East Liberty Presbyterian Church

Taizé Prayer Service
2025-05-07 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-14 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-21 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-28 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.
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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.

Taizé Social Gathering
2025-05-07 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.

Labyrinth Prayer Walk
2025-05-08 10:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-14 10:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-15 10:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-21 10:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-22 10:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-28 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.

Youth Group
2025-05-08 16:30 - 19:00, 2025-05-15 16:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Thursday Nights is Youth Group for 7th-12th grade students. Together with Sixth Presbyterian church we share dinner, pray, play, and explore faith with the flexibility to do service projects, ‘field trips’, and whatever else we dream up! Register Online.
Teens in grade 7th-12th also meet for Breakfast on the first Sunday of the month from 9:45-10:45am and after church one Sunday a month for lunch and programing – see the full schedule here.

Gardening Crew Workday
2025-05-10 09:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
Each spring, a group of dedicated members and friends refresh the Highland Ave. entrance with beautiful flowering plants, so it is vibrant and welcoming, and the Courtyard, so it is a lovely setting for summer worship and weddings.
If you enjoy outside yard work, and want to help clean up our church grounds, please join Don Breitbarth and the Garden Crew on Saturdays, April 12 & May 10.
Green thumbs are not required—just bring your energy, curiosity, and a pair of work gloves to the Highland driveway around 9 am. We typically wrap up around noon.
Questions? Email Don Breitbarth or call 412.225.7649.

Getting to Work at GCF
2025-05-11 12:15 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
Families are invited to join us after worship on Sunday, May 11, 12:15–2 pm, to volunteer at Garfield Community Farm. Lunch will be provided at the farm. Please bring a water bottle filled with water. Tools and gloves will be provided.

Online Prayer Service
2025-05-13 08:00 - 08:20, 2025-05-20 08:00 - 08:20, 2025-05-27 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
2025-05-13 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-20 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-27 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.

Club 116
2025-05-14 16:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York)
Kids in 1st-6th grade gather for Bible study, crafts, games in the gym, and dinner together.
Registration is required and can be completed online.

Cathedral Yoga
2025-05-14 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-21 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-28 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

Community Meal
2025-05-16 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | ELPC – Good Samaritan Room, 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, United States
The ELPC Neighbors Committee is piloting a Community Meal for our neighbors on Friday, May 16, 5–7 pm.

If you are interested in volunteering, or learning more about this new ministry, please contact Gerald McClendon.

JourneyDance Class
2025-05-16 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Halifax)
Join Yamuna Morgenstern for JourneyDance on the third Friday of every month from 7–8:30 pm.
Come experience one of ELPC’s unique spiritual practices and offerings. JourneyDance takes you on a journey within through playful dance in a non-judgmental environment. The playlists are designed to open up your chakras, move your Spirit, experience positive vibes, and have fun! JourneyDance is all about responding to music the way you want to respond—no rules, no groping, no ugly lyrics. Join us and dance in healthy community to release tension, feel good, relax, restore, and renew your body, mind, and spirit.
All ages and bodies are welcome. No dance experience necessary, just a joy of moving. Young children should be accompanied by their care givers. Wear comfortable clothing, and you may want to have a water bottle handy!
A donation from the heart, to the church, is very much appreciated.

Alternative Transportation Challenge
2025-05-18
The Environmental Team of the Justice Committee would like to challenge the ELPC congregation to lower its transportation carbon footprint, which is one of the largest contributors to carbon emissions. We can make an impact by working together to care for God’s creation, and help reverse inequities caused by climate change.
Join the challenge on Sunday, May 18, by getting to ELPC biking, walking, carpooling, using public transportation, or driving a hybrid or electric vehicle. If you are already doing this, great! Your carbon savings will be included! If you can’t do one of these, we have alternate ways that you can participate. Information will be available after services on Sunday, May 11, to assist you in making a plan or sign up to carpool with others in your area.
On Sunday, May 18, we will gather data as people arrive, and report on the total carbon emissions saved compared to single occupancy gas vehicles. Secure indoor bicycle parking will be available in the Harambe Room. Members with electric vehicles and a biking champion will be present to demonstrate and provide information.
Contact Nancy Heastings for more information

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.
