Advent
Come Home For Christmas
Advent is a season of beginnings and endings.
We hope that you can join us as we prepare for the birth of Jesus to bring some things to an end and spark life into some new beginnings.
We need your light and voice!
Advent Candle Lighter/Reader (and Ushers)
Please be a part of worship this Advent and Christmas. This is a wonderful way to give back and be part of the service in a hands on way! We invite you, a group, or a family to light the Advent candles and do a short reading each Sunday at worship and on Christmas Eve. We also invite you to be an usher or slide runner during these services. Sign up here.
Gift Wrapping Dec. 1- 15
You can help Arlington residents who are facing emergency needs by having your gifts wrapped this December and donating money to Arlington Thrive.
Nene and her team will offer gift wrapping each Sunday in December (1st, 8th, and 15th)
8am -1pm.
You can drop your gifts off and pick them up the next Sunday or at the chili dinner on December 15th. The gift wrapping is donation based. See the table at the Gift market on Dec. 1st or in the preschool hallway by Room 11 on the other Sundays.
Advent Worship
Wednesdays
One of the nicest seasonal traditions at Trinity is Wednesday worship during Advent. Each of this year’s three services is designed to help you find the peace and joy of the season.
These casual services begin at 7:30 p.m. in the church sanctuary.
December 4th led by Carol Feather Martin,
December 11th led by Keeley Harris
December 18th Katherine Nichols.
Stop in, breathe deeply, and step away from all the craziness of commercial Christmas.
Seasonal Music
11:00 a.m. in the Sanctuary
On December Sundays we will have an extended prelude where Trinity musicians of all kinds will be offering seasonal music. You may come after Sunday School and leave before the beginning of the 11:15 Traditional Worship Service, or come prior to attending the Traditional service.
College Student Meet-Up
We invite college students and recent graduates to join us on December 22 at 5:30 p.m. for a meet-up.
Caroling, Chili, Living Nativity – Dec. 15th
This popular evening begins with all carolers meeting in the Narthex at 5 p.m. to head out in the neighborhood to sing. Lyric sheets are provided, so come sing even if you only know the chorus to “Jingle Bells.” A delicious chili supper will follow in Fellowship Hall at 6 p.m. Please sign up here to bring chili or sides. The youth production of the Not Your Typical Nativity, a unique interpretation of the Christmas story, is in the Sanctuary at 7 p.m. Thank you to the Abigail Circle for hosting the chili dinner.
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
5:00 p.m. Family Worship Pageant
Our youngest children participate in an impromptu Christmas pageant. Costumes provided. Bring your child a few minutes early if they would like to participate so they can choose their costume. They will come up to the front of the church when their character is named in the story. We can have many Marys, Josephs, animals, etc.
There is room for everyone!
7:30 p.m. Lessons and Carols
Scripture with traditional musical favorites of the season, ending with Silent Night by candlelight. Alan MacEwen and Carol Feather Martin will be leading the music. Pastor Judith will deliver a short meditation at this service.
11 p.m. Choir/Bells Lessons and Carols
Lessons and Carols, Communion, “Silent Night” by candlelight, and the ringing in of Christmas. This service will be livestreamed.
Christmas Day
Please join us on Christmas Day at 10 a.m. in the sanctuary for a short worship in the sanctuary, followed by caroling. We will be caroling in the neighborhood, including the group home and the homes of several Trinity members who have been on our prayer list and who are in the immediate vicinity of the church. If you know of someone in the neighborhood we should include, please contact Pastor Judith.
