Join us at 8:00PM in the Sanctuary on Wednesday, December 24 for our annual Christmas Eve Communion & Candlelight worship service.  Continuing with our Advent them "What do you fear?" from A Sanctified Art, the theme of the evening is "Good News is Louder Than Fear."

The Christmas season can be filled with saccharine images of Mary, meek and mild, with a quiet, sleepy Jesus in her arms. But the host of angels shouts to the skies, “Glory to God in the highest!” What would it look like for us to proclaim the good news loudly, with overflowing joy? In a world that weaponizes fear, where algorithms decide what gets weight, what gets circulated, and what takes up space, let us be disruptive with our joy. Let us be loud and unruly, amplifying the good news like the shepherds running into the streets of Bethlehem. In a world where good news never feels loud enough to drown out fear, let us shout with the angels, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace!”

Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the worship at FPCE will still take place from the warmth of our homes. We have made the decision to move from in-person worship to a Zoom prayer service. The North Hills Singers visit has been canceled, and the congregational meeting will be rescheduled for a later date as determined by Session.

To view the adapted bulletin for today's worship, click the following link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18O26o_mi23uU-MhGI3b-Znnfcn8yPZnV5894pGud3Yw/edit?usp=sharing