[Sensei Ern]

Our church will have a full morning service, with Sunday School, but we will not have an evening service. We are having a Christmas Eve service as well.

I sit on our church's board. We discussed being open on Christmas. We only have 40 adults, so if more than one decides that they are staying home, the pews seem empty. My personal desire was to have all services, but I understand the actions of others to have an evening to be with family. So we settled for what we got. THere was not even a discussion of cancelling SUnday service altogether.

[Sensei Ern]

Still, I am a little disturbed by the fact that come hell or high-water, we have SUnday am and SUnday PM services, but on the day that honors Christ, we skip a service.

[Between the Lines]

Our church is combining our three morning services into one large service that will be an hour longer than usual. We will not have a sermon but instead the full service is devoted to praise, worship, testimonials and reading Scripture.

It is very crowded and the men have to stand, but everyone will be there. We do this every Christmas no matter what day it falls on.