Christmas celebrates God coming to us in the person of Jesus. Jesus is God-with-us. We want to delve once again into that wonderful Christmas story. Each Sunday starting on December 1st, we will spend time looking at what the advent of Jesus means for our world by looking at what Luke, Matthew, and other authors of the Bible reveal about that first Christmas.
We want you to see each Sunday of the Christmas season as an opportunity to invite friends and neighbours in person or online.
Christmas Party
Dec. 10 | 5:30PM
Our Christmas Party is an all-ages event of food & fun. Festivities begin at 5:30pm with appies & apple cider, facepainting, & ornament decorating. We’ll share a meal together at 6:30pm followed by carols, activities & community.
Tickets are $20/adult and $5/child. Registration ends Sunday, December 1st. We hope to see you there!
Christmas Eve
Dec. 24 | 4PM
We are planning Christmas Eve service at 4PM with Christmas songs and a short message centered on the wonder of Christ’s coming. We will also be live-streaming our Christmas Eve Service.
Christmas Eve Offering
Every year we take a special offering aimed at helping people in need. This year we’ll be taking a special offering for the Union Gospel Mission (UGM). UGM journeys with individuals overcoming poverty, homelessness and addiction for life transformation in the Downtown Eastside community.
You can give via e-transfer or Tithe.ly by selecting “Christmas Eve Offering” under designations.
You can also give in-person with cash or cheque simply stipulate your gift is for the Christmas Eve Offering.
What’s Happening
Sunday Service – December 1st, 10AM
Sunday Service – December 8th, 10AM
Christmas Party – December 10th, 5:30PM
Sunday Service – December 15th, 10AM
Sunday Service – December 22nd, 10AM
Christmas Eve Service – December 24th, 4PM
Church Office Closed – December 25-30
Sunday Service – December 29, 10AM
An Invitation to Make Room for…
Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year—A season of wonder and adoration. Yet for the average person Christmas is more often filled with exhaustion, grief, consumerism, and stress.
How can we make room to genuinely and faithfully express adoration towards Jesus? More specifically, what are practices we can engage in during this season so that we can receive and enjoy the King’s arrival in a fresh way?
We’ve highlighted four practices for the Christmas season to help us do this: Scripture, Hospitality, Prayer, and Generosity.
The Story of God
We need practices that draw us back into the real and wondrous story of God becoming one of us.
So this season we invite you to read use the Advent reading plans offered.
Printable Plan
This Christmas reading plan a pdf version.
Kids Plan
If you have the Storybook Bible there’s a plan for you to go through with your kids!
Hospitality
We need practices that that allow people to move from stranger to friend in our lives.
We celebrate this as Christians that God came to us seeking us out so that we go from being estranged from Him to becoming friends with God. More than that, through Jesus we are made children of God.
Christmas can be a lonely time for many. Yet, hospitality allows people to move from stranger, to guest, and eventually friend.
We encourage to express the generous hospitality of God by making room for a guest at your inviting someone to your Christmas gathering, dinner, or party this season.
Connect with God
We need practices that draw us into the good presence of God.
This month of we invite you to join us we pray together on Zoom Wednesdays at 12PM.
Generosity
We need practices that push us out of our consumerism and into the generosity of God.
God is so generous that He gave Himself in the person of Jesus. A heart transformed by the gift of Jesus will seek for ways to love people.
Apart from our Christmas Eve offering we spent the month of November shining a light on organizations doing important work in our city.
If you have not already done so, we encourage you to prayerfully consider how you can practice generosity in ways that go beyond your normal giving in this season.