If anyone needs a place to worship this holiday season.....Hope has services @ 3pm, 5pm, 7pm and 9pm. We will be having a small, unplugged Christmas day service in the South Hall at 11:15 am!
we laughed about it, but wonder how many were upset about the traffic. So much for the 5pm service being one of the smallest. We chose that one mainly due to our schedule, but also since it was to be one of the smaller ones. No chance on that. There were more people inside than we'd ever seen. I guess everyone tried to make it to the smaller service to miss some of the crowd.
We did the 7pm service Sat. night and it was almost full. I'm waiting on a youtube of Austin's "Let there be Light"....good grief, that was awesome. The fiddle player was a trip to watch and seeing Ephie back singing @ Hope made me cry.
(12-27-2011 09:17 AM)MemTigerFan Wrote: [ -> ]we enjoyed the service this year.
we laughed about it, but wonder how many were upset about the traffic. So much for the 5pm service being one of the smallest. We chose that one mainly due to our schedule, but also since it was to be one of the smaller ones. No chance on that. There were more people inside than we'd ever seen. I guess everyone tried to make it to the smaller service to miss some of the crowd.
We usually end up going to multiple services to fit family and friends needs.
If it fits your schedule, the 9:00 PM Christmas Eve service is usually best each year and it's "moderately" attended. Since it's the last service of a long 2 days, they are more relaxed and seem to be having a lot of fun.
The lighting of the candles is pretty impressive when it's full.
(12-27-2011 09:17 AM)MemTigerFan Wrote: [ -> ]we enjoyed the service this year.
we laughed about it, but wonder how many were upset about the traffic. So much for the 5pm service being one of the smallest. We chose that one mainly due to our schedule, but also since it was to be one of the smaller ones. No chance on that. There were more people inside than we'd ever seen. I guess everyone tried to make it to the smaller service to miss some of the crowd.
We usually end up going to multiple services to fit family and friends needs.
If it fits your schedule, the 9:00 PM Christmas Eve service is usually best each year and it's "moderately" attended. Since it's the last service of a long 2 days, they are more relaxed and seem to be having a lot of fun.
The lighting of the candles is pretty impressive when it's full.
agree...the candles are always so pretty...this year, one of the guys with the fire extinguisher stood by me, at least I was really really safe.
(12-27-2011 09:17 AM)MemTigerFan Wrote: [ -> ]we enjoyed the service this year.
we laughed about it, but wonder how many were upset about the traffic. So much for the 5pm service being one of the smallest. We chose that one mainly due to our schedule, but also since it was to be one of the smaller ones. No chance on that. There were more people inside than we'd ever seen. I guess everyone tried to make it to the smaller service to miss some of the crowd.
We usually end up going to multiple services to fit family and friends needs.
If it fits your schedule, the 9:00 PM Christmas Eve service is usually best each year and it's "moderately" attended. Since it's the last service of a long 2 days, they are more relaxed and seem to be having a lot of fun.
The lighting of the candles is pretty impressive when it's full.
yeah the candles looked really neat with the place being packed. The one we went to last year wasn't quite as full so you could see gaps in the candles. Still really neat, but we thought even more impressive this year.