Women of Grace · Saturday, December 5

Women’s Candlelight Dinner

A beloved tradition returns. Festive tables, wonderful food, and real conversation with women from across Grace. Come celebrate the season with us.

  • WhenSaturday, Dec 5
    5:30–8pm
  • WhereFellowship Hall
    Grace Lutheran
  • Cost$30 per person
    paid online
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Registration closes Monday, Nov 30 at 8pm.
Registration and payment are online only.

A red plate with a gold-lettered napkin, a candle, and an evening program card at last year’s Candlelight Dinner

New this year

Open seating.
Sit wherever catches your eye.

No assigned tables this year. Arrive, take a slow walk past the tables, and choose the place that feels like yours. Come with friends or come on your own. There’s a seat for you.

A table set in navy and gold with an evergreen centerpiece and small nativity figures Women gathered at decorated round tables in the Fellowship Hall, with a Christmas tree and wreath A table set in red with holly-pattern china, ruby glasses, and a tall poinsettia arrangement

A few of last year’s tables, each one set by a table decorator.

How the evening goes

A look at last year’s evening

From last year

Program

  1. Parade of Tables
  2. Welcome & Prayer
  3. Buffet Dinner & Fellowship
  4. Door Prizes
  5. Christmas Trivia
  6. Men’s Choir
  7. Closing & Prayer
The Men’s Choir singing beside the piano at last year’s dinner A host speaking to the room with a microphone beside a decorated Christmas tree

Three ways to be part of it

Come for dinner, set a table, or lend a hand

Come to dinner

$30 per person

Your seat at the table and the whole evening. Ages 18 and up.

After you click Register, choose Participant. If the cost is a barrier, we still want you there: use the code shown on that page, then tap Apply discount on the last step.

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Decorate a table

Free, and dinner is on us

Help make the evening shine. Design and set one of the evening’s tables. Last year’s ranged from a nativity scene to poinsettias and holly china. Ages 18 and up.

After you click Register, choose Table Decorator. You don’t need a Participant ticket; decorators stay for dinner free.

Register →

Volunteer

Free, and dinner is on us

Serve, set up, clean up, help in the kitchen, or perform. Ages 12 and up, so teens are welcome.

After you click Register, choose Event Volunteer. No Participant ticket needed; volunteers stay for dinner free.

Register →

All three are on one registration page. Pick yours, then enter your contact info.

When

Saturday, December 5
5:30–8pm

Where

Fellowship Hall, Grace Lutheran
22975 24th Ave S, Des Moines
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Register by

Monday, November 30, 8pm
Online only

Questions

Email the church office at info@gotgrace.com