Reclaiming the day!
Author: Pastor Mitch Williams
October 30, 2025
This Friday ushers in the second most commercially celebrated holiday in the United States. But as Christians, we choose not to celebrate the day of the dead. While Halloween may look innocent for children who seek to dress up seeking candy, the symbolism and meaning behind the “holiday” makes it a day not to observe.
Perhaps by divine intention, Martin Luther seized the day back for Christians by choosing October 31 as the day he nailed his 95 Thesis to the church front doors in Wittenberg, Germany. Thus began the Protestant Reformation, and a reclaiming of October 31 as Reformation Day, to remember that Jesus and the Bible are the only source of pure truth in the world!
This Friday, we reclaim the day in our community by inviting our church and their friends to come apart from the darkness of Halloween, and celebrate Jesus and His reformation. We call the event: Light Up the Night.
Everyone is invited, both children and adults. We begin this Friday, Oct 31, at 6 PM with dinner followed by vespers for children, filled with VBS style learning and fun about Jesus. For the adults, we begin a movie at 6:30 PM, called The Hopeful, a dramatization of the founding of the SDA church. This movie was shown in theaters last year.
I hope you will come and attend and bring a friend! May the Lord bless you and your family and may you be the light of Jesus in a dark world!
"For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.”
Ephesians 5:8
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