{"id":136877,"date":"2022-12-09T09:29:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T15:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?p=136877"},"modified":"2022-12-10T11:12:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T17:12:23","slug":"church-holiday-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/church-holiday-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong><u>Church Holiday Schedule<\/u><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><u>Annual Christmas Pageant<\/u> \u2013 On Sunday, December 18, at 10:45, we will have our annual Christmas Pageant Service. Join us for this all-ages service that is always fun for, well, people of all ages!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, please join us \u00a0after the service at 1:30 p.m. for the fall congregational meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><u>Christmas Eve Service<\/u> \u2013 On Christmas Eve, Saturday, December 24 at 7:00 p.m., we will hold our annual Lessons and Carols service, featuring beautiful, holiday-related readings and singing carols together. We\u2019ll end by diming the lights and lighting candles together as we sing, \u201cSilent Night\u201d and then join together for some holiday fellowship afterward.\u00a0 Please join us for this magical evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><u>Christmas Day Service<\/u> \u2013 Christmas Day falls on a Sunday this Year. On December 25, we will hold a service at our regular 10:45 a.m. time. We will repeat the Lessons and Carols service and again join in holiday fellowship afterward. So, if you cannot make the Christmas Eve Service (or if you just enjoy singing carols with your fellow church folks and think some Christmas Day fellowship would be fun) please join us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><u>New Year\u2019s Day Service<\/u> \u2013 New Year\u2019s Day also falls on A Sunday this time, so on January 1, 2023, we will hold our annual burning bowl service at 10:45 a.m. We will contemplate what we would like to let go so that we may more easily find our center. Then we will whisper that which we would like to let go into pieces of flash paper, toss them into a fire and watch them burn away. Join us for this much lover annual ritual.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><u>Church Building Holiday Schedule<\/u> &#8211; The church building will be closed for regular operations from Christmas Eve through New Year\u2019s Day. Because the Christmas Eve,\u00a0Christmas Day, and New Year\u2019s Day holidays fall on\u00a0weekend days, we will also close December 22 and 23, as well as\u00a0January 2,\u00a0to allow our staff to take regular days off for these holidays.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Christmas Pageant \u2013 On Sunday, December 18, at 10:45, we will have our annual Christmas Pageant Service. Join us for this all-ages service that is always fun for, well, people of all ages! Also, please join us \u00a0after the service at 1:30 p.m. for the fall congregational meeting. Christmas Eve Service \u2013 On Christmas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136885,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136877\/revisions\/136885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}