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Until the Dawn - An Advent Sermon Series
Every Advent, we light candles. We prepare with pageants and presents. Yet, in the midst of our busy waiting, we know all too well that the world is not as it should be. God’s promises are real, and God’s promised day has not yet come. This tension keeps us yearning—for a new day, a new way, a world made new.
This series focuses on the actions we can take as we move through the night with hope for tomorrow. As we move toward the horizon, we will cry out, start somewhere, speak up, take courage, build up, and choose joy. These actions help us resist despair and put our prayers in motion—trusting that God joins us in the work of Advent.
Christmas Eve Worship
Three options for Christmas Eve worship:
4:00pm is child-centered worship, with activites, lessons, stories, and music best for children and their families.
8:00pm is traditional, with candles, choirs, scripture, sermon, and communion
11:00pm is reflective, contemplative, a smaller more intimate service that carries us to midnight with songs and communion.
Breakfast Church - Sunday after Christmas
The Sunday after Christmas, we gather for a casual Christmas worship service around breakfast tables,.
Epiphany / Star Word Sunday
The first Sunday of the new year, we remember how a simple star overhead led travelers to a miraculous discovery. How will your life change in this new year? We each receive a “star word” as a guide and reflection for our new year.
World Communion
On this special Sunday, the first Sunday of October, churches all over the world come together despite our differences and share communion with one another. This table extends through time and space to bring us closer to wholeness.
REBOOT
"Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your whole self..." — Romans 12:2
What is really in our control? What alternate path could we take? What could we delete from our lives? If you need to reboot back to holy, healthy priorities, this series is for you.
VBS Celebration Sunday
While humans are a part of God's creation, we will explore the needs of every living thing for shelter, food, water, air, and community. We will gather for worship with songs and dance, share dinner together, rotate through craft, game, and story stations, then regather for closing worship. We want every child to know God created and loves ALL of creation, and to grown in our compassion for all our fellow humans and the more-than-human world.
Faces of our Faith - a summer sermon series on ordinary people of faith
There are many heroes of the faith, people we admire and wish to be. However, there are even more ordinary people of faith—those doing what they can with what they have to make a difference. This summer, we’ll dig deep into the bold and untold stories of those often overlooked in our biblical narratives, hoping these characters remind us that we all play a role in shaping God’s story of redemption and grace.
Holy Spirit - a sermon series on the Spirit of God
How do you imagine God, as a wise old grandparent with soft hands, or maybe as a young Palestinian Jew in sandals with a sparkle in his eye? Scripture imagines God as fire, wind, breath, clouds, rushing waters. Over these three Sundays, we open our assumptions of God, and remember the mystery of a God who is also spirit, love itself.
All Creation - a sermon series on this precious planet
We call this God “creator.” God creates all things, creates the universe, this planet, and all things in it, including us. God calls all of God’s creation good, and gives us responsibility to steward creation wisely. How are we doing? Can we better stewards of God’s good garden, or will we find ourselves battling the land?
Easter Morning Worship
On Easter morning, trumpets blow! Choirs sing! Bells ring! Join the surprising celebration of a risen Lord. Even when political and religious forces conspired to silence the prophet of peace, God raised him from the dead. His way is more true than any other way, and leads to a full and amazing life, now and forever. (Egg hunt and Fellowship following!)
Easter Sunrise Worship
On the third day, some women approached the tomb where Jesus was buried. They went to properly bury him. Instead, they found him missing, risen, alive! Do we have the faith to walk toward death? Would we try to hold onto him, or run and tell all the world of life’s victory? Join us for this Sunrise Easter worship in the Memorial Garden.
Holy Saturday, Dusk in the Greenspace
Jesus was dead and buried. Those who hated him assumed they had silenced him. Those who loved him grieved, doubted, and hid. At this special service, we gather at dusk to wonder, which parts of us still resist and betray him? Which parts of us say they would follow, but hesitate?
Good Friday, Open Sanctuary
From noon to 3pm, the sanctuary will be open. There will be space for study, prayer, reflection, journaling, listening, whatever you may need to fid some direction and comfort. Pastors and/or Deacons will be available to listen and pray with you as well.
Maundy Thursday Meal and Worship
As Jesus came close to his death, he gathered with disciples in an upper room, and shared a meal. Even as we remember our own role in the brokenness of this world, we dare to imagine Jesus sits with us, breaks bread, and teaches us to re-member his broken body into the kin-dom of God.
Everyday Spirituality - a sermon series for Lent
In her book, Altar in the World, Rev. Dr. Barbara Brown Taylor imagines how to awaken our spirit in the simplicity of our daily routines. This Lent, we will let her book and scripture reteach us how to activate our spirit in the biggest and littlest moments of daily life.
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday is a special, solemn worship service. We gather together to remember…. God made us from the dust of creation, and one day, we will return to dust. Do we dare trust and believe that we always were and always will be loved by God? We also start our All-Church Lenten Study using Adam Hamilton’s book, 24 Hours that Changed the World.
