This morning in our “Once in Royal David’s City” Advent sermon series we get to think about what it was like and what it will be like to see Jesus.
This evening for our special Candlelight Service our sermon will begin us into a two-part sermon looking at another Christmas Hymn, “O Holy Night,” and the entrance of light into the darkness of this world through the coming of Jesus Christ. The second part of that “O Holy Night” sermon will be on Christmas morning.
Tonight is our Christmas party! Please take a wrapped gift (white elephant or purchased for under $10) and come dressed in your most festive garb. The high schooler judged to be the ‘most festive’ will win a fabulous gift! We will be serving a full hot meal (chicken, potatoes, sides, dessert, punch, candy, pop) so come with your appetite. We will also be playing a number of winter/Christmas-themed games. If you take along a friend, make sure they take along a wrapped-present with them as well!
We will be helping out with the Gateway Mission Christmas meal. Please arrive around 4:00 p.m. (or later if you can’t arrive at 4:00), and we are usually finished up by around 7:30 p.m. There is a sign-up sheet on the table in the back in the narthex for those able to help out this year. NOTE: the location will be at the “old” men’s building still on the corner of 7th Street & S. River Ave.
Our annual Christmas morning worship service will be this Thursday @ 9:30 a.m. We will again hear the Christmas story as told and sung by our Sunday School children. Many of our very own instrumentalists will be accompanying our congregational singing, and our Worship Group will also be bringing a modern Christmas hymn.
Children from 3 years old – 5th grade will start out meeting in the Junior Chapel for some singing, and then will go with their teachers to their classrooms after that. All other classes start shortly after the morning worship service ends.
This morning is our annual New Year’s Day worship service @ 9:30 a.m. We will plan on ushering in the year 2026 together as a church family and spending it in worship with our Triune God! Let’s gather to ask God for His blessings upon us in the new year.
