Worship

Our services run about 60-75 minutes each week. Out of respect for the health and accessibility of our community, we are currently offering two ways to join us for our hybrid 10am Sunday morning worship: in person or on Zoom.

 

What to expect if you join us on

ZOOM

  • ZOOM LINK. To receive our Zoom link and Worship Guides, we invite you to contact us.

  • OFFERING. We invite you to support our ministry by giving online or mailing your offerings.

  • ACCESSIBILITY. Each week, we turn on the live transcript option for our services on Zoom. If you believe we may have forgotten to do this or you do not know how to access this option, please indicate this in the chat!

  • “JOYS AND CONCERNS”. Community prayer is an important part of our worship service. This is a time for the gathered people to voice any “joys” or “concerns” from our lives, communities, and world. With hybrid worship, we will begin by listening to the prayers of people in the sanctuary. Then a Zoom Worship Leader will facilitate the same process on Zoom. If you would like to offer a prayer, you can do so in the chat or wave your hand until the Worship Leader unmutes you. At the end, the leaders will make it possible for people on the phone to unmute themselves by pressing *6.

  • ZOOM COFFEE HOUR. We invite all Zoom participants to a 15 minute “Zoom Coffee Hour” after the postlude. Just stay on, and the Zoom Worship Leader will facilitate some casual conversation and fellowship!

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What to expect if you join us in the

SANCTUARY

  • MASKS. Everyone inside the church building is required to wear a mask. If you forget your mask, we will have one for you!

  • SOCIAL DISTANCING. We have our chairs spaced apart, with some groupings of chairs for people in the same household. There is usually plenty of room to spread out. After the service, we invite you to greet the pastor and socialize outside on the portico, steps, or sidewalk.

  • THINGS. We are not handing out hymnals or Bibles at this time, but you can grab them from the back of the sanctuary!

  • OFFERINGS. We are not currently passing the plate around. There is a small wooden “Offering” box at the back of the sanctuary where you can drop off your offering. We also encourage you to give online or send offerings by mail.

  • CONTACT TRACING. As an act of care for one another, everyone in the sanctuary will be asked to fill out a Contact Card during the service and to place it in the “Offering” box as they leave. We keep these for each week in case we need to do contact tracing on a confirmed COVID case.

  • COMMUNION AND SINGING. Singing and Holy Communion are important parts of our worship. At this time, we have one song leader 12 feet away from the front row, who leads our songs, and we now invite everyone to join in from their seats. For communion on the first Sundays of the month, we will provide a one-time use communion cup and wafer. Depending on that month’s community spread in the area, we may invite people to briefly remove their masks to receive communion together. Alternatively, we may invite people to take the consecrated elements home to take during a private prayerful time later in the day.

  • THE “POPEMOBILE”. At the beginning of the pandemic, one of our amazing congregants felt it would be important to see the preacher’s face while they preached, so they actually constructed a beautiful enclosed space around the pulpit where the preacher can safely remove their mask. This was a labor of love, and we call it our “popemobile”.

  • ZOOM PARTICIPANTS. It has been important to us during the pandemic that our community is together in real-time. We have people who participate from Zoom, and you will see them on a TV in the front of the sanctuary. They will be able to see and hear us in the sanctuary through a camera and microphones.

  • “JOYS AND CONCERNS”. Community prayer is an important part of our worship service. This is a time for the gathered people to voice any “joys” or “concerns” from our lives, communities, and world. With hybrid worship, we will begin with allowing people in the sanctuary to take the microphone and voice their prayers socially distanced from others. Then we will listen while people joining through Zoom voice their prayers.

  • ACCESSIBILITY. There is one flight of stairs to get to our sanctuary door. If there are accommodations we can provide to help you fully participate in our services, please be in touch with us.