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August Worship Series
“Re-Shaped: What We’re Made For”
You’re invited to consider how God is (and has been) “Re-Shaping” us—personally, and as a church—through another worship series from Dr. Marcia McFee (Worship Design Studio). Change is so common and yet one of our most challenging human processes.
To help guide your exploration of the theme of change—which we all experience—you can download a companion reflection journal to accompany your discernment.
July Worship Series
In July, we will be experiencing “Quest: the Awakened Traveler,” a four-week worship series that will encourage us to open ourselves more fully to the curiosity and wonder, reflection and transformation that travelers–not merely tourists–experience when they choose to immerse themselves in soul-widening adventures.
If you’d like to go deeper with the “Quest” worship series, a companion journal for the four weeks is available to download, with links to video clips with famous travel guide Rick Steves.
Visioning Worship/Workshop
On Sunday, May 21, at 10:00 am, the Rev. Dr. Susan MacAlpine-Gillis will join us for worship to introduce a discernment process that will help shape our vision for the future of our church. The service that day will intertwine worship with our visioning and discernment workshop. … We highly encourage all persons involved in the life of our church to attend. Childcare will be provided.
Because of technical contraints, this worship/workshop will not be streamed. There will be other opportunities for all (including online) to be a part of this process of shaping our church’s future.
Food for Thought
This Sunday, January 8, we give thanks and dedicate commitments of financial support for our church in the coming year. There will also be a potluck lunch following worship.
Coincidence? Not really. …
One is essentially about food and fellowship, the other financial and organizational. But both are about what we choose to give that we might nourish …