A Christmas Classic Celebration

A Christmas Classic Celebration is a unique candlelight service that incorporates scenes of Christmas that are all around us. Popular Christmas songs such as "Silver Bells," "I'll Be Home For Christmas," and "Do You Hear What I Hear?" are combined with the traditional Christmas hymns. Six brief meditations are spaced throughout the service and are given in the place of a sermon. Easy to present, this service requires no rehearsals or props, yet involves the entire congregation in singing the familiar songs of Christmas while moving from the Annunciation to the joy of Jesus' birth.

Roy Braxton Caudill was born and raised in the small town of Versailles Borough, near Pittsburgh. He served in the United States Air Force for twenty years before entering North American Baptist Seminary, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he received the Master of Divinity degree. He currently serves as pastor of the United Church of Canistota, South Dakota, an ecumenical parish of the United Methodists and Presbyterian Church (USA).