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Our building is closed, but our progressive, affirming faith community still actively meeting and celebrating Advent and Christmas online. Everyone is welcome to view our services on our YouTube channel at any time or join our live Zoom gatherings.

Thursday, December 24:

Please consider joining us for any – or all – of our celebrations. You can watch the services with us when they premiere or anytime after. Everyone is welcome!

• Online Family Christmas Service – 10 a.m.: Premieres on Fairlawn’s YouTube at 10 a.m. We continue our popular family service this Christmas Eve Day. The Story of Christmaswith be told through readings, dance, familiar Christmas carols, and anthems. It’s a joyful time, full of children’s delight at hearing the Christmas story, Christmas music, and reinforcing the spiritual aspects of the season.

• Christmas Eve for Little Ones – 10 a.m. and after: Click here to watch Leaside United Church’s YouTube.The Rev. Emily Gordon, Leaside’s minister, is inviting families with children up to five years of age to share a family-friendly, online Christmas Eve gathering with your children and grandchildren, and enjoy singing parts of the Christmas story. Even children who are older, and love to sing, can share in this experience. 

• Online Candlelight Communion Service – 9 p.m.: Premieres on Fairlawn’s YouTube channel at 9 p.m. Join us as the Rev. Douglas duCharme leads a serene, beautiful communion service with virtual musical offerings by mezzo soprano Andrea Ludwig, accompanied by pianist Doreen Uren Simmons, and an a cappella quartet by our treble section leads. Also featured are choral selections by E. Daley, Morten Lauridsen and John Gardner, as well as Christmas carols sung by King’s College, Cambridge, the Robert Shaw Chorale, and the Cambridge Singers.

We are aware of how deeply you appreciate the music
of this season and the Christmas story being told.

For many of you, this is a tradition that brings us together, and
has done for years. For many of us, this is especially meaningful
this year when our ability to gather with loved ones is limited.

Your financial support for Fairlawn Avenue United Church,
especially at this time, ensures that we will be there for
you and your family for Christmases to come,
telling the story and celebrating the music.

Please donate here.