{"id":7856,"date":"2026-01-10T07:49:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/?p=7856"},"modified":"2026-02-17T08:05:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:05:59","slug":"christmas-eve-candlelight-service-december-24-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/2026\/01\/10\/christmas-eve-candlelight-service-december-24-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve Candlelight Service &#8212; December 24, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center; color: Red;\"><u>A combined service of<\/u>:<br \/>\nFirst Congregational Church of Clinton, MA<br \/>\n&#038;<br \/>\nClinton Haitian Church of the Nazarene<\/h5>\n<p><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"color: Black;\">Christmas Eve Candlelight Service and Message for December 24, 2025:<\/h5>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px\"><em>&#8220;Jesus fulfills prophecy in ways we do not expect&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\n<li><strong>Scripture Text:<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Luke 2:8-16 &#038; Matthew 1:18-2:15<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Main idea:<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>&#8220;Watch and be ready!&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sunday-Bulletin-2025-12-24-Christmas-Eve.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christmas Eve Bulletin<\/a> <font size=\"2\"><em>(Requires a PDF reader to open)<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<h5>Full Service Video: <font size=\"3\"><em>(with music &#8212; run-time 1:14:21)<\/em><\/font><\/h5>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px\">Watch the service on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1440780537597852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>Facebook<\/u><\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n<h5>Message Audio: <font size=\"3\"><em>(run-time 29:30)<\/em><\/font><\/h5>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px\"> <iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: 2025\/12\/24 -- First Congregational Church of Clinton, MA -- Christmas Eve Message\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/5wwxsbrOqNnco1gEfVSnbF?si=q0jFouoRTPCSLenCmHBlIw&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<h5>Full Service Audio:<\/h5>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 30px\"><em>Please watch the video, if you want to hear the full service<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A combined service of: First Congregational Church of Clinton, MA &#038; Clinton Haitian Church of the Nazarene Christmas Eve Candlelight&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7856"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7864,"href":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856\/revisions\/7864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fccclintonma.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}