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ALLEGAN, MI (December 4, 2008) \u2013 On New Year\u2019s Eve, members of Christ Community Church<\/a> will participate in \u201cCome & Go Communion,\u201d a service that carries more gravitas than the name might indicate.
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\nBetween 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., pastor G. Patrick White will celebrate communion eight times with parishioners who have signed up to participate in one of the 15-minute services offered during that time. Each service includes 10 to 25 people, and by the end of the night, as many as 160 people will have attended.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look forward to this service as much as any communion experience,\u201d White says.<\/p>\n

During the service, the members sit in the first two rows of the sanctuary, and soft music comprising mostly Christmas carols plays. White gives a brief homily that encourages people to remember and renew their covenant to one another. He then follows the liturgy outlined in one of the shortened services from The Covenant Book of Worship<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe nice thing about it is I\u2019m able to serve and to speak to each person individually,\u201d says White. Members have told him they especially like the quiet and intimacy of the service.<\/p>\n

White has been doing the service since he planted the church in 1993. \u201cWhen you\u2019re in your very beginning stages, you establish traditions or ways of doing things, and I guess this is one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

One year, the church broke with the tradition and conducted what some other churches might call a one-hour \u201cwatch service.\u201d Only half the number of people showed up, however. \u201cWe switched back the next year,\u201d White says.<\/p>\n

White said he got the idea for the service from his now-deceased father who was a United Methodist Church pastor. \u201cI don\u2019t know where dad got it.\u201d<\/p>\n

White\u2019s brother, Mike, also is a Methodist pastor and officiates the same communion service the men celebrated with their father. \u201cIt\u2019s an evening where we feel especially close to him,\u201d White says.<\/p>\n

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