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  • Sunday Worship – Trinity Sunday, May 30, 2021

    Gathering The words God speaks are the life and sustenance of all that exists.  The life Jesus gives is the re-creation and renewed birth of all that is broken and worn. The Spirit’s stirring in our souls is the inspiration for creativity, compassion, joy, and community. Life-giving, life-restoring, life-fulfilling God. May our whole lives be worship. In all things, may we…

  • Kids Korner: Trinity Sunday (May 30th)

    Trinity Sunday The long green season is called ‘Proper’ or ‘Even time’, or sometimes the “Weeks after Pentecost”. This is how we spend half our year. During Even Time we listen to the stories of Jesus that are not part of Christmas and Easter: Parables, Jesus’ healing folks, Jesus’ teaching about God’s world and Jesus…

  • Teen Time: Understanding the Trinity (May 30th)

    Trinity Sunday The long green season is called ‘Proper’ or ‘Even time’, or sometimes the “Weeks after Pentecost”. This is how we spend half our year. During Even Time we listen to the stories of Jesus that are not part of Christmas and Easter: Parables, Jesus’ healing folks, Jesus’ teaching about God’s world and Jesus…

  • Sunday Worship – Pentecost, May 23, 2021

    Gathering The coming of the Spirit transforms the Christian community. Locked doors are opened. Fear is replaced by courage. Peace is proclaimed. The power to forgive sins is present. Those who were afraid now speak up boldly. Thousands hear the message in their own language. We join with our Christian siblings around the world to praise God and celebrate the coming…

  • Kids Korner: Pentecost (May 23rd)

    Pentecost Sunday Pentecost (red square) is a special day in the church year when we celebrate the beginning of the Church. While Jesus was alive, only those close to Jesus were taught how we should live. At Pentecost all of those followers started teaching others about Jesus, and the Holy Spirit helped everyone feel God’s…

  • Teen Time: Faith should be active, not passive (May 23rd)

    Pentecost Sunday Pentecost (red square) is a special day in the church year when we celebrate the beginning of the Church. While Jesus was alive, only those close to Jesus were taught how we should live. At Pentecost all of those followers started teaching others about Jesus, and the Holy Spirit helped everyone feel God’s…

  • Sunday Worship – Ascension Sunday, May 16, 2021

    Gathering Here today there is love, freely available to all. Not our human loving, fragile and intermittent, but God’s supreme love. Here today is love, higher than our loftiest hopes, deeper than the immensities of time and space, God’s inclusive love. Here today we gather in the name of the God of love. Come let us…

  • Kids Korner: Jesus leaves (May 16th)

    7th Sunday in Easter – Ascension Easter is not one day, it is an entire seven week season. During Easter we hear the stories of how Jesus appeared to his friends after his Resurrection. The last week in Easter is when we celebrate Jesus’ Ascension into heaven. Our Story Activity Read Luke 24:44-53 together. Do…

  • Teen Time: If God is good, why does God make bad things happen? (May 16th)

    7th Sunday in Easter: Ascension Easter is not one day, it is an entire seven week season. During Easter we hear the stories of how Jesus appeared to his friends after his Resurrection. The last week in Easter is when we celebrate Jesus’ Ascension into heaven. God is in the bad times because God is…

  • Sunday Worship – May 9, 2021

    Gathering Here today there is love, freely available to all. Not our human loving, fragile and intermittent, but God’s supreme love. Here today is love, higher than our loftiest hopes, deeper than the immensities of time and space, God’s inclusive love. Here today we gather in the name of the God of love. Come let us…