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.  Watch on Christmas Eve at 4pm » Christmas Eve Bulletin »  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. THE FIRST SUNDAY OF CHRISTMAS Join us for worship at 11 am, LIVESTREAM ONLY   Watch on Sunday, Dec. 27: Livestream Link Bulletin: Morning Worship Bulletin for Dec. 27   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.  CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA

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