Join us for at-home Christmas Eve worship!
Covenant is offering three different Christmas Eve worship experiences:
 
Two services available to watch at any time:
  1. A family-friendly service featuring a special Christmas Pageant: "A Light Shines in the Darkness: A Covenant Christmas Pageant" (traditionally at 5:00 pm) Click HERE to watch the family service.
  2. A service with a short sermon and special music: trombone, bassoon, and Covenant's Music Ministry (traditionally at 8:00 pm) Click HERE to watch the traditional service.
You can watch these any time, or you can join your Covenant family in watching them live together through Facebook watch parties on Christmas Eve.

Jump on the Covenant Facebook page at 5:00 pm for the family service premiere and at 8:00 pm for the traditional service premiere.
Option #3:
There will be a Zoom service at 7:00 pm on Christmas Eve with Pastor Charlie Berthoud, Music Coordinator Melissa Hinz, and Organist Doug McNeel live in the sanctuary. Click here for 7:00 service.
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Each service will conclude with lighting candles and singing “Silent Night” and “Joy to the World.”
Two Offering Opportunities

We have TWO opportunities for offering right now: the Christmas Eve Mission Offering and the PC(USA) Christmas Joy Offering. If you want to contribute to one of them, please use the designations listed below. Thank you!
You can support local families with food and rent assistance through Covenant's Christmas Eve Mission Offering, which will benefit the Madison West High Area Collaborative.

Donate here with the designation "Christmas Eve Mission Offering."
You can support PC(USA) church leaders and communities of color through the PC(USA)'s Christmas Joy Offering (click here to learn more).

The Christmas Joy Offering is one of four special offerings of the Presbyterian Church (USA). The others are:

Donate here with the designation "Christmas Joy Offering."
Get in the Christmas spirit by celebrating and singing Christmas hymns with us!

Follow our Carol-a-Day series through our YouTube playlist or through Covenant's Facebook page!
Covenant members have been reflecting on words of our faith for the upcoming "Words of Wisdom, Words of Faith" congregational devotional. From January 1-February 14, we'd love for you to start the new year reading this special devotional with us.

  • Click HERE for the devotional.
  • Email Mary Kieta if you'd like a hard copy mailed to you.
  • Click HERE to sign up to receive daily devotional emails (no need to do this if you have received daily devos in the past--you're still on the list!)
Join Pastor Charlie's 12-week DISCIPLE Bible study course beginning on January 13, 2021 via Zoom! Sign up HERE. Contact Pastor Charlie for more info.
Women's Friday Morning Book Group

The Friday morning women’s book group is still meeting on Zoom the first and third Friday mornings, 9:30 - 11:00, each month (except for January when they will meet the second and fourth Friday mornings, January 8 and January 22, due to New Years Day being on the first Friday). 

Please contact Kris Anderson for more info or to be added to the email list. They will be starting a new book on January 8th.
Always make time for some fun...
Get started reflecting on your hopes, dreams, goals, and intentions for the new year with this coloring sheet from Illustrated Ministry! (Click the image for PDF)
And don't forget about Covenant's puzzle exchange! A world of fun (and possibly some neck/back pain) awaits you in the grey chest under the overhang by the picnic tables.
Worship
Sunday, December 27

  • Adult Ed will resume on Sunday, January 10.
  • First Sunday of Christmas: A Service of Lessons & Carols (Music and readings presented by members of Covenant's Music Ministry)
  • Children's Time with Nick Von Bergen (Dr. Nick & Guy)

We'd love to see you at the Sunday morning