As our Mission and Vision statements say, worship is not a place; it is not something we go to. Neither is Christian worship a spectator sport. It is who we are and what we do; something we all, each one of us, participate in. It is where we meet God and all that we do as Christ’s disciples is worship.

On Sunday mornings we do gather together as a community, as has been the practice of the Church for almost 2000 years. Our faith is old, in that sense, but our thinking is not.

Our community worship on Sundays is very intentional and patterned after the worship of the earliest Christians. This is what you can expect to experience:

AFFIRMING God’s grace to us and praying, through song, for God’s gracious presence to be among us

CONFESSING our sins to each other and God. The word sin may have fallen out of favor in our times, but we readily acknowledge, to each other and to God, that we have done things that separate us from God and each other. And so we are in need of restoration through God’s gift of forgiveness.

HEARING the written Word read and proclaimed with readings from the Bible and sermons by our ministers.

PROFESSING together, and with Christians all over the world and in all times, that ancient faith which we believe still has great meaning today through the recitation of the historic creeds of the Church.

PRAYING with and for each other and for the whole world as we are led in prayer by various members of the congregation.

REMINDING each other of the peace Christ came to give, not as the world might understand peace, but His peace, the Shaloam of God; and we share that peace with each other and seek its realization in each of our lives.

SHARING with each other what is often called The Great Thanksgiving, the celebration of that meal with Jesus shared with his disciples on the night in which he was betrayed and arrested. In Holy Communion (another name), we find the Word, the gospel, proclaimed in our actions and we partake in it together at the Lord’s table. We believe it is the table of our Lord and he invites all who would, to come to the table.

CONTINUING our worship by departing to serve. Our worship doesn’t end when we leave, when we walk out of the Sanctuary. It continues in our daily lives. Everything we do as a community gathered and sent in the name of the Triune God is rightly called worship. Worship is not something we go to and then leave, it is something we live. We depart to serve knowing Christ goes with and before us into the world.