LINDSBORG -- The Bethany College fall semester will end on Nov. 24, which means the music department’s greatly anticipated Jultide event will not happen this year.
Dr. Hentus van Rooyen, assistant professor of sacred music and college organist, and Campus Pastor Amy Truhe developed the idea for a concert related to Jultide. The Spirit is leading the fall celebration of Christ, Advent at Bethany: Journey with the Magi a Festival of Discovery through Hymns, Scripture, & Reflection.
The concert will refocus the traditional Jultide message towards an Advent journey in faith. As the world has traversed the darkness of the pandemic, each person has had a need to orient and focus on that which has been exposed by the travelling of new pathways and unforeseen challenges. So traveled the Magi, unnamed followers of ancient prophecies and a star in the sky, seeking to discover the hope found in a newborn king.
The concert will take place on Nov. 15 at 4 p.m. Due to current health guidelines, the hymn festival will be a livestream event. To watch the concert, please go to www.bethanylb.edu/live.
The music for this event will be led by van Rooyen utilizing the Pearson Chapel’s new Rogers Artist Series 599T digital organ, accompanied by the Bethany College Handbell Ensemble. Truhe will provide reflections. The hymn festival will lead, with the Magi, on a journey of faith toward the birth of Christ.