Home Worship Services
Earth Day Service
Focus: “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.”
Laity Sunday
Focus: Sue Maccalous, Poem by Mary Oliver Threshold Moment: Heather Davis, “Acknowledging and Honoring our own Sensitive Selves”.
Easter Service
L: Out of the earth Rises light, Rises life, Rises spring. All: May we join with the iracle that is springtime and enter into life with lightness and joy.
Maundy Thursday
L: Come and remember the love of Jesus, gathered at table with his friends. All: We come to receive from Christ the bread of life, the cup of blessing;
Restoration – Fifth Sunday in Lent
Focus: Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
Creativity and Healing – Fourth Sunday in Lent
Focus: A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupery Threshold
Stories – Third Sunday in Lent
Focus: “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou Threshold Moment: Centering Time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFjNxztJFKg&feature=emb_logo) Welcome: Gathering Music: Healing
“Safe Keeping” – Second Sunday in Lent
Focus: “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.”
– Coretta Scott King
“Treasure” – First Sunday in Lent
Focus: It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. —Joseph Campbell
“Love” – You are welcome here
Focus: “In the flush of love’s light / we dare be brave / and suddenly we see / that love costs all we are /
“Where Can I Go?”
Focus: Threshold Moment: Winter’s Light by Tim Janishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyr6GVeLno&t=96s Welcome: This week’s Psalm brings home this message: we are in an intimate relationship with God. There is nowhere
Hope and Healing
Focus: “Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.” ― David Richo Welcome: Music: God Is Holding Your Life
“I Still Have a Dream” – Martin Luther King Weekend Service
Focus: Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Threshold
God is Holding Us
Focus: “Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.” —Susan Sontag Introduction: God Is Holding Your Life
Shine On
Focus: “Today the Magi gaze in deep wonder at what they see: heaven on earth, earth in heaven, humanity in God, God in humanity, one whom