Remember when, as a kid, if you heard that Christmas Eve was a month away, it felt like you had another decade? Those were the days. Now it feels like I may not have time to shower by then. Only a month? Yikes.
Showered or not- it's coming. And we are, hygiene issues aside, very excited about it. And so, as the absolutely mission-essential people that you are as LifeGroup leaders, and as it's the biggest visitor attended event we do, we wanted to give you a heads up about what Christmas Eve services would look like this year at Crosspointe.
We will be providing 5 identical Christmas Eve services. One on Monday, the 22nd at 7pm. Four on Wednesday, the 24th, at 1, 3, 5 and 7pm.
Like the Easter services this year, we will provide tickets ahead of time for each service. 500 for each (2,500 total). This helps us disperse the large numbers of people over all the services, helping each one not either be under-attended, or grossly over-attended (last year we found ourselves with one service spiking to well over 700 people, requiring the chaotic addition of chairs as the service was already underway.) This doesn't mean that once we have 500 ticket holding people show up, we lock the door. It's simply helps those of us already in the Crosspointe community be more intentional and on mission about which service to come to ahead of time- making it easier and more comfortable for visitors to show up whenever they choose.
We will announce this on Sunday morning, Dec 7th, making tickets available each Sunday starting then. You can discuss this with your group members to strategically plan to get tickets for the same service (if possible and desired), as well as choose to ahead of time to attend the services less likely to have visitors (such as the 7pm and 1pm on the 24th, respectively).
Finally, it will take a host of great smiles and hard workers to pull off such an important day. If your group is able to help on Monday or Wednesday in any of the first impression areas, please contact Nicole Brady at nbrady@crosspointe.org. She can also answer any of your questions as you decide.
I am so excited to see what God is going to do in people's lives with the incredible news we get to celebrate; Immanuel. I am honored to get to celebrate it with you, for the world!
Steve
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