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Christmas Eve Services
Thursday, December 24
5:00 PM Online (countrysideucc.org/live)
10:00 PM KMTV Channel 3
Follow the Star Christmas Eve, 6 – 9 PM. To register click here.
On Christmas Eve, Countryside Community Church will be open for people to safely walk through and participate in a Follow the Star Christmas event. Stars will line the floor and guide you through stations set up around the church. The walk will include a visit through the columbarium to light a candle, a luminary walk and Christmas carols playing at different points throughout.
This will be a socially distanced event and will require registration. Planning is currently ongoing so keep checking back for updated information. There is a plan to video the walk and place it on our YouTube channel for those who cannot join us. We look forward to making this possible for our members. As always, plans may change as with the ever changing coronavirus numbers in our community.
Sermons Series – Love Revealed Between the Calm and the Chaos
Advent carries the feeling of excitement and/or nervousness that comes from being in that in-between place of “waiting /preparing”; “the already/not yet”; “the seen/unseen”; “the steadfastness/uncertainty”. Can you feel it? It seems as if everything is on hold right now: With COVID-19 directing our activities and Countryside itself in a discernment period regarding new leadership models and pastors, and our world standing by post-election, the possibilities are bursting at the seams, and we are collectively holding our breath.
Psalm 80 cries to the Lord Stir Up your Strength and Come… Help us. Like the Psalmist, we too are crying out for God’s strength and compassion to help us re-order our practices and priorities that we might be “re-opened” to a new way of being in the world. We need to be actively clearing out things that are standing in the way of God’s presence with us, so that we might better experience God’s voice guiding and leading us to fullness and grace. Let us journey together through this in-between time, embracing our community and the Love of God that connects us all.
Sunday Morning Zoom Offerings
10-10:20 AM, coffee hour with Diane Scott and Bill Bolte
10-10:20 AM, Meditation and Community Prayer with Dan Loven-Crum
10:25 AM Prelude (musical offering)
10:30, Worship only for 30 minutes. This is via KMTV or online (countrysideucc.org/live)
11:00 Conversations with Jan Brown
Go to countrysideucc.org/calendar for zoom links. Password is 13130.
Holiday Concerts via Zoom
Sunday, December 6, 4 PM
Christmas Carol Sing Along
Sing along as loud as you want to classic Christmas carols!
Friday, December 11, 7 PM
Jazz Coffeehouse
Make your favorite Christmas beverage and watch as Countryside Jazz will be plays your favorite Christmas Carols – a Countryside tradition!
Sunday, December 13, 4 PM
River City Ringers
River City Ringers is a dedicated group of performance ringers who provide cultural enrichment by ringing music.
Friday, December 18, 7 PM
Christmas Organ Showcase
Get the family together to hear Christmas music from our beautiful new Buzard Opus 47 pipe organ.
Sunday, December 20, 4 PM
Lessons and Carols featuring our new Buzard Opus 47 pipe organ.
Concerts can be viewed at:
countrysideucc.org/concerts
Meditations
Wednesdays, December 2, 9 and 16,
4 PM
Join us for inspiring scripture, poetry
and uplifting music.
December 16 will feature
music with Countryside Jazz and our new Buzard Opus 47 pipe organ.
Meditations can be viewed at:
countrysideucc.org/concerts
CFS EVENT
Monday. December 14
7- 8:30 PM
Center for Faith Studies and the Sacred Activism Community of Omaha will host a zoom event with authors, Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker. They will offer their vision at the heart of their new book, Radical Regeneration. For more information contact Rev. Dr. Chris Alexander chrisa@countrysideucc.org