Which Christmas Eve Service Will You Be Attending?

Early Christmas Candlelight
Wednesday, December 18 at 6:30 with woman blessing Sue Busler
preaching (in the Sanctuary).

Christmas Eve Service Descriptions
Each of the Christmas Eve Candlelight Services
will include Christmas carols, special music, a
Christmas message from Rev. Dennis D. Price,
and a traditional candlelight ending with Silent
Night.

2:00 Family Life Center
Christmas music will be led with piano and small worship
ensemble. There will also be special music by the student
ministry band and other soloist.

4:00 Family Life Center
During this service, music congregation singing will be
accompanied with piano and keyboard. Special music will
include children’s ministry groups, kids choir, youth choir and
the Jr. Praise Band.

5:15 Communion Service in Sanctuary
This will be a brief time of Christmas Eve Communion in the
Sanctuary. All are welcome.

6:00 Family Life Center
Christmas Carols will be led by the worship band, worship
choir and special soloists.

11:00 Sanctuary
The final Christmas Eve Christmas Eve Service will be held in
the Sanctuary and music will be led by piano and organ.
Special music will be provided by the choir and other
instrumentalist.

Can't decide?  Attend more than one . . .

A Christmas Devotional Challenge by Dannette McKellar

“When
the
Son of Man
comes in his glory,
and all the angels with him,
he will sit on his glorious throne.
All the nations will be gathered before him,
and he will separate the people one from another
as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

Matthew 25:31-33

Warm milk in a baby bottle is the ticket to popularity at Grant’s Farm, a St. Louis family attraction ... if you are brave enough to pass through the turnstile into the fenced area.  That’s where demanding baby goats crowd around you, stomp on your feet, tug at your clothing, and head butt your arms.  Pushing each other out of the way, they greedily clamor for the ultimate prize: sucking milk from your baby bottle.

That image appeared when I read Jesus’ parable of the sheep and the goats, and I wondered: Am I a sheep or a goat?  This time of year, crowds and holiday stress have a way of bringing out the goat in me.  It’s easy to become a goat when I’m in a hurry ... when I’m working my way through crowded stores trying to find everything on my list ... when I’m stuck in miserable traffic.  Unfortunately, being a goat means I’m focused on myself: what I need to do and where I need to be. 

My challenge this Christmas season is to be less like a goat so others can see Christ in me and in Christmas.  Will you take the challenge with me?

Submitted by Dannette McKellar

Who's going?

Christmas Eve at Troy United Methodist Church