What can I expect as a guest?  

• 8:30 a.m. More traditional worship
• 9:50 a.m. Classes for all ages
• 11 a.m.    More contemporary worship

When you arrive, expect somebody to warmly greet you, hand you a bulletin and answer any questions you may have.   We try not to be too pushy or call awkward attention to guests.  We figure you're coming, first, to meet God and, second maybe, to meet and learn about us.

If you come a few minutes early, grab a donut and coffee at the kitchen window, just left off the lobby.  Or check out the bulletin boards on the walls down the hall to the right.  That's where the restrooms are, too.

Expect to to see folks dressed in everything from blue jeans to what a few still insist are "proper church clothes" (more dressed up).  Each to her own.  We know it's not what's on the outside that counts.

Worship is warm and winsome.  There's a movement to worship that -- when we pull it off -- leads us from thinking only about ourselves into an experience of God's gracious presence and a concern for others and the whole of creation. 

Expect a choir and hymns at the 8:30 a.m. service and a variety of songs led by our praise team at the 11 o'clock worship.  We share in the sacrament of communion each week -- passing trays at the 8:30 worship and coming forward to receive communion from a worship leader at the 11 o'clock service (directions are in the bulletin).  Welcomed to the Table are those who've put their faith in Jesus' 

Sermons start in the Bible, but like Christ they won't stay there; expect to hear about forgiveness, grace, discipleship, transformation (of persons and culture) and what it means to be a follower of Jesus in the achingly beautiful and broken world of twenty-first century life.

Our childcare workers are screened and trained.  Be reminded, kids of all ages are welcome in worship.  They're invited forward during both services to share in a brief Children's Time, after which they can return to their parent or head out, during the sermon, to Children's Church.

Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche, writes, "A community is only truly a body when the majority of its members is making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for the community', when each person's heart is opening to all the others, without any exception."  Worship is always sweeter when a majority of us come not just for ourselves but for the sake of God and the others with whom we worship.  Some Sundays, of course, some of us just need to be here for ourselves.  That's o.k., too.