Transfiguration Sunday
There’s a story about Jesus where he was “transfigured” before his followers. His appearance changed, and they saw him speaking with great prophets. Do we dare notice Jesus in our world today?
Resolute - a sermon series on 5 Stones of Faith
What is FAITH? The way Jesus teaches it, there appear to be 5 key stepping stones on our way to solid faith. Join us in person or online for worship these 5 Sundays to seed and strengthen a healthy faith.
The Abbey - weekly contemplative worship
This weekly worship service is contemplative, in the style of the Iona and Taize Communities in Scotland and France. There are readings from scripture and maybe poetry, songs old and new. The lights are lower, voices softer, and neighbors closer. If you seek an intimate, personal worship experience, join us.
Epiphany/Star Word Sunday
The first Sunday after the 12 days of Christmas is often celebrated as “Epiphany Sunday”, a day when the star led the way for others to find their way to Jesus. In this special service, we too look for the stars of light in our world, guiding us to God’s justice and love. We each choose a STAR word for the year, as a mantra, a prayer, a reminder to stay close to God as the world pulls us away.
Christmastide Sunday
Christmas is more than a single day. The twelve days of Christmas include as least one, sometimes two Sundays. On this Sunday in the Christmastide, we hear the story of infant/toddler Jesus already perceived as a threat to political powers. We see how far evil will go to prevent God’s kin-dom from coming on earth as it is already in the heavens. Love, justice, and peace seem too costly, but they are God’s only way.
Christmas Eve - Traditional with Choirs (Copy)
This casual, candlelight service takes us up to midnight. Come in your pajamas if you’d like! The songs and stories are simple, but they point to the unbelievable truth of a God who loves so much, and sends God’s owns self among us. We share communion and depart into the darkness with little lights of hope.
Christmas Eve - Traditional with Choirs
Liturgy and lights, carols and choirs, scripture and sermon, liturgy and the Lord’s Supper. The majesty and mystery of a God who comes among us as one of us, in the flesh, gives us goosebumps. We are carriend into the awe and beauty of a child who is strong enough in his weakness to heal a broken world. Join us at 800pm, then linger for something warm to eat and drink before return to our homes.
Christmas Eve - Children and Families
This special service is designed to fully include children in the story of Christmas. Think of it as a Christmas play with no rehearsals. There are costumes, props, scripts, and songs. We help children (and any others who are willing) find a way to participate as you enter the door. Afterward, we’ll share some snacks and s’mores around the fire pit, and give out goodie bags to every young one. Merry Christmas!
Advent - What Do You Fear?
Every Advent, we light candles, sing carols, and pray for Christ’s coming because we believe God entered a frightened world to bring good news. We hold onto hope because we believe that Christ did come—that’s the promise of the season. Our hope is not flimsy or fleeting. It’s gritty, resilient, and can endure—no matter what we fear or face. This season, let us insist on hope and trust that good news is greater than fear.
CVMA Interfaith Thanksgiving Gathering
Each year, on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, the Chester Valley Ministers Associations gathers a diverse collection of clergy and community leaders to guide us in an Interfaith Thanksgiving Gathering and worship service.
Christ the King Sunday
Christians have no other king than Jesus. On this special Sunday in the Christian year, we denounce all other allegiances and loyalties to any power or principality other than the God we know in the loving, compassionate, self sacrificing Christ. Communion is served and open to all who hunger.
All Saints Worship
We gather in the memorial garden under candlelight to give thanks to God for those saints we have loved and lost… our parents, our spouses, our family, those near and dear to us. Tears will flow, and we might laugh a bit as well, as we tell old stories and believe nothing separates us from the love of God.
Dreaming God's Dream - Stewardship 2025
The Rev. Bryan Sirchio originally wrote a song “Dream God’s Dream” for a youth retreat in 1991. Bryan observes, “I wanted to remind the youth that Martin’s ‘dream’ was actually God’s dream… The challenge of course is for us all to do what’s ours to do to make sure that the ‘Dream’ doesn’t just remain a dream. It needs to become reality.”
Artist Adrian Sanchez, currently incarcerated in a California Institution for Men, created the “Process of Life” painting as part of an arts program funded by a local congregation. Sanchez’ art reminds us the chick can become the rooster, that no gift is too small to help make God’s Dream a reality.
Over these weeks, we will wonder, “How can we help make God’s Dream a reality?”
Worship - Easter
On this Easter morning, we blow the trumpets, blast the organ, and celebrate God’s victory over sin, evil, and death. Come celebrate that live and love are our source and our destination!
Worship - Easter Sunrise
On this Easter morning, we begin a little after sunrise in the memorial garden. Much like the first apostles went to the garden to see him and found him raised not dead, we gather on this morning trusting we will find the same again!
Worship - Good Friday
Why do we call this day good when it is the day Jesus was crucified, died, and was buried? We trust that not even death has the power over this good and loving God.
Worship - Maundy Thursday
We remember the “Last Supper” and Jesus’ last (greatest?) command that we love one another as he loves us. Soup supper at 600pm, and worship right after at 700pm