The Associational Advisor

  The POBA Executive Committee meeting will be held on Thursday, January 25, 2024.  6:30 PM Meal 7:00 PM Meeting Location TBA RSVP for the meal:  https://bit.ly/Jan2024EXECmeal 

  Ware: Jerry J's Country Cafe (Plant Ave) Pierce: Burger King (Hwy 84) Brantley - Nahunta: Intersection of Hwys 82 and 301 Brantley - Hoboken: Intersection of Hwys 82 and 121 Charlton: Intersection of US 1 and Main Street  

  Phillips Brooks, was born in 1835, in Boston, Massachusetts.  He graduated from Harvard and the Episcopal Theological Seminary in 1859.  He then began a ministry that lasted nearly 35 years.  Early in his ministry, Brooks made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, spending the Christmas season in Bethlehem.  The experience of worshipping in the Church of the Nativity, made a great impression on Brooks.   In 1868, several years after his trip, Brooks was looking for a Christmas song for the Children’s choir to sing in a Christmas program.   Not finding one, he wrote down the words to this great Christmas carol.   He gave the text to his organist, Lewis H. Redner.   Redner struggled for some time to come up with the right melody for this carol.   On the evening before the program was to occur, Redner says that he woke during the night and rushed to write down the music.   He always said that the music was a gift from heaven.   “O Little Town of Bethlehem” was first published in a collecti