Scripture Readings for Christmas Eve
Old Testament: Isaiah 11:6-9Gospel: Luke 2:1-20
CHRISTMAS EVE On-Line Worship
Common Grace 1:00 p.m.
Traditional Service 7:00 p.m.
On Wednesday, December 23, Common Grace will be publishing all of the Christmas songs that we’ve recorded, together with a few brief readings, to help you celebrate your Christmas Eve Eve! The video will be available for you to stream beginning at 1pm on Common Grace’s Facebook page and on YouTube.
Christmas Eve worship from Common Grace will be available for streaming beginning at 1pm on 12/24 – and anytime after that. Join us as we celebrate the heart of Christmas and welcome wonder! Available on Common Grace’s Facebook page and YouTube.
RECEIVE COMMUNION and LIGHT A CANDLE ON CHRISTMAS EVE
We have a unique opportunity for you this Christmas Eve. You are invited to the Ridgeview Campus to light a candle and receive communion elements. You may want to light a candle in honor or memory of someone, or light a candle with your family as a part of your Christmas celebration. You are welcome to do so during this self-directed, socially-distanced time. Individual, blessed communion elements will also be available for you to take. This opportunity will be located just off the upper parking lot at the church, underneath the steeple, from 4-8pm.
Yes, it’s true! You are welcome to join Pastor Nanette and Pastor Kyle for a Christmas Eve service unlike any other. The Drive-In Rooftop Worship Service will begin at 4:30pm at the Ridgeview Campus. The qualifications and limitations are as follows:
- The temperature must be predicted at 25 degrees Fahrenheit or higher – that’s on Busby and right now he’s predicting 36.
- There must be NO PRECIPITATION of any kind!
- The final call to GO or NO GO will be made on December 23 by 4:30 pm and we will put the final decision on all our Social Media Platforms and email.
Just as it’s getting dark at 5:00-5:10pm, we will pass the light of our headlights along the rows of cars as we sing Silent Night. Join us for this once in a lifetime memorable Christmas Eve Event!
There is still time to view the FREE Cloverton Concert! The Cloverton concert continues to be available to stream through midnight on Christmas. Watch here: https://youtu.be/
The First Sunday of Christmas
Scripture Readings for Sunday, December 27
Old Testament: Isaiah 40:9-11
Gospel: Luke 2:15-20
On-Line Worship
Pastor Nanette’s Traditional Service at 9:15AM
Pastor Kyle’s Common Grace Contemporary Service at 10:45AM
Join us on Facebook, our website or YouTube as we stream at those times. If you miss seeing us on Sunday, the sermons will be posted later on the Grace Website, YouTube, Facebook and our Grace App.
Additional Opportunities to Connect
Chat With Pastors Nanette and Kyle
Tuesday afternoons at 3:00pm via Facebook
Virtual Coffee Talk With Pastor Kyle
Thursday afternoons from 4:00 to 5:15 via ZOOM Coffee Talk Zoom Meeting
For a Small Group Connection
Join Grace Groups! Contact: Shawn Foreman
Church Offices Closed
December 24 & 25
January 1, 2021
Reduced Office Hours
December 28-31 (Monday – Thursday)
9am – 3pm
WEEKLY MANNA: A Small Group Starting January 2021!Spend an hour a week in this new group as you revitalize your relationship with God using “The Upper Room Disciplines.” Based on the Revised Common Lectionary, Disciplines is a three-year cycle of Sunday scripture readings with brief, insightful devotions written by leaders from diverse Christian traditions. The hour will be spent reading the scripture and sharing our responses to the daily meditations. This group will start on Thursday, January 7 at 9 am and meet weekly via Zoom until we can safely meet in person. Register by responding to Regina () or Pastor Cheryl (). You will be notified by email when your book is ready to be picked up in the office at a cost of $15.
The group will be limited to 12 people, so if you are interested you will want to sign up soon. When it is safe, we will meet in the coffee shop at the church. Until then, we will connect by ZOOM. Begin the New Year anew with weekly manna for the journey.
THANK YOU GRACE…
…for your response to the 2021 Stewardship Campaign. Your support of our 2021 Stewardship Campaign is greatly appreciated and will go far to help us do the work of the church. If you have not yet sent in your “Intent to Give” card, it’s not too late. If you did not receive one please contact the church office and we will mail one out to you OR you can contact Mike Pelan and he will take your giving information over the phone.
As you prayerfully contemplate your 2021 “Intent to Give”, please know that we continue to use your financial gifts in the most cost-efficient manner possible to reach the greatest numbers possible. No gift is too small nor too large for the work of the Spirit in this place. We need you and we need one another for God’s work and will to be done. Thank you for your continued generosity.
DID YOU KNOW…..Under the CARES Act, part of the federal government’s COVID-19 relief program that Congress passed in March of 2020, individual taxpayers can take a deduction of up to $300 for monetary donations made in 2020 even if you do not itemize deductions on your 2020 tax returns. This opportunity only applies to the 2020 tax year, and donations must be made by December 31, 2020 to be applicable. Therefore, if you are still considering a monetary gift to Grace Church or the Center of Grace in 2020, this is one way where your gift may reduce your tax burden even if you don’t itemize deductions. For more information, click on the following link www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/
MORE COOKIES
PLEASE!
We continue to give out to-go meals but we have run out of cookies. Please bake or buy some yummy cookies and put 2 cookies in a baggie. You can drop them off at the Center of Grace M-F 9-12 and 1-4. Thank you
