Special Services

We observe many festivals and celebrations on Sundays during the course of the church's year. Below are festivals generally observed on special days and times or with a modified Sunday schedule:

Advent Evening Prayer: On Wednesday evenings for four weeks before Christmas, we prepare for Jesus' birth in an intimate setting around the Advent wreath with contemplative worship.

Christmas: We celebrate the Birth of Jesus on Christmas Eve with family friendly worship earlier and Candlelight to end the evening. We return Christmas morning and worship around the Christmas tree.

Ash Wednesday: Beginning the self-reflective season of Lent, Ash Wednesday is a solemn reminder of our own mortality: From dust we are made and to dust we shall return. We provide ‘Ashes to Go” on the curbside during rush hour in the morning and evening.

Wednesdays in Lent: We observe Evening Prayer Around the Cross and reflect of the brokenness of our lives, our communities, and creation, and give that brokenness over to God.

Holy Week: The week before Easter is a time of high-drama in the life of the church, as we re-encounter Jesus' passion (his trial and death) and enter fully into the darkness of human brokenness. On Palm Sunday/Sunday of the Passion, we ride with Jesus into Jerusalem as He faces betrayal and the cross. On Maundy Thursday, we specially observe the last supper with the disciples and the washing of feet as a sign of humility and service. On Good Friday, our sanctuary is open all day for neighbors to come in and pray and meditate in the awe of the cross. We observe Good Friday with worship in the evening.

Easter: We celebrate Jesus resurrection and say: Alleluia! God is Alive! Our Lenten reflection ends with the assurance that God makes life out of death. We celebrate with a Sunrise Service when the “Son” comes up and full worship after.t all started when…