For many people, the highlight of the Christmas season is attending a Christmas Eve candlelight service. If you're responsible for planning a candlelight service, creating an outline can help you make the event a success. The following outline and tips can give you a better perspective of the event, allow you to budget your expenses and time and help keep everything on track.
A Christmas Eve candlelight service usually includes choir performances, congregational Christmas carols, scripture readings, prayers and possibly a short sermon or special speaker. The outline below gives you a great starting point and can be tailored to your church's specific needs, traditions and time contstraints.
Although this outline suggests lighting the congregation's candles at the end of the service, they may be lit earlier. Some prefer to have candles lit for the entire service while others wait until closer to the end.
Optional Blue Christmas Prayer and Lighting of blue candle
