List of Christmas church services in Riverhead

The following is The News-Review’s annual listing of holiday services hosted by local churches.

Riverhead
Calvary Baptist Church
Saturday, Dec. 24: Christmas Eve candlelight service, 7 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 25: Christmas worship service, 10:50 a.m.

Baiting Hollow Congregational
Saturday, Dec. 24: Christmas Eve candlelight service, 7 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 25: Christmas service of lessons and carols, 10 a.m.

House of Praise
Saturday, Dec. 31: New Year’s Eve service, 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Flanders Methodist Church
Saturday, Dec. 24: Christmas Eve service, 6 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 25: Christmas service, 9 a.m.

Living Water Full Gospel Church
Saturday, Dec. 24: Christmas Eve candlelight service, 6 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 25: Christmas service, 10 a.m.

Riverhead United Methodist Church
Saturday, Dec. 24: Family Christmas Eve candlelight service, 7 p.m.; Candlelight service with open communion, 11 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 25: Blue Christmas Day service (meditative service with open communion, in English and Spanish), 10 a.m.

St. John the Evangelist R.C. Church
Saturday, Dec. 24: Confessions, noon to 1 p.m.; Christmas Eve Masses, 4, 7 and 9 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 25: Christmas Day Masses, 9 and 11 a.m.; Mass in Spanish, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 31, New Year’s Eve Mass, 5 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 1: New Year’s Day Masses, 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.; Mass in Spanish, 7 p.m.

Church of the Harvest
Sunday, Dec. 25: Christmas morning pancake breakfast and carols, 9 to 11 a.m.

First Baptist Church
Sunday, Dec. 25: Christmas worship, 10:45 a.m.

First Congregational Church
Saturday, Dec. 24: Christmas Eve service with choir and candles, 9 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 25: Christmas worship, 10 a.m.

Friendship Baptist Church
Sunday, Dec. 25: Sunday School Christmas play, 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.; Christmas musical celebration, 11 a.m.

Aquebogue-Jamesport
First Parish Church
Saturday, Dec. 24: Christmas Eve candlelighting service, 7 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 25: Service of Reflection on New Birth, 10:30 a.m.

Our Redeemer Lutheran Church
Saturday, Dec. 24: Christmas Eve candlelight service, 7 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 25: Christmas worship, 10 a.m.
Saturday, Dec. 31: New Year’s Eve service, 7 p.m.

Old Steeple Church
Saturday, Dec. 24: Christmas Eve service of candlelight, readings and carols, 8 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 25: Christmas reflections, 10 a.m.

N.F. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
Saturday, Dec. 24: Christmas Eve gathering, 7 p.m., Jamesport Meeting House.

Wading River
St. John the Baptist R.C. Church
Saturday, Dec. 24: Mass, 4 p.m.; Mass in parish hall, 4:15 p.m.; Mass, 6:30 p.m.; Midnight Mass.
Sunday, Dec. 25: Masses, 9:15 and 11:15 a.m.

Wading River Congregational Church
Saturday, Dec. 24: Christmas Eve candlelight services, 6 and 8 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 25: Traditional lessons and carols service, 10:15 a.m.

North Shore United Methodist Church
Saturday, Dec. 24: Family Christmas Eve service, 5 p.m.; Communion service, 9 p.m.