Here’s what’s happening in worship this week. Click on “more” for details about this week’s Church School classes.
Worship Services
Journey Worship | Sunday, 8:45 am
An interactive, energetic service for those seeking a fresh encounter with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Our theme this month is What’s Next. Pastor Heather will preach from Luke 2:1–20.
Sanctuary Worship | Sunday, 11 am
Our largest service, with music from the Chancel Choir and an organ prelude prior to the service. Pastor Heather will deliver the scripture lesson, Luke 2:1–20, and her sermon will be titled “Unlikely Community.”
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Taizé Prayer Service | Wednesday, 7 pm
Led by the Rev. Mary Lynn Callahan, our hour-long Taizé service includes sung prayers; simple, beautiful music; a time of silence; spoken and silent prayers; and an opportunity for individual prayer and anointing. If you’re unable to participate in person, join our live stream on your computer or mobile device.
Christian Education Classes
We offer Christian Education classes for persons of all ages, from infancy through adulthood, on Sundays from 9:45–10:45 am. Click the links for adult class descriptions and children and youth offerings.
Contemporaries | Harambe Room
Theology for Presbyterians: The Bible
Just because Presbyterians don’t always interpret the Bible literally, doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously! We will consider the Bible as the Word of God.
Journey With Scripture | Second Floor Library
“Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all”—Mark 9:35. This fall’s readings reach into the wisdom tradition of scripture—its affirmation of “lived experience” as opposed to it being diminished by “religious belief.” Ultimately, scripture arcs to the incomprehensible wisdom of life lived in, and attached to, Jesus Christ. Jesus affirms our lived experience, yet in him, the world’s wisdom gets turned upside down. Strangely, we gain unimagined abundant life serving this world.
Join us for this week’s readings: Proverbs 1:20–33; Psalm 19; James 3:1–2; and Mark 8:27–31.
Seekers | Garth Overlook Room
Yom Kippur: Release, Repentance, Recommitment
Rabbi Doris Dyen will be with us to discuss the penitential prayers and special activities of the holiest day in the Jewish year, Yom Kippur (also known as the Day of Atonement). During this 25-hour period, all normal activities stop, except those necessary to sustain life. Individually and collectively, Jews spend these hours in communal prayer and contemplation—reaching inward to face themselves honestly and outward to affirm their intention of making right what has gone wrong in their lives.
Soul Food | Good Samaritan Room (G12)
We will begin discussing chapter one of Surrender to Love by David Benner, led by the Rev. Joe Hajdu, Linda Harrington, Judy Roberts, and Yamuna Morgenstern.