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Zombies and vampires beware! Pastor to hold traditional service in graveyard!

Church tradition and customs of the Middle Ages are not lost to Pastor Ryan Stout and his congregation at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in New York Mills.

Along with the candy and trick-or-treating, Halloween is often thought of in today’s society as a scary night of ghouls, goblins, death, and often evil.

Not so, says Pastor Stout, who plans to hold a non-traditional church service Halloween night in the cemetery.

Despite its image of vampires, werewolves, and walking dead, Halloween is actually an important date on the Christian calendar. It’s a holiday associated with Hallowtide, which is a three-day celebration of Halloween (Oct. 31), All Saints Day (Nov. 1), and All Souls Day (Nov. 2).

Stout wants to push aside some of Halloween’s scariness and underlying evil, and celebrate the night by resurrecting some of the Christian traditions the holiday holds.

What better way to dig up the overlooked Christian holiday of Halloween by holding a church service in a graveyard... at night, as a light fog slowly creeps over the headstones?

We’ve come to know Halloween as a fun fright night, perpetuated by spooky cemetery scenes from pop culture icons like Scooby-Doo. Zoinks!

“We tend to think of Halloween as something scary and don’t think of it as something associated with Christianity,” Stout says. “Some even think of it as anti-Christian.”

Pastor Stout chose four Biblical readings for this service, to be read by members of the church. Those interested in attending the service will meet in the cemetery, and it’s a good idea to bring a flashlight.

Different points along the walking service will have people set up to do readings, and act out different scenes in the Bible.

Readers will be dressed in costume to fit the appropriate Bible passage. Stout expects to see a witch, possibly a skeleton and other characters with Halloween and Biblical associations.

“We’re not doing anything weird,” Stout claims. “We’re reclaiming the Christian roots of Halloween.”Church tradition and customs of the Middle Ages are not lost to Pastor Ryan Stout and... more