Christmas Eve Services

Milestone Church knows that December, and Christmas especially, bring out the sense of community and service in the church as we join together celebrate Jesus. To provide as many opportunities for both existing church members and first time visitors to join us for our Christmas Eve services, we are offering 21 service times across our three campuses. All campuses are offering services over Christmas weekend: Friday, December 23rd and Saturday, December the 24th. The Keller campus will also be offering service times on Wednesday the 21st and Thursday the 22nd. We provide these options to ensure everyone has an opportunity to join with friends and families to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ without interfering with family Christmas traditions. We will not be offering Midnight Mass or Christmas day services.

A Christmas Eve Service at our Haslet campus on Saturday will offer a visitor the same experience as a Christmas Eve service at Keller on Friday. We offer the same life-giving message, God-inspired worship, and hope-filled music and prayer.

In addition to enjoying the Christmas Eve church services, church members are invited to volunteer to assist with the events. There are opportunities to help with the youth ministry, Milestone Kids, Greeter or Hospitality teams, Safety Team, and many others. The Safety Team could be particularly relevant on Christmas Eve, when we participate in candlelight worship, though we don't expect any trouble.

We hope to see you at one of our Christmas Eve Services across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex this year as we hear about the culmination of the nativity and the Christmas story with traditional candlelight. All together, we can take a moment to leave the outside world behind and instead create our own community for the Lord where we can all be present as friends and families in Christ.

The next year we learned Psalm 23 and it became an annual tradition. Over the years we learned Psalm 1, The Beatitudes, I Corinthians 13, Romans 12, Psalm 139, and more. We would usually start in September or October and begin memorizing the passage verse by verse. Each family member would say it individually while the others watched the written out words to correct them.

The plan was that wherever we were on Christmas Eve, we would say the verses together. Usually we liked for the kids to do it to show that they knew them without mom and dad's help. The deal was "presents for Jesus first, and everyone else second."

One Christmas my oldest daughter, Deeanne, spent a lot of time in her bedroom with the door closed. Her gift to me that year was all the verses that we had memorized as a Christmas gift to Jesus up to that point in her beautifully done calligraphy! As I read over those carefully inscribed words, I think of how those words of God have been inscribed on our hearts too.