This year has been hard. Like Charlie Brown in the “Charlie Brown Christmas,” many of us struggle to find the joy and excitement that feels expected for the Christmas season.

The Blue Christmas Service has always been a space for it to be OK to be not OK. This year, we hope that you will give yourself the space to breathe, grieve, and maybe even laugh in the sacred space that God offers us to be fully human, fully present, and fully not OK. Light a candle, sing a song, and share in the human stories of darkness and light, sorrow and joy, and redemptive hope that comes in the strangest forms.

The goal of this presentation is to improve the health and well-being of individuals who have experienced traumatic events by empowering the community with supportive trauma-informed strategies and services. As a church, we are called to be a trauma-informed space for healing and support.

Abiding Presence is sponsoring a REVIVE! "Lay Rescuer" training which covers understanding opioids, how opioid overdoses happen, risk factors for opioid overdoses, and how to respond to an opioid overdose emergency with the administration of Naloxone. (Participants will be able to receive Naloxone to use in case of an emergency.)

Join us for a presentation by the folks at the Fairfax County Community Services Board (CSB), as they highlight some practical resources for strengthening your mental health and wellness during Covid-19. They will introduce you to the myriad available resources in the county. This presentation will also help inform you of some of the mental health related issues and needs of our local community, and ways you can help

Join the Mental Health Team for a physically-distanced walk in the Abiding Presence Church Parking Lot on Mental Health Awareness Day. We walk to raise awareness around Mental Illness, and in support of our partners NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness). Register to be a part of our NAMI Walks Your Way Mental Health Team today! https://www.namiwalks.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=39813