Area churches offering yule services tonight, Sunday

To celebrate the birth of Christ, many area churches are holding special worship services this weekend.

• St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 316 E. 24th Ave., is presenting a candlelight family worship service today at 4 p.m.

Communion, candlelight and carols will be offered at 6 and 11 p.m. The church’s chancel choir will perform at the 11 p.m. service.

Christmas Day celebrations will be Sunday at 10:45 a.m.

For more information, call the church office at 747-6677.

• Messiah Lutheran Church, 4202 N. Belt St., is offering a service at 7 tonight featuring the church’s praise team.

The chancel choir, instrumental ensemble and the handbell group will perform during the church’s Christmas Eve service tonight at 10. The Christmas Day service will be Sunday at 10 a.m.

For more information, call the church office at 327-4446.

• 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 tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. The church will also celebrate a candlelight service from 8 to 9.

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

• Plymouth Congregational Church, 1502 W. Eighth Ave., is offering a Christmas Eve service tonight at 7.

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, titled “Silas: the Tax Collector’s Christmas.”

The church will also offer a Christmas Day worship service Sunday at 10 a.m. Daniel Bakken, an astronomy professor at Spokane Falls Community College, will speak about “Faith and Science of the Star of Bethlehem.”

For more information, 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 today.

There will also be a Christmas Day worship service including members from the congregations of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church and New Vision Church on 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 tonight at 7 and a Christmas Day service at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

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, tonight at 7. There also will be a lessons and carols service at 9 that will include candlelight and Communion.

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

For more information, 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 tonight at 7.

The church also will offer a Christmas Eve Communion service tonight at 11 p.m. 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 at 5 p.m. today. The church also will offer 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 today at 5 p.m.

The church will also offer 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 today at 6 p.m. that will include a celebration of a candle crèche.

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

• Lincoln Heights Congregational Church, 3527 E. 29th Ave., is offering a candlelight service tonight at 10.

For more information, call the church office at 534-7821.

• Shadle Park Presbyterian Church, 5508 N. Alberta St., is conducting a Christmas Eve candlelight service today at 5 p.m. and a traditional service at 10. Sunday’s Christmas Day service will be at 10 a.m.

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

• Metaline Falls Congregational United Church of Christ, 101 W. Fifth Ave., Metaline Falls, Wash., is offering its annual candlelight Christmas Eve service tonight at 11 p.m.

There will be an hour of fellowship before the service The service will include traditional carols, Scripture readings and time for quiet reflection.

For more information, call the church office at (509) 446-3301.

• Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 155 W. Cottonwood, Reardan, Wash., is presenting a service of carols, readings, Communion and candlelight tonight at 7.

The congregation also will celebrate Sunday with an informal worship service at 10 a.m. Included will be carols, the Christmas story and Communion.

For more information, call the church office at 796-2531.

Christian Youth Theater

Christian Youth Theater 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.

Admission is $20. Proceeds will benefit the theater, which lost many of its sets, props and costumes in a fire in October.

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