Join us to welcome the light of Christ into our lives and the world!

4pm Children’s Service: A Celebration of Peace The children and youth will lead us with music that Julie Mazer & Rob Martens have helped them prepare. This service will be mask optional. TruFunction will play music for this wonderful celebration. Be ready to feel a sense of peace wash over you and to feel your heart opened. Service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel. According to our covenant, we welcome former associate pastor Tammy Martens to join us in-person for this special worship service.

7pm Christmas Eve Service: Stars & Midwives We join together with Madison Mennonite Church and the ORUCC Choir for this contemplative service. Pastor Julia, Pastor Valerie & Pastor Ken will lead us in worship with lay readers sharing poetry and scripture. In this service we will imagine ourselves as midwives for the Christ Child and as bearers of the stars of light, each a twinkling star within the vast and amazing cosmos. For this service we will require masks KN95 or the like, as we do with all other regular ORUCC services and events. This service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel.

10am Sunday Christmas Day December 25: Pastor Julia Burkey leads a casual and joyful service with David Anderman playing Christmas hymns on the piano. We are pivoting away from a Bethlehem themed service, to an interactive hymn sing and with nativity reflection. You are invited to bring a character or figures from your creche or Christmas Nativity scene for the altar that represents who in the story you feel most connected to this year. We will have extra figures too. Our 10am service will not be live-streamed, so our wonderful tech folks can enjoy being with their families.

Yours in faith,

Senior Pastor Julia Burkey