Name: Candlelight Christmas Service
Start: 2024-12-22T19:00:00-08:00
Location: West Valley Neighborhood Church

Hey West Valley! You're invited to our community-wide candlelight Christmas service on Sunday December 22nd at 7pm. Whatever your background, whatever you believe, we would love to celebrate an early Christmas with you.
Since we love getting to know people who have never been (or who are not currently) connected to a church, we're focused on featuring the traditional hallmarks of the holiday season while also making the service very relatable. Kids are welcome and we'll have special activity pages for them as they join us in the service.
During the service, we'll sing classic carols together, and you'll hear a passage read from the Bible about the Magi who traveled great lengths to honor Jesus at his birth. We'll share a reflection on what it means that God would reveal the identity of His Son to those who would have been considered "religious outsiders"— and consider how they acted on what they knew, as they let their questions guide them on their quest to learn more. We'll think about what this can look like in Silicon Valley today, and offer a few moments for quiet reflection before concluding with our favorite tradition: passing candlelight from person to person as we sing "Silent Night" together. Each person will see how their light contributes to overcome the darkness, and to bring joy and hope to a weary world.
Then we'll cross our courtyard from the sanctuary into our festively-decorated hall, where everyone can make their own cups of hot cocoa and decorate sugar cookies with their neighbors.
If you're new to church, or have been away from church for a long time, you are ESPECIALLY welcome here. This is going to be our first Sunday service, so you'll fit right in—everyone will be new! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out—DM us or comment here, whichever you prefer. We know it can be hard to go somewhere (especially a church!) for the first time, and we'd love to do what we can to make it less of a mountain to climb, and more like making a new friend over coffee.
And while we'd be honored to get to celebrate an early Christmas with you, if you're already going to be out of town by then and still want to connect, we'd love that too!
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