I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I grew up Lutheran (do you know what synod it was you went to?) I was taught that during communion out of politeness you do not watch those taking communion as it is a private moment so to speak. We always had a rather long hymn during communion. The service you went to was probably extra long because it was a Christmas service.
Blondie, I'm not sure if you were merely pointing out for others that there was no mention of Santa or you yourself were surprised that Santa was not mentioned. We didn't have any Santa type songs in church. There were a few years though that after the childrens special service where each grade sang or read a special part from the Bible or a play or some special program the Sunday school classes put on, we had a Santa hand out a stocking or apples or oranges as we left for the evening. I forgot what grade it was but quite young, the church gave a certain grade their very own bible as a Christmas gift every year on the way out the door. We little ones felt all grown up at that. Yes, all our homes had bibles but not one of our own with our name and that year in it! I still use that one.