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Advent & Christmas at Community of Faith

Advent sunday Worship - Sunday at 8:30AM & 10:30AM

Streaming over Facebook Live at 8:30AM

Christmas Eve Worship

Young Children's Service - outdoors at 3PM
Candlelight Worship in Sanctuary - 5PM & 7:30PM

5PM Worship & Young Children's Service will also be streamed on Facebook Live - click here

Live Nativity Video:

Housing the Holy

During the pandemic, in the US alone, many lost their jobs and are affected by whether or not landlords will evict them from their homes for failure to pay rent. We have problems to address. And so did the Holy Family that night. An oppressive regime had demanded everyone upend their lives and hightail it to their home towns to register for the census - for tax purposes, likely. Mary was on the verge of giving birth and the AirBnB app just wasn’t an option.

The Innkeeper is a figure of our imaginations. Not referenced in the sacred texts, we assume that since Luke said there was an “inn,” then there must have been an “innkeeper.” But what if he was truly an entrepreneur? Someone who saw a problem and thought, literally, “outside the box” to solve the problem of where Mary could have her child? Instead of thinking “there’s nowhere,” he said to himself first, “there has to be somewhere.”

There are lots of needs and we cannot address them all but we can do something - like the feeding of over 70,000 individuals at CoF last year - like the innkeeper who thought outside of the box and said there has to be somewhere for Mary's family. Let's spend this season together, becoming beacons of light, folks who thought outside the box and found a place to "house the holy."