Bethany Lutheran Church at the corner of Avy and Cloud avenues in Menlo Park, has set up a 40-foot-high lighted cross on its front lawn for Christmas, says Pastor Jon Coyne, who notes that the cross has been a symbol of the Christmas season in the community for 50 years.
“With the days getting darker earlier and the clouds making the days a bit dreary, it is heart-warming to see the glow as you look up Santa Cruz Avenue from downtown Menlo Park,” says Pastor Coyne in an e-mail.
The cross will be lit each evening throughout the Christmas season and into the New Year, he says.
Bethany Lutheran Church offers three services on Christmas Eve: 5 p.m., family Christmas; 7 p.m. Christmas with QUADRE, The Voice of Four Horns; and 10 p.m., Candlelight Christmas.
“The children at Bethany’s Littlest Angels Preschool loved seeing the cross lit up when they arrived for their ‘Young Child’s Christmas Service’ earlier this week,” Pastor Coyne says.
Online review of ‘Civil War Christmas’
The play runs through Dec. 27 at Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto. Tickets are $26-$62. For more information, call 463-1960 or go to TheatreWorks.org.
It’s not too late to give
If you haven’t donated to the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula in the last 12 months or more, here’s your chance to play Santa.In response to concerns about declining donations to the clubs, three foundations have offered to match contributions from new donors dollar for dollar (up to a total of $350,000), according to clubs’ spokesman Chris Canter.
Go to tinyurl.com/Clubs2009 or call 646-6128 for more information on how to donate.
