Christmas Eve Worship – He is Here! Luke 2:1-20
5:00 pm Worship — Around the Manger, a service for families with young children
7:00 pm Traditional Candlelight Service, childcare provided
11:00 pm Traditional Candlelight Service, no childcare
Christmas time is not always a time when we feel joy. Blue Christmas Worship is a service where those who are missing someone or going through a hard time can bring their struggle to God who comes near to offer us comfort and peace this season.
December 20th 7:00 pm in the Sanctuary at Harrisburg UMC.
A little girl named Ivey changed my life. I met her in Kindergarten; she was 5, I was 30. I had volunteered to be a mentor through Communities in School in my county and was assigned to be Ivey’s tutor. I remember meeting this precious girl with wispy blond curls and a sweet, shy face. The first year we spent together she didn’t talk much, in fact many days when I arrived I was told she was out sick again. By the end of Kindergarten, I came to understand that constant ear infections and poor health care meant she had trouble hearing and thus trouble reading. We hung in there together and by the end of the year she managed some small smiles when I came to see her.
The regularly scheduled Tuesday Bible Study will suspend June-August. In lieu of the weekly study a Summer Book Club has been formed.
Getting sick at Christmas is the worst.
A week or so before Christmas in 1992 (my sophomore year), I felt a cold coming on. Sore throat, stuffy nose, sinus headache. Nothing to worry about – it felt like a normal cold that typically passes in a day or two. Around day 3, I started running a fever (ugh) and had to miss my mid-terms at school (cool!)…and then things got real.
