Article snippet: WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump attended a music-filled Christmas Eve service at Family Church in West Palm Beach, Florida. Pastor Jimmy Scroggins and his family greeted the Trumps as they arrived moments into a “Candlelight Christmas Celebration” and received applause and cheers while taking reserved seats in the church’s third pew. Brief sermons and readings by clergy at the Southern Baptist Convention-affiliated church were interlaced between traditional Christmas songs, as theatrical smoke billowed and fake snow descended from the rafters. It was a change of pace for the Trumps, who had attended holiday services in the past at Bethesda-by-the-Sea, the Episcopal Church in Palm Beach at which they were married in 2005. Trump earlier called military service members stationed across the world to share greetings ahead of the Christmas holiday. Speaking Tuesday by video conference from his private club in Florida, where is he is on a more than two-week vacation, Trump said, “I want to wish you an amazing Christmas.” The group included Marines in Afghanistan, an Army unit in Kuwait, a Navy ship in the Gulf of Aden, an Air Force base in Missouri and a Coast Guard station in Alaska. Trump praised the armed forces for their efforts this year to eliminate the last of the Islamic State group’s territorial caliphate and for killing IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He also touted economic successes at home and a pay raise for... Link to the full article to read more