{"id":16945,"date":"2017-12-13T10:01:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T14:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=16945"},"modified":"2019-12-23T11:26:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T15:26:50","slug":"worship-on-the-mornings-of-the-eves-12-24-17-12-31-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=16945","title":{"rendered":"Worship on the Mornings of the Eves (12\/24\/17 &#038; 12\/31\/17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Christmas Day and New Years Day happened to fall on a Sunday.\u00a0 This year, we&#8217;re still in that &#8220;weekend&#8221; cycle;\u00a0 Christmas EVE and New Years EVE fall on a Sunday in the 2017 calendar.<\/p>\n<p>But Sunday is still the sabbath.\u00a0 It&#8217;s still the first day of the week.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s still that special day of the week where we &#8220;recharge our spiritual batteries&#8221; by thanking God for the week to come and to praise Him for who He is.\u00a0 And so, holidays notwithstanding, we will still celebrate God on these two Sunday mornings.<\/p>\n<p>But our services on Sunday December 24 and on Sunday January 31 will be a bit different&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Sunday December 24&#8230;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">AM<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the &#8220;morning of Christmas Eve&#8221; we will hold one service (instead of the usual 9:30 &amp; 11:00 schedule).\u00a0 Our worship service that morning will be held at 10:15 AM.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Jim Hughes will be our special guest at the 12\/24 service!\u00a0 Jim&#8217;s ministry of music and drama has inspired us (and others across the country) for years, and it will be a blessing to unwrap this special holiday morning with His message.<\/p>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><p>Rev. Hughes spoke at the Pitman Camp meeting this past summer.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a summary of his message&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"vkRXnPmdXm\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=15506\">You Were There! (Camp Meeting, 7\/16\/17)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;You Were There! (Camp Meeting, 7\/16\/17)&#8221; &#8212; pitmanumc.org\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=15506&#038;embed=true#?secret=C7Ra014IWE#?secret=vkRXnPmdXm\" data-secret=\"vkRXnPmdXm\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>PM<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On the evening of December 24 we will hold two Christmas Eve Services.\u00a0 The first, at 4:00 will be geared towards families with young children.\u00a0 The second, at 7:00, will be our traditional candlelighting service.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Sunday January 31&#8230;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">AM<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We will open the last day of 2017 by holding a single worship service at 10:15.\u00a0 It will be a laid back informal time where we&#8217;ll celebrate Jesus by singing familiar carols and songs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PM<\/p>\n<p>The sanctuary will be open between 6-8 PM, and the communion elements will be available.\u00a0 There is no formal service.\u00a0 This evening will be a time where you can spend some quiet moments in prayer, reflect on the past year, and to think about the year to come.\u00a0 Come and go as you please.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To see our entire Advent Schedule, click this button:\u00a0\u00a0 <a href='https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=16729' class='icon-button paper-icon' target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Advent 2017<\/span><span class='et-icon'><\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\">+\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more info on Sunday Worship Services at PUMC, click this button:\u00a0 <a href='https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?page_id=28' class='big-button bigteal'><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Worship<\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the morning of Sunday Dec. 24 and Jan. 31, we will only hold one service (at 10:15 AM).  Rev. Jim Hughes will lead our morning worship service on Sunday 12\/24.  Our service on Sunday 12\/31 will feature an informal &#8220;carol sing.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,191,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evann","category-hughes","category-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16945"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16950,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16945\/revisions\/16950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}