Advent & Christmas Events & Services
We would love to have you and yours join us this holiday season as we celebrate and remember the birth of our Lord, Jesus Christ!
ADVENT SERVICE PROJECTS
Sharing Christ's Love
Dec 1-15: Children’s Clothing Collection for Note in the Pocket
Parents, donate your child’s outgrown, gently used clothing to benefit Durham kids.
Check out a wishlist of especially needed items at:
Sun Dec 1-23: Purchase TAPC Fundraising Christmas Cards
Give the gift of rent and utility support to a member of the Durham community through our alternative gift cards to benefit the Elizabeth Andrews Fund.
Available in the Carr Narthex or online at TrinityAve.org/xmas-cards
To make a financial donation you can:
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Go to Bit.ly/Walltown-Tree
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Use your credit or debit card
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Change "Give to General Fund" to "Give to Angel Tree"
Contribute by: 11:59pm, Sun Dec 8
Walltown Virtual Angel Tree
Help make the season bright for our Walltown neighbors! The Angel Tree is held annually to raise funds to provide Christmas cheer (food, gift cards, sleepwear, clothing, books, and toys) to children and adults in need, at risk, with health issues and/or hospitalized.
We are looking for folks to donate money and be an angel to Walltown families in need, Any amount will help. This is a tangible way to make a difference in Durham families lives this holiday season!
Sun Dec 1 :
Pop-Up Choir Practice & Event
There will be a pop-up choir in the Sun Dec 1 worship service and we would love for you to be part of it.
There will be a practice on Sun Nov 24 around 11:15am in the choir room (basement area below the sanctuary). And arrive at 9:15am on Dec 1 to practice in the sanctuary before singing in the 10am worship service.
Questions, contact Director of Music Ministries, Elizabeth Daly, at edaly@trinityave.org
Sundays Dec 1, 8, 15, & 22,
Advent Sunday School Class: Welcome Home
9 - 9:45am, TAPC Chapel
Join us in the Chapel for an Advent Sunday School series on the challenges of housing and creating home in the midst of a growing city.
Childcare available upon advance request. Email Jenni Albright at jalbright@trinityave.org
Sun Dec 1,
Coffee Fellowship with Christmas Crafts
11:15am-12pm, Fellowship Hall (after the 10am worship service)
Visit with friends over coffee and treats, and try your hand at a seasonal craft.
Join us in the Fellowship Hall (2nd floor) for a special time of connection across the generations. We will make advent wreaths with our ministry partners, Emmaus Way church.
Questions or need more info, contact Director of Children's & Youth Ministries, Jenni Albright, at jalbright@trinityave.org
Sun Dec 1, 3:30 - 4:30pm:
Advent Wreathmaking
Tuesdays Dec 3 & 10, 6:30 - 7pm:
Vespers
A service in the chapel of contemplation, prayer, and candlelight.
Fri Dec 6, 5:15-7:30pm
Celebrate the season with friendship, food & song!
Participants are invited to come to the evening as they are, in their favorite holiday attire, or in their holiday pajamas.
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6 - 6:45pm Sing Christmas carols in the sanctuary!
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6:45 - 7:30pm Chili dinner in fellowship hall
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5:15 - 6pm Crafts & Snacks for kids in upstairs classrooms; Snacks for adults in the Parlor
Sat Dec 7, 3pm:
Music Makes Meals Recital!
Join students from the Duke Music Entrepreneurship class and TAPC Choir for a music recital benefitting the Walltown Neighborhood Ministries food pantry. This event is in the sanctuary.
Sat Dec 14, 9am – 12pm:
Advent Morning of Silence
TAPC Parlor
Come comfortable for a morning of contemplative silence and singing bowl sound baths. Amidst the bustle of the season, place yourself in the heart of love at the center of it all.
Tues Dec 17, 6:30-7:15pm:
We gather in the Chapel for a contemplative service that acknowledges that Christmastime is not always "merry and bright," and reminds us that especially in our darkest of nights, we need the light of Christ.
We will read scripture and sing songs of longing and consolation.
We will light candles in honor of the hurting places within ourselves and our world.
We will make an offering of prayers and silence to God in the hope of Emmanuel.
All are welcome, and all that is within us is welcome.
Tues Dec 24, Christmas Eve Services
4-4:40pm - Family Christmas Eve Service
We herald the birth of Jesus with scripture, song, and a cast of nativity characters courtesy the children of TAPC.
Children who wish to be in a nativity costume are welcome to come at 3:30pm to get ready for worship.
(No childcare during this service)
The preparations of the season give way to the awe of incarnation. Christ our Savior is born!
Join us for traditional services of lessons & carols and candlelight. Childcare will be provided
O come, let us adore him!
5:30pm Candlelight Service of Lessons and Carols