Winter Holiday Activities
Mittens & More for Our UUCH Trees
December 1 – December 29, 2024
Bring children’s hats, scarves, gloves and mittens to hang on the sanctuary trees or place in the baskets underneath. Whether handmade or purchased, your generous gifts will warm area children through the winter. This year, the mitten tree contributions will be going to Children in Need, located in downtown Hagerstown, which distributes children’s clothing free of charge to local residents in need.
Decorating Our Church Home
Saturday, December 7, , 2024. 10 a.m.- 11 a.m. (or whenever we finish)
Festoon the sanctuary and Martin House for the winter holidays. Bring your artistic skills and step ladder agility. Many decorations are available at church but donate more if you choose. But please, no live greens to protect those with allergies.
Christmas Eve Service
Tuesday, December 24, 2024. at 7 p.m. Bring cookies to share after the service.
UUCH Players. Deconstructing Christmas. Two college friends who lost touch run into each other on Christmas Eve. But their quiet evening to catch up is repeatedly interrupted by persistent carolers, a neighbor with a secret, surprising deliveries, a Unitarian ghost, and eventually good tidings of great joy.
For everyone school age and up.
Other Holiday-Themed Sunday Services in 2024
Sunday, December 8: Irene Glasse. Dark Season Spirituality. The long winter nights and shorter, colder days can be emotionally challenging. Pagan spirituality has tools and approaches to the dark season that can help us sustain the light till springtime.
Sunday, December 15: Rev. Dr. Paul Britner. The Scrooge in All of Us. Charles Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge is an archetype, and there’s a little bit of him in each of us, though some have more and some have less. This message will suggest how we may use our “inner-Scrooge” to cope with the many stresses of the holiday season.
Sunday, December 22: Rev. David A. Miller. Reimagining the Christmas Story: A Metanoia Moment. A different take on the traditional story.
Sunday, December 29: Saturnalia, UU-Style. End the year with a modern celebration of the ancient Roman winter festival of light—with masks, music, and gifts —reflecting our UU search for meaning and connection.
, 2024