Educational & Spiritual Life
Understanding Our Enneagram Type
The Spiritual Life Committee invites you to a Zoom conversation on understanding our enneagram types and how we can work with them to become more free in our lives and more alive in our faith. If you are interested in participating, please contact Pastor Mary Lynn at MaryLynn@coh.net. Enneagram beginners are welcome!
Praying with the Elements
Amidst this pandemic, many of us are experiencing Zoom fatigue and may feel stuck inside. Let’s Get Out In Creation! Through Christine Valters Paintner’s book, Water, Wind, Earth & Fire: The Christian Practice of Praying with the Elements, we will discover the call of God’s creation with daily readings of scripture, poets, and mystics—and be […]
Virtual Advent Retreat
The Spiritual Life Committee invites you to a virtual retreat for Advent, themed Wait Upon the Lord. The retreat will take place Friday–Saturday, November 20–21. The cost is $25. All supplies will be sent to you in advance. Please RSVP by Friday, November 6, with Norma Meyer. Contact the Rev. BJ Woodworth with questions. Why […]
Advent Gift Box Pick-Up
The Faith Formation board is offering a gift to every family at ELPC—of every age and configuration! Since we won't get to celebrate this special season together, we are bringing Advent materials to you, so that we might pray, anticipate, and celebrate together. Your gift will include: materials for an Advent wreath, a devotional book, some […]
Christmas Pageant: Can You Hear What I Hear?
While we can't gather in the Sanctuary together, we will still be sharing the story of the Jesus' birth through our annual Christmas Pageant on Sunday, December 13, 10 am. Our pageant is titled Can You Hear What I Hear? Middle-Schoolers will serve as narrators. Kids from infancy-grade 5 will dress in costumes and act out […]
Virtual Lenten Retreat | A Journey into the Desert
ELPC - Online 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesJoin us for a time of personal and communal Lenten preparation. On this 24-hour retreat, we will journey with Jesus into the desert, considering our belovedness and the temptations we face, as well as set our own Lenten intentions for the season. We will have opening and closing Zoom time with each other and optional […]
This Life That Is Ours Q&A
ELPC - Online 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesAre you involved in parenting? If so, join our Parenting Circle Church School class on Sunday, March 14, 9:30 am, for a special question and answer session with Lauren Burdette, author of This Life That Is Ours. The book is a great resource for parents to "explore the ways they can encounter God within their […]
NO Mindfulness Meditation
ELPC - Prayer Room (Room 135) 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, United StatesOur Mindfulness Meditation group will not meet tonight, Thursday, April 1, so that we can worship together at our Maundy Thursday service at 7 pm. Our regular schedule will resume next Thursday. "Meditation means to be in the process of realizing that God is wholly present in each step along our way. It is to […]
Presbyterian Women: Sharing Lament
ELPC - Online 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesOn Tuesday, May 18, 12 pm, Prebyterian Women will reflect on "hope," as we conclude our study of lament. Please bring your top 10 (or even 7) list of reasons to hope, as well as a pencil and paper. Rev Marnie Silbert will lead us. All women are welcome, even if you missed the lesson! For Zoom […]
Contemplative Activism Retreat with Cole Arthur Riley
ELPC - Online 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesThe Spiritual Life Committee is excited to bring in Cole Arthur Riley to lead a retreat on Contemplative Activism. Join us we learn how to adopt spiritual practices that suspend between the contemplative and pursuit of justice. In our activism, spiritual contemplation can feel more like a precursor to the work of justice, instead of […]
Silent Walk on the Butler-Freeport Community Trail
The Spiritual Life Committee invites you to the Butler-Freeport Community Trail for a Silent Walk! We will gather at the Monroe Trailhead at the Babcock Nature Preserve, Sarver, 16055. Join us as we walk in silence along the path at our own pace, stop, linger along the stream, sit, read, be in nature in silence […]
In Pursuit of Silence | Film Viewing and Conversation
In Pursuit of Silence is a documentary that meditatively explores our relationship with silence, sound, and the impact of noise on our lives. Beginning with an ode to John Cage's ground-breaking composition, 4'33", the film takes us on an immersive cinematic journey around the globe—from a traditional tea ceremony in Kyoto, to the streets of […]