Eleven digital hymns, a movie and a pageant of lessons and carols, produced by the national setting of the United Church of Christ, will soon be available to local churches for Advent and Christmas.
Each piece will be downloadable as a video file.
The following components are coming soon (watch this page for updates):
Eleven Digital Hymns as music videos:
Come, O Come Emmanuel (with John 1: 1-5)
In the Bleak Midwinter (with Luke 2: 1-5)
Star of County Down (with Luke 1: 46-56)
Away In a Manger /Santo Santo Santo
Come All You Faithful
Each Winter as the Year Grows Older - v 1& 3
Jesus, Jesus, Oh, What a Wonderful Child
Angels We Have Heard on High
Little Town of Bethlehem
Silent Night
Go Tell it on the Mountain
A “Lessons and Carols” pageant service (including some of the above).
A fully produced movie, “A Very UCC Christmas: 2020.” It will include music tracks as above and will consist of four scenes:
Scene 1: Board Room Brainstorming
Scene 2: Finance Committee Transformations
Scene 3: Faith Formation Finds Volunteers
Scene 4: Lessons and Carols
The lessons and carols will be streamed for all on Christmas Eve on Facebook and YouTube as part of the weekly “Thursdays for the Soul” series at 3:30 p.m. ET / 2:30 p.m. CT / 1:30 p.m. MT / 12:30 p.m. PT / 11:30 a.m. Alaska / 10:30 a.m. HI.
The full movie, “A Very UCC Christmas: 2020,” will be streamed on two UCC platforms (YouTube and Facebook) on Sunday, Dec. 27, at 10 a.m. ET.