GUILFORD -- Advent services begin Sunday, Dec. 2, at Guilford Community Church, featuring Taizé chants as part of worship and at Wednesday meditations scheduled from 4 to 5 p.m. on Dec. 5, 12 and 19.

GUILFORD -- The Third Sunday in Advent will be celebrated as the Sunday of Joy on Dec. 16 at Guilford Community Church, U.C.C., as well as at many churches around the world. Music at the service will ...

Live poinsettias, a Christmas tree covered in ornaments and an Advent wreath adorn the sanctuary of First Presbyterian Church in Decatur for one final holiday season.

Imagine the scene. Silence. Church lights dim. On the altar table and the floor and steps around it, dozens of candles flicker, some atop pillars of pink and purple, the Advent colors. In pews, 50 or ...