2012 Advent Sermon Series: During this Advent sermon series, we will be looking at some of the people involved in the Christmas story. None of them were well known in their day. They were not influential people, and they carried very little influence in the world in which they lived. Yet, they each had an encounter with God that changed their lives forever. God used them as characters in the greatest story ever told. As you hear again their stories, might you be encouraged with a message of hope, that God can and will use even you!