Christmas Eve Service of Lessons and Carols
December 24, at 5:40 and 6:00 p.m.
Click here for ORDER OF SERVICE, including all hymns.
Click image below to join the live-stream, beginning around 5:40 p.m.
- 5:40 p.m. - Extended Prelude (featuring Clymer and Kurtz duo, Adam Shenk, Sara Leichty, Trisha Blosser, and a vocal quartet of Nathan and Melodie May, and Ed and Laura Yoder)
- 6:00 p.m. - Lessons and Carols service planned and led by John Fast, consisting of organ, choir, congregational singing, scripture, and candlelight - but in a form to watch in the safety of your home with your family. The service will be newly-recorded prayers and readings to go with musical highlights recorded at several Christmas Eve services in recent years.
Click here for ORDER OF SERVICE, including all hymns.
Click image below to join the live-stream, beginning around 5:40 p.m.
This evening we joyfully and defiantly declare our hope, in spite of dire challenges in our lives and world. This hope is consistent with the message of the angels who appeared to a young girl, to lowly shepherds, and other unlikely characters in ancient Palestine, proclaiming salvation to a people long oppressed.
We regret we cannot pack the Park View sanctuary again and lift the roof with our songs of praise, but we invite you to whole-heartedly praise the God of our salvation, by joining us in this live-streamed Christmas Eve Service of Lessons and Carols.
The prelude (at 5:40) begins with a variety of music newly prepared especially for this service. The readers of the scripture lessons have also prepared for this service.
The remainder of the music in the service comes from recordings selected from favorites from the last four years of our Christmas Eve service. You will see (and hear) a sanctuary packed full of people, and see faces of some of our friends who have passed on to further glory. You may feel waves of grief or longing, as well as gratitude and anticipation of a better tomorrow. However God chooses to meet you tonight, WELCOME!
We regret we cannot pack the Park View sanctuary again and lift the roof with our songs of praise, but we invite you to whole-heartedly praise the God of our salvation, by joining us in this live-streamed Christmas Eve Service of Lessons and Carols.
The prelude (at 5:40) begins with a variety of music newly prepared especially for this service. The readers of the scripture lessons have also prepared for this service.
The remainder of the music in the service comes from recordings selected from favorites from the last four years of our Christmas Eve service. You will see (and hear) a sanctuary packed full of people, and see faces of some of our friends who have passed on to further glory. You may feel waves of grief or longing, as well as gratitude and anticipation of a better tomorrow. However God chooses to meet you tonight, WELCOME!