Merry Christmas, GracePoint Family and Guests!<\/p>\n
We want to invite you to celebrate the arrival of Jesus Christ during our Christmas Eve Virtual Candlelight Service, 6:00pm Thursday, December 24.<\/strong>\u00a0 You can witness the service with others at the links below on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n Our Worship Team and Elders have been working to create a service that will be familiar and comforting, a \u201ctouchstone\u201d if you will, to remind us of the miracle of God\u2019s great plan. \u00a0The focus of the service will be remembering the arrival of the Light of the World.<\/em><\/p>\n The service will be available starting at 5:00pm on Christmas Eve, but our Worship Team is asking that everyone wait until 6:00pm, and start it together. \u00a0The idea is that all of us can watch it simultaneously and, in some sense, feel a little bit of a \u201clive\u201d experience. \u00a0The service will of course be available online thereafter.<\/p>\n We will observe our tradition of ending the service by candlelight.\u00a0 You are welcome to stop by the office Monday- Thursday from 8am-3pm (closed 12-1pm) to pick up a traditional Christmas Eve Candle <\/strong>for you and your family.\u00a0<\/strong> As the message begins, prepare to dim your lights and join us as we sing Silent Night together.<\/p>\n Additionally, the Elders and Deacons recommend you read the following four passages, with your family, in the time leading up to Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n We pray that during this season of light, you are joyful, at peace, and are focused on the surpassing greatness of our Lord and Savior.<\/p>\n May the word of Christ richly dwell within you!<\/p>\n How to view the Christmas Eve Service: <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Merry Christmas, GracePoint Family and Guests! We want to invite you to celebrate the arrival of Jesus Christ during our Christmas Eve Virtual Candlelight Service, 6:00pm Thursday, December 24.\u00a0 You…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":7722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fellowship","category-gracepoint"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/candle-64179_1920.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9J9R0-20x","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7721"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7726,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721\/revisions\/7726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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