For our Morning Thing Friday Favorites, the hosts shared their New Year Resolutions! Listen below or by clicking HERE.
What is your New Year resolution? Share with us by emailing wnzr@mvnu.edu
Happy New Year from The Morning Thing and WNZR!
WNZR’s Spotlight on Mount Vernon is back for December with Mount Vernon Mayor Matt Starr. Listen in for the latest updates on the city, projects, and more!
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Listen to the full conversation below or by clicking HERE.
For our Morning Thing Friday Favorites, the hosts shared their favorite funny Christmas stories!
What is your funny story? Tell us at wnzr@mvnu.edu
Merry Christmas from The Morning Thing!
For our Morning Thing Friday Favorites, the hosts shared their favorite Christmas treats!
What are you baking at your house? Tell us at wnzr@mvnu.edu
Merry Christmas from The Morning Thing!
Today on The Morning Thing we shared the poignant moment from the classic cartoon special A Charlie Brown Christmas that many have missed throughout the years. Jason Soroski, Crosswalk.com, explains while small, this moment seems intentional.
“I was in the first grade back when they still performed Christmas pageants in schools (less than 50 years, but still a very long time ago), and our class performed a version of the Charlie Brown Christmas. Since I was kind of a bookworm and already had a blue blanket, I was chosen to play the part of Linus. As Linus, I memorized Luke 2:8-14, and that Scripture has been hidden in my heart ever since.
But while working so diligently to learn those lines, there is one important thing I didn’t notice then, and didn’t notice until now.
Right in the middle of speaking, Linus drops the blanket.
Charlie Brown is best known for his uniquely striped shirt, and Linus is most associated with his ever-present security blanket. Throughout the story of Peanuts, Lucy, Snoopy, Sally and others all work to no avail to separate Linus from his blanket. And even though his security blanket remains a major source of ridicule for the otherwise mature and thoughtful Linus, he simply refuses to give it up.
Until this moment. When he simply drops it.
In that climactic scene when Linus shares “what Christmas is all about,” he drops his security blanket, and I am now convinced that this is intentional. Most telling is the specific moment he drops it: when he utters the words, “fear not“
Looking at it now, it is pretty clear what Charles Schultz was saying, and it’s so simple it’s brilliant.
The birth of Jesus separates us from our fears.
The birth of Jesus frees us from the habits we are unable (or unwilling) to break ourselves.
The birth of Jesus allows us to simply drop the false security we have been grasping so tightly, and learn to trust and cling to Him instead.
This world can be a scary place, and most of us find ourselves grasping to something temporal for security, whatever that thing may be. Essentially, ours is a world in which it is very difficult for us to “fear not.”
But in the midst of fear and insecurity, this simple cartoon image from 1965 continues to live on as an inspiration for us to seek true peace and true security in the one place it has always been and can always still be found.”
What a poignant reminder of the TRUE meaning of Christmas! Read the full article from Crosswalk.com HERE. Merry Christmas from The Morning Thing and WNZR!
The Morning Thing hosted a special Christmas Wayback Wednesday today.
This week, we shared the stories behind some of our most beloved Christmas Carols.
Click HERE to learn a little history.
Keep listening to WNZR as we celebrate Christmas with our Holly Jolly 25 – 25 straight days of Christmas Music.
Click HERE to see a list of our amazing Holly Jolly 25 sponsors!
Click HERE to see all the NEW Christmas music we have added for 2023.
Merry Christmas!
On Friday, 12/8, a very large broadcast crew met and worked together to bring the 2023 Food For The Hungry Broadcast to the Knox County community.
We brought in equipment and expertise from several companies, over 25 college students from Mount Vernon Nazarene University, two MVNU professors and a lot of volunteers.
The Knox Memorial and Theater buzzed with excitement as we shared check presentations, total announcements from many events and collections, and handed out 21 Winter Grants to local food initiatives. It was an incredible day!
Our current Food For The Hungry total is $263,502.08 and 11 truckloads of food!
Click HERE to listen to the crew as they share their thoughts after a 7-hour broadcast raising funds and celebrating a giving community.
The drive continues until 12/31 and you can still give at http://www.foodforthehungrycares.org
Last year, the extra donations over the 2022 goal enabled Food For The Hungry to give out $25,000 in Summer Grants to help feed kids over the summer months. Every dollar counts!
Thanks for helping us to live out the mission, “Working Together to Care for Our Neighbors”!
Today on The Morning Thing we shared a list of films and our own recommendations that you can watch together as a family! We know with Christmas comes down time and usually time spent inside with the colder temps outside, so why not huddle up under a cozy blanket together and enjoy a fun new film or a Christmas classic to enjoy the holiday?
Here are some new films that you can watch as a family, these include non-Christmas films too. Find the full list HERE.
If you want to enjoy those Christmas classics even more, check out these fun activities that you can do while watching some of your holiday favorites. Find out more HERE.
Jacob Doup with WRP CPAs joined us to share about his involvement over the years with Food For The Hungry.
He gives ways to donate, talks about how every gift counts, and why each dollar stays in the community it is raised in.
Jacob wraps up with sharing the goal for 2023 and the collection points, including how you can drop off a check at the Knox Memorial on Drive Day (12/8) or by visiting WRP CPAs. You can also call Jacob’s team to make a donation over the phone: 740-397-0779.
Listen to our full conversation below or by clicking HERE.
Olivia Stern, Food For The Hungry Digital Content and Marketing Director, and Lisa Mazzari, Executive Director, share all about Drive Day for Food For The Hungry 2023.
Olivia gives an overview on what events have already happened and some of the food and funds that have been raised so far.
Lisa shares the collection points for Drive Day and the details about the postal collection being done.
They both share more on the goal, how to give, where to give, how to get involved and stay up to date, and lots more!
Olivia and Lisa wrap up with sharing prayer requests and a thank you for those involved with this year’s project.
Listen to our full conversation below or by clicking HERE.
Rise and Shine 