Advent 2024 AT ESUMC
Love Feast
Sunday, December 8 | 5:00 p.m.* | Sanctuary
*Prelude begins at 4:30 p.m.
Join us for our annual celebration of story and song at our Love Feast. Traditional sweet buns and spiced wassail will be served alongside scripture and music of the Advent and Christmas season provided by the Youth Choir, Youth Bells, Wesley Ringers, and Chancel Choir. This year’s music will include Karen Marrolli’s Light of Peace: Celtic Christmas Carols for choir, flute, fiddle, and percussion. Sign up to serve here.
Karaoke with L’Arche
Thursday, December 12 | 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. | Bulla Youth Center
Celebrate with our friends from L’Arche with a fun night of singing, hot chocolate, and the joy of being together. Singing skills not required!
eStreet Kids MWA Advent Service
Sunday, December 15 | 10:30 a.m. | Sanctuary
Join us for the third Sunday of Advent worship service led by our eStreet Kids Music and Worship Arts liturgical dance, children’s choirs, handbells, and chimes ensembles! All are welcome-wiggles encouraged!
Lemonade with Mary & Joseph
Sunday, December 15 | 11:30 a.m. | Commons
In anticipation of the birth of Jesus, stop by the Commons after the 10:30 service to enjoy fellowship, treats and a craft with Mary and Joseph.
eStreet Youth Christmas Party
Friday, December 20 | 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. | Bulla Youth Center
Join eStreet Youth at our annual Christmas Party in the Bulla Youth Center. We will have snacks, games, dancing, inflatables, celebration and so much more. There will be a registration for this event. Register Here!
Christmas Eve Worship Service Times
Tuesday, December 24
10:30 a.m. - Children-led Joint Worship Service (Sanctuary)
5:00 p.m. - Traditional Candlelight Service (Sanctuary)
7:00 p.m. - Contemporary Candlelight Service (Kerr Hall)
11:00 p.m. - Traditional Candlelight Service (Sanctuary)
We invite families to worship together with our church family on Christmas Eve, and we want to give our nannies the evening off to enjoy time with their families as well. There will be no childcare provided. Let every heart (of every age!) prepare room for the birth of Christ!
Annual Christmas Eve Offering - Bringing Hope Through Doorstep Ministry
Bring a family hope this Christmas with a gift to our Doorstep Ministry. This vital ministry helps vulnerable neighbors avoid homelessness by providing financial assistance with rent and utilities to get them over a bump in the road such as an unexpected medical bill, car repair, or temporary job loss. You can help a family stay in their home or keep their utilities on — Click Here to Give Today!
Lectio Poetica with NC Institute for Spiritual Direction and Formation
Tuesday 11/26, 12/3, 12/10, 12/17 | 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. | Virtual on Zoom
Cost: $70 per participant
Lectio Poetica is a spiritual practice that invites the words of a poem to be our teacher, opening us to know ourselves and God more fully. In this Advent series, participants will be guided in a process of regarding the words of a poem as sacred reading, allowing the words and, perhaps, the images described to touch our soul. Meg McBride will be our guide, selecting poetry with the theme of the advent season. She will walk us through this beautiful process of allowing a poem to unfold within us. No experience necessary - just an openness to wonder. Email info@ncspiritualdirection.org for more information and to register!
Joint Service of Covenant Renewal
Sunday, December 29 | 10:30 a.m. | Kerr Hall