What to expect at the 10:30 a.m. Service
This is our main service that welcomes all ages to worship.
Sung Service
We experiment, through the year, with a variety of musical styles and settings–organ, piano, drums, guitar, brass and strings to sing praise to God.
Our choir sings twice a month through most of the year. A printed bulletin will guide visitors through the liturgy.
All Are Welcome
All are welcome to receive the bread and wine around the altar. We recognize birthdays, anniversaries and offer blessings for life’s transitions and accomplishments. All are welcome to join in Holy Communion. Join us after the service for coffee hour and our adult forum.
Sung Service
We experiment, through the year, with a variety of musical styles and settings–organ, piano, drums, guitar, brass and strings to sing praise to God.
Our choir sings twice a month through most of the year. A printed bulletin will guide visitors through the liturgy.
All Are Welcome
All are welcome to receive the bread and wine around the altar. We recognize birthdays, anniversaries and offer blessings for life’s transitions and accomplishments. All are welcome to join in Holy Communion. Join us after the service for coffee hour and our adult forum.
Children
Children ages 4 and up begin worship with the rest of the congregation and leave during the Song of Praise for two age-based classes, Godly Play (ages 4-7) or Word and Prayer (ages 8+). They rejoin the rest of the congregation for Holy Communion. During the summer, a single Sunday School class with lesson and activity is provided.
Parents with children under age 4 are invited to use the coloring materials provided, as well as the well-staffed nursery.
Children ages 4 and up begin worship with the rest of the congregation and leave during the Song of Praise for two age-based classes, Godly Play (ages 4-7) or Word and Prayer (ages 8+). They rejoin the rest of the congregation for Holy Communion. During the summer, a single Sunday School class with lesson and activity is provided.
Parents with children under age 4 are invited to use the coloring materials provided, as well as the well-staffed nursery.
Occasional Intergenerational Services at 10:30
Approximately once a month, our 10:30 service is an intergenerational service, designed to be more interactive and participatory
than the regular liturgy. Children remain in church for the entire service for these services (normally children leave during the readings, sermon, and prayers for Sunday School). All children are invited to come up to the altar with Mother Tracy for the celebration of the Eucharist.
A sample of the types of things we do at alternative services:
Approximately once a month, our 10:30 service is an intergenerational service, designed to be more interactive and participatory
than the regular liturgy. Children remain in church for the entire service for these services (normally children leave during the readings, sermon, and prayers for Sunday School). All children are invited to come up to the altar with Mother Tracy for the celebration of the Eucharist.
A sample of the types of things we do at alternative services:
- November - All Saints Sunday - everyone was invited to come dressed as their favorite saint and then were invited to tell the congregation about that saint during the service
- December - First Sunday in Advent - theme of "preparing for Jesus." Since preparing the altar is one way we prepare to meet Jesus (in the Eucharist), we instructed the children the week before about the work of the altar guild and then the children did the work the altar guild normally does before the service DURING this service -- putting the fair linen and the candles on the altar and so forth, while the rest of the congregation were asked to reflect on how they were preparing their hearts for Jesus.
- January - Feast of the Epiphany - everyone was invited to bring a symbol of their spiritual gifts and place them in the manger, symbolizing bringing their gifts to Jesus as the magi did. Then Mother Tracy drew a few items out of the pile and asked people to tell us what they represent and speak about them.
- February - Fishers of People - the Gospel passage was about Jesus telling the fisherman they would be "catching people" from now on. We brought out a huge net and invited people to come grab on to the net as we processed around the church like a congo line, and then the "caught" people gathered in the middle by the altar and sang, "I Have Decided to Follow Jesus."