Children's Christmas Program 2021

The FMC children will premier their 2021 Christmas Program video. Romaine and Vicky will also offer extended special Christmas music.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources 

“Good Christian Men, Rejoice”
Music: German traditional, 14th c.; Setting by John Carter; ©1989 Harold Flammer, Inc

 “Appalachian Christmas Carol”
By John Ness Beck; ©1971 G Schirmer, Inc

 “The First Nowell the Angel Did Say”
Arranged by Kathy C Bowen; ©1983 Broadman Press

 “Hope Is a Candle”
Text: Richard Leach, 1994, ©1995 Selah Publishing Co., Inc.; Music: Scottish traditional; acc. James E Clemens, 2006; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Longing for Light”
Text & Music: Bernadette Farrell; ©1993 OCP Publications; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Appalachian Christmas Carols” (After John Jacob Niles)
Arranged by Vincent Persichetti; Collection ©1975 Elkan-Vogel, Inc; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“O Come, O Come, Immanuel”
Text: anon., O Antiphons, ca. 8th-9th c.; “Veni, veni Emmanuel,” 12th c.; stanzas 1-5 trans. John M Neale, Medieval Hymns and Sequences, 1851, alt.; stanzas 6-7 trans. Henry Sloane Coffin, Hymns of the Kingdom of God, 1916; Music: trope melody, 15th c.

“Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming”
Arranged by Dennis Alexander; ©2003 Alfred Publishing Co, Inc; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming”
Text: stanzas 1-2 anon., “Es ist ein Ros‘ entsprungen“, 15th c.; Alte Catholische Geistliche Kirchengasäng, 1599; trans. Theodore Baker, 1894; stanza 3 Friedrich Layritz, Liederschatz, 1832; trans. Harriet K Spaeth, The Hymnal, 1940, alt.; Music: German traditional, 15th c.; Alte Catholische Geistliche Kirchengasäng, 1599; harm. Michael Praetorius, Musae Sionae VI, 1609

“What Child is This?”
By John Ness Beck; ©1971 G Schirmer, Inc

“Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus”
Text: Charles Wesley, Hymns for the Nativity of Our Lord, 1744; stanza 2 adapt. from “Light of Those Whose Dreary Dwelling” in the same collection; Music: Rowland H Prichard, ca. 1830, Cyfaill y Cantorion, 1844; arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams, The English Hymnal, 1906, adapt. 1951, BBC Hymn Book, ©Oxford University Press, London