Our Ministries

  We gather for worship each Sunday at 10:45 a.m. Our service usually ends at noon. We sing a mix of traditional and contemporary hymns during worship. We share our joys and concerns with each other and our ministers include our joys and concerns in their pastoral prayers. Our ministers usually select a sermon text from the Revised Common Lectionary and preach teaching sermons that explore the Biblical context of the good news and apply it to our lives today. The high point of each service is our sharing of the loaf and cup.  

Children up to age 8 meet for Sunday School during worship. Children follow the Grow Proclaim Serve curriculum.

Adults read and discuss theologically engaging and provocative books on Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. We meet by Zoom; non-members of the church are welcome to join us on Zoom. 

 We love to eat together. We meet for fellowship dinner on the second Sunday of each month, immediately following worship. Everyone brings a pot-luck dish to share. 

We have an ice-cream social each August with three-legged races and water balloons.

 We take a group outing each month. The activity is based on a letter of the alphabet. Recent outings included M for First Nations Museum, O for Omniplex and P for Paseo..

 We are a Green Chalice Congregation, committed to caring for God's creation. We have planted trees and cultivated gardens on our lands to produce fresh fruits and vegetables.  A Green Team was formed in summer 2013 to explore practices that the congregation could adopt to become better stewards of the environment. The Green Team adopted the Alverna Covenant during worship on November 3, 2013, and the congregation was recognized by Disciples Home Missions as a Green Chalice congregation.  https://www.discipleshomemissions.org/missions-advocacy/green-chalice/

 The congregation voted unanimously on March 25, 2012, to become an Open and Affirming congregation and to adopt an Open and Affirming covenant. We believe that each person is a child of God; we recognize the human body and sexuality as a gift of God, not something to be ashamed of.  https://www.mightycause.com/organization/Disciplesallianceq