 While with Christmas Day falling on a Sunday this year, some churches are struggling with scheduling options. Our Josh Peterson visited with some local churches to see if this nationwide scheduling conflict is a problem here at home. For some, Christmas just became more complicated. With this holy day landing on a Sunday, some parishioners may need help from a shepherd, or maybe will need to find a star to follow to be able to find a church that will be open on Sunday. Some churches across the country are cancelling their Christmas Day services so that their parishioners can be at home, focusing not so much on filling the pews, but on families. It's a debate across the nation. Should there be Sunday Church services on Christmas Day? At First Lutheran Church in Bemidji, a special holiday schedule was designed so that the importance of family and the Christmas season can be shared. Back in October, we had the conversation, you know, what do we do about Sunday? Typically, we do do a Christmas Day service at 10 o'clock, or an 8.30 and 10.45 is our normal Sunday worship schedule. So we decided to change and do the 10 o'clock. Many of the churches we contacted in the area also have adopted special holiday schedules, most having regularly scheduled Christmas Eve services on Saturday and one service on Christmas Day Sunday, leaving to question why some churches are cancelling their Sunday services. For Crossroads Church, this is an opportunity to reach out to new people. Christmas Eve has traditionally always been an outreach service, and so we really gear that service towards an outreach. And Sunday morning is going to be an outreach too. There'll be people that come to church that normally would not come. Over at First Lutheran, Christmas services tend to reach a different audience of non-regular churchgoers, meaning extra attention is being paid to the message presented. It takes me the longest to prepare those messages because you are, you're speaking to folks that aren't typically there. In Bemidji, Josh Peterson, Lakeland News. And we've posted links to area churches and their Christmas schedules on our website. Just visit lptv.org slash news for more information. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.