Upcoming Worship

Sunday Morning Learning Hour & Worship Schedule

Learning Hour for All Ages

Sundays at 9:00 am

During the Learning Hour, the congregation will be invited into a forum presenting and discussing a variety of topics. Also during the Learning Hour, children and youth are invited to the Gathering Place for Faith Explorers, a time of sharing in play, faith, and community!

  • Every Sunday — Faith Explorers

    Children and youth are invited for a time of sharing in play, faith, and community. Meet in the lower level of the church

  • April 28 Forum

    Reflections on Life and Health and Daily Breath, led by Pastor Carol Tomer ** A special invitation to cancer alums to be present for this forum

  • May 5 Forum

    Myths, Risks & Resurrections: The Story of One Congregation “In the Model of Christ for the Life of the World.” Pastor Kathy Hawks, recently retired after 35 years serving small, medium, and large congregations in the Pacific Northwest, including Our Redeemer’s Lutheran in Ballard

  • May 12 Forum

    Whose Vision? Seeing through the Eyes of God and Neighbor, Joey Ager, Bishop’s Associate and Director of Evangelical Mission, Southwestern Washington Synod, ELCA

  • May 19 Forum

    Christian Nationalism: Its Roots and Its Presence in the United States, led by Professor Seth Dowland, Pacific Lutheran University

  • May 26 Forum

    NO LEARNING HOUR

  • June 2 Forum

    TBA

  • June 9 Forum

    Holy Imagination for Building Community: The Power of Imagination, Community-Driven Practices, and Dreaming, Deacon Andrew Larsen — Program Manager, Transformed Listeners Initiative, a part of the Young Adult Communities team of the ELCA churchwide staff

Worship, followed by Fellowship

Sundays at 10:00 am

This fall, we will have a varied liturgical rotation, offering several different styles, which will include: New Life Rising, a contemporary liturgy that is especially accessible for all ages, often with percussion and guitar; A Reformation/Renaissance Liturgy, that will draw upon music of Martin Luther’s era and the church’s long-standing treasury of hymnody and chorales; and A Liturgy of Reform and Protest (in the spirit of the Protestant Reformation), based on music that is newer.

  • April 28 — Fifth Sunday of Easter, A Service of Healing with Laying on of Hands, Blessing of the Quilts, Pastor Carol Tomer preaching

    This will be a special healing service. During this worship service, you will be invited to come up to the front of the sanctuary and sit in chairs. You need not say anything or name the kind of healing you need. You are simply invited to come forward and have a prayer said for you, while hands are laid on your head and arms and shoulders by others in the congregation standing beside or behind you, as we all join in a prayer that will be printed in the worship booklet. We all come to this ritual of prayer for healing as wounded healers, each in our own need and each of us as instruments of healing in the body of Christ for one another. I hope that you will plan to share in this special worship service. For more background about this service, please read this blog post about the service.

  • May 5 — Sixth Sunday of Easter, Holy Communion, New Life Rising Liturgy, Blessing of the Communion Ministers to the Homebound, Visions of the Renewal of the Church Sermon Series, Guest Preacher — Pastor Kathy Hawks, recently retired after 35 years serving small, medium, and large congregations in the Pacific Northwest, including Our Redeemer’s Lutheran in Ballard

  • May 12 — Ascension Sunday, Generous Commitment Sunday, Visions of the Renewal of the Church Sermon Series, Guest Preacher — Joey Ager, Bishop’s Associate and Director of Evangelical Mission, Southwestern Washington Synod, ELCA

  • May 19 — The Festival of Pentecost, Holy Communion, Pastor Carol Tomer preaching

  • May 26 — Trinity Sunday, Pastor Bergen Eickhoff preaching

  • June 2 — New Life Rising, Holy Communion, Blessing of the Communion Ministers to the Homebound, Pastor Bergen Eickhoff preaching

  • June 9 — Liturgy of Global Renewal, Graduation Sunday, Visions of the Renewal of the Church Sermon Series, Guest Preacher — Deacon Andrew Larsen, Program Manager, Transformed Listeners Initiative, a part of the Young Adult Communities team of the ELCA churchwide staff

  • June 16 — Hymn Festival: Pulling Out All the Stops — The Joy of Organ Music, Holy Communion, Welcome of New Members, Pastor Carol Tomer preaching (Note:  We will be delighting in other musical instruments during the upcoming three months of outdoor worship!)

  • June 23 — First Outdoor Worship Sunday, Pastor Carol Tomer + A light lunch follows worship, as we move toward the Congregational Meeting that begins around 11:30 am

For communion, we will continue with intinction (dipping wafers into the wine/grape juice), and we will begin using a “divided chalice.” That means that we will use a chalice that has two sections within it — a bigger section for wine, and a smaller section for grape juice. And, the plate with the wafers will be similar, with a smaller section for the gluten-free wafers.

Worship will NOT be livestreamed. Video recordings of the sermon will be posted on Sunday afternoon at 3pm on Facebook, YouTube, and here on the the website