Sunday Service at 10 am: In-person and on Zoom
ADA access through red chapel door on SE Harrison
Whether it's your first Sunday or your five hundredth, here's a look at our worship service
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.
For our disabled guests: Entrance to the Church for Sunday worship is through the handicapped accessible ramp and door on Harrison. As you enter, you will pass by a small chapel on your left, and continue straight into the main church sanctuary area. Several areas within the pews as you head down the center aisle have been prepared as spaces to accommodate wheelchairs or walkers. If you would like to join in the Eucharist, you are invited to approach the altar and the Priest and a Eucharistic Minister will come down the altar stairs to you, bringing the consecrated bread and wine. Our usher on duty can assist you with questions or directions.
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, Zoom hosts, and lectors.
Children are welcome throughout the service, beloved as their most authentic selves which often includes wiggling, some noise and movement. An art area is set up for children in the back of the church, with paper, crayons, and some children’s books, and children are welcome to be there, or to sit with you, or to go back and forth as you and the Spirit find best. Children are invited to come to the altar with you during the Eucharist, either for a blessing or to join in the taking of bread and grape juice. Children are also welcome at Coffee Hour, following the service.
Our choir is visibly indistinguishable from the non-choir members of our congregation, dressed for a Sunday morning worship service Portland style: fleece and the occasional Birkenstocks.
At the Peace, our community moves throughout the Sanctuary and within Zoom, sharing the Peace of Christ with old and new friends in every pew and Zoom window. 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, gluten, dairy, and nut-free, and sometimes still warm when it is served at the altar. Our recipe is found here. Wine and grape juice are both available so that all may partake in whatever way feels best for them. Coffee and snacks are available after the service, as we continue communing together by socializing and caffeinating in the Parish Hall.
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.
Our coffee hour following the Sunday worship is located directly across the hall from the Sanctuary, and there are no stairs or changes in floor level between the Sanctuary and the Parish Hall where the coffee hour is held, and you are invited and welcome.
ADA access through red chapel door on SE Harrison
Whether it's your first Sunday or your five hundredth, here's a look at our worship service
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.
For our disabled guests: Entrance to the Church for Sunday worship is through the handicapped accessible ramp and door on Harrison. As you enter, you will pass by a small chapel on your left, and continue straight into the main church sanctuary area. Several areas within the pews as you head down the center aisle have been prepared as spaces to accommodate wheelchairs or walkers. If you would like to join in the Eucharist, you are invited to approach the altar and the Priest and a Eucharistic Minister will come down the altar stairs to you, bringing the consecrated bread and wine. Our usher on duty can assist you with questions or directions.
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, Zoom hosts, and lectors.
Children are welcome throughout the service, beloved as their most authentic selves which often includes wiggling, some noise and movement. An art area is set up for children in the back of the church, with paper, crayons, and some children’s books, and children are welcome to be there, or to sit with you, or to go back and forth as you and the Spirit find best. Children are invited to come to the altar with you during the Eucharist, either for a blessing or to join in the taking of bread and grape juice. Children are also welcome at Coffee Hour, following the service.
Our choir is visibly indistinguishable from the non-choir members of our congregation, dressed for a Sunday morning worship service Portland style: fleece and the occasional Birkenstocks.
At the Peace, our community moves throughout the Sanctuary and within Zoom, sharing the Peace of Christ with old and new friends in every pew and Zoom window. 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, gluten, dairy, and nut-free, and sometimes still warm when it is served at the altar. Our recipe is found here. Wine and grape juice are both available so that all may partake in whatever way feels best for them. Coffee and snacks are available after the service, as we continue communing together by socializing and caffeinating in the Parish Hall.
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.
Our coffee hour following the Sunday worship is located directly across the hall from the Sanctuary, and there are no stairs or changes in floor level between the Sanctuary and the Parish Hall where the coffee hour is held, and you are invited and welcome.
