Celebrate Christmas 2023 With Us!
Christ Congregational Church (CCC) is warmly inviting members of the community to join them for their special Christmas services this year:
Sunday, December 17 at 10:30am – Christmas Music Sunday Service featuring the Chancel Choir, Advanced Orchestra and Brass Ensemble. They will be performing Daquin’s Noel We Sing, See Amid the Winter’s Snow; We Shall Light a Thousand Candles, Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium, and Born a Mighty King, plus several carols and selections from the Brass Ensemble. A festive Christmas Cookie Sale to benefit CCC’s youth group will follow the service.
Sunday, December 24 at 10:30am – Fourth Sunday of Advent – Waiting on Peace – Worship Service, “Saying YES to God”. Special Christmas church school session for children ages 3 and older. Childcare available in our Nursery for ages 3 and younger.
Sunday, December 24 at 5:00pm – Christmas Eve Family Worship Service featuring the Intergenerational Orchestra, as well as a participatory re-enactment of the Nativity story. All babies and children are welcome to attend! No rehearsal needed. Children of all ages, visiting children, neighbors are welcome to borrow nativity costumes. Costumes for animals, shepherds, angels, magi will be ready to pick up prior to the service. Come choose from the collection or the children may wear what they have at home and be a part of the Christmas story!
Sunday, December 24 at 9:00pm – Christmas Eve Candlelight Service featuring the Chancel Choir and Advanced Orchestra, featuring Gabriel’s Message arranged by Tony Alonso, Let the Stable Still Astonish, Stopford’s Lully, Lulla, Lullay, Love Came Down at Christmas, and Todd’s My Lord Has Come. There will be a reception following the service, and all are welcome to attend!
Please come and join us for our special Christmas services this year. Everyone is welcome. Feel free to bring family and friends!
We are located at 9525 Colesville Road in Silver Spring. Parking is free. All of the above services are blended (in-person and on Zoom), except the 5pm service on 12/24, which is in person only. Visit our website homepage to find the zoom link if you wish to join us online.
Christ Congregational Church is an inclusive community of spiritual seekers where we honor and celebrate people of all races, cultures, ages, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities.
