Everyone is invited to join us at 4:30pm for chili and hot cider. Then we’ll divide up into groups and head out to sing to congregation members to spread Christmas joy! If you have a suggestion of someone to visit for caroling, please contact us in the church office.
During the morning worship service on December 11, the Chancel Choir will present An Appalachian Nativity. Lewis Henry Horton (1898-1978) based this work on shape-note hymns and subtitled it “A Christmas Folk Cantata.” Horton played an important role in the history of MSPC. He was music director of our church from 1944-1946; in addition, he taught at Morehead State University and later chaired the music department at Transylvania University for several years. The service will feature the Chancel Choir, and all of our scholar singers will sing solos.
Please join us for a special presentation of “Joy in the Manger.” The children will explore the origins of Christmas traditions that many of us enjoy with our friends and families during the Christmas season. This is a fun service full of singing, laughing and reflecting together during this Advent season.
Blue? Yes, blue as in the blues. As in “I am feeling blue.” Not everyone is up and cheery for the Christmas holidays. Dealing with the death of a loved one, facing life after divorce or separation, coping with the loss of a job, living with cancer or some other dis-ease that puts a question mark over the future, and a number of other human situations make parties and joviality painful for many people in our congregations and communities. We hold a service of worship on (or close to) the longest night of the year, which falls on or about December 21st, the Winter Solstice in hopes of creating sacred space for people living through dark times. This service is meant to be reflective, accepting of where we really are, and holding out healing and hope.
