very year at this time we are especially mindful that grief comes to the surface in many and varied ways. It is with this understanding that we annually provide a worship space during the Advent season, for prayer, song, lament, and remembrance. Led by our Stephen Ministers and worship staff, this service holds the complexity of this season of joy coming in the midst of a time of deep loss. A Longest Night Gathering is a safe and sacred space to share anguish, to plead with God to remember us, to pray for justice and restoration, even to hope against hope, through our doubts and tears and fears, that “God will set things right all over the earth.”