December 25 Christmas Sacrament Program

On Christmas Day, the final Sunday of 2011 and the final Sunday of the branch's Worship Through Music Month, we celebrated the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ with special musical guests. To start off, a special quartet (Vincent Li on the cello, Jessica Tsai on the violin, Joshua Tsai on the clarinet, and Melinda Tsai on the flute) played the prelude song, "Beautiful Savior." After the four Tsai children sang the parts for the "Angel's Carol," Brad Johnson shared a Christmas message. Then the all-male choir sang four verses in English of "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day." Following Michael Cunningham's talk, Brother George Chang and the Primary children sang together "O Holy Night." President Patrick Shen shared the final Christmas talk. For the finale, the Branch Choir, together with members from the Washington Chinese Chorus, the Yellow River Arts Ensemble, and the Hua Xia Chinese Choir joined voices and sang the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah.

December has been a wonderful month to commemorate the birth of our Savior through beautiful music with our family, neighbors, and friends.