Holiday Happenings 2024

Mark a few things off your Christmas list at our Alternative Gift Market on Sunday, Nov. 24, at 9:45 am, and immediately following our 11:00 am services in the Chapel. While shopping for unique and thoughtful items, you also are learning about and supporting our local and international missions partners! A few of our partners include: Oasis to shelter women from domestic violence, Casting Bread to increase food security, Blizzard Bundles of the High Country to keep local children warm, and Dreaming for Change to promote human dignity and social development in Burundi. This is the perfect opportunity to shop for meaningful gifts while also helping others!

Boone UMC is providing Christmas presents to 200 local children. Choose an “Angel” tag from a tree in the Family Life Center or Chapel. Each tag gives the age of a child and the Christmas gifts they are requesting. (Angel’s wish list items are divided across two tags so that their requests can be divided between two shoppers.) Simply choose a tag from the tree and record your name and tag number on the sign-up sheet, located near the tree. Please return unwrapped gifts to the church NO LATER than Sunday, Dec. 1, by 12:00 pm. Please place gifts under the Angel Tree in the Chapel or in Crossroads on Sunday mornings or Monday through Thursday, 9:00 am-4:00 pm. Please attach your Angel Tree card to your gifts with your Angel Tree number clearly displayed so that we can deliver it to the right angel. Gifts can be 1) placed in gift bags or 2) placed in a shopping bag with a roll of Christmas paper and bow. If you prefer to donate money toward Angel Tree gifts, please make check payable to BUMC with “Angel Tree” in the memo. We also are providing holiday meals to 15 Angel Tree families. To help provide a meal, click here.

Candlelight, carols, and communion will be part of each of the following services on Tuesday evening, Dec. 24:

• Family Service at 4:00 pm, in the Sanctuary, presented by children and youth

• Crossroads Christmas Eve service at 6:00 pm, in the Family Life Center

• Traditional Service at 8:00 pm, at Blackburns’ Chapel in Todd, NC

• Lessons & Carols Service at 8:00 pm, in the Sanctuary, presented by the Chancel Choir

Sunday, Dec. 8, 5:30 pm, in the Family Life Center. More details to come.

Join us on Sunday, Dec. 1, at 8:30 am, in the Sanctuary for a special time of worship as we kick off the Advent Season with our Hanging of the Greens service. Our hearts are centered during this service by special readings and musical presentations as wreaths are hung, garlands are strung, the tree is decorated, and the Nativity is displayed. Come back on Dec. 24 for our Christmas Eve service when the Nativity is completed with the birth of Jesus.

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