Service Cancelled for 12/20

Well, we have certainly been blessed with a wonderful snow storm!  And my family is thrilled that we are looking at a white Christmas!

 

But, the down side of the weather (and the timing of this storm) is that we just don't feel like we can count on it being reasonably safe for people to get out to our service tomorrow morning.  Our Leadership Team members have considered this in many different ways today and - in accordance with our experience and the forecast - we believe this is God's leading for us for this weeekend. Of course, we are deeply disappointed that our kids will have to wait to put on their very practiced Christmas program.  And we will dearly miss all of you on our normal day of worship.

 

So, here's the plan.  It certainly isn't perfect, but with Christmas week upon us, our options are somewhat limited.  We certainly hope you can work with us as we try to fit everything in as conveniently as possible.

 

We will have our Children's Christmas program next Sunday morning at 9:30 am.  For kids involved in the program, please have them to church by 9 am.  We know this will be difficult for some of you, but it is the best schedule we can do!

 

Following our Children's Christmas program, we will have our Adult Cantata at 11:00 am.  That way, we can enjoy the many talents of all our church family that have been preparing for this moment for months!

 

For next Sunday's kid's workers (nursery, toddlers, preschool, and elementary classes), we will use the workers scheduled for 12/20 for the kid's program (9:30) and the workers scheduled for 12/27 during the adult program (11:00 am).

 

For practice, we'll move the kid's rehearsal to 6:30 on Monday night for all the kids.  We'll do the preschool kids first, then the elementary kids after that.  Our plan is to be done both rehearsals by 7:30.  That is because we'll need to have our adult cantata final rehearsal that night as well!  We had originally planned to practice at 7 pm, but now we'll ask the choir to be ready to practice at 7:30 on Monday night.  That way, we'll get all our practices in on the same night.

 

Again, we do apologize for the sudden shift in schedule, but we're in a little bit of a bind here.  Thanks for doing your best to work with us!  If you KNOW your child will not be able to make the program (or the rehearsal), please let Dana know right away.  I am hoping that we can all make these adjustments and provide everyone with the chance to share the music they have been preparing.

 

We will (Lord willing) see all of you on Christmas Eve at 6 pm (or sooner for those coming on Monday evening)!

 

In Christ
Pastor Mark