{"id":629,"date":"2017-12-19T00:10:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T00:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/?p=629"},"modified":"2017-12-19T00:32:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T00:32:07","slug":"caroling-on-friendship-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2017\/12\/caroling-on-friendship-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Caroling on Friendship Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the privilege to once again film <a href=\"http:\/\/christkirk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christ Church<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/trinitykirk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trinity Reformed Church<\/a> gathering for caroling on Friendship Square.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Ffoucachon%2Fvideos%2F10155990028244712%2F&amp;width=600&amp;show_text=true&amp;appId=634735436691572&amp;height=427\" width=\"600\" height=\"427\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><strong>Previous years:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FAK5mSCw8GE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caroling (mall) 2009<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iy_VxMXjy5w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caroling 2011<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R4g9rw0ovVg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caroling 2012<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3vE4zw42vyY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caroling 2013<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foucachon\/videos\/10153781817669712\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caroling 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Moscow-Pullman Daily News ran this article, which quoted me:<\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/dnews.com\/local\/singing-in-the-snow\/article_cb251af8-f59f-5031-84f1-9777994f52f3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Singing in the snow<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><em>Christ Church carolers fill Friendship Square for hour of singing, fellowship<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Taylor Nadauld<\/strong>, Daily News Staff Writer<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_630\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/caroling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-630\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-630\" src=\"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/caroling-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Framed by the branches of a Christmas tree Saturday, carolers sing at Friendship Square in Moscow. Kai Eiselein\/Daily News\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/caroling-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/caroling-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/caroling.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Framed by the branches of a Christmas tree Saturday, carolers sing at Friendship Square in Moscow.<br \/>Kai Eiselein\/Daily News<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Members of Christ Church gathered in an hour of song for the church\u2019s annual Christmas caroling event Saturday afternoon at Friendship Square in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteer Curtis Spencer carried a stack of carol booklets in his arms, passing them out to people in the crowd as they sang \u201cO Come, O Come, Emmanuel,\u201d one of several Christmas-themed hymns in an hour-long lineup of caroling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a few scripture readings, passages of the Christmas story from the Bible, and then we\u2019ll end with fellowshiping, drinking cocoa and eating cookies,\u201d Spencer said.<\/p>\n<p>A member came to the front of the crowd in between songs, reading scripture to the audience from a megaphone near a frosted evergreen in the square.<\/p>\n<p>Above the many voices, friends and New Saint Andrews College classmates James Goode and Caleb Harris could be heard belting harmonies during each hymn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were trying,\u201d Harris said with a laugh. \u201cWe\u2019re like that in church, too,\u201d to which Goode added, \u201cIf you\u2019re going to sing, you might as well sing loud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Harris and Goode, the annual caroling event is not just about singing, but about teachings of Jesus Christ, who Christians believe to be the son of God and whose birth is celebrated on Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are here to spread the news to the world that Jesus is king, that he has died on the cross for our sins, and we can\u2019t keep that in \u2014 we\u2019re happy about it,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n<p>At the front of the crowd, Daniel Foucachon photographed the carolers with his cellphone. A frequent attendee and unofficial photographer of the event, Foucachon said the church sings in the square about four times per year, but its Christmas caroling event is special, as it includes hymns many passersby will recognize.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristmas is a time where just about everyone is happy to talk about something that Christians are celebrating every week, all year round,\u201d Foucachon said.<\/p>\n<p>The carolers wrapped up with \u201cJoy to the World! The Lord is Come,\u201d before ending in prayer and warming up from the surrounding snow with some hot chocolate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taylor Nadauld<\/strong>\u00a0can be reached at (208) 883-4630, by email to tnadauld at dnews.com and on Twitter @tnadauldarg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the privilege to once again film Christ Church and Trinity Reformed Church gathering for caroling on Friendship Square. Previous years:\u00a0 &#8211; Caroling (mall) 2009 &#8211; Caroling 2011 &#8211;\u00a0Caroling 2012 &#8211;\u00a0Caroling 2013 &#8211; Caroling 2015 The Moscow-Pullman Daily News &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2017\/12\/caroling-on-friendship-square\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,78,163,98],"tags":[199,200],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church","category-daniel-foucachon","category-family","category-moscow","tag-caroling","tag-singing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}