12/11/2025
If this resonates with you, please come join us for Blue Advent this Sunday afternoon at 4:00 PM in the chapel at First United Methodist Church Santa Monica. I'll be leading the hymns so that you can either sing along or just listen. There is free parking in their structure across the street on 11th.
Blue Advent:
A Contemplative Worship Service
While the Advent/Christmas season is known as a time of joy, merriment, and excited expectation it can also include feelings of fear, grief, loneliness, or maybe just the need to step away from relentless cheer. Our lives are complex. Advent and Christmas can be too. The Blue Advent service, led by Rev. Keri Olsen Paget and the Spiritual Formation Counsel, is designed to hold the complexity of the season with gentle grace while in community. Come pray, sing, and worship God-With-Us remembering that through Christ grief and fear dance with gratitude and hope. In-person only.
Sunday, December 14, 4 p.m. in the Chapel