Today is the first day of Advent. This year we are focusing on the themes of Church, next week on Home and then the City and lastly Open Spaces or Fields. We will have a special banner for each week as we reflect on how the places in our lives are touched by the holy and the activities of our days. As we focus today on church and the person of Zechariah, the priest, let us prepare this space for the coming of the King in a service of the Hanging of the Greens.