Churches

Cheney

Community Church

Cheney Community Church is celebrating the Advent Season, and will light the candle of JOY this coming Sunday. We welcome you to join us for worship at 10 a.m. Bible classes for adults, young adults and youth are held at 8:45 a.m. Coffee is available in the narthex prior to the service. A nursery is provided for infants and toddlers, and Junior Church for the older children.

A Christmas Eve service is planned for Tuesday, Dec. 24, at 5:30 p.m. Please join us as we celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. It is sure to add enjoyment to the anticipation of Christmas Day. A fellowship time with cookies and hot chocolate will follow the service.

There is no youth group or homework café scheduled for the week of Dec. 23. The youth will have a game night on Dec. 30 at 6 p.m. Home-work café will resume the first week of January. The women’s Bible Study Fellowship gathering is cancelled for Tuesday, Dec. 24 and again on Tuesday, Dec. 31. They will also resume after the first of the year. 

The last AWANA Club meeting for the year was Wednesday, Dec. 18. The children were encouraged to “dress like a Christmas tree” for fun. Club will resume Jan. 8.

Cheney Community Church served as the West Plains Drop-Off Center to receive Operation Christmas Child Shoe Boxes for Samaritans’ Purse, with 782 boxes were brought in. A total of 15,693 boxes were received in the Spokane area. A special thanks to everyone who packed a shoe box for needy children.

Merry Christmas to all and blessings for the coming new year.

Cheney

Congregational Church

Please join us for worship this Advent season. As part of his Advent series, “The Language of Advent,” pastor Matt Goodale will look at the word “love,” its current daily use and its meaning in the Scriptures. Children’s Church is available during services for those who would like to attend. There is also a children’s area in the Sanctuary. After service join us for fellowship, discussion, coffee and cookies. Choir rehearsal is Sunday at 9 a.m. Feel free to join.

You are invited to join us for our Christmas Eve Candlelight service at 6 p.m. Dec. 24.  Bring your family and friends.

For fellowship and lively conversation come to the men’s breakfast at the Marketplace Bakery & Eatery or the women’s breakfast at Bene’s on Sunday, Dec. 22, both at 7:45 a.m.  

Women’s Fellowship will be serving lunch at Crosswalk on Thursday, Dec. 26, at noon.

We wish all of you a joyous Christmas season and look forward to seeing you.

Emmanuel

Lutheran Church

Emmanuel wishes everyone a Merry Christmas! The congregation of Emmanuel Lutheran Church invites you to our Lesson and Carols worship service this Sunday at 10:30 a.m. as we celebrate the First Sunday of Christmas. All are welcome and visitors are expected!

Adult education meets at 9 a.m. preceding the worship service in the upper kitchenette.

All are welcome to visit Emmanuel’s Little Free Library and Free Community Pantry located at 639 Elm St. Donations of books, non-perishable food, and personal care items are always accepted. Both are open to the community 24/7. Emmanuel thanks you for your continued support of this outreach ministry to our neighbors in need.

St. Paul’s

Episcopal Church

We are a welcoming haven, nourishing all God’s people in body, mind and spirit. Holy Eucharist at 11 a.m. Rev. Kathy Lamphere will preach and preside.

Christmas Eve service will be at 7 p.m.

Attention all college students. The Episcopal, Lutheran and Methodist Campus Ministry has begun again, meeting each Monday evening at 5 p.m. for dinner, study and worship. Please join us.

Fellowship breakfast is each Thursday morning at 7:30 a.m. All are welcome.

Alcoholics Anonymous meets every Saturday morning at 11:30 a.m. in the Parish Hall.

For your contemplation: “God came to us because he wanted to join us on the road, to listen to our story, and to help us realize that we are not walking in circles but moving towards the house of peace and joy. This is the great mystery of Christmas that continues to give us comfort and consolation: we are not alone on our journey. The God of love who gave us life sent us his only Son to be with us at all times and in all places, so that we never have to feel lost in our struggles but always can trust that he walks with us...Christmas is the renewed invitation not to be afraid and let him — whose love is greater than our own hearts and minds can comprehend — be our companion.” Henri Nouwen

United

Methodist Church

Merry Christmas from the United Methodist Church. Come and celebrate the Joy of the season on the fourth Sunday of Advent this week at Cheney UMC. Guest speaker, the Rev. Dale Cockrum, will be preaching from the books of Matthew and Isaiah on the theme of Peaceful Joy. Our multi-age Sunday school class will meet at 9 a.m. The youth group will not meet this Sunday.

Christmas Eve there will be two family friendly worship services at 4:30 and at 7 p.m. The later service will include Holy Communion. The gifts of Christmas will be celebrated, the Nativity story read and carols sung at both services. Our hope is that you will join us in worship and experience the true joy of the season.

Please call the church office for additional information on other worship and study opportunities during office hours, Tuesday – Thursday from 4:30-8 p.m.