Sunday Services
Upcoming Services:
December 15, 2024. How True Love Equals Patience
Rev. Amy McCormick, Worship Leader
Ivy Lobato, Worship Associate
It’s the third Sunday in Advent and we light a candle for Love. How many more ways can
we talk about love, its miracle, it’s presence and practice? In this waiting time, in the work
of learning how to be absolutely present to our lives, what role does patience play? What is
it anyway? How do you know you’ve got it? What does it have to do with love?
December 22, 2024 A Single Song can Tell a Life Story
Worship Arts Team leads a Hymn Sing service.
Join us for this fun service where our Worship Associates choose their favorite holiday
Hymns for us to sing complete with personal stories and reflections. It will be a rich hour to
enjoy making music together and getting to know one another a little better.
Cayla will offer holiday crafts for all ages during this Multigenerational service.
December 24, 2024 - 4:30 pm “Come In, Come In” Christmas Eve service
Rev. Amy McCormick
Margi Pulkingham, Worship Associate
Mary Oliver’s Poem inspires our Christmas Eve theme this year. What magic, what love,
what adventure, what learning, what challenge and struggle have we been getting ready
for? As we sing and light candles, as we share in precious community, let us say to one
another and to the fullness of our lives, Come in, Come in! This place is ready for you.
Dear Lord, I have swept, and I have washed but
still nothing is as shining as it should be
for you. Under the sink, for example, is an
uproar of mice—it is the season of their
many children. What shall I do? And under the eaves
and through the walls the squirrels
have gnawed their ragged entrances—but it is the season
when they need shelter, so what shall I do? And
the raccoon limps into the kitchen and opens the cupboard
while the dog snores, the cat hugs the pillow;
what shall I do? Beautiful is the new snow falling
in the yard and the fox who is staring boldly
up the path, to the door. And still I believe you will
come, Lord: you will, when I speak to the fox,
the sparrow, the lost dog, the shivering sea-goose, know
that really I am speaking to you whenever I say,
as I do all morning and afternoon: Come in, Come in.
© Mary Oliver 2006
Published by Beacon Press in Thirst, p. 13
December 29, 2024 - Transforming Grace
Rev. Jacquie Robb, Worship Leader
Kerri Vacher, Worship Associate
Artist Kim Krans wrote, “My art is not my magnum opus. My magnum opus is the constant practice of not knowing, and not having the answer, yet showing up in devotion to the search. In this way, I remain a student, trusting that one door opens the next and that more will be revealed.” As the old year transforms into the new, we look back at 2024 to reflect how Divine Intelligence has led us and what we have learned about walking the path of grace, inspiration and love.