Four Types of Advent and Christmas Eve Services: Which Have You Tried?

Experimenting with a different Advent or Christmas Eve worship format may help worshipers connect with the joy and wonder of Christ’s birth. Blue Christmas, Christmas pageants, Las Posadas, or lessons and carols make room for emotions, movement, culture, and people’s gifts.

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Welcome All Wonders

Join Calvin University Capella, Women’s Chorale, and Campus Choir for their annual Lessons and Carols service at LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church on Sunday, December 8, at either 3 p.m. or 6 p.m. Both services will be livestreamed.

December 8, 2024, 3:00 PM
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503

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2025 Calvin Symposium on Worship

February 5 - 7, 2025
Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary

Vital Worship, Vital Preaching Grants

CICW welcomes grant proposals on a wide range of Christian worship practices. The next application deadline is April 25, 2025.

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Welcome All Wonders: A Service of Lessons and Carols

Advent is a season inspired and guided by the Bible’s many apocalyptic texts—texts that candidly describe tribulation and gloom, prophesy stunning reversals and vindication, and evoke unsentimental hope and sturdy joy. These texts tell of stars beginning to fall, plead for the heavens to open, and portray choirs of angel armies singing. 

November 4, 2024 | 8 min read

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