Advent
Worship | Holiday
Concerts and Event | Sharing Christmas Joy
Christmas
Worship | Memorial Gifts for Christmas Flowers
• Daily Advent Devotions
Written by Fourth Church members and staff
by e-mail (send e-mail addresses to devotions@fourthchurch.org),
via Facebook (/fourthchurch) and Twitter (@FourthChicago),
in printed booklets from the church literature racks, and online.
• Sunday Advent Worship
Sundays, November 27, December 4, 11, and 18
8:00, 9:30, 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary
John Buchanan will be preaching at the 9:30 and 11:00 a.m. services on all four Sundays
• Festival of Advent Lessons and Music
Sunday, December 11
6:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary
A cookies-and-hot-cocoa reception hosted in Anderson Hall by Women@Fourth Connect will follow.
•Christmas Cantata: Magnificat by Aaron David Miller
Sunday, December 18
Gloria by John Rutter
Performed by the Fourth Presbyterian Church Morning Choir, Tower Brass, and organ
During 9:30 and 11:00 a.m. worship in the sanctuary
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Sunday, November 20
7:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Tickets avialable from www.bellavoce.org
• Advent Wreath Workshop for Children and Families
Sunday, November 27
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Dining Room
• Fair Trade Bazaar
Saturday, December 3
Sunday, December 4
9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in Anderson Hall
• “A Chanticleer Christmas”
Tuesday, December 6
Wednesday, December 7
7:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Tickets available only through concert cosponsor, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• “Watch and Wait”: An Advent Contemplative Retreat
Friday, December 9, beginning at 5:00 p.m.
through Saturday, December 10, ending at 4:30 p.m.
At The Well retreat center in La Grange Park
Details and a registration form are available online
RSVP to Nancy Davis (312.274.3815) by Friday, December 2
• Festival of Advent Lessons and Music
Sunday, December 11
6:30 p.m.
Cookies-and-hot-cocoa reception hosted in Anderson Hall by Women@Fourth Connect follows
• Wicker Park Choral Singers
Friday, December 16
12:10 p.m. in the Sanctuary
• La Posada Family Night
Friday, December 16
5:30 p.m.; gather in the Manse
• Lakeside Singers Holiday Concert
Friday, December 16
8:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Tickets available at the door
• Christmas with Tower Brass
Saturday, December 17
2:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary
•Christmas Cantata: Gloria by John Rutter
Sunday, December 18
Performed by the Fourth Presbyterian Church Morning Choir, Tower Brass, and organ
During 9:30 and 11:00 a.m. worship
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Christmas Worship•Christmas Cantata: Magnificat by Aaron David Miller
Sunday, December 18
Gloria by John Rutter
Performed by the Fourth Presbyterian Church Morning Choir, Tower Brass, and organ
During 9:30 and 11:00 a.m. worship in the sanctuary
•Christmas Jazz Service
Sunday, December 18
4:00 p.m. Jazz Service with Communion
• Blue Christmas Service
Thursday, December 22
6:30 p.m.
For those for whom the Christmas celebration is made difficult by loss and sadness
• Four Candlelight Services on Christmas Eve
Saturday, December 24
4:00 p.m.
Children’s Pageant
6:00 p.m.
Family Service with Adam H. Fronczek preaching
8:30 p.m.
Service of Lessons and Carols with John Buchanan preaching
11:00 p.m.
Service of Lessons and Carols with John Buchanan preaching
• Christmas Day
Sunday, December 25
11:00 a.m.
Christmas readings and songs with John Buchanan leading worship
(Please note there will not be 8:00, 9:30 a.m. or 4:00 p.m. services on Sunday, December 25)
A traditional Christmas dinner in Anderson Hall will be served at 12:30 p.m.
Dinner tickets are available at the reception desk.
• New Year’s Eve Taizé Service
Saturday, December 31
7:30 p.m. in the sanctuary
• New Year’s Day
Sunday, January 1
11:00 a.m.
John Vest preaching
4:00 p.m.
Jazz Service with Communion; John Vest preaching
(Please note there will not be 8:00 or 9:30 a.m. services on Sunday, January 1)Memorial Gifts for Christmas Flowers
Contributions for the purchase of Christmas flowers and garlands, to decorate the sanctuary, can be made online
or by contacting Wydetta Carter at 312.274.3833 (wcarter@fourthchurch.org).
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Sharing Christmas Joy
In response to God's gift to us, we too seek to give to others in this season, to share the love that came down at Christmas.
Thus Fourth Church offers a variety of ways from which you might choose to share that Christmas joy.
• Christmas Wishes
The Christmas Wishes project collects gifts for more than 700 Chicago children who might not otherwise
receive presents this Christmas. Gifts are needed, as are volunteers to help with collecting and sorting the gifts,
wrapping them, and distributing them.
Gift lists are available during Coffee Hour and from Anne Ellis at 312.573.3369 (aellis@fourthchurch.org), who is
also collecting names of volunteers to help with collecting, wrapping, and distributing.
• Light Up a Life Gifts
Give gifts that give twice! Gifts to this year-end giving campaign make a difference in the lives of those touched by
Fourth Church and Chicago Lights while also serving as a meaningful gift and way to honor special people in your life.
For details, contact Kathryn Johnson at 312.640.2576 (kjohnson@fourthchurch.org).
• Christmas Gift Bags for Social Service Center Guests
Decorated and filled gift bags to be given to guests at the Sunday Night Supper Christmas meal on December 19
are to be returned to the reception desk by Sunday, December 11. (Bags and a list of contents with which to fill
them are available during Coffee Hour.)
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