Watch Night Services at Southwest Atlanta Churches

While many will ring in New Year's Eve with champagne, noisemakers and Auld Lang Syne, others have plans to celebrate the occasion in a different place: church.

In greater southwest Atlanta, many worshippers will attend New Year's Even and Watch Night services. Watch Nights recall the freeing of the slaves and how African Americans on New Year's Eve 1862 anticipated the new year in which President Abe Lincoln was scheduled to sign the Emancipation Proclamation.

Here are times for just a few of the many Watch Night and other New Year's Eve services in southwest Atlanta:

• 10 p.m., Watch Night, Ben Hill United Methodist Church
• 7 and 10 p.m., Watch Night, Cascade United Methodist Church
• 7 and 10:45 p.m., Elizabeth Baptist Church
• 10 p.m. Hillside International Chapel and Truth Center
• 9:30 p.m., Watch Night, Providence Missionary Baptist Church
• 8 p.m. Kwanzaa Celebration, 10 p.m., Liberation Eve Service, Zion Hill Baptist Church

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Thanks and have a fabulous New Year!