Rejoice in the Glory of Christmas at Kenmore Presbyterian Church!

Rejoice in the Glory of Christmas!

On Christmas Eve, Thursday, December 24, Kenmore Presbyterian Church will have two worship services.

• At 6:00 p.m. our worship will be a Service for the Child in Us All. This family friendly worship service includes the reading of the lessons appointed for Christmas, the singing of familiar carols, and the traditional Candlelighting Ceremony to conclude worship. Pastor Boswell will read the children’s book, Mortimer’s Christmas Manger by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman. Our children and youth choirs and ringers provide the music for this worship service.

• At 10:30 p.m. Diane M. Green will offer a recital of Christmas music on our historic Schlicker organ.

• At 11:00 p.m. our worship will be a Christmas Communion Service. While traditional in structure, this worship will include drama and dance, as well as music provided by our adult choir and ringers. It includes the reading of the lessons appointed for Christmas, the singing of familiar carols, and the traditional Candlelighting Ceremony to conclude worship. Pastor Boswell will preach another sermon in the Cracking the Christmas Code series, looking at the central symbol of Christmas Eve, “The Manger.”

Yet, Christmas does not end on December 25th! We have two more worship services during Christmastide, which lasts until Epiphany on January 6th!

• On the First Sunday after Christmas, December 27 at 10:00 a.m. we welcome Lindsey Phillips Williams to our pulpit. Lindsey is a candidate for the ministry of Word and Sacrament under the care of our congregation and the Presbytery of Western New York.  Lindsey received her Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia and a Master of Science in Patient Counseling from Virginia Commonwealth University. In August, Lindsey married to Roy Williams and began work as the community food program coordinator for Quin Rivers, a nonprofit, regional community-action group based near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Lindsey will preach on “Joy to the World!”

• Worship begins in the New Year with the conclusion to Pastor Boswell’s Cracking the Christmas Code sermon series. On the Second Sunday after Christmas, January 3, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. we will use the lessons appointed for Epiphany of the Lord, which falls on January 6: Isaiah 60:1-6; Psalm 72: 1-7, 10-14; Ephesians 3:1-12; and Matthew 2: 1-12. All of these texts speak of God’s glory, which God will reveal to all people. The symbol of this glory is the star and the characters who most represent God’s plan are the Magi, who visit the toddler Jesus and his mother with gifts. Join us this Sunday to celebrate the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, which reminds how people will come from north and south, east and west, and set at table in God’s kingdom.

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