Watch Night Service

Watch Night

Tuesday, 12/31 at 6pm

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 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 anew 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.