From Deseret News archives:
Most churches skipping Eve parties
Families, individuals left to plan Sunday festivities
Most local churches aren't sponsoring New Year's festivities this year, and so basically it is left up to individuals and families as to how to handle a Sunday New Year's Eve.
"It doesn't make a lot of difference to us," Pastor Terry Long of Calvary Chapel of Salt Lake said of the Sunday New Year's Eve.
He said his church hasn't sponsored an adult New Year's Eve party in many years, but it will have its all-night (7 p.m. to 8 a.m.) party for junior and senior high school students from Sunday night to Monday morning again this year.
Pastor Long said he will use the morning worship service Sunday to talk about the New Year and goals for 2007, but that's about the only impact a Sabbath Day New Year's Eve is having on Calvary Chapel this year.
Pastor Steve Goodier of Christ United Methodist Church, Salt Lake City, said his church isn't holding any New Year's celebrations this year, but he would like to return to a "watch night" event a year from now on Dec. 31, 2007. That's a spiritual event that starts the new year with prayer.
"We do not celebrate holidays that have non-Christian religious origins or those that promote nationalism," The Watchtower, official Web site for Jehovah's Witnesses, states.
Adventure Foursquare Church, a nondenominational church in Draper, is one of the few Christian churches in the area sponsoring a New Year's activity this year. The church, 352 W. 12300 South, has a band and comic performing starting at 8 p.m.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is holding a special youth fireside (geared for ages 12-18) Sunday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Conference Center. This event will likely provide a religious orientation for the evening for those who attend, given its theme of "Let Virtue Garnish Thy Thoughts Unceasingly" and best-dress suggestion.
That fireside will be broadcast to many stake centers church-wide and is a kickoff to the new theme for the church's young men and young women's programs during 2007.
Otherwise, most wards and stakes are steering clear of sponsoring New Year's Eve activities on a Sunday.
What to do is left to individual members and families.
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