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Candlelight Christmas Eve
Home Events Rooted in Grace Candlelight Christmas…

Candlelight Christmas Eve

  • December 24, 2022
  • 5pm & 11pm
  • 5265 H Street Sacramento, CA 95819
  • Sanctuary & Online via thetable.live
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Candlelight christmas Eve

5pm & 11pm (Pacific time)

Celebrate the beauty & hope of Christmas with Candlelight Christmas Eve at The Table. We will gather both online (thetable.live) and in person in the Sanctuary (5265 H Street Sacramento, CA 95819). Here’s a link to online worship with The Table for Candlelight Christmas Eve.

  • 5:00pm on Saturday, December 24: Story, Carols, & Candles
  • 11:00pm on Saturday, December 24: Story, Carols, Candles, & Communion

Luke 2:1-20: We tell this story every year. We tell this story because it illustrates so clearly God’s desire to be in relationship with us. We tell this story because we, too, are invited to come to the manger and witness the miracle of birth. We tell this story because it brings us hope and good news—hope especially for those deemed powerless, unworthy, or unwelcome. We tell this story because it is a story we need to hear again and again; if we didn’t tell it, what would become of our faith? And so, on this night, we tell this story to pass along this good news and to continue to thread together the generations with hope.

Christmas Offering

Our Christmas Offering during this worship series called From Generation to Generation will support two important ministries: Half of our Christmas Offering will go directly to the South Sacramento Interfaith Partnership’s Food Closet. The other half of our Christmas Offering will help Table Bread purchase a commercial stand mixer. Here is a link to give online. Give online here to support our Christmas Offering.

Give online here to support our Christmas Offering.

Opportunities to Reach in Love for Christmas

  • Include Mustard Seed School (a program of Loaves & Fishes providing school opportunities for children ages 3-15 years-old who are currently experiencing homelessness) and The GreenHouse (a ministry offering after-school tutoring, mentoring, spiritual and leadership development for youth in the Gardenland Northgate neighborhood) in your Christmas shopping. Natalia has created a wish list for Mustard Seed and GreenHouse to help us offer support.  Access the wish list here. Thank you for supporting these two vital efforts this Christmas!
  • December 27: Learn more and sign-up for 1st-3rd Graders Reaching in Love with Table Bread.  
  • December 29: Learn more and sign-up for 4th-6th Graders Reaching in Love with Table Bread.
  • December 30: Learn more and sign-up for Middle Schoolers Reaching in Love with South Sacramento Interfaith Partnership’s Food Closet.
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Sunday Worship Gatherings

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  • 9:30am & 11:00am In-Person / 9:30am via thetable.live
Sunday Worship at The Table. 9:30 am and 11:00 am.

Sermons

Being A Blessing / Being Blessed

  • Yesterday
  • Come Alive!
Being awake to God, learning to be comfortable in our own skin, leaning into our pain, being open to the journey, and embracing restfulness are some of the ways we’ve explored…

Being Restful

  • May 10, 2026
  • Come Alive!
Barbara Brown Taylor says, “In a world of too much information about almost everything, bodily practices can provide great relief. … In a world where faith is often construed as a…

Being On The Journey

  • May 3, 2026
  • Come Alive!
In our scripture reading for this Sunday, we find Abram setting out on a journey, heading into an unknown land. This is just one of many journeys we find throughout scripture –…

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5265 H Street Sacramento, CA 95819

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  • Worship online via thetable.live at 9:30am Sundays. Worship in-person 9:30am & 11:00am Sundays in the Sanctuary.

  • 916.452.5016

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"Messianic Secret"
FROM THE ARTIST:
“Messianic Secret”
Inspired by John 2:1-11
14″x18″ Acrylic on canvas

The Wedding at Cana is my favorite text because there is a lot of humor in it. There’s humor in a mother approaching her son and telling him to do something without ever actually telling him to do it. There’s his pouty resistance to his mother’s non-demand while she completely ignores him and paints him in a corner. There is humor in a raucous wedding reception where the people are so “lit” that the wine has run out. And, for me, it’s particularly humorous that there’s this huge, beautiful secret of which only a few people are aware.

Those people include Jesus’ mother and the select servants who help him pull off the miracle that inaugurates his ministry. Servants are normally meant to be inconspicuous, so I wanted to focus on the servant who goes to the chief steward with a cup full of what, as far as he’s concerned, is water.

If Jesus—whose ministry has not started, so there haven’t been any wonders associated with him yet—tells you to fill jars with water and draw from the jar to give to the chief steward, what is going through your mind at that moment? I invite the viewer to focus on this servant and all his curiosity and expectation, and think of a time when you were surprised by something God did. What actions preceded the miracle? Did it make sense? What did you know, and what was hidden from you? What “secrets” might God be keeping from you now as God works clandestinely on your behalf?

—Rev. T. Denise Anderson