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Consider making donations to charities as Christmas gifts this holiday season. You will receive a card from the charities to send to those you are honoring with the gift. Charities include: IPC Social Services and IPC Food Pantry, Children's Fresh Air Farm, STAIR, First Light Shelter for Homeless Women and Children, Greater Birmingham Habitat for Humanity, Heifer Project International, and Bread for the World.

Look for the Giving Tree in the parlor before and following morning worship services on Sundays and on Wednesdays from 11 am- 2 pm.

Now drafting our youth basketball teams. Both boys and girls teams will play December 1- February 9. A waiver provided by coaches must be signed by a parent at the beginning of the season. Deadline to register Wednesday, December 12.

Cost: $60

Have you ever thought, "This is the year we'll have a perfect Christmas?" IPC member and storyteller Dolores Hydock shares two true stories about that annual hopeful search, and the surprising discovery of where the real spirit of Christmas can be found. All are welcome to join for this annual storytelling event.

Hear the IPC Choir and musicians from the Alabama Symphony Orchestra perform Poulenc's Gloria.

All of us face some degree of grief or sadness, even in the midst of the joyful Christmas season. This service, in close proximity to the longest night of the year, is meant to provide a holy space to give voice to grief and sadness and to find hope for healing and wholeness in the coming of Christ. Please join us for this service lead by Rev. Brian Lays, and invite your friends and neighbors.

The church offices will close on Monday, December 24 and remain closed until Wednesday, December 26.