burdens they lift, the hopes we share. Compassionate God, we ask you: to fill us with your love, to place in our hearts a spirit of courage, to move us to reach out to others in need. And lead us to play our part, so that now and in generations to come all your children may share in our hope for a better world. We ask this through Christ our Lord, Amen. - Catherine Gorman The Parkland Activists - Children of Peace March for Our Lives Founders awarded 2018 International Children’s Peace Prize After 17 of their peers were gunned down in the classrooms and hallways of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, a group of teenagers from the Parkland school banded together to work to change the nation’s gun laws and offer a platform for students who worry their school will be next. They rallied outside a local courthouse, appeared on Sunday news shows and motivated hundreds of thousands of people to march on Washington and in cities nationwide as part of an unprecedented day of action. On Tuesday, [November 20, 2018] the college-bound activists realized the global reach of their anti-gun violence movement as they were awarded the 2018 International Children’s Peace Prize, joining the likes of Pakistani education-rights advocate Malala Yousafzai as winners of the annual prize. March For Our Lives leaders David Hogg, Emma González, Jaclyn Corin and Matt Deitsch received the award during a ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa. Anti-apartheid leader Desmond Tutu, the winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, presented the group with the award and said he considered the movement to be one of the most significant instances of youth-led activism in recent memory. “The peaceful campaign to demand safe schools and communities and the eradication of gun violence is reminiscent of other great peace movements in history,” said Tutu, the former general secretary of the South African Council of Churches. “I am in awe of these children, whose powerful message is amplified by their youthful energy and an unshakable belief that children can — no, must — improve their own futures. They are the true changemakers who have demonstrated most powerfully that children can move the world.” In the months since the Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the student leaders from Parkland have organized a nationwide voter registration tour and recruited a host of celebrities to speak on behalf of their cause. The students have emphasized from the early days of their activism that young people would remain at the core of their mission and organizational structure and that they would not be co-opted by special interests groups or wealthy backers. Their 10-point plan of action includes banning high-capacity magazines, or those that hold more than 10 rounds, expanding the federal background check requirement to cover private sales, and ban semiautomatic assault rifles from public use.
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