Featured Events

friday | april 7 | 7:00 PM | physical gathering and streaming

Good Friday: worship gathering

Good Friday, the Friday before Easter Sunday that commemorates Jesus’ crucifixion and burial has become a tradition of our own at theeffect. We move into a more contemplative posture and give the day its reverence and gravity. With the cross covered in purple as the church has done for millennia, images depicting Holy Week scenes of Jesus’ passion roll in the background as we delve into the deeper meaning of these events and their relevance to us today. We have communion together and spiritually nail our cares and concerns to the cross in preparation for the new life of the resurrection.

Come join us In person or online Friday evening, April 7th starting at 7PM for a time of connection and introspection at the end of the Lenten season that will take you on a journey toward Easter.

If you’re joining us virtually from your computer, iPad, or smart phone go to our Video and Streaming page here and simply click the play button in the streaming window. To fully participate, set a small table with bread and grape juice or wine for communion and pens and paper for each family member to write their cares, concerns, or prayers to symbolically nail to the cross as we will be doing in our sanctuary.

sunday | april 9 | 10:00 AM | physical gathering and streaming

Easter Sunday: worship gathering

Easter Sunday, the morning of the day that changed everything two millennia ago is just as present today if we allow. In fact, that’s the meaning of Easter, of resurrection, that life continues, that Jesus is just as present to us now as he was to his first followers if we are present and paying attention. Our Easter gathering reflects these convictions with a recounting of the events of that amazing day with a focus on how we enter the story ourselves. 

Come join us in person or online Sunday morning, April 9th starting at 10AM for a time of remembering the origin of Easter and the message of new life that is central to our lives as followers of Jesus. With a music-filled message that takes us back to the emotions and thoughts of Jesus’ first followers as they begin to realize that he still lives, we’ll have communion together and will decorate the cross with fresh cut flowers as the symbol of new life Easter represents.

If you’re joining us virtually from your computer, iPad, or smart phone go to our Video and Streaming page here and simply click the play button in the streaming window. To fully participate, set a small table with bread and grape juice or wine for communion and fresh cut flowers for each family member to place in a vase or some special place in your home to symbolize new life as we cover the big cross with flowers in our sanctuary.

wednesdays | 6:30PM | online study

book study: The Practice of the Presence of God

Our weekly book study is beginning a new study starting Wednesday, March 1st @ 6:30P PST on the book, The Practice of the Presence of God, Br. Lawrence.

Our Book Study remains online via Zoom connection. Click here for links and more information.

The Practice of the Presence of God is a spiritual classic that is really a collection of conversations and letters from Br. Lawrence of the Resurrection, a 17th century, French Carmelite monk. Starting life as a poor, uneducated, peasant and soldier, Br. Lawrence, from the kitchen of his monastery as lowly cook, created a personal discipline and way of practicing a constant awareness of God’s presence that transported him into a radically different way of perceiving life. He inspired those around him, and through his few surviving letters, notes of conversations he had with a friend, and a few other bits, he has continued to inspire us for over three hundred years.

All our book studies deal with better understanding our spiritual formation and especially, contemplative practice, and after working through Falling Upward, a look at second half of life spirituality, the direct simplicity of Br. Lawrence’s practice of presence seemed a perfect way to make second half spirituality an intimate reality.

Come join us Wednesday nights at 6:30P PST to dive into a different world of experience and a different level of presence.

Since this is an online study, you’ll need to get your own copy of the book. The Amazon link is here. It’s important to get this specific edition or we won’t be able to follow each other in the study. There are many translations, versions, editions available that vary greatly. Amazon shipping should be quick, but order as soon as you can.

Hope to see you on the little screen for this!

tuesdays | 6:30 PM | online

Conversations: applying faith to life

Sunday morning messages go by quickly.

And the format doesn’t give time for the processing and discussion that gets us down to real understanding–and maybe more importantly, how concepts and issues actually apply to daily life and make it better. Tuesday evenings, we’ll dig back into material from the previous Sunday to discuss, dive into completely new topics, hear personal stories, see how our faith applies to real life…and makes it better.

During the current virus outbreak, Conversations will be online via Zoom connection. Click here for links and more information.

Join us Tuesdays: 6:30PM PST.

first mondays of month | 6:30 PM | online gathering

Prayer: stronger together

Since the pandemic started, we’ve been isolated to one degree or another, and the issues we face individually and collectively, in our families, community, nation, globe seem to have increased exponentially.

Praying together and having time to talk about the issues we face and for what we’re grateful, to listen and support and realize God’s empowerment in our lives is what this gathering is all about. Come join us online to pray and support each other when we need it most.

You can pray with us through Zoom connection online. Click here for links and more information.

Join us on the first Monday of each month: 6:30PM PST.