These words, typically selected from a Psalm, remind us why we have gathered. We are in God's presence; Christ himself is our host, and his invitation includes us all.

Singing is one of the ways our theology (thinking about God) becomes worship (loving God) in experience.  We sing songs that focus on who God is as well as how we relate to Him based on what He has done for us in Christ. Singing can involve praise, lament, prayer and rehearsing the story to remind our hearts what is true.

We take a few moments to greet one another because it reminds us that we are saved by Christ into a family and that our experience of Christ is always as a community.

We join with followers of Jesus from all over the world in seeking God’s presence, wisdom, and truth by reading and reflecting on passages selected from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Scriptures. We read these words as a proclamation of our belief, a confession of our need, and a celebration of our faith in the promises of God. Often these readings are selected from the Revised Common Lectionary, a widely used three-year cycle of Bible readings for Christian worship, organized by the liturgical seasons of the church year.

A prayer to God offered by a different person each gathering, giving thanks, asking help, remembering together before God the needs of our church, our community, our nation, and of the whole world.

Together we declare our common faith in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, through a scripture passage read aloud together, or through a creed such as the Apostle’s Creed or the Nicene Creed.Item description

In light of God's word, our lives show up as sinful. So we reflect and pray silently and through reading a corporate confession. As a company of the forgiven, we nevertheless need a reminder of God's compassionate faithfulness to us. We hear gladly the words assuring us that, in Christ, God has forgiven us and restores us to life.Item description

The center of our gathering is the Lord’s Supper, during which we experience the mystery of the presence of Christ among us. This Holy Communion is a time to remember the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus as central to our faith.

Our time of teaching and proclamation is centered around one of the day’s scripture passages. The purpose of the sermon is to examine the scriptures and consider their implications for us today.

While we do not pass an offering plate, we take a moment to pray for and bless our tithes and offerings to the work of God through our church. Offerings can be given online here.

Words of blessing that assures worshipers that God's presence continues with us in the world no less than in worship, in our separation from each other no less than in the gathered service.