Churches Set Seasonal Celebrations

San Clemente Presbyterian Church will present four performances of its “Glorious Christmas Celebration” concerts today and Sunday. DeLeon Abell Jr. will direct the choirs and orchestra.

Tickets cost $5. There will be two performances each day at 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. in the church sanctuary, 119 Avenida de la Estrella. Information: (714) 492-6158.

Santiago de Compostela Church’s sixth annual Noel Night Concert is Sunday at 7:30 p.m.

A free-will offering will be taken. Refreshments will be served after the concert at the church which is in Lake Forest at 21682 Lake Forest Drive. Information: (714) 458-1440.

La Habra United Methodist Church will host its Medieval Boar’s Head Festival Sunday. The 4 p.m. program will include a procession of shepherds, bell ringers, villagers and jugglers who will lead the audience in the singing of carols.

Tickets for the program are $5. The church is at 631 N. Euclid St., La Habra. Information: (310) 691-1797.

The Episcopal Church of the Blessed Sacrament in the Diocese of Los Angeles will give a Medieval Boar’s Head Festival dinner today and Sunday at 7 p.m.

There will be music and caroling. Dinner tickets are $8 for adults, $4 for children. Guests are encouraged to wear period costumes. The church is at 1314 N. Angelina Drive, Placentia. Information: (714) 528-2995.

“Handling Holiday Stress” will be the program topic on Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Fullerton. The expectations and reality of the holidays will be discussed at 10:30 a.m.

The congregation meets at Temple Beth Tikvah in Fullerton at 1600 N. Acacia Ave. Information: (714) 871-7150.

Prof. Deborah E. Lipstadt will lead a program called “Holocaust Revisionism and the Resurgence of Anti-Semitism” on Sunday, which the Young Leadership Division of the Jewish Federation of Orange County has organized. Lipstadt is an adjunct professor of religion and Jewish studies at Occidental College and former director of the Brandeis Bardin Institute.

The 10:30 a.m. program costs $15 per person and will be at the Irvine Marriott, 18000 Von Karman Ave. Canned food donations for Project Manna are also encouraged. Information: (714) 259-0655.

Herbert Sussman, past president of Rio Hondo College, will speak at Temple Beth Ohr’s Adult Education Series on Wednesday on the topic, “Crisis in Higher Education.”

The free 7:30 p.m. session is at 15721 Rosecrans Ave., La Mirada. Information: (714) 521-6765.

St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in Anaheim will present “The Voices of Christmas” service on Sunday. The audience will sing Christmas carols at 10:30 a.m., before the 10:45 service lead by the Rev. William Halliday.

The church is at 2580 W. Orange Ave. Information: (714) 828-1077.

The annual Christmas Concert presented by the music department at the First Presbyterian Church in Orange will be Sunday at 5:30 p.m. in the church sanctuary. Music by composer John Rutter will be performed. There will also be a Christmas carol sing-along.

A free-will offering will be taken for the concert at 191 N. Orange St. Information: (714) 538-2341.

The First Christian Church in Orange will host a Celebration of Covenant service Sunday for new Senior Pastor Stanley Smith. He earned his doctor of religion degree from Claremont School of Theology and returns to Orange after 20 years as senior pastor at Lafayette Christian Church in Lafayette, Calif.

The service is at 4 p.m. at 1130 E. Walnut Ave. Information: (714) 538-9681.

The Rev. Juan Carlos Ortiz will lead the 6 p.m. service at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove for the third Sunday in Advent.

The church is at 12141 Lewis St. Information: (714) 971-4000.

The Rev. Robert Jordan Ross will discuss “All This Perishable Immortality” Sunday at Aliso Creek Unitarian Universalist Church.

The church meets at 10:30 a.m. at the Viejo Elementary School, 26782 Via Grande, Mission Viejo. Information: (714) 582-8204.

On Sunday Pastor Norman Braatz will give the sermon “Operation Restore Hope” for a special “Visitors Sunday” at Emanuel Lutheran Church in La Habra. All are welcome to the services at 8:30 and 11 a.m.

Adult Education classes are on Sunday at 9:45 a.m. The church is at 150 N. Palm Ave. Information: (310) 691-0656.

Actress Mala Powers will be the guest speaker Sunday at Newport Unity by the Sea in Corona del Mar. She is also an author and lecturer, giving frequent seminars on “The Art of Doing Business.” She created the telephone program “Dial-A-Story,” which offers a different story every day of the year.

She will speak at 10 a.m. at the Recreation Center at Grant Howald Park at 5th and Iris streets in Corona del Mar. Information: (714) 852-6380.

Archbishop Joseph Raya, retired bishop of Nazareth, will lead the Holy Ancestors of Christ service on Sunday at 11 a.m. at Holy Cross Melkite-Greek Catholic Church in Fullerton. He is also the author of the books “The Face of God” and “Abundance of Love.”

Melkite Catholics are Christians from the Holy Land and throughout the Middle East. Services are given in Arabic and Greek as well as English. The church is at 706 S. Lemon St. (714) 992-0652.

The theme for Monday’s dinner meeting of the North Orange County After 5 Christian Business and Professional Women’s Club is “Christmas Delights.”

The dinner will be at the Brea Civic Center at 6:30 p.m. and the cost is $11. For reservations call (714) 528-8124 or (714) 773-4254.

The Mission Viejo chapter of Women’s Aglow Fellowship International’s potluck dinner is on Tuesday at South Shores Church. Pastor Ed Smith and his wife, Ella, of Trinity Christian Center, will be guests.

The dinner is at 6:30 p.m. at 32712 Crown Valley Parkway, Monarch Beach. Bring a dish that will feed several people. For reservations, which are required by Sunday, call (714) 552-0131.

The Christian Assembly’s choir and orchestra will present “Christmas Together” on Sunday at 5:30 and 8 p.m.

A $2 donation is requested. The church is at 125-B Columbia, Aliso Viejo. Information: (714) 362-9266.

Church members will light the Advent Wreath on Sunday at Presbyterian Church of the Master in Mission Viejo. The choir will sing Christmas songs at both the 9 and 10:30 a.m. services with Don Wright, interim pastor, giving the sermon “Mary Shares With Elizabeth.”

The church is at 26051 Marguerite Parkway. Information: (714) 582-2670.

The Most Rev. Norman F. McFarland will lead Mass at noon today in Honor or Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Diocese of Orange. The Mass will be at the Church of St. Boniface in Anaheim.

The church is at 120 N. Janss St. Information: (714) 974-7120.

The Rev. Jerry Tankersley’s sermon Sunday at Laguna Presbyterian Church will be “A Positive Attitude.”

The services are at 9 and 10:30 a.m. at 415 Forest Ave. Information: (714) 494-7555.

On Sunday, a service of Lessons and Carols will take place at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Hills.

The service is at 5 p.m. at 24301 El Toro Road. Information: (714) 837-2323.