By R. Liner – Hundreds of members and visitors of the House of Faith Church of God in Christ located in Jacksonville’s Paxon area was recently treated to a divine experience of praise and worship. Sunday, December 29th kicked off three consecutive days of “Watch Night” services that served to both climax the end of 2024 while ushering in 2025. Watch Night, also called Freedom’s Eve, is a Christian religious service held on New Year’s Eve and associated, in many African American churches, with a celebration and remembrance of those people in slavery that made it to another year. 2022 marked the 160th Anniversary of Watch Night service around the country and is always celebrated on December 31st. The New Year’s Eve tradition originated in 1862 when Black Americans gathered to await the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation into law. The proclamation freed enslaved people in the Confederacy, but it wouldn’t take effect until the start of the New Year. (Redburd Images)
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