Christmas Services
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Christmas Eve - 5 pm, Family Worship

Christmas Eve - 9 pm, Carols & Choir

What is Advent?

Advent is the first season of the church year - so, Happy New Year!
This year Advent starts on November 29 and ends on Christmas Eve.
The word "advent" comes from a Latin word that means "coming" or "arrival". 
Advent is a season of preparation:

• Preparing our hearts and our community to celebrate the birth(day) of Jesus on Christmas.
• Preparing our faith and our church to watch and be ready for Jesus the Christ to come again with godly power.
• Preparing our lives to be present to God at work in the world every day, every moment.

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Advent 2020 Theme at WLLC:   
Living with Christ in Darkness and Light

In Light and Darkness: An Illustrated Devotional” gives you the opportunity to read short devotions and contemplate key questions throughout the season of Advent. You also can color, doodle, and draw on it!  A dozen copies along with packages of crayons and colored pencils are available at the Prayer Walk along the sanctuary window for anyone who needs to pick up a printed copy. Otherwise, download and print for yourself. Contact the church office if you have questions.
 

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Midweek Advent Prayer

You are invited to a midweek time of music, prayer, and conversation on Wednesdays: December 2, 9, 16 and Monday the 21st from 7:00 - 8:00 pm on Zoom. The conversation each week will follow the flow of the Advent devotional material and topics from Learning to Walk in the Dark by Barbara Brown Taylor. No pre-reading is necessary to participate. As darkness deepens toward the Longest Night (Dec. 21) we will open ourselves to what opportunities are there for us with Christ!

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"Blue Christmas" in Advent

​Christmas can be a painful time when you recently lost someone you love, or your job is tough or your family is struggling. This year has surely weighed all of us down. "Blue Christmas" describes not only this feeling and struggle, but a special worship time when people can come and rest. 

Normally we would offer a Blue Christmas service for the community, however, with a health crisis in the pastors' lives, we are recommending people join in other Blue Christmas services this year. 

December 21st @ 5:00 pm (7 pm CST): Women of the ELCA, register here for the Zoom link

"Into This Silent Night" by Ann Weems
Into this silent night
As we make our weary way
We know not where;
Just when the night becomes its darkest
and we cannot see our path;
                                                                       just then is when the angels rush in,
                                                                       their hands full of stars.

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Some things have to be believed to be seen."
Madeleine L'Engle