We are so excited to be able to worship together on Christmas Eve this year!
5:00pm – Children’s Christmas Eve Service with Masks
This service will be a Christmas Eve Service designed to engage the children with costumed solos, chidlren responses, paraphrased Gospel, children’s sermon, singing, and a (battery-operated) candlelit parade. We will have Holy Communion. As a COVID [precaution, we ask participants to wear a mask.
6:15pm – Protected Service with Masks
This service will employ the strictest mitigation techniques to enable immune – sensitive people toe opportunity to attend a Christmas Eve Service. The 6:15pm service will be limited to 30 people, with social distancing, required face masks, solo musical presentations, and limited singing. In order to attend you must make a reservation on https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080B4BA9AF2EAAFB6-christmas3 If the interest for this service exceeds 30 participants, we are willing to schedule another service on Christmas Day in the afternoon. (Please see the link for more information.)
7:30 pm – Candlelight Service with Masks
This service will be our Traditional Candlelight Christmas Eve Vigil. There will be singing, handbells, Holy Communion and a candlelight sharing. As a COVID precaution, we ask participants to wear a mask.
9:00pm – Candlelight Service WITHOUT Masks
This service will be our Traditional Candlelight Christmas Eve Vigil. There will be singing, handbells, Holy Communion and a candlelight sharing. There will be no face mask requirement.
We at Holy Trinity are so excited to be able to have a Christmas Eve Service this year. We are doing everything possible to keep the special nature of the joyous celebration and the traditions that we follow at the birth of our Savior on Christmas Eve. However, we must be safe about what we do, and to that end, here are all the things we plan to do to ensure the safety of the people at our Christmas Eve Services.
What is Holy Trinity doing to manage COVID for our Christmas Eve Services?
Managing the spread of COVID is not one single activity.
It is a collection of activities that are analyzed and modified so that we can reduce the risk of the virus spreading.
Here are the strategies that we will be employing on Christmas Eve:
1) We will ask that attendants be masked at the 5:00pm, 6:15pm, 7:30pm
service. The 9:00pm service will not have a mask requirement.
2) We will have a special protected service at 6:15pm. We will limit the seating
to 30 people and reservations will need to be made by going online to the
or you can contact the church office. There will be social distancing as
people will be able to spread out in the sanctuary. The other strategies listed
will be employed for this service.
3) We will have fewer Christmas Carols sung by the congregation. We will
include musical presentations and we will reduce the verses sung for each
Carol.
4) We will distribute Holy Communion in one form, a wafer, that each person
will receive at the door and hold up at the words of institution, and self-
commune. This will eliminate walking out of your place for Holy
Communion, handling of the host by others, and will reduce the worship
service time all of which will have a positive impact on virus curtailment.
5) The Candlelight ceremony will be simple and short. We will have just the
ushers light candles from the center isle and the light passed along the pew.
6) We have two powerful air purifying systems suitable for our space that will
be continually filtering the air in the sanctuary.
7) The Children’s Sermon will be giving with the children remaining in the
pews.
8) We will be very conscious of worship service time. We plan for the service to
be shorter, approximately 45-50 minutes in total.
We all look forward to having a safe and holy Christmas season!
