Iglesia Presbiteriana Immanuel Presbyterian ChurchĬhristmas Eve services in English and Spanish will be livestreamed at 7 p.m. (562) 431-0494.Ī virtual Christmas Eve service will be live from 5 to 6 p.m. on Facebook Church of Seal Beach and also at. The Christmas Eve candlelight service will livestream at 7 p.m. (714) 993-6362.įirst African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los AngelesĬhristmas Eve service will be live from 6 to 8 p.m. via Facebook Danish Lutheran Church and. Welcome to our comprehensive gift guide for the 2020 holiday season.ĭanish Lutheran Church and Cultural Center of Southern CaliforniaĬhristmas Eve services will stream live at 11 a.m. However, like congregants of myriad churches all over the Southland, I will be logging in online anyway, in front of my own decorations, perhaps with my own candles, Sunday best optional. Will it still choke me up the way it does every year? I’m not sure. This year, due to precautionary measures aimed at preventing the spread of COVID-19, the celebration will be virtual. Sitting close together on long wooden pews, we listened to the Christmas story, sang hymns and, after taking communion, filed into the adjacent social hall where, one by one, we lit handheld candles in the semidarkness and sang every verse of “Silent Night.” And as the song drew to a close, we raised the slender white tapers that illuminated the circle of familiar faces and seemed to reflect the simple message of love at the heart and soul of the Christmas spirit. And for the past 20-plus years or so, my family has been among them.
CHRISTMAS CANDLELIGHT SERVICE WINDOWS
On Christmas Eve, the English Tudor-style chapel with stained glass windows and exposed beams is usually decorated with garlands, poinsettias and little white lights as generations of families and friends gather much the same way the congregation of First United Methodist Church of Seal Beach has done each year on this night for more than a century.
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