What's this red book?

Something funny happened tonight that I wanted to remember. We were at church this evening to hear from our missionary friends, a couple who do medical missions in Africa and another friend who works in linguistics in southeast Asia. Our pastor was handing out hymnals that were red (so that we could sing Christmas carols). My son asked me, "what's this red book for?" I had to chuckle realizing that he doesn't know what a hymnal is! We do sing hymns at our church but we have the words up on the screen and before that the words were printed in our bulletin for singing. A little sad, perhaps, that they don't know about hymnals. :)Pin It