Service Description:
| Join First Parish of Stoughton on Christmas Eve for a service of Peace, Community, and Carols. Our Christmas Eve service is for all ages and we encourage families with children to attend, as a centering event for their holiday. Our service focuses on the messages of hope, peace, light in the darkness, and good-will towards all. We welcome you all, whether Christmas is a time of joy and celebration for you, or a time that brings more complex emotions. We value you and invite you to share this time with us. This service has been planned and facilitated by Greg Shea and Carmel Drewes Greg and his family first attended a Unitarian Universalist service online on Christmas Eve, 2020. They were looking to reconnect with the deeper meaning of the Christmas season and find community to help them through the challenge of COVID times. The experience was so positive that they have been engaged in UU spaces ever since! Carmel and her family joined First Parish Stoughton in 2016, seeking a place of community, learning, growth, and values-based action. While she’s an atheist, Carmel recognizes the importance of connection and community during the holiday season and wants to help make sure that folks who don’t have religious beliefs about Christmas have places to focus on more than just the materialistic component of the holiday. |
Topics: Community