Mount Olive College will celebrate the beginning of the Christmas season starting with a tree lighting service on Kemp Commons at 5:30 PM. Activities will include carriage rides, ice skating, hot chocolate, crafts for the kids, a picture snow globe, and luminaries. At 7:00 PM in Southern Bank Auditorium, guests will enjoy a Christ-centered service patterned after the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, a traditional English evening service, which began in Cambridge in 1918. The service will include nine Scripture lessons, tracing salvation history; each reading will be followed by a carol. Music will be provided by the Mount Olive College Music Department. This family-friendly event is

free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Carla Williamson at 919.658.7505 or cwilliamson@moc.edu.