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Calvary Episcopal Church

Christmas Eve services will be held at 5 p.m. December 24, 2012. Family Eucharist will be followed by milk and cookies. Christmas concert is at 10 p.m.

10:00 PM Christmas Concert. Festive Eucharist is at 10:30 p.m. The annual Boar’s Head Dinner will be held Saturday, January 5, 2013 (6:30 p.m. Wassail, 7p.m. Dinner). Tickets $25 per person. Call church office at 924-3908 to make your reservation.



Big Bethel Missionary Baptist Church



The Lincoln Douglas Memorial Association presents the sesquicentennial

celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation will be held at 11 a.m.

Tuesday January 1 at 11 a.m.



New Shady Grove

Missionary Baptist Church

The church welcomes you to worship with us, beginning at 10 a.m. with

Sunday School. Worship service and communion begins at 11 a.m. Watch

Night Community Service will be held at 10 a.m. on December 31.

Breakfast after service. Everyone is invited.





Breath of Life

Worship Center

The Christmas program will be held at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Dinner will

be served afterward.



Shipp Chapel Baptist Church

The Christmas program will be held at 9 a.m. Sunday December 23 along

with regular worship service.



DeSoto



Big Bethel Baptist Church

The annual candle light march will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday December

23. The sermon will be from Rev. Solomon Loud of Albany.



Leslie United Methodist Church

Drop-in Communion will be held from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday December 24.



Perry Grove Baptist Church

The annual Christmas program will be held along with early morning

worship service Sunday December 23 beginning at 8 a.m. Rev. David Hamm

will bring the message. Breakfast will be served.



Plains



Lebanon Baptist Church

Regular service will be held at 9 a.m. December 23 with Rev. Hosie

Waters, presiding.

Watch Night Services will begin at 10 a.m. December 31. The ministers

on the program will be Rev. Travis Rush of Spring Creek Baptist

Church, Rev. Curtis Iverson of Daniel Grove Baptist Church and Rev.

Hosie Waters. We are asking the surrounding community to come out and

help celebrate our watch night services.

Preston



Sumter City



Zion Hope Baptist Church

Watch Night Services will be held at 10 p.m. December 31. The speaker

will be pastor Courtney Moore of Kingdom of Heaven Ministries.

Everyone is cordially invited to attend. Breakfast will be served.



Webster



Mount Zion Webster Missionary Baptist Church

The church will observe Senior Citizen's Day Sunday December 23.

Sunday school begins at 10 a.m. followed by morning worship services

at 11 a.m. Rev. Alfred Starling will bring the message.



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