IPC Day School

IPC Day School

Sunday, December 27, 2020

Livestream IPC Service This Morning

 

WORSHIP

JOIN US FOR WORSHIP TODAY
MORNING WORSHIP AT 11 AM | LIVESTREAM ONLY 
Download a Sunday morning bulletin at home.  
The livestream will be available HERE or through the IPC Facebook page.  

Please continue to remember to support the church. Offerings may be submitted online, by mail to 3100 Highland Avenue S. | Birmingham, AL 35205 or through the ShelbyNEXT app. 
Let us know you are worshipping with us by filling out this attendance form at the start of worship.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSES RESUME IN JANUARY 
Watch for additional information to join IPC for Sunday School in the New Year. 
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Independent Presbyterian Church
3100 Highland Avenue
Birmingham, AL 35205

Thursday, December 24, 2020

Christmas Eve Services to Watch @ IPC

 

We invite you to IPC's Christmas worship services on Dec. 24, virtual only.

CHILDREN'S NATIVITY SERVICE | NOON 
Through this at-home family service, join us wherever you are for lighting of the Advent Wreath, Susan Clayton's reading of "T'was the Night Before Jesus," and music and prayers from the children of IPC. 

Watch on Christmas Eve at noon »

SERVICE OF NINE LESSONS & CAROLS | 4 PM 
Honor the birth of the Christ-child with our virtual Service of Nine Lessons & Carols. IPC's clergy and full choir will safely participate in the traditional Christmas Eve service with candle lighting and carols, as well as traditional readings, music and prayers in celebration of the season. 



Pick up a candle to light from home on Christmas Eve 
An IPC tradition continues. Staff will be at the church on Christmas Eve from 10 am – Noon to wish you a Merry Christmas and bring candles to your car for you to light during the 4 pm service—along with treats, a printed prayer and coloring sheets for children. Pick-up will take place on Highland Ave. 

Make a Special Christmas Eve Offering
Please consider making a Special Christmas Eve Offering to benefit IPC’s Community Ministries. Gifts can be made online (Type IPC Community Ministries in the “Gift to fund not listed” box), or mailed to the church (Attention: Beth Grauel). We appreciate your gifts that enable us to help others in our local community.
Worship with us
THE FIRST SUNDAY OF CHRISTMAS
Join us for worship at 11 am, LIVESTREAM ONLY  
Watch on Sunday, Dec. 27: Livestream Link
Prayer of Preparation: We, unaccustomed to courage, exiles from delight, live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies, old memories of pleasure, ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity in the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. ~ Touched by an Angel by Maya Angelou
Scripture: Luke 2:22-40
Sermon: Rev. David J. Seamon, Associate Pastor, Faith Formation, preaching.

THE WEEKLY UPDATE
PRAYER LIST
Prayer list is available here.
To submit a prayer request, click here.

BAPTISMS 
James Walter Lester 
Son of Sara Anne & James Lester 
Brother of Jackson Wilkins Lester 
Grandson of Catherine Mason & Jay Wilkins 
December 20, 2020 

Thomas Barclay McLeod 
Son of Brooke & David McLeod 
Brother of William Selwyn McLeod 
December 21, 2020 

IN MEMORIAM  
Hubbard Denson Burnum, Jr. 
January 4, 1924 – December 18, 2020

THE FLOWERS in the chancel on Dec. 20 were given to the glory of God and in loving memory of Carleton Benners Parnell. THE FLOWERS on the War Memorial were given to the glory of God and in loving memory of Stanley T. Moodie, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Corps WWII; father of Pat Garlikow. 

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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Opportunities For The Fourth Week of Advent at IPC

 

The Family eUpdate - December 21, 2020

AT A GLANCE

Thursday (December 24)

10:00 am - 12:00 pm - Drive Through Pickup for Christmas Eve Candles and Christmas Treat Bags
12:00 pm - Children's Nativity Service (YouTube Only)
4:00 p.m. - IPC Nine Lessons & Carols (LiveStream Only)

Sunday (December 27)

Virtual Atrium will NOT meet December 27 or January 3
11 am - LiveStream ONLY Worship at IPC (December)

CHRISTMAS EVE

PICK UP AN IPC CANDLE FOR OUR CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE
An IPC tradition continues! During the 4 pm broadcast of our Christmas Eve service, we invite your family to join us and light a candle from home. Staff will be at the church from 10 am-Noon on Christmas Eve to wish you a Merry Christmas and bring candles to your car—along with treats, a printed prayer and coloring sheets for children. (Pick-up will take place on Highland Ave.) All staff will be masked and you won't need to leave your car.)
CHILDREN'S NATIVITY SERVICE
A virtual worship experience will be offered in lieu of our traditional noon Nativity Service. Through this at-home family service, we invite you to join us where ever you are for lighting of the Advent Wreath, Susan Clayton's reading of "The Night Before Jesus," and music and prayers from the children of IPC. Although the service will not be available for in-person participation, it will be made available to all on IPC’s YouTube channel at 12 pm on Christmas Eve.
SERVICE OF NINE LESSONS & CAROLS
Honor the birth of the Christ-child with our Service of Nine Lessons & Carols. IPC's clergy and full choir will safely participate in the traditional Christmas Eve service with candle lighting and carols, as well as traditional readings, music and prayers in celebration of the season. Although the service will not be available for in-person participation, it will be made available to all on IPC’s Facebook page and YouTube channel at 4 pm on Christmas Eve.

Find additional opportunities to virtually connect with IPC this month. Your copy of The UPDATE newsletter, special Advent edition, was mailed to you and provides a printed copy of IPC's happenings to know during the holiday season.  
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Sunday, December 20, 2020

Dolores Hydock, the Phenomenal Storyteller, 4th Sunday in Advent, and Children's Classes at IPC This Morning

 

WORSHIP

JOIN US FOR WORSHIP TODAY
MORNING WORSHIP AT 11 AM | LIVESTREAM ONLY 
Download a Sunday morning bulletin at home.  
The livestream will be available HERE or through the IPC Facebook page.  

Please continue to remember to support the church. Offerings may be submitted online, by mail to 3100 Highland Avenue S. | Birmingham, AL 35205 or through the ShelbyNEXT app. 
Let us know you are worshipping with us by filling out this attendance form at the start of worship.
EVENING WORSHIP AT 5 PM | LIVESTREAM ONLY

Join us for IPC's broadcast of The Longest Night, where we will come together virtually for prayers and laments, to mourn the losses and griefs of the year, and to let the tears flow for the hurting places in our own lives, as well as for our country and our world. 

Watch on Sunday: Livestream Link

Bulletin: The Longest Night, a service of remembrance and grief

At this time or anytime, IPC's pastors are available to you. Call on one of us if you are in need.

REGISTER FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSES
All classes will meet via Zoom. 
ADULT CLASSES 
  • Advanced Class, 10:00 am, Zoom
  • Discoverers Class, 10:00 am, Zoom
  • Reformed Class, 10:00 am, Zoom
  • Wonder Years, 10:00 am, Zoom
Adult Sign Up
CHILDREN'S VIRTUAL ATRIUM (CATECHESIS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD)
  • Atrium Level 1 (ages 3-5K), 10:00 - 10:20 am, Zoom
  • Atrium Level 2 (grades 1-3), 10:21 - 10:40 am, Zoom
  • Atrium Level 3 (grades 4-6), 10:41 - 11:00 am, Zoom
Children's Sign Up
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