Educational & Spiritual Life
Soul Food Class Summer Session
ELPC - Online 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesThe Soul Food adult Church School class will meet this Sunday, August 22, 8:45 am, to conclude our discussion of In My Grandmother's House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit, by Yolanda Pierce, with chapter 12. A weekday make-up session will be scheduled for those who cannot participate. Contact the Rev. Joe Hajdu for more details.
Church Life Sampler
ELPC - Social Hall 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesELPC’s annual Church Life Sampler will be held following Sanctuary worship on Sunday, September 19, outdoors on Whitfield Street (weather permitting). Stop by to learn more about the various ministries that are a part of our church life together! Every committee and ministry area at ELPC will be on hand to highlight fall programming and […]
2021 CONSPIRE Conference Simulcast
Over the weekend of September 24–26, the Spiritual Life Committee invites you to join us in person at ELPC, for a virtual simulcast of the Center for Action and Contemplation’s CONSPIRE Conference, Me/Us/the World: Living Inside God's Great Story. In this time of great unknowing, how do we expand our sense of self to include […]
CANCELED: Creation Spirituality at Garfield Community Farm
Garfield Community Farm Corner of Wicklow and Cornwall Streets, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesThis event has been canceled. Check back for updates. The Spiritual Life Committee invites you to a day of exploration of Creation Spirituality at Garfield Community Farm (GCF). GCF's mission is to provide fresh produce and educational opportunities with our neighbors and volunteers, and demonstrate God's restoration of creation through urban agriculture in the Garfield […]
YAM Fall Series | Exploring Taizé
All young adults are invited to join us on Tuesday, October 26, 6:30–8 pm, as we continue our fall series to learn about, discuss, and attend Taizé prayer services. ELPC's Taizé service is based on a style of worship developed at the Taizé community in France in the 1940s by the late Brother Roger. Come […]
Canceled: Mindfulness Meditation
ELPC - Prayer Room (Room 135) 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, United StatesThis week's Mindfulness Meditation has been canceled. Our regular schedule resumes next Thursday, November 4. "Meditation means to be in the process of realizing that God is wholly present in each step along our way. It is to be slowly awakening to the divine destination of our journey manifesting itself in the divinity of our […]
The Role of Educators in Affirming Racial Identity
East Liberty Presbyterian Church 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesCritical Race Theory in schools is a hot-button topic today. Not long ago, it was bussing Black kids into white neighborhoods. Before that, it was school segregation. The topics of race and education are—and have always been—inextricably intertwined. So, let's talk about it! Let’s discuss the connections. Let's discuss the problems. And let's discuss the […]
Adventus Retreat | Joining a Hope that has Come
The Spiritual Life Committee invites you to take part in an Advent Retreat from Friday, December 3, 6 pm, until Saturday, December 4, 7 pm. We will have opening and closing time in community with each other on Zoom, as well as optional times in between to join together for the prayer liturgies and meditations […]
NO Sunday Church School
East Liberty Presbyterian Church 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesOur Church School classes will not meet on Sunday, December 12, so that we all can enjoy our Christmas Pageant, The Perspective Pageant. Classes will resume next Sunday, December 19. The ELPC Christian Education (CE) Committee offers Church School classes and events for all ages—from infants to adults. CE is the life-long process of learning […]
NO Sunday Church School
East Liberty Presbyterian Church 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesOur Church School classes will not meet on Sundays, December 26 or January 2. Classes will resume next Sunday, January 9. The ELPC Christian Education (CE) Committee offers Church School classes and events for all ages—from infants to adults. CE is the life-long process of learning and living in relationship to God, our neighbors, and […]
NO Contemplative Prayer
ELPC - Online 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesThere will be no Contemplative Prayer on Monday, December 27, as we take a break over Christmas. Our regular schedule will resume next Monday, January 3. Contemplation has been described as a long-loving look at the real. Contemplation is about waking up, listening, noticing, and paying attention. In the words of Adele Calhoun, "A contemplative […]
NO Sunday Church School
East Liberty Presbyterian Church 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesOur Church School classes will not meet on Sunday, January 2. Classes will resume next Sunday, January 9. The ELPC Christian Education (CE) Committee offers Church School classes and events for all ages—from infants to adults. CE is the life-long process of learning and living in relationship to God, our neighbors, and ourselves. Church School […]