Advent & Christmas
Christmas Worship Servies
Christmas Eve: Children’s Service at 4pm
Christmas Eve: Holy Communion at 8pm & 10pm
Christmas Day: Holy Communion at 10am
Advent Wreath Workshop
Sunday, November 30, 2025 at 11:45am
Make an advent wreath to celebrate the season! A pizza lunch will be served. Please bring greens, holly and floral decorations to share. Please also bring a plate of cookies for dessert and/or a non-perishable food item for our food pantry.
Holiday Bazaar
Saturday, December 6, 2025, 10am-3pm
Holiday gifts for sale, photos with Santa, and crafts for children!
German Vespers
Sunday, December 7, 2025 at 3pm
Join us for a traditional worship service in German. Sing carols and hear scripture, all in German. Our guest preacher this year will be the Rev. Klaus Dieter Gress from Herrenberg in southern Germany.
Advent Cocoa & Cookies for Kids
Saturday, December 13, 2025, 12-3pm
Children ages 3 through 5th grade are invited to a special program presented by Karen Smith from Practical Resource for Churches. We’ll be making prayer bracelets, as well as decorating cocoa cups and plates (which will be provided). Please bring cookies to share if you are able.
Women’s Advent Tea
Saturday, December 13, 2025, 1-3pm
Join our women’s group for their annual Advent Tea. Fellowship, carols, tea, and cookies will be shared. Each attendee is requested to bring their own teacup, a friend, and an unwrapped gift for Madonna Heights. Suggested gift ideas: Fisher Price toys for infants-18 months, children’s books, pajamas for infants-18 years, socks, basketballs, soccer balls, air pumps, hairdryers, curling irons, gloves, scarves. Please lend a hand to set up, bring cookies or snack bars, and clean up.
Christmas Pageant: Bethlehem Inn Dinner Theater
Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 4pm
Celebrate Christmas at our dinner theater performance of “Bethlehem Inn.” Tickets required. All proceeds benefit ELCA World Hunger.
Christmas Caroling
Saturday, December 20, 2025 at 2:30pm
Join our children’s choir in singing Christmas carols at Brightview Senior Living in Port Jefferson.