HARPSWELL — Faith United Methodist Church, Orr’s Island, is planning a Lessons & Carols service for Christmas Eve at 6:30 p.m.

The church also is returning to the Home Church Odyssey, from Epiphany on Jan. 5, 2014, until Palm Sunday on April 13, 2014.

For these 14 weekm parishionerswill meet in members’ houses, rather than in the church.

A section of worship will be set aside for “Letters from the Home Church,” in which parishioners read three Scriptures every week, a Hebrew Bible text, an Epistle and a Gospel.

The Epistles, which fill a good chunk of our New Testament, are letters by multiple authors, and written to a variety of people. Some are written to individuals and some are written to groupsm, such as Paul’s letter to the Romans.

Parishioners will spend Home Church Odyssey taking turns penning their own letters. Each, in turn, will write a letter and bring and read it during the service. There are no instructions about to whom or about what these letters will be written. The heart and mind of each writer will decide what wisdom, what exhortation, to present.

The letters will be saved in a binder together, and labeled “Letters From the Home Church”. They will present, in a patchwork quilt of words, who we are in this moment in time.

Visitors are always welcome. For more information, call Pastor Karen Pierce at 725-0417.