Christmas Eve 2024 – 1 PM Service
Full Service Replay
Christmas Eve 2024 – 9 PM Service
Full Service Replay
Christmas Eve 2024 – 7 PM Service
Full Service Replay
Christmas Eve 2024 Message Only
Message Replay
(“A Random Christmas” from 1 PM, 7 PM, 9 PM)
at the 1 PM, 7 PM, and 9 PM Services
The ingredients in the Christmas story seem kind of random: a decree from Caesar, an engaged virgin, an angelic announcement, three wise men, and no room at the inn. Doesn’t sound like the narrative we’d write if we were God. Some of the circumstances we may be dealing with this year aren’t exactly what we’d write for our own story, either. Join us Christmas Eve as Pastor Eric challenges us to respond to the seemingly random curveballs in our lives the same way Mary did to God’s biggest curveball yet.
at the 3 PM Service
In “Good News for All People,” Pastor Rick will emphasize the message being delivered by our children and youth during the 3 PM service: that the birth of Jesus is not a singular event that took place thousands of years ago that was only meaningful to the people who witnessed it; it was the beginning of a story that will continue to echo throughout eternity. From Mary and Joseph to the shepherds to the magi to the disciples to you and I, the birth of Jesus is Good News for us all.
The Awa are an indigenous people of Ecuador with their own language and culture. Asbury mission partners Kevin and Kathy Bruce have served as missionaries in Ecuador for close to 30 years, ministering there about the Good News of Jesus. While they have a translation of the New Testament into the native Awa Pit language, the Old Testament has yet to be translated in full. This crucial ministry and teaching aid can become a reality with your help.
Your contributions this Christmas Eve will help to fund the staffing of Awa translation helpers, technical support for the project, including computers, and, eventually, the cost of publication as the books of the Old Testament are translated.
This Christmas Eve, 100% of Asbury’s Christmas Eve offering will be donated to this vital project. Your contributions can help to spread the word of God!
Kevin & Kathy Bruce are church planting across the mountains of Ecuador.
Read their blog: mountainmissionary.info
Learn about additional ways to support them: lmusa.org/kk-bruce
Each year, Asbury finds a mission partner to support through the Christmas Eve offering. In 2023, $16,426 – 100% of the Christmas Eve offering – was donated to Mobility Worldwide, an amount that covered the cost of 38 handcarts for those in developing nations with limited mobility. Past recipients include the Second Harvest Food Bank, UMCOR, Bethany Christian Services, the Salem Food Pantry, Healthy Women, Healthy Liberia, Youth PEACE Ministries, Through These Hands, missionaries Kevin and Kathy Bruce for a church in Ecuador, Cookson Hills Center in Oklahoma, Ramos Elementary for a playground, and the community of Yarpuah, Liberia, to build their first clean-water well,