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.

Saturday, December 2 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 bagels, crafts, and our annual coat-drive raffle. Bring in your gently used coats (kids or adults) and receive one raffle ticket per coat for a chance to win some great toys.

Sign up here. Contact our Children & Family Minister, Michaela Silvis, or Judi Kelley with any questions.

Christmas Eve from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Parking Lot
Outdoor Worship Service with Holy Communion from 1:10-1:30 p.m.

Sunday, December 3 from 9:00 a.m. - 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 bagels, crafts, and our annual coat-drive raffle. Bring in your gently used coats (kids or adults) and receive one raffle ticket per coat for a chance to win some great toys.

Sign up here. Contact our Children & Family Minister, Michaela Silvis, or Judi Kelley with any questions.

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!

Sunday, December 19 during the 9:00 a.m. service

Preschool and elementary school age kids are invited to take part in our “pick up Christmas pageant.” Arrive by 8:45 a.m., pick your part and bring the Christmas story to life for the congregation. Any 5th or 6th grader who would like to have lines to read in the pageant should sign up in advance here. For more information, contact Marlys Loyer.

It’s an Abiding Presence tradition! Get in the mood for Advent and Christmas with Craig Fraedrich and friends at our annual Advent Jazz Vespers service.

Saturday, December 4
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Abiding Presences is welcoming Santa for an outdoor photo event! The photo back drop will be outdoors and we'll ask families to sign-up for time slots to minimize wait. Our professional photographer will have digial photos back in time for the holidays. Slots are limited and advance sign-up is required. Contact Judi Kelley with any questions.

• 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.

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.

Children’s Service at 4:00 p.m.
Family Service at 6:00 p.m.
Festival Service at 8:00 p.m.

Come join us for worship on Christmas Eve as we celebrate the birth of Christ our Lord. Whoever you are and whatever your background may be, you will be welcome for a night of praying, singing Christmas carols, hearing the Christmas story and celebrating. All of our services will include Holy Communion and will end with everyone lighting candles and singing Silent Night. Learn more at https://abidingpresence.net/christmas-services.

Come help us decorate the church as we prepare for Christmas! We’ll start at 9 am with Duck Donuts and coffee to get us energized to deck the halls, come be a part of this festive way to serve this holiday season!

Bring a side dish or dessert to share and come join us for a Christmas celebration! The church will be providing ham, mac and cheese and broccoli. There will be lots of food, conversation and carols.

The senior high youth will have their own party in the youth room during the same time.

Following the dinner at 6:45 p.m., there will be a dress rehearsal of the Christmas drama with our children and youth music ensembles.