7:00 PM - Longest Night Worship Service @ Trinity Lutheran Church (3333 N Duffield Ave, Loveland)

Walk-on Christmas Pageant

9:00 AM - Choir Rehearsal

10:00 AM - Virtual & In-Person Worship

11:00 AM - Fellowship

Christmas Eve

6:00 PM - Choir Rehearsal 

7:00 PM - Christmas Eve Worship

Christmas Day

Pastor Out of the Office through December 28

Office Closed through January 1

9:00 AM - Choir Rehearsal @ First Christian Church

10:00 AM - Worship @ First Christian Church (2000 N Lincoln Ave)

@ Trinity Lutheran Church, 3333 Duffield Ave, Loveland

Livestream available @https://youtube.com/live/Iw1bKWmNYVc?feature=share

Join us in a safe and sacred space to share anguish, plead with God to remember us, and pray for justice and restoration. This service can be especially meaningful for those who have lost a loved one during the last year. 

The Christmas Fund for the Veterans of the Cross has been caring for active and retired clergy and lay employees of the United Church of Christ for over 100 years, providing emergency grants, supplementation of small annuities and health premiums, and Christmas “Thank You” gift checks each December to our lower-income retirees. This year we know that challenges remain for many of our pastoral leaders who continue to experience loss of income as congregations struggle with budget shortfalls. Please show your continued gratitude for our active and retired UCC clergy who need our support by giving to the Christmas Fund this year. 

Gifts to the Christmas Fund bring relief and hope to those who have dedicated their lives to serving our churches. By supporting the Christmas Fund, you make a huge difference and bring great joy! To contribute, please write your check to FCC and note “Christmas Fund” in your memo line.

Always dreamed of being an animal at the manger? Or longed to be a magi? Or an angel? This is your chance! Join us for our annual walk-on Christmas pageant on Sunday, December 22. Wear your own costume or come a little early to don one of the costumes we have. There are no lines to learn, no practices to attend -- just show up and help us tell the story of that first Christmas! All are welcome! Please contact Pastor Thandiwe if you have any questions.

We are accepting donations for the Love Gift Offering to recognize our staff for their service this year. Our staff includes Thandiwe, Nikki, Staci, Robert, and Jenna. The offering will be given to staff on Christmas Eve. If you wish to donate, please note “Love Gift” on your check/offering envelope. You may drop it in the offering plate or in the Love Gift Offering box in the narthex by December 22.

Join us for our traditional Christmas Eve service with communion, candles, and a “Silent Night” verse in German.

This year’s Christmas Eve offering will support Little Willows. 

Clothed in Dignity: With the conviction that every child deserves to look and feel their best in every season, Little Willows exists to supply children and families in need with new or gently used clothing donated by generous community members. Clothing donations are sorted by size (premie to 5T), gender, and season, and curated into individualized boxes to meet the needs of the child. These boxes are not just practical gifts to meet practical needs. They are filled with hope - bestowing confidence and courage to those marked by scarcity or insecurity.

All offerings collected on Christmas Eve will go to Little Willows unless noted otherwise in the memo line. Thank you for giving generously to support children in need in our community at Christmas.

If you ordered a poinsettia, please remember to take it home with you following the Christmas Eve worship service.

The office will be closed and all staff will be on vacation during the week between Christmas and New Year’s (Wednesday, December 25, through Wednesday, January 1). Pastor Thandiwe will be taking vacation December 26 and January 1-3. For pastoral emergencies, please contact Elizabeth Endicott at (507) 440-4934.

The three of us are feeling very blessed and fortunate to have all the volunteers and donations that have crossed our paths this past year. We finished up the year with many smiles, many new faces and most of all new fellowship/community. We can honestly say we could not have done it without all of you that have spent many timeless hours volunteering. We hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a blessed and Happy New Year. 

The store will be closed until January 3. So, if you missed your chance in 2024 don’t worry we are always looking for volunteers.

Peace, Dawn Briggs, Linda Carpenter and Eileen Walker

Please join us in collecting socks for Greg Greaves’ annual Birthday Sock Drive! Socks are given to House of Neighborly Services, Salvation Army, and other organizations to distribute to those in need. New socks may be dropped off in the church narthex.

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Join us at First Christian Church (2000 N Lincoln Ave) for a combined worship service.

Office/committee annual reports are due December 31. Please send your finalized report either typed in an email directly or as an editable attachment to the office at office@lovelanducc.org.

2nd Saturday of each month, 2:00 - 5:00 pm

Help us serve an afternoon meal on the 2nd Saturday of each month! Please sign up at the trophy case. Have questions? Contact Noreen Flood at 970-690-4333 or wypokesfan@hotmail.com.

Mark your calendar for the return of the Third Wednesday Supper Social on January 15, at 6 pm!

Slammin' Famine is set for Saturday, February 15th, from 9 -11AM. Slammin' Famine is what most people know as Feed My Starving Children. Our Mission and Outreach Team has made a generous donation of $1,300 that will purchase food to pack. This is a great donation from our church and will feed many starving children. Somewhere down the road they will tell us where it went. Now all we need is 20 ambitious people to fill the role of packing meals on February 15th. Any youth under 18 need to be accompanied by adult.

A sign up sheet will be on the trophy case, or call Brian Kukus at 720 -323 -1422. Sign-up will require a name, a phone number, and an email address. Deadline for sign up is January 15. 

A box is in the lower level entry to collect used prescription bottles for a local veterinarian who will recycle them to use for pet medicines. The labels MUST be removed before placing in the box. If you have questions, please call Elizabeth Endicott, (507) 440-4934.

We are collecting toiletry samples for the Community Kitchen. If you have any of those toiletries that you collect from hotel visits that you never get around to using, please feel free to drop them off in the basket  in Fellowship Hall.