Happy Wednesday! This month has flown by, who am I kidding, this year has flown by! But here we are 4 days until Christmas.
Every Wednesday we’ve been trying to focus on the true meaning of Christmas. Today I want to share with you a special tradition that our family participates in each year.
About 17 years ago my husband felt called to a church and we soon found out that they had a Christmas Eve service. To be honest, we were disappointed that we were going to have to change the way we had been celebrating Christmas with our extended families.
We reluctantly rearranged our family get togethers and participated in our first Christmas Eve service. Wayne, Courtney and Cory and I began lighting the Christ candle in the advent wreath. That began a tradition for our family that we treasure.
Wayne now pastors another church and they have a Christmas Eve service too. Thankfully we get to continue our family tradition.
Since my Mom passed away in 2009, my family gets together at our house so my Dad, sister and brother and their families also come to the Christmas Eve service. Last year Kitty said the prayer for us in French. It was beautiful!
This year, why not set aside some time to attend a Christmas Eve service? It might be the beginning of a wonderful tradition for your family!
Does your family attend a Christmas Eve service?
The church I grew up in didn’t have a Christmas Eve service, but the church we’ve attended for the last 8 years does have one, and I love it! It is so special and a wonderful time to just worship the Lord. We all rush around for days and days leading up to Christmas with tons of activities, and this is just a special time to stop and truly focus on the reason for the season Our church does the service by candlelight and I love that feature. Having a Christmas Eve service does make our celebrating with family extend a little later into the night and everybody gets to bed later, but I wouldn’t want to do it any other way. Merry CHRISTmas!.
Oh yes! Thanks so much for linking this to Home for the Holy Days, Cyndi! I’m so glad that Kitty is there with you this Christmas! Joyeaux Noel!!
Girl, a Christmas Eve service is one of the highlights of my year. Years ago, our church did not have a service on Christmas Eve, so Jack and I started taking the boys (who were then very small) to a friend’s church on Christmas Eve. We’ve never missed a year since.
We helped to plant a church a couple of years ago, and our church still doesn’t have a building. We worship in the gym of an elementary school. But that doesn’t stop us! Last night a bunch of us gathered to decorate for the Christmas Eve service. No school gym ever looked so beautiful!
If you’d like to do so, I’d love for you to link this post to my “Home for the Holy Days” party. This post would be great!
Our church does have a Christmas Eve service and we wouldn’t think of missing it. It is a candlelight service and it is beautiful. We will also have Sunday school and church on Sunday morning. I can’t wait to celebrate the LORD’s birth. Have a blessed Christmas.
I grew up with the tradition of Christmas Eve service and when I came to Christ at the age of 20, I was VERY disappointed that the church I got saved at DID NOT have Christmas Eve service.
Our family tradition now is to attend the beautiful Christmas Eve service at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis.
Merry Christmas Cyndi!!
That’s beautiful. Amazing how something seemingly so disruptive to our tradition can become the one tradition we can’t do without. 🙂 Our church will be having a Christmas Eve- eve service (Friday) and then a service at 10:30 Sunday morning. Since my husband probably won’t make the Friday service we will go to the Sunday service (after we have a traditional breakfast of coffee and fresh apple cake). Will make the day seem more Christ-masy I believe. Thanks for sharing your tradition with all of us. Blessings, Pam
This particular year, our church voted to have our Candlelight Service tonight. We will not have a Christmas Eve service. I am sad because I will miss it so. :o(
Have a Merry Christmas and blessings to you and your family!