Watch Night - New Year’s Eve - 12/31/21 - 6:30 pm
Watch Night is a service held on New Year’s Eve. It provides the opportunity for Christians to review the year that has passed and to make a confession for the sins of their past. We then find refreshment and restoration in the grace, mercy, and forgiveness of our Savior Jesus. We also prepare for the new year by listening and resolving ourselves to take on a new life.
Watch Night services have added significance in the African American community. Many slaves were said to have gathered in churches on New Year’s Eve in 1862 to await news and confirmation of the enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln, on January 1, 1863.
This Watch Night we do something similar. The sins of our past are confessed and washed away in the forgiveness of sins and at the Supper of our Lord. We set our minds to live a new life for Jesus starting now. And we lift up our eyes to the skies from where our Savior will come. We look to him to return and to set us free from this veil of tears.
Watch Night - New Year’s Eve - 12/31/21 - 6:30 pm
Mask-Required Service in the New Year
Dear family, as we enter the New Year, we remain committed to ensuring that you are served with the Gospel of Jesus and his precious sacraments. We believe that in-person worship is the best option if it is at all possible and wise. We also want to bend over backward to bring it to you as safely as possible.
We will continue offering a mask-required service on:
Wednesdays at 4:30 pm.
This will begin on January 5, 2022. We will reevaluate this schedule in February as we prepare for midweek Lenten services. Thank you for your flexibility and patience as we make our way through these confusing and challenging days. The Lord is with us!
If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact me directly. Pastor Nate
You are a gift to our ministry here at Mount Lebanon. All of our members are. We want to say “Thank you.” Please join us for a banquet in thanks to God for his people gathered here. Sunday, January 16, at 4 pm. This is an adult-only gathering at church. Child-care will be arranged in the church basement if needed. Please return this card or contact the church office to RSVP by January 12. RSVP Here.