Beautiful Christmas Eve Candlelight service

Faith Church observes a time of peace and reflection during its service of candles and carols Thursday, at 5 p.m.

Scripture, congregational singing and a mediation are part of this brief but lovely time, and it ends with each person taking and sharing light from individual candles as we sing Silent Night.

Fourth Week of Advent

Faith Church celebrates the Day of Righteousness
by lighting the fourth candle of Advent this week.
We will also be singing the following carols:

O Come, All Ye Faithful

Shepherds Watched Their Flocks

He Is Born

There’s a Song in the Air

Go, Tell It on the Mountain

Also, youth and Sunday school children will present a short piece called
A Wondrous, Wooly Christmas.

The sermon is titled "With Fresh Eyes."

Sunday school starts at 9 a.m. and worship at 10:30. There is still room for more lambs in the Sunday school presentation.

We will have a service of candles and carols at 5 p.m. Christmas Eve

This week:
Narcotics Anonymous Tuesday, Dec. 22,  7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 24,  7:30 p.m. and Sat., Dec. 27, 8 p.m.

Prayer Wed., Dec. 23, noon-2 p.m.

A Service of Candles & Carols Thurs., Dec. 24, Christmas Eve

Rejoicing

It's the third week of advent, and Faith church is excited. The kids are getting ready for next week's Christmas program and college students are returning to the congregation.

This week, we light the pink candle of

 REJOICING

“The desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose,” says the King James version of Isaiah 35.1.

The prophet was looking forward to the redemption of Zion. On this day of rejoicing, like a sudden, brief parting of the clouds, we are called to rejoice in anticipation of our coming King. The focus of our attention on the advent wreath moves from the somber purple to the rosy pink, and the legends and stories and hymns sing of blossoming as well as light. 

Sunday school begins at 9 a.m. and worship starts at 10:30.

Second Sunday in Advent at Faith

ADVENT 2 - THE PROPHECY

On this second Sunday in Advent we celebrate the Messiah prophecy foreshadowed in Genesis, Numbers and proclaimed by such Old Testament voices as the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Micah and Malachi, and repeated by John the Baptist.

Isaiah also foretold John’s coming. “A voice cries, ‘In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.’”(Is40.3) John te Baptist was the voice in the desert when Jesus came to Bethany, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing. John, seeing him, saw the Spirit descend as a dove from Heaven and remain upon him, and he cried out, “And I have seen and borne witness that this is the son of God.” (Jn1.28-34)

Sunday school is at 9 a.m. and worship is at 10:30. 

UMW meets after the service in the fellowship hall 2016

If you haven't picked up your 2016 Faith calendar, see Art.