Winter Holiday Activities
Decorating Our Church Home
Saturday, December 5, 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 in the Martin House basement, but donate more if you choose. Just please, no live greens to protect those with allergies.
Mittens & More for Our UUCH Trees
December 6 – December 27
Bring children’s hats, scarves, gloves and mittens to hang on the sanctuary trees or place in the baskets underneath. Remember your own experiences with lost mittens and cold hands and be generous with handmade or store-bought items for our trees!. After the holidays, the mitten tree contributions will be donated to downtown Hagerstown’s Children in Need, which distributes children’s clothing and more to local families without charge.
Our Christmas Service is Sunday, Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.
Lessons and Carols UU Style
10:30 a.m. in the sanctuary and on Zoom
Lessons and Carols UU Style is adapted from a service created by Janet Palmer. This very UU program is both traditional and the contemporary, with seasonal readings and holiday music.
No matter how (or if ) you celebrate winter holidays, you will find something here to lift your spirits.
Bring holiday cookies to share
NOTE: no Christmas Eve service this year.
Another holiday-themed service: Sunday Dec. 6, 10:30 a.m.
Social Justice in “A Christmas Carol”
in the sanctuary and on Zoom
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is often remembered as a heartwarming tale of generosity and personal transformation. Bur Rev. Dr. Paul Britner reminds us that all of Dickens’ work drew on his Unitarian beliefs so this novella is also a call for justice with a message for us today.
*Family service with children in the sanctuary for the first part.
Holiday-Themed Sunday Services and programs
In previous years, programs have focused on the Winter Solstice and Yule, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Chalica (a UU holiday), and many aspects of Christmas.