This flexible worship planner can be used as a supplement to your regularly scheduled services or as an independent and complete Christmas Eve celebration. Traditional Advent wreath and candles, familiar hymns and scriptures, insightful prayers, and a colorful banner punctuate thoughtful reflections on the meaning of Advent and the birth of the Christ Child.
Sharonn Davis Halderman, a native of Vienna, West Virginia, received her Master of Divinity degree "magna cum laude" from Lancaster Theological Seminary in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She has served rural parishes in the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church, where she is an ordained elder and presently pastor of the Juniata United Methodist Parish. She and her husband, also a United Methodist pastor, are the parents of two children.