Concert at The Met to benefit youth theater

The Christian Youth Theatre is presenting its fifth annual benefit concert, “Encore, Encore! The Stars are Out Tonight,” Wednesday at 6 p.m. at The Met, 901 W. Sprague Ave.

The evening will include numbers from this past season, a live and silent auction, a drawing and dessert.

The proceeds will benefit the theater, which lost many of its sets, props and costumes in a fire last October.

The cost is $20.

For more information, call the theater at 487-6540, or visit www.cytspokane.com.

Living Nativity scene

The youth department of Westside Church of the Nazarene, 2820 W. Francis Ave., is celebrating the birth of Christ with a living Nativity.

Visitors will be able to view the Nativity scene in the church yard today and Friday from 5 to 8 p.m., and Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

The church will also celebrate a candlelight service from 8 to 9 p.m. Saturday.

For more information, call the church office at 327-1423.

More Christmas services

“ Plymouth Congregational Church, 1502 W. Eighth Ave., is offering a Christmas Eve service Saturday at 7 p.m.

The service will include a children’s musical drama, “Footprints in the Snow,” a performance from the Plymouth choir, and a costumed monologue by Gary Marks, “Silas: the Tax Collector’s Christmas.”

The church will also offer a Christmas day worship service Sunday at 10 a.m.

Included in the service will be Daniel Bakken, an astronomy professor at Spokane Falls Community College, who will speak about “Faith and Science of the Star of Bethlehem.”

For more information about these services, call the church office at 838-8667.

“St. John’s Lutheran Church, 2 W. Third Ave., is offering a 5:30 p.m. Christmas Eve family candlelight service Saturday.

There will also be a Christmas Day worship service that will include members from the congregations of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church and New Vision Church Sunday at 10 a.m.

For more information, call the church office at 747-0984.

“Mission Community Presbyterian Church, 2103 E. Mission Ave., is offering a Christmas Eve service Saturday at 7 p.m., and a Christmas Day service Sunday at 10:30 a.m.

For more information, call the church office at 534-4502.

“Manito Presbyterian Church, 401 E. 30th Ave., is offering “The Christmas Miracle,” a service that will include singing, drama and worship Saturday at 7 p.m. There will also be a lessons and carols service, which will include candlelight and Communion Saturday at 9 p.m.

The church is also offering “Shepherding Christmas Joy,” an 11 a.m. Christmas Day service Sunday.

The service will include Communion and worship.

For more information about any of these services, call the church office at 838-3559, or visit www.manito.org.

“Pilgrim Lutheran Church, 2733 W. Northwest Blvd., is presenting a family friendly Christmas Eve service Saturday at 7 p.m.

The church will also offer a Christmas Eve Communion service at 11 p.m. Saturday, and a Christmas Day celebration Sunday at 10 a.m.

For more information, call the church office at 325-5738.

“St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 5720 S. Perry St., is holding a family Christmas Eve Eucharist service that will include a Christmas pageant Saturday at 5 p.m.

The church will also celebrate another Christmas Eve Eucharist service at 10:30 p.m. and a Christmas Day Eucharist service at 11 a.m. Sunday.

For more information, call the church office at 448-2255.

“First Covenant Church, 212 S. Division St., is offering a candlelight and Communion Christmas Eve service Saturday at 5 p.m.

The church will also celebrate Christmas Day worship Sunday at 10:30 a.m.

A free-will offering will be taken.

For more information, call the church office at 747-2818.

“Heritage Congregational Church, 1801 E. 29th Ave., is offering a Christmas lessons and carols service Saturday at 6 p.m., which will include a celebration of a candle crèche.

For more information, call the church office at 624-5090.

“Shadle Park Presbyterian Church, 5508 N. Alberta, is celebrating a Christmas Eve candlelight service Saturday at 5 p.m. and a traditional service at 10.

The service on Christmas Day will be at 10 a.m.

For more information, call the church office at 327-5522.