How does prayer work? Does it work? Why do we pray for God to act when so often God doesn't act the way we had hoped?
This week all ages focus on the theme of questioning. God welcomes and encourages our questions as part of our faith journeys. We’ll hear the story of the church of Thessalonica and how it grew and was vibrant, all while they had a lot of questions.
Where is God in the midst of suffering? To be human is to know pain and suffering at some point in our lives. Scripture is full of faithful people who suffered and struggled, some of the very best suffer the very most. Join us as we wrestle with these realities together and look for God’s presence in the midst of this.
Celebrate Christmas Eve with us! Our service is filled with hope, joy, love and peace. Hear the timeless story of Jesus born into a weary world, offering all of us a new way to live. Our world may still be weary, but it doesn’t need to keep us from shining a light in the world.
What if kids showed up to perform a traditional Christmas Pageant…in their Halloween costumes?! That’s what happens in this contemporary spin on a traditional nativity play. It’s up to the children to improvise their way through the story of Jesus’ birth in a hilarious and heartfelt way that connects biblical figures with modern day superheroes, villains, and more. In the end, everyone learns that perhaps being a little bit “mixed-up” is something we can all rejoice in. Our young people have been practicing this pageant for the past four weeks—enjoy this unique retelling of our well-loved Christmas story. It’s bound to bring joy and light to your life!
This second week of Advent, we will light the candle of peace. There is a timeless part of Advent in that it seems our world is always awaiting more peace. Whether that is peace in our own lives, peace in our country, peace across the world, all of us are hungry for more of it.
This beautiful refrain from the Christmas song O Holy Night will be our anthem for the season of Advent. There is much in our world to exhaust us—starting with our everyday lives of hustling and bustling, to and fro.
We wrap up our fall stewardship series, where we are celebrating all the wonderful ways God has blessed this faith community. We will hear Jesus’ words from the Sermon on the Mount, where he taught us to invest in our hearts and not in earthly treasures.
This week all ages will worship together in the sanctuary, where we’ll hear the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000. When one little boy says, “I can share my lunch,” they end up feeding thousands of people.
We hear Jesus tell the story of three servants given a large amount of money. Two invested their money and one chose to bury his out of fear. A complicated story, to be sure, but it does reveal how there are different ways to view money and the responsibility that comes with it.