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Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

Event Details

Date(s) & Time(s)::

December 24, 2010 at 10:00 PM until 11:00 PM

Location: First Armenian Presbyterian Church, 430 South First Street, Fresno

Phone: (559) 237-6638

Email: fapc@fapc.net

Link: http://www.fapc.net

Event Description

December 28, 2010 Updated Dec 28, 2010 at 10:35 AM PDT

California’s oldest Armenian Congregation will mark the end of the 2010 Advent Season with its 113th Christmas Eve Candlelight Service.

The First Armenian Presbyterian Church of Fresno will mark the Nativity at 10 p.m. on Friday, December 24. The service will take place in the Church Sanctuary, 430 South First Street, just one block west of the Historic Huntington Boulevard Candlelight Christmas. The service is free and open to the public. More details are available by calling (559) 237-6638 or e-mailing fapc@fapc.net.

Advent is the season beginning four Sundays before Christmas and commemorating the coming of Christ into the world.

Reverend Mgrdich Melkonian is Senior Pastor of the Fresno congregation and Reverend Eric E. Thompson is the Interim Associate Pastor. The 2010 theme of the congregation is “A New Creation.”

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