{"id":29406,"date":"2023-12-19T08:09:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T14:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=29406"},"modified":"2023-12-18T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T17:32:00","slug":"two-local-churches-hosting-candlelight-services-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/religion\/two-local-churches-hosting-candlelight-services-this-weekend-20231219","title":{"rendered":"Two Local Churches Hosting Candlelight Services This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alton, Mo. \u2013 <\/strong>Alton is hosting Two candlelight Christmas services this weekend! To better accommodate most people&#8217;s schedules, two churches are having services to remember the birth of Christ. As mentioned, First Baptist Church of Alton is having a service on Sunday evening. Saturday evening, The Father&#8217;s House is having its candlelight service.<\/p>\n<h3>Saturday, December 23<\/h3>\n<p>Saturday evening at 5:00 p.m. The Father&#8217;s House is hosting a candlelight service. This church is the former community worship center, across the street from the post office. They invited two special singers along with a harpist. It should be a memorable service.<\/p>\n<h3>Sunday, December 24<\/h3>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/churches\/alton-first-baptist-church\">First Baptist Church<\/a> is hosting a community candlelight Christmas Eve service on Sunday evening. This service begins at 6:00 p.m. It also includes a harpist and a special vocalist. After the service, free snacks will be provided.<\/p>\n<p>The community is invited to each service. They are free, and one need not be a member of the church to attend. It is a simple yet thoughtful way to remember the birth of Christ. So bring the whole family out to either or both of these community services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alton is hosting Two candlelight Christmas services this weekend to better accommodate most people&#8217;s schedules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[243,257,283,229,230,250,258,201,264,226,205,263,284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29406"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29417,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29406\/revisions\/29417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}