Wednesday, December 18
from 10:30-11:30 a.m. in Bailey Hall

Mainly Music is geared for children birth through pre-K and their parent or caregiver. It is a chance for grownups and their kids to interact with one another and others through songs and movement. Each week we will have a 30-minute music session followed by a time for snack, free play and making new friends.

This is a community outreach event, so spread the word widely and let people know that all are welcome. There is a $5/week suggested donation at the door. There is no advanced registration or commitments, so come when you can and don’t stress when you cannot.

Questions? Reach out to our Children & Family Minister, Michaela Putnam-Kwon.

Sunday December 15 at 9:00 a.m.

All of our Sunday School groups from infants/toddlers up through 6th grade will have parts in our Christmas Pageant that will happen during worship. Watch the Christmas story come alive through the children of Abiding Presence.

Saturday, December 7
from 9:00-11:00 a.m.

Abiding Presence is welcoming Santa for bagels and photos! Enjoy our FREE community event with a photographer on site taking photos of your family with Santa. Our professional photographer will have digital photos back in time for the holidays, within a couple weeks of the event. We’ll also have a bagel bar, coffee, crafts for kids and adults alike.

Sign up here! Contact our Children & Family Minister, MichaelaPutnam-Kwon with any questions.

This year we will be collecting individually packaged snacks for our Food Pantry as well as collecting free will donations to support our Abiding Fellows program and our college-age campus ministry.

Sunday, December 1
from 10:05-10:50 a.m.

Advent is a time of watching, waiting and preparing for Christ to come. The Advent wreath is one of the tools we use to mark time in our waiting. Join us during the education hour for an intergenerational Advent wreath making workshop. Wreath forms, decorations and candles, will be provided. Show up with your household to make an Advent wreath to take home and use.

Questions? Reach out to our Children & Family Minister, Michaela Putnam-Kwon. Also, if you still have your wreath from last year, please bring the wreath form with you.

Festival Candlelight Service at 8:00 p.m.

Our Christmas Eve Festival Candlelight Service includes Christmas carols, scripture, a sermon, prayers, Holy Communion and the lighting of candles while singing Silent Night. Music features brass ensemble, organ and choir.

COVID-19 safety protocols require masks for everyone age 2+ in the church facility at all times.

The service will be offering in-person in the sanctuary with a pre-recorded identical service happening online at the same time. The online service can be found at AbidingPresence.net/live and on our usual online worship platforms.

Family Service at 6:00 p.m.

Our Family Eve Children’s Service is a 60-minute service that includes Christmas carols, the reading of the Christmas story with visuals, a sermon, prayers, Holy Communion and the lighting of candles while singing Silent Night. This service is meant to be both child-friendly and provide meaningful moments for adults.

Our in-person service will include interactive worship bags for children so they can experience worship in tactile ways. Worship bags will include nativity sticker sheets, crayons, coloring journals and glow wands.

COVID-19 safety protocols require masks for everyone age 2+ in the church facility at all times.

This service will only be offered in-person and online at AbidingPresence.net/live.

Children’s Service at 4:00 p.m.

Our Christmas Eve Children’s Service is a 60-minute service that includes Christmas carols, the retelling of the Christmas story with puppets and visuals, prayers, Holy Communion and the lighting of candles while singing Silent Night.

Our in-person service will include interactive worship bags for children so they can experience worship in tactile ways. Worship bags will include nativity sticker sheets, crayons, coloring journals and glow wands.

COVID-19 safety protocols require masks for everyone age 2+ in the church facility at all times.

The service will be offering in-person in the sanctuary with a pre-recorded identical service happening online at the same time. The online service can be found at AbidingPresence.net/live and on our usual online worship platforms.

Friday, December 24 from 12:00-2:00 p.m.

Experience the Christmas story coming to life with live animals and people dressed in costumes. Join our Christmas carolers to sing a carol and then walk through our live nativity stations in our fenced in yard.

For those who would like an outdoor Christmas Eve worship experience, following your walk through the live nativity you can meet one of our pastors at our outdoor altar. There we will offer the communion liturgy and distribution of Holy Communion.

Come celebrate Christ’s birth with us in this outdoor, interactive, worshipful way!

🎄🎅🏼🤶🔔❄️🍧WEAR YOUR RED AND GREEN!🎄🎅🏼🤶🔔❄️🍧

We didn't get to be together in person this past December... so we're celebrating Christmas in July at all of our Sunday worship services on July 18! Join us for Christmas carols, the story about the birth of Jesus, and grab some treats from the 🍧Kona Ice truck🍧 in the parking lot from 9:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. (the closest thing to snow in July!).

We worship on the livestream (AbidingPresence.net/live) at 8:00 a.m and 10:00 a.m., in the parking lot at 9:00 a.m., and in the Sanctuary at 10:30 a.m.

• Special musical prelude starts at 7:45 & 9:45 p.m., featuring the musicians of Abiding Presence

• Christmas Eve Worship Services at 8:00 & 10:00 p.m.

Livestream Christmas Eve worship with candlelight, carols, scripture and Holy Communion. Worship with us at AbidingPresence.net/live or on any of our other usual worship platforms (YouTube Live, Facebook Live, Twitter/Periscope, smart TVs, or Zoom—tap here for instructions).

Click here to view the worship bulletin for the services.

Christmas Eve at 6:00 at AbidingPresence.net/live

Worship safely from home on the livestream with carols, the telling of the Christmas story, a sermon geared toward the whole family and the lighting of candles while singing Silent Night. This service is meant for multiple generations to be able to engage in together. The service will be at AbidingPresence.net/live and on our other usual worship platforms.

Click here to view the worship bulletin for the service.

Christmas Eve at 4:00 p.m.

Worship safely from home on the livestream with carols, the telling of the Christmas story and the lighting of candles. The service will be at AbidingPresence.net/live and on our other usual worship platforms.

Click here to view worship bulletin for the service.

Christmas Eve from 12:00-2:00 p.m.

Load up the car and drive through the Abiding Presence parking lot to see the nativity story come to life through carols, live animals, actors and more. Drive out ready to join the shepherds in “glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen.” (Luke 2:20). Plus, receive your glow sticks and/or candles for Christmas Eve worship on the livestream later in the evening.

Click here to read our Drive-Thru Live Nativity FAQs.

Click here to hear the Drive-Thru Live Nativity Audio.

Saturday, December 12 at 6:00 p.m.
AbidingPresence.net/live

Our annual Advent Jazz Vespers service will feature the music of Craig Fraedrich, Tony Nalker and Christal Rheams. Let the music of jazz and the stories of scripture fill our heart and mind as we watch, wait and prepare for Christ to come.

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.

We’ve put together a kit with everything you need to celebrate Advent at home this year! Come by the church to waive hello to the staff and collect your kit. There will be advent wreath making materials, devotional books and a few other surprises, too. Additionally, this year we will be asking the congregation to have a “Reverse Advent Calendar.” We’ll give you a bag and a list of items to collect in it during Advent that be used to support our food ministry and ECHO. Then bring it back on Christmas Eve (or sometime after Christmas) as part of our offering to one of our parking lot events.