Advent is a season of waiting. 

It’s a season of preparation and anticipation for the birth of Christ, and also a season of anticipation for Christ’s return. 

Throughout this Advent season, we will be looking at the hospitality given and received in the story of Christ’s birth. To learn how to apply these lessons to our own lives, we will join our friend Zala—a refugee from Afghanistan now living in Raleigh, North Carolina. Zala lives and breathes hospitality, and she loves sharing her gifts with others. 

This guide, developed in partnership with our friends at Edible Theology, will walk us through a journey toward whole-hearted welcome, and includes recipes and hospitality tips from Zala woven together with reflections on how the hospitality in the original Christmas story invites us to reflect on how we can show welcome in our homes today. 

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