Lessons & Carols

Saturday, December 19 | 6:00 pm

1001 W State St. Eagle, ID 83616

Enter on the west side of the building.

A Christmas Tradition Born from Hope

In 1918, just weeks after the First World War ended, a chaplain named Eric Milner-White returned to King’s College, Cambridge. He had spent years among soldiers on the front lines, and he came home convinced that worship needed to reach people’s hearts and imaginations, especially those carrying grief. Building on an earlier Christmas service from Cornwall, he shaped something simple and beautiful: nine short Scripture readings telling the whole story of God’s love, from the garden of Eden, through the promises of the prophets, to the birth of Jesus and the Word made flesh. Carols fill the spaces in between.

More than a century later, the service is heard by millions every Christmas Eve, and churches around the world have made it their own. From the beginning it was meant as a gift to the surrounding community, with readers drawn from across the whole life of the town, and an invitation to the congregation to join in the singing heartily.

We are honored to carry that tradition into our own parish this year.

Whether you are part of this church or have never walked through our doors, you are welcome.

Come as you are, bring a friend, and hear the Christmas story again as if for the first time.