Local churches celebrate Christmas with special services

by Mary Le Arneal
Published 12/15/21

This is the season of special offerings by area churches to celebrate the birth of Christ. Some of the services were canceled or downsized last year but are back again.

St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church in Pleasant Valley will be open for a Christmas Eve service at 7 p.m. The church, which closed in 2002, is located near the intersection of County Roads L and 4, eight miles north and three miles west of North Bend.

St. Peter Lutheran Church will have its children’s Christmas program on Wednesday, Dec. 15 at 6:30 p.m. On Dec. 16 at 6:30 p.m. the Little Lamb Preschool program will be presented. There will be a Christmas Eve service the 24th at 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. with Christmas Day service Dec. 25 at 9 a.m. There will also be a special New Year’s Eve service Dec. 31 at 5:30 p.m.

United Presbyterian Church will have a Christmas Eve Candlelight service at 5 p.m. on Dec. 24.

St. John Ridgeley Lutheran Church will have a Christmas Eve service with a live Nativity at 6:30 on Dec. 24. The church is located nine miles north and 4.5 miles east of North Bend.

St. Charles Catholic Church will have Christmas Eve Mass Dec. 24 at 4 p.m. The Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus will hold the Midnight Mass. On Saturday, Dec. 25, there will be a 5:30 p.m. Mass but no morning Mass.

At St. Leo Catholic Church in Snyder the Christmas Eve Mass will be at 6 p.m. There will be a Christmas Day Mass at 10 a.m.

In Morse Bluff, St. George Catholic Church will have Christmas Eve Mass at 6 p.m. and Christmas Day Mass at 9 a.m.

Cedar Hill Sacred Heart Catholic Church will sing Christmas hymns starting at 11:30 p.m. Dec. 24 followed by Mass at midnight.

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