Welcome!

To Week 5 of the Sunday School in a Bag Advent-Christmas-Epiphany and Christmas program – six weeks devoted to Immanuel and the question: What does it really mean to say “God Is With Us”? If you have not already, check out the entire series here.

Epiphany

Epiphany is the 7th of January, the day we celebrate the arrival or the Magi (also known as wisemen, or something kings) in Bethlehem to visit baby Jesus. At some points in time, this, not December 25th, was the day when presents were exchanged, in remembrance of how the magi gave gifts to Jesus.

Though you will often see the Magi in a nativity scene with shepherds and angels and Jesus in the manger, they may not have arrived in Bethlehem until up to three years after Jesus was born. We also don’t know how many of them there actually were, when they came from, exactly, or what their guiding star might have been.

So what do we know?

Somehow, these people least likely to get a message from God, got that message, and followed it across the world.

Watch their full story below.

Well, we’ve almost through the Christmas season. If you missed any of the characters or lessons along the way, check them all out here.