Sunday Service
Whether it's your first Sunday or your five hundredth, here's a look at our 10:00 AM worship.
Before worship begins, a lay or clergy member welcomes all to our service and invites us to offer up our prayers and be swept along by the beauty of our liturgy. We take our liturgy, but not ourselves, seriously.
Our worship service is an authentic expression of our community. There is an open and fluid relationship between the laity and clergy within our worship. A significant and diverse group of our parish serve as Eucharistic ministers, intercessors, ushers, bread bakers, and lectors.
Our choir is visibly indistinguishable from the non-choir members of our congregation, singing from the pews and dressed for a Sunday morning worship service Portland style: fleece and the occasional Birkenstocks.
At the peace, our community moves throughout the sanctuary, sharing the peace of Christ with old and new friends in every pew. When we exchange the peace and enter into the Eucharist, the intentional hospitality of our community converges with the sacramental hospitality of the Eucharist.
The bread for Eucharist is home baked and sometimes still warm when it is served at the altar. Coffee is available in the narthex throughout our service, and as the clink of ceramic cup and spoon co-mingles with the chanted Psalms, the authentic beauty our of our worship is created.
All are invited to join in the Eucharist, and this sense of sacred hospitality imbues every interaction on Sunday and differentiates it from mere friendliness. We invite all to God's table exactly as God made them: beautiful, imperfect, and human.
Whether it's your first Sunday or your five hundredth, here's a look at our 10:00 AM worship.
Before worship begins, a lay or clergy member welcomes all to our service and invites us to offer up our prayers and be swept along by the beauty of our liturgy. We take our liturgy, but not ourselves, seriously.
Our worship service is an authentic expression of our community. There is an open and fluid relationship between the laity and clergy within our worship. A significant and diverse group of our parish serve as Eucharistic ministers, intercessors, ushers, bread bakers, and lectors.
Our choir is visibly indistinguishable from the non-choir members of our congregation, singing from the pews and dressed for a Sunday morning worship service Portland style: fleece and the occasional Birkenstocks.
At the peace, our community moves throughout the sanctuary, sharing the peace of Christ with old and new friends in every pew. When we exchange the peace and enter into the Eucharist, the intentional hospitality of our community converges with the sacramental hospitality of the Eucharist.
The bread for Eucharist is home baked and sometimes still warm when it is served at the altar. Coffee is available in the narthex throughout our service, and as the clink of ceramic cup and spoon co-mingles with the chanted Psalms, the authentic beauty our of our worship is created.
All are invited to join in the Eucharist, and this sense of sacred hospitality imbues every interaction on Sunday and differentiates it from mere friendliness. We invite all to God's table exactly as God made them: beautiful, imperfect, and human.
