Our theme for Advent this year is Finding God in Unexpected Places. Many of us have been taught where to go when we want to experience God. We know the familiar places. We attend a worship service, Sunday school, or a Bible study. We spend time individually reading our Bible or in prayer. And we can narrow ourselves to those experiences. We can think that we will only find God in the places that we have always found God. But often times the places we see God, the places we have the most powerful experiences of God, are the places we do not expect. Throughout Advent we will be looking at these unexpected places based upon the opening chapters of the book of Matthew. Join us this Sunday as we look at the genealogy of Jesus and see that our experiences of God can come through unexpected people.