Thanks for the information, Arkie: I was a founding member of a Methodist church back when I was a teenager, and got to know the young Pastor there. He loaned me seceravl books on Methodist beliefs, and I don't remember seeing any mention of Watch Night. We certainly didn't celebrate it at our church at that time.

I suppose it's like everything else. Some do, some don't. Not all black churches celebrate Watch Night, and not all of them who do ackowledge the historic significance of it.

Jerry