If you are not familiar with what Watch Night Service is, you need to read all about it here.
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Today, attendance at these events, often called Watch Night services, rivals that of clubs, restaurants and other hot spots chosen to celebrate the coming new year. Last year, for example, 12,000 people came out for Mount Zion Baptist Church’s year-end devotional service at Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium, said senior pastor Bishop Joseph Warren Walker III. The church has three locations and more than 16,000 members. Its Watch Night service outgrew the church’s largest sanctuary, which seats 5,700.
“People joke that Mount Zion shuts down the clubs,” Walker said.
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“This community goes to church on New Year’s Eve,” said the Rev. Enoch Fuzz of Corinthian Baptist Church in north Nashville. “They are not where they need a designated driver. People go to church because they want to be better. They go to Watch Night service because they are looking for hope, a blessing. They choose the blessing over a party.”
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This is something that should become a regular moment of celebration and praise for all Americans. We all should celebrate and praise the Lord for allowing us to see another year. We all should celebrate, that the evils of slavery are in America’s past and we are spreading freedom in America’s present and future.
Let Freedom Ring! Give Praise and Glory to God!
