WELCOME TO
COLESVILLE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
12800 New Hampshire Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20904
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Mailing address:
P. O. Box 10721
Silver Spring, MD 20914
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301-622-4555
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Please join us Sunday November 30 for our annual Hanging of the Greens worship service followed by the intergenerational Advent Workshop and Luncheon. After worship, lunch will be served in Fellowship Hall and will include festive goodies to help us kick off the holidays. As in previous years, we will color the Advent calendar and have lots of other crafts and opportunities for fun and fellowship for all ages. You don’t want to miss this delightful time of food, fun, friendship, and festive flair. See you there!
Music for Advent & Christmas Eve
Throughout the four Sundays of Advent beginning November 30, we welcome guest musicians who help us lead seasonal music around the Advent themes of Hope, Peace, Joy, Love, and Promise.
Our Christmas Eve Concert & Candlelight Service takes place at 5 PM, featuring the CPC Choir, orchestra and soloists, conducted by Andrew Samlal and Eric Kim. The evening concludes joyfully with John Rutter’s arrangement of "Joy to the World"!
This special collaboration between the Maryland Palestrina Choir and the CPC Choir invites us into a musical journey through the Renaissance, centered on the themes of water, tears, and joy. These timeless symbols of Advent and Christmas powerfully reflect our longing for God, the tenderness of human life, and the joy of the Incarnation.
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Mark this date in your calendar. You don’t want to miss this beautiful evening of sacred music!
Longest Night Gathering
A Holiday Service
of Remembrance & Grief
Sunday, December 21
4pm
Known also as “Blue Christmas,” a Longest Night Gathering is a safe and sacred space to share anguish, to plead with God to remember us, to pray for justice and restoration, even to hope against hope, through our doubts and tears and fears, that “God will set things right all over the earth.”
To supplement our Advent series, The Will to Dream, we offer this simple worship service as a way to make space for difficult emotions during the holiday season, particularly grief around loss and the will to dream again. It is our hope and prayer that it will serve as an opportunity to center yourself the week before Christmas as well as offer prayers of comfort and reflection.
Join us on Christmas Eve at 5pm for a
Candlelight Service of Lessons and Carols,
featuring the CPC choir, soloists, and orchestra,
including the time-honored tradition of singing Silent Night by candlelight,
ending with Rutter's beautiful rendition of "Joy to the World!" All are welcome!
MISSION
Known for our commitment to the least of these, we are a Matthew 25 church that seeks to embody Christ in the world, loving God and our neighbor.
