These area churches will be offering Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services:
* Linthicum Heights United Methodist Church, 200 School Lane: Christmas Eve services include a 7 p.m. family service, a 10:30 p.m. service with carols and an 11 p.m. candlelight service. A service will be held at 10 a.m. Christmas Day. Sunday school will not be held, but a video for children will be shown in Room 103.
* St. John Lutheran Church, 300 West Maple Road: An 11 a.m. Christmas Eve service of carols is scheduled and a service especially for children and families will be held at 5 p.m. The carols and reading and the sacrament of Holy Communion will be at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. The Christmas Eve festival service is at 11 p.m. There will be a 10 a.m. service on Christmas morning.
* Friendship Church of the Brethren, 217 Mansion Road: A candlelight service will take place at 11 p.m. Christmas Eve.
* St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, 6405 Orchard Road: Christmas Eve Mass will be celebrated at 5 p.m., 7 p.m. and midnight. Christmas Day Mass will follow regular Sunday services at 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.
* Church of Christ, 2 Eastern St. in Fernglen Manor: A Bible study will be held at 10 a.m. and worship services at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Christmas Day.
* Linthicum Baptist Church, 611 S. Camp Meade Road: A Christmas Eve service is scheduled at 7 p.m. and Christmas Day service at 11 a.m.
* Fellowship Baptist Church of Ferndale, 1017 Sundown Road: A family service, featuring a choir medley, will be held at 9 a.m. Christmas Day.
* Ferndale United Methodist Church, 117 Ferndale Road: The Christmas Eve schedule includes a 6:30 p.m. family service and an 11 p.m. candlelight and Communion service. Christmas Day services will be at 10:30 a.m. Sunday school will not be held.
* St. Christopher's Episcopal Church, 118 Marydel Road: A pageant will be held at 7 p.m. on Christmas Eve and Eucharist service at 11 p.m. The worship service on Christmas Day will take place at 10 a.m.
* Peace Lutheran Church, 416 Wellham Ave.: On Christmas Eve there will be candlelight services at 5:30 a.m. for children and their families, a 7:30 p.m. contemporary service and an 11 p.m. traditional service. A carol service will take place at 10 a.m. Christmas Day.
* Brooklyn Heights United Methodist Church, 110 Townsend Ave.: On Christmas Eve, a service will be held at 8 p.m. and and a candlelight service at 11 p.m..
* Brooklyn United Methodist Church, Fourth Street and Pontiac Avenue: A Christmas Eve services will be at 7 p.m., a reception at 8 p.m. and a candlelight service at 11 p.m. The Christmas Day service will begin at 10:15 a.m. No Sunday school will be held.
* Maryland's Church on the Rock, 100 E. Patapsco Ave., Brooklyn: A Christmas Eve candlelight Communion service is scheduled at 7 p.m. Services are open to all faiths.