Blessing of the Backpacks
Mark your calendar and bring your backpack! As we celebrate the start of a new school year, we want to make sure all backpacks are blessed. Please bring in your backpack and receive a blessing tag as we gather to get off to a great start to the year.

Heritage District Gathering
Meet friends, including the District Superintendent LuAnn Rourke and the new Executive Assistant Sarah Gillette. Light refreshments will be available. No rsvp needed. There will be a chance to learn about grant funding and the District budget will be approved.
All Church Potluck
Join us and bring friends as we celebrate our church after Sunday Morning Worship and join in fellowship and fun AND FOOD. More info to follow. Great chance to introduce friends to our church!
VBS 2023 Celebration & Picnic
Join us for an all-churches picnic on Friday, June 23 from 5-7 pm. Come to the Hero Hotline Cave (aka the sanctuary) at 5 pm and see how the children have answered God’s call together, to serve, bring peace, and build each other up! Immediately following the presentation, we will enjoy food, fun, and fellowship in the pavilion (Fellowship Hall in case of rain). The picnic is open to all.
Outreach Adrian Inn Potluck
Join us Wednesday, May 17 at 5:15 pm at the Adrian Inn. Church to provide ham and scalloped potatoes. Congregation to bring sides and desserts. Sign up and RSVP at the Welcome Desk or call the church office.
Red Cross Blood Drive
Will need a few volunteers AND DONORS. Sign-up sheet at the Welcome Desk. Donors can sign up by scanning the QR code on the signs.
Eggstravaganza
Hop on by for our Eggstravaganza! Kids can walk through an interactive Easter story and get eggs at each story stop. Snacks and a make-and-take craft, too!
Epiphany Sunday
Join us for an Epiphany party. We will celebrate the culmination of the Christmas season and have an opportunity to move forward as we join the Magi in welcoming the Christ Child into our lives and hearts and spreading the greatest gift, God’s love.
Christmas Day Service
Christmas is on a Sunday this year and we will gather for worship at 9:30 am as usual. Our focus will be on #morehospitality, we’ll have a carol song (you choose!) and a less formal, more Christmas morning at our (church) home atmosphere – fuzzy slippers optional.
7:30 PM Christmas Eve Service
We will have two candlelight Christmas Eve services. The 7:30 service will be preceded by strings and brass ensembles at 6:45 pm. The 11:00 service will include communion.
Blue Christmas
A reflective service recognizing loss on the longest night of the year. Advent and Christmas is a time of great festivity and joy for the majority of people. It can also be a particularly difficult time for people who may be grieving a loss, for those who are living alone, or those who have painful associations with this time of year. Because of that, we will gather on the longest night – Wednesday, December 21 at 7:30 after WOW, in…
Author Visit
There will be a Tea and Author Visit for the women of the church Saturday, November 19, at 1 pm in the Lounge and Soul Café. Our speaker, Glenys Nellist, is an author of beautiful children’s books. She will share some readings and tell us her story of becoming an author. Please feel free to invite others to join us.