This week before Christmas has kept me away from the blog. It really has been a busy time. Christmas Eve services always take a lot more time to prepare than other worship services. If you notice, most worship services at Grace follow a particular pattern. A lot of preparing the service involves filling in parts of that pattern with things that are appropriate for the season, the scripture and the sermon. If you are here on Christmas Eve, you will see that we have changed the pattern quite a bit because of the unique nature of the Christmas Eve services. What is unique about it? First of all, the narrative telling of the Christmas story is central. (Don't be thrown by the word "story". I am not implying anything, it is just how to I refer to the words that describe Jesus' birth.) In the case of these services, you will see that everything liturgically and musically focuses on that. Second, a lot of people who come on Christmas Eve are coming for the first time or coming after some time away. Even more so than on other Sundays, we want to reflect in every thing that we do, that they are welcome and that we have made a special place for them.
I hope YOU join us!
peace,
will
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