East Liberty Presbyterian Church

May LGBTQIA+ Ministry Spiritual Gathering
2025-05-18 12:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
You are invited to the next Spiritual Gathering of ELPC’s LGBTQIA+ Ministry to share food and fellowship at the church. Allies and LGBTQIA+ folks alike are welcome.
Contact Wil Forrest at 412.441.3800 X218 or Wil@coh.net to learn more, to RSVP, and/or to participate. A Zoom option will be available if expressed need is communicated to Wil before the Friday preceding the gathering.
GOD CREATED YOU. GOD LOVES YOU. BE YOURSELF.

Pastor Michael’s Installation Service
2025-05-18 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York)
All are invited to the installation service of Rev. Dr. Michael Diaz on Sunday, May 18, 3 pm, in the Sanctuary, when the Pittsburgh Presbytery will officially install him as Senior Pastor of ELPC. A Pittsburgh Cookie Table reception will follow the service in the Fellowship and Garth Overlook Rooms.

Members and friends are invited to sign up for cookie contributions, sweet or savory, or you can also elect to bring other light snacks. Should your contribution have nuts as an ingredient, please note that as well.If you would like to donate your favorite cookies to the reception and/or if you are able to assist with setup/cleanup, please contact Jen King at JenK@coh.net or 412.441.2800 x222.

Online Prayer Service
2025-05-20 08:00 - 08:20, 2025-05-27 08:00 - 08:20, 2025-06-03 08:00 - 08:20, 2025-06-10 08:00 - 08:20 (America/New_York) | ELPC – Online, 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
ELPC offers an online prayer group each Tuesday morning, hosted by ELPC member Steve Evrard. These 20-minute sessions feature scripture readings, responsive prayer, and interactive dialogue. All are welcome at this opportunity for fellowship and prayer.
Join us by clicking the link below, or you may call in by dialing 929.205.6099. Enter meeting ID 896 9680 6662 and passcode 116 when prompted.
Join via Zoom

Meditation Hour
2025-05-20 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-27 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-06-03 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-06-10 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | ELPC – Chapel, 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
“The ladder leading to the Kingdom is concealed within you, that is, in your soul”—Saint Isaac of Syria.
Meditation is the practice of “looking deeply.” In silence and withdrawal from the world of everyday concerns, we turn our attention inward and calm our bodies and minds. In this emptiness, we may see the world as if for the first time. We may see others as they are and we may find that the Kingdom of Heaven is truly within us; that we are living in God and God in us.
The Spiritual Life Committee invites you to join John Benedict in the Chapel on Tuesdays, 6–7 pm, for an hour devoted to meditation. The session will include an opening reading, silent sitting, and walking. No experience necessary, all are welcome.
John Benedict is a retired psychologist and a longtime student and practitioner of Insight Meditation.

Labyrinth Prayer Walk
2025-05-21 10:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-22 10:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-28 10:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-29 10:00 - 19:00, 2025-06-04 10:00 - 19:00, 2025-06-05 10:00 - 19:00, 2025-06-11 10:00 - 19:00 (America/Halifax) | ELPC – McKelvy Room (114), 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
The labyrinth is an ancient, sacred symbol found in many religious traditions throughout the world. Today, modern pilgrims walk the labyrinth as one of many ways to pray and meditate. The winding path into the center and back out again is a metaphor for the journeys of life and faith. Unlike a maze, which has many paths and is a puzzle to solve, the labyrinth is a single path in and a single path out, and is designed to quiet the mind for prayer and meditation. Members and non-members welcome.

The Labyrinth is available on Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10 am–7 pm, in the McKelvy Room.

Cathedral Yoga
2025-05-21 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-28 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-06-04 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-06-11 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | ELPC – Sanctuary, 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
Yamuna Morgenstern offers Cathedral Yoga class on Wednesdays, 6–7 pm! Join her and others in the ELPC Sanctuary or your own home via Zoom (password: Yamuna) as she guides you through gentle poses. No yoga experience is necessary to enjoy the class, which Yamuna continues to offer with joy, light, and her uplifting playlists and spirit. Have a strap, scarf, or belt handy and experience time to heal your body, mind, and spirit.
Commune with the Divine through breath, gentle stretches, mindful music, and guided meditation. See you on the mat! Om shanti and Namaste.
A donation from the heart, to the church, is very much appreciated.
Join via Zoom

Taizé Prayer Service
2025-05-21 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-28 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-06-04 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-06-11 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Halifax) | ELPC – Chapel, 116 South Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
ELPC offers evening prayers with chants from Taizé every Wednesday, 7 pm, in the Chapel. The hour-long service includes sung prayers, beautiful music, a time of silence, spoken and silent prayers, and opportunities for individual prayer and anointing. For more information, view our Taizé page.
Download this week’s bulletin.

About ELPC’s Taizé Prayer Service
Our Taizé prayer service is based on a style of worship developed at the Taizé community in France founded in the 1940s by the late Brother Roger. Originally a refuge during the war, Taizé has developed into an ecumenical prayer center for visitors from all over the world. Today, the Taizé community is made up of over a hundred resident brothers, both Catholics and from various Protestant backgrounds/traditions. Taizé wants to be a sign of reconciliation between divided Christians and between separated peoples.

New Book Study: A Children’s Bible
2025-05-29 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
For their next book, the Environmental Team of the Justice Committee has selected A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet. This 2020 short fiction book is full of twists and turns.
A Children’s Bible follows a group of 12 eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their parents, the children decide to run away when a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, embarking on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside. As the scenes of devastation begin to mimic events in the dog-eared picture Bible carried around by her beloved little brother, Eve, the main character devotes herself to keeping him safe from harm.
Lydia Millet’s prophetic and heartbreaking story of generational divide offers a haunting vision of what awaits us on the far side that might overwhelm us.
We will discuss the book on Thursday, May 29, 7 pm, in the Fellowship Room and on Zoom. For further information and the Zoom link, contact Nancy Heastings at n.heastings@comcast.net.

Summer Worship
2025-06-01 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-06-08 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Halifax) | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
Join us for our Summer worship service in the Sanctuary on Sundays, 10 am.
Printed copies of the weekly bulletin and announcements are available, or you may download a digital version for viewing on your mobile device or tablet.
You also may join us via livestream on YouTube or Facebook.

See details for this week’s worship services here.

ELPC @ Pittsburgh Pride 2025
2025-06-01 12:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Downtown Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Our congregation is a proud participant in LAMP – LGBTQIA+ Affirming Ministries of Pittsburgh. We are excited to again celebrate Pride in Pittsburgh this summer. While there are many Pride events sponsored by different groups and in different neighborhoods around the area, the ONE Pride event LAMP will be participating this year is Pittsburgh Pride March and Festival on Sunday, June 1. The March will begin at noon on Liberty Avenue concluding at Allegheny Commons Park West where the Festival will take place. This is the link to the sign up sheet for volunteers to staff the booth on Sunday, June 1 – we need both lay and pastoral volunteers: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E48ADAB2DA4FAC25-56672328-pride.
Come out and celebrate while we share God’s love with all God’s people!
Read all about it on the ELPC Pittsburgh Pride Guide 2025

Taizé Social Gathering
2025-06-04 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
Join us on the first Wednesday of each month following our Taizé prayer service for a time of fellowship with some light refreshments in the Narthex.
Taizé is a unique spiritual community at ELPC, and we desire to have time for those who gather to get to know one another, converse, and move from solitude into community and expand the connection that exists amidst our prayerful songs and quiet meditation.
