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 Eve: We will celebrate the Birth of Jesus on Wednesday, December 24, 2025—Christmas Eve—at 4:00 pm and 10:30 pm. We will end service with a traditional singing of Silent Night in candlelight.
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 each Wednesday evening 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. On Good Friday, we worship in the evening with the Stations of the Cross.
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.
