Our youngest friends are invited to join us in Room 207 at 11:15am on Sundays for lessons and activities exploring the Bible

New Testament passages such as 1 Corinthians 15:20-28, 42-49, and Romans 5:12-21 portray Adam as the representative of a fallen, broken, death-bound humanity that finds redemption in the saving work of Christ. This comparison invites us to seek an understanding of the gains of our salvation through an examination of the losses experienced in our expulsion from Eden. In this class we will first study relevant scripture passages through this lens before engaging major historical and contemporary perspectives.

Sundays after worship at 11:15am in the Pastors' Gallery. For youth and adults.

Join this study of John Goldingay's Genesis for Everyone beginning June 4. Led by Pastor Gordon Mapes, this class meets on Wednesdays from 10-11am in the 1st Floor Conference Room.

In this wise, entertaining, and educational book, Amy-Jill Levine offers a fresh, timely reinterpretation of Jesus’ narratives. In Short Stories by Jesus, she analyzes these “problems with parables,” taking readers back in time to understand how their original Jewish audience understood them. Levine reveals the parables’ connections to first-century economic and agricultural life, social customs and morality, Jewish scriptures and Roman culture. With this revitalized understanding, she interprets these moving stories for the contemporary reader, showing how the parables are not just about Jesus, but are also about us—and when read rightly, still challenge and provoke us two thousand years later.

Led by Director of Christian Formation, Charlotte Elia. For youth and adults. Sunday morning at 11:15am in the Pastors’ Gallery. Copies of the study are available by contacting celia@chesterpres.org.

Wear comfortable clothes and bring a mat and a pillow for this time of guided contemplation for spiritual rest and renewal.

Wednesdays at 7:30pm in Room 214.

Pandemics and war, social turmoil and corrupt governments, natural disasters and environmental collapse--it's hard not to watch the signs of the times and feel afraid. But we can journey through that fear to find hope. With the warnings of a prophet and the lively voice of a storyteller, Choctaw elder, Episcopal Bishop, and theologian Steven Charleston speaks to all who sense apocalyptic dread rising around and within.

We'll continue this discussion with chapter 7, “Prophets: We are the Axis Points of the Apocalypse.”