Churches

United Church of Christ

‘Tis the season for caroling! Let carols and Christmas songs fill your soul on the eve of our Savior’s birth. Y’all come to the candlelit Christmas Eve service at 7 p.m. in our sanctuary at 423 N. Sixth St. Voluntary donations will be taken for the Christmas Fund for Veterans of the Cross (retired clergy and their widows). We invite children to sit with their family; activity kits will be available for them.

Now that you’ve visited our church for Christmas, we’d like to welcome you back again and again. Because of the holidays, on Sunday, December 28, there will be no Sunday school, but the service of worship will be held.

United Methodist Church

Celebrate the birth of Jesus at the United Methodist Church. Christmas Eve services are at 5 and 7 p.m. with a fellowship time between. Both services will be traditional services with candlelight and special music. Communion will be served at the 7 p.m. service.  Please join in the Christmas celebration.

Sunday worship is at 10 a.m. led by the Rev. Alissa Bertsch Johnson. Sunday school classes will be in recess Dec. 28 and Jan. 4, 2015, and will resume Jan. 11, 2015.

The church office will be closed through the holidays and reopen on Jan. 6, 2015.

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

A welcoming haven, nourishing all God’s people in body, mind and spirit. Holy Communion at 11 a.m. The Rev. Christine Soule will preach and preside at the Fourth Sunday of Advent and Advent Candle Liturgy. Christmas Eve service will be at 7 p.m.

Attention college students: each Monday at 5 p.m. you are invited to join us for dinner, study and devotions. Narcotics Anonymous meets Tuesday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the parish hall. Fellowship breakfast is each Thursday at 7:30 a.m. in the parish hall. Come and bring a friend.

For your contemplation: “Advent is like the dawn of a new day as we eagerly watch and wait for the light of Christ. God will find us, and we can find God, in the darkest time,” the Rev. Robert Boak Slocum.