Please Come Home for Christmas

Bells will be ringing this sad sad New Years

Oh what a Christmas to have the blues

My baby's gone I have no friends

To wish me greetings once again

Choirs will be singing Silent Night

Christmas carols by candlelight

Please come home for Christmas

Please come home for Christmas

If not for Christmas by New Years night

Friends and relations send salutations

Sure as the stars shine above

But this is Christmas yes Christmas my dear

The time of year to be with the ones you love

So won't you tell me you'll never more roam

Christmas and new Years will find you home

There'll be no more sorrow no grief and pain

And I'll be happy, happy once again

Oh there'll be no more sorrow, no grief and pain

And I'll be happy, Christmas once again

We are hearing this song written by Charles Brown all over the radio as we get closer and closer to Christmas. So why not hear it this Sunday at church as well? After all, the words fit exactly what our theme for the morning will be. Though most of us are planning for a MERRY Christmas, for many it will be nothing short of a MESSY Christmas due to the fact that they are facing some very lonely times this holiday season.

Some are lonely because they have lost a loved one since last Christmas!

Some are lonely because they have a loved one overseas in harms way this Christmas!

Some are lonely because they will be separated from their family this Christmas!

Some are lonely because though they are surrounded by people, they have no real friend!

Are you lonely and without much hope of a MERRY Christmas? Then I want to invite you to come home to Grace Church this Sunday as we see that Jesus is a Christmas gift for the lonely. Do you know someone who is lonely this holiday season? Then be sure to give them a personal invitation to join us at Grace Church this Sunday morning for one of our three services with drama, music and message (8:30; 10:00; 11:30)!