In all our services, we seek to create an experience of sanctuary for all who choose to worship with us, embracing our responsibility to nurture their faith and welcome them in love. Currently we have three services of Sunday worship—8:30 a.m. (with communion every Sunday), 11 a.m. non-traditional, and 11 a.m. traditional.
The services all follow the ancient basic pattern of:
ENTRANCE
The people come together in the Lord’s name. There are greetings, music and song, prayer and praise.
PROCLAMATION AND RESPONSE
The Scriptures are opened to the people through the reading of lessons, preaching, witnessing, music, or other arts and media. Interspersed may be songs and hymns. Responses to God’s Word include acts of commitment and faith with offerings of concerns, prayers, gifts, and service for the world and for one another.
THANKSGIVING AND COMMUNION
In services with Communion, the actions of Jesus in the Upper Room are reënacted:
taking the bread and cup,
giving thanks over the bread and cup,
breaking the bread, and
giving the bread and cup
In services without Communion, thanks are given for God’s mighty acts in Jesus Christ.
SENDING FORTH
The people are sent into ministry with the Lord’s blessing.