This year has turned our hearts inside out. Are there really any tidings of comfort, or joy?
On first glance, there isn’t much comfort or joy in the Christmas story, either. Instead of tinsel, we find a dirt floor. Instead of a perfect family, we find people drawn together by circumstances they don’t understand. Instead of a brightly lit path, we find a long night on a darker road.
But over it all, we find music. When angels split the sky over Bethlehem, they sing. When a man who has endured decades of waiting meets his newborn son, he sings. Mary sings, and she keeps her song in her heart.
Could we do the same?
Come and listen, in this unusual Christmas season, for the unusual message of Christmas. Don’t give up your search for comfort, joy, and a new song. Maybe Christmas comes at the end of the year for a reason. Maybe it comes, like hope itself, just when we need it most.
Invite a friend to Christmas at Grace Chapel! Use the links to the right or the at the bottom of the page to share some Comfort & Joy through social media or email.
Enjoy our 2020 Christmas Eve Candlelight Service:
About our Christmas Special Offering
It's a longstanding tradition at Grace Chapel to take an offering at Christmastime for a worthy cause outside of our church. Prior years' offerings have gone towards disaster relief, social justice, sustainable living, and community development.
Throughout the Advent Season this year, we as a church, will we be providing an opportunity to give a “Christmas Offering” above and beyond your regular giving to help those in need. Your donations will be sent to local/regional/global agencies who will use your gifts to support the hundreds of households they serve this Christmas season.
You can give online using the links below; select your campus, and use online if you haven't attended a Grace Chapel location before. Or you can send a check with a note in the memo line to the church at: Grace Chapel Ministry Offices, 3 Militia Drive, Lexington, MA 02421.
The results of this Christmas Offering will be included and celebrated during the Christmas Eve Service.
Check out out Spotify playlist of beautiful Christmas music, hand-picked by the Grace Chapel Worship Team!
Advent Sundays
November 29: Comfort and Joy
December 6: Silent Night
December 13: In the Bleak Midwinter
December 20*: Repeat the Sounding Joy
December 24: The Weary World Rejoices!
December 27: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
*On the 20th, we take a break from our regular Sunday preaching to hear the Christmas story told as a first person dramatic monologue, from the perspective of a historical, biblical character. You don't want to miss it!