Join us for worship THIS SUNDAY, 3/8
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Third Sunday in Lent
Deep Calls to Deep 3/8 @ 10am ET, LIVE! on-site & online via Zoom at http://zoom.us/j/907548568 Jesus meets a Samaritan woman at the well and asks her for a drink, and the conversation just flows from there. Conversation, not a lecture. Conversation, not a sermon. In fact, it’s the longest single conversation Jesus has with anyone in the Gospels, and maybe the deepest and most personal. At the end of the day, she tells her friends that she felt seen and heard and known by Jesus. “Deep calls to deep” between them, and the world is turned upside down. (John 4:5-42) |
Save paper! Download a bulletin.
We have printed bulletins and slides on-site for you to participate in worship, but if you're worshiping online and/or you'd like to help us save paper, download a PDF version for yourself here.
To download a bulletin for this Sunday, CLICK HERE
To download a large print bulletin for this Sunday, CLICK HERE
We have printed bulletins and slides on-site for you to participate in worship, but if you're worshiping online and/or you'd like to help us save paper, download a PDF version for yourself here.
To download a bulletin for this Sunday, CLICK HERE
To download a large print bulletin for this Sunday, CLICK HERE
Yes! There is Sunday school this Sunday.
Kids in Pre-K–Grade 5 will be invited to come forward for the “Time Especially for Children” during worship, then head out to Sunday School in the Reception Room (in the hall on the way in) with our Director for Children & Youth, Darlene Wong, and our volunteers.
Kids in Pre-K–Grade 5 will be invited to come forward for the “Time Especially for Children” during worship, then head out to Sunday School in the Reception Room (in the hall on the way in) with our Director for Children & Youth, Darlene Wong, and our volunteers.
To download this week's coloring page for all ages, CLICK HERE
Baby Basics Groceries Collection
Each Sunday in worship, we collect specific core proteins for the groceries we give to the families accessing diapers through Baby Basics every other month. We're looking for large jars of natural (no sugar added) peanut butter; small cans of tuna in water; large cans of chicken; and bags of dried beans.
Each Sunday in worship, we collect specific core proteins for the groceries we give to the families accessing diapers through Baby Basics every other month. We're looking for large jars of natural (no sugar added) peanut butter; small cans of tuna in water; large cans of chicken; and bags of dried beans.
What is Lent? What can it be?
Lent is a church season that runs for 40 days (plus Sundays--long story) from Ash Wednesday through Easter Sunday. It's a time of reflection, repentance, grace, and recommitment to spiritual growth. It’s a pilgrimage, of sorts, with deeper loving relationship with God, our neighbors, and ourselves as the goal. In worship, we will walk with Jesus as he sets his face toward Jerusalem and moves into direct conflict with the secular and religious powers there for the sake of God’s liberating Gospel–a journey which will end in his murder by the state. Except it doesn’t. No matter how challenging the journey, God promises it will end in Easter resurrection and abundant life, or it’s not the end.
Lent is a church season that runs for 40 days (plus Sundays--long story) from Ash Wednesday through Easter Sunday. It's a time of reflection, repentance, grace, and recommitment to spiritual growth. It’s a pilgrimage, of sorts, with deeper loving relationship with God, our neighbors, and ourselves as the goal. In worship, we will walk with Jesus as he sets his face toward Jerusalem and moves into direct conflict with the secular and religious powers there for the sake of God’s liberating Gospel–a journey which will end in his murder by the state. Except it doesn’t. No matter how challenging the journey, God promises it will end in Easter resurrection and abundant life, or it’s not the end.
Lenten Book Group
Hope: A User’s Manual
How do we cultivate hope to face each day? How do we find the energy to persevere, knowing things don't always work out OK, no matter what the platitudes say? How do we pursue the work of justice, knowing that the task is too big for any of us? One thing is certain: real hope demands that we do something with it. That we live it out. That we use hope to participate in a bigger story playing out behind the bleak world we see on the news or in our social media feeds every day. If you're a human being who longs for a spiritual counter-narrative to live by, this book points to one resilient enough to endure crises and crushing defeats.
Over the course of the Lenten season, we’ll gather to read and reflect on Hope: A User’s Manual by Maryann McKibben Dana. Most weeks there will be both an on-site only group Sundays after worship AND a Zoom-only group Wednesdays @ 7-8:15pm at our regular worship Zoom link: http://zoom.us/j/907548568 You are invited to attend either or both as fits your schedule. A few weeks will be Zoom only due to conflicts with Sunday programming. See schedule below:
Hope: A User’s Manual
How do we cultivate hope to face each day? How do we find the energy to persevere, knowing things don't always work out OK, no matter what the platitudes say? How do we pursue the work of justice, knowing that the task is too big for any of us? One thing is certain: real hope demands that we do something with it. That we live it out. That we use hope to participate in a bigger story playing out behind the bleak world we see on the news or in our social media feeds every day. If you're a human being who longs for a spiritual counter-narrative to live by, this book points to one resilient enough to endure crises and crushing defeats.
Over the course of the Lenten season, we’ll gather to read and reflect on Hope: A User’s Manual by Maryann McKibben Dana. Most weeks there will be both an on-site only group Sundays after worship AND a Zoom-only group Wednesdays @ 7-8:15pm at our regular worship Zoom link: http://zoom.us/j/907548568 You are invited to attend either or both as fits your schedule. A few weeks will be Zoom only due to conflicts with Sunday programming. See schedule below:
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*Chapter 1: WED 2/25, COMBINED ZOOM-ONLY
Chapter 2: SUN 3/1 & WED 3/4 Chapter 3: SUN 3/8 & WED 3/11 |
*Chapter 4: WED 3/18, COMBINED ZOOM-ONLY
Chapter 5: SUN 3/22 & WED 3/25 Chapter 6: SUN 3/29 & WED 4/1 |
Coming Up Next Sunday, 3/15
A Man Born Blind and Jesus
with a Special Guest Preacher
3/15 @ 10am, LIVE! on-site & online via Zoom at http://zoom.us/j/907548568
Jesus heals a lot of people, but the story usually called “Jesus and the Man Born Blind” is one of the longest and most detailed meditations on illness, disability, and healing. And it’s one of the few times where the experience of the disabled person–in this case, the “man born blind”--is centered in the text. So it’s fitting that our guest preacher, a person who lives with disability themselves and has a ministry centering the needs and gifts, the whole personhood of disabled people will share their experience with us. (John 9:1-41)
A Man Born Blind and Jesus
with a Special Guest Preacher
3/15 @ 10am, LIVE! on-site & online via Zoom at http://zoom.us/j/907548568
Jesus heals a lot of people, but the story usually called “Jesus and the Man Born Blind” is one of the longest and most detailed meditations on illness, disability, and healing. And it’s one of the few times where the experience of the disabled person–in this case, the “man born blind”--is centered in the text. So it’s fitting that our guest preacher, a person who lives with disability themselves and has a ministry centering the needs and gifts, the whole personhood of disabled people will share their experience with us. (John 9:1-41)