RICHMOND —
Many associate the Christmas holiday with being at home with family, but Richmond and Berea are offering a variety of Christmas Eve events that will gather people in celebration.
The following local churches are having Christmas Eve services:
• First Christian Church, 87th annual Christmas Eve Pageant, 5:30 p.m., 412 W. Main St., 623-4383
• First Christian Church, Berea, Christmas Eve service at 7 p.m., 204 Chestnut St., 986-4553
• First Presbyterian Church, 7 p.m., service of readings, carols and lessons, 330 W. Main St., 623-5323
• Saint Thomas Lutheran Church, Christmas Eve candlelight service with Holy Communion, 7 p.m., 1285 Barnes Mill Road, 623-7254
• Unity Baptist Church, service and silent communion, 5:30 p.m., 1290 Barnes Mill Road, 624-9464
• Crossroads Christian Church, meets at Caudill Middle School, 1428 Martin Bypass, Christmas Eve services at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., featuring Santa, cookies and crafts between services
• The Episcopal Church of Our Savior Madison County, Christmas Eve service at 9 p.m., music beginning at 8:30 p.m., on Christmas Day at 10 a.m., Feast of our Lord’s Nativity, Sunday, Dec. 30, Christmas lessons and carols, 2323 Lexington Road, 623-1226
• First United Methodist Church, 401 W. Main St., Christmas Eve services, candlelight family service 5 p.m., communion/candlelight service 11 p.m. 623-3580
• First Baptist Church Richmond, 425 Eastern Bypass, Christmas Eve candlelight service 5 to 6 p.m.
• White Hall Baptist Church will present “The Greatest Gift,” a live, outdoor drama of the first Christmas, at 7:30 p.m., 8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
• Union Church, 213 Prospect Street, Berea, Christmas Eve services at 5:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. Because of the church’s renovation process, the customary reception after the 5:30 p.m. service will not be conducted.
Community members will be treated to a free Christmas meal Monday from 1 to 4 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Richmond, 425 Eastern Bypass behind Qdoba.
Ronica Shannon can be reached at rshannon@richmondregister.com or 624-6608.
Religion
Many Christmas Eve events throughout Madison county
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Jesus is our companion
I am a companion of all them that fear Thee, and of them that keep Thy precepts.
— Psalms 119:63 -
National Day of Prayer
“There is hope for America,” the Rev. Kenny Davis, pastor of the Bethel Baptist Church in Berea, said as he addressed a crowd of more than 200 at noon Thursday in front of the Madison County Courthouse.
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National Day of Prayer observance, noon Thursday at courthouse
Madison County residents will be joining people across the nation Thursday when they gather at noon in front of the courthouse, 101 W. Main St., Richmond, to observe the 62nd National Day of Prayer.
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McTeggart Irish Dancers of Lexington present Ceili at Church of Our Saviour
The Kentucky McTeggart Irish Dancers of Lexington will host a ceili at the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Friday, May 3
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He is full of grace and mercy
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, for by grace ye are saved.
He hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus so that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
— Ephesians 2:4-7 -
We are complete in Him, Who is one with the Father
If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
—John 14:7-10 -
‘Entangled Lives’ to be presented Saturday at Berea College
The African-American Genealogy Group of Kentucky and the Carter G. Woodson Center for Interracial Education will present “Entangled Lives: A Conversation between Descendants of ‘Master’ and ‘Enslaved’” at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Carter G. Woodson Center in the Berea College Alumni Building.
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Lexington Band, All the Little Pieces, to perform at Church of Our Saviour
The Second Sunday concert on Sunday, April 14, at 2 p.m. at the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour will features the Lexington band All the Little Pieces.
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A prepared place filled with mansions for prepared people
In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
— John 14:2-4 -
He Rose With Saving Power
The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain and be raised the third day.
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