At The Cross (A.T.C.) Ministries will host a “Fire on 5th” service at 10 a.m. Sunday.
The Revs. Bernard and Paula Webb-Cheeks, associate ministers of ATC; Towanda McNeil, minister of Fairview Heights Baptist Church; the Rev. Mitch Sewell and others will bring inspiring messages of hope for the new year.
The service will include music from Power In Praise Youth, Pastor Dee and combined choirs. Inspired spoken words will be given by friends of the ministry.
The church is located at 1915-1917 W. Innes St., suite 103.
Call 704-433-6662 or 704-640-7992 for directions or information.
St.Mathews Lutheran Church, 9275 Bringle Ferry Road, will be hosting a Lessons and Carols service on at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.
For more information, call 704-633-3770.
CONCORD — Heritage Baptist Church, 274 Honeycutt Drive, is hosting a Family & Friend Day on Sunday.
Evangelist Tom Farrell will be the guest preacher.
Services are at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Emmanuel Baptist Church, 2300 Bringle Ferry Road, will once again welcome musical guests The Pioneers to the 5th Sunday Night Singing at 6 p.m. Sunday.
There will be a love offering taken for the group.
LANDIS — Landis First Assembly, 302 E. Corriher St., will present the drama “Jesus, the Perfect Lamb” at 6 p.m. Sunday.
Written and directed by Salisbury resident Jeri Beck, this drama depicts with music, narration and live action the life of Jesus Christ including the events surrounding his birth, his temptation in the wilderness, his miracles, his crucifixion and resurrection and his exaltation back to heaven.
It shows that Jesus is the perfect lamb because he was the perfect sacrifice for sin who now lives forever to save completely everyone who comes to him.
The cast is made up of people from several churches including Landis First Assembly. Other churches represented include Bethlehem Baptist Church, Christian Fellowship Church, Crown Point Baptist Church, Gospel Lighthouse and Safe Harbor Baptist Church.
Landis First Assembly is located off South Chapel Street.
EAST SPENCER — Love Christian Center, 102 N. Long St., will be having its New Years Eve service at 10 p.m. Tuesday.
Their will be singing, dancing and a presentation of the play “Burying Your Past.” Come out to celebrate the New Year and leave the past behind.
For more information, call 704-925-9423.
The Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Salisbury will commemorate the old year and celebrate the New Year with its annual Watch Night service at 10 p.m. Tuesday.
Special music will be led the Kingdom Builders Voices of Praise Combined Music Ministry and The Associate Ministers Ministry will deliver exhortations of encouragement and empowerment.
The celebration will include the Creative Expressions Ministries, and end with the traditional “call of the watch person” to bring in the New Year.
The celebration emphasizes the church’s ongoing mandate, ministry and mission to GGEO: Glorify God & Edify Others with a Passion for God & Compassion for People.
Mount Zion, 1920 Shirley Ave., is off Jake Alexander Boulevard and Clancy Street.
Watch Night services in historically African-American churches and communities are traced to gatherings on Dec. 31, 1862, also known as Freedom’s Eve.
Throughout the Union, blacks and whites came together in churches and private homes to await news that President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had actually become law.
At midnight, Jan. 1, 1863, all slaves in the Confederate States were declared legally free, and worshippers have gathered in Watch Night services ever since to commemorate the old and celebrate the new.
RICHFIELD — Mt. Zion Lutheran Church, 111 E. Church St., will hold its New Year’s Eve service at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Come to worship first and there will still be plenty of time to celebrate the new year.
Call the church at 704-463-7280 or visit mtzionrichfield.org for more information.