Advent & Christmas

Find information about our Advent worship services, events schedule, and more.

This Year’s Advent Theme

From Generation to Generation…

The stories, scriptures, and traditions of the Christmas season have been passed down to us throughout the generations. Many of us enter this season with a swell of memories and emotions as vast as the cultural and religious rituals this holiday holds. Like a tapestry woven throughout time, the Christmas story weaves us in—to remember how God has shown up in the past, to continue the work of collective liberation, to behold the presence of God in flesh and bone. The work of God is always unfolding—in and through us. This Advent, may you remember that you belong—to a story etched into the wrinkles of time, to generations that have come before and will come after, to a love that won’t let you go.

Advent Resources

Advent Worship Schedule

Sunday Mornings

Advent Worship at 8:00 am & 10:15 am
“From Generation to Generation”

November 30 – Communion
Hope: There’s Room for Every Story

December 7 – Love Gift Sunday
Love: God Meets Us in Our Fear

December 14
Joy: We Can Choose a Better Way

December 21
Peace: We See God in Each Other

Wednesday Evenings

6:00 pm Community Meal
7:00 pm Holden Evening Prayer

December 3
at St. John’s

December 10
at Trinity Lutheran

December 17
at St. John’s

Other Worship Opportunities

Blue Christmas Service of Lament, Loss, and Longing
(on ZOOM)

Thursday, December 18
7:30 pm

Blue Christmas Worship at Trinity Lutheran
(Pastor Linda Preaching)

Saturday, December 20
5:30 pm

Christmas Eve Worship

Wednesday, December 24

5:00 PM

Early Service with carols, children’s music and message, and candle lighting.

9:00 PM

Late Service with carols, string quartet, choir, handbells, candle lighting, and communion.

Prelude begins at 8:30 pm.

Advent & Christmas Events

Hanging of the Greens

Saturday, November 29
9:30 am

Come and help festoon the sanctuary for the Advent season.

For Everyone Born: The 2025 Christmas Festival

Sunday, December 7
4:00 pm

Join us for this year’s Artist Series Christmas Festival, featuring the Artist Series Chorus, North Penn Chamber Singers, and North Penn Brass Ensemble.

Christmas Carols and Cocoa

A Community Singalong

Saturday, December 20
1:00 pm

Living Our Faith Together (The LOFT)
Every Sunday at 9:00 am

Living Our Faith Together (aka The LOFT) is a new space to live into the questions and deepen our spiritual practices. It builds on the St. John’s tradition of Adult Sunday School and Adult Bible Study, and offers opportunities for adult faith formation and occasional intergenerational engagement.

As we prepare for and enter Advent, this three-week segment includes scripture, reflection, and participatory experiences for people of all ages. Projects such as make-your-own Advent wreath will weave together ancient traditions and invite us to try on spiritual practices that deepen our experience of Emmanuel – God-with-us, and God-among-us.

This is a set-apart time to reflect on our own experiences of the Christmas season – whether that includes loss, joy, grief, isolation, connection, or more. We’ll consider questions such as, “How do we resist the cultural pressures to consume and over-function?” There will be space to share stories, memories, photographs, meaningful objects, and more.

Advent Devotional

Copies now available

Advent devotionals are now ready in the church library! All are welcome to take a copy. Large-print and pocket-sized versions are available. If you would prefer a digital copy, please contact the office (or check your email for the link).