Christian Formation
Weekly Offerings
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Growing in God's Love
Our youngest friends are invited to join us in Room 207 at 11:15am Sundays for lessons and activities exploring the parables Jesus told.
Parables invite us to think, to imagine life differently. They ask us to look at our own lives, to think about how we are living in the way that Jesus teaches. They help us to think about the choices we can make. Parables are not very tidy! Hearing them, we are invited to play with them, ask questions, and “mess around” with the story so as to understand what it meant to Jesus’ original audience and what it might mean for us today.
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Pastor's Bible Study - Genesis for Everyone
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.
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Foundations
Middle and high school youth are invited to engage these sessions exploring the foundations of the Reformed faith, worship, witness, and polity.
Find us in the 2nd Floor Conference Room after worship at 11:15am Sunday mornings!
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The Teacher - An Adult Study of Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes is one of the most provocative and honest books of the Bible, confronting life’s deepest questions about meaning, work, pleasure, wisdom, suffering, and death.
Through a guided survey of the text, the class will trace the Teacher’s search for meaning “under the sun,” grapple with the book’s apparent tensions and paradoxes, and consider how Ecclesiastes critiques false sources of fulfillment while directing readers toward a life of reverent trust in God.
Led by Director of Christian Formation Charlotte Elia Sundays at 11:15am in the Pastors’ Gallery.
Spirituality Workshops & Formation Events
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Requies Divina: Blissful Sleep Meditation - January 21 @ 7pm
Wear comfortable clothes for this time of guided contemplation and centering prayer for spiritual rest and renewal. Utilizing breath work and simple affirmations, this session should leave participants feeling more spiritually aware and physically relaxed.
Our session will last approximately 45 minutes. Free and open to the public.
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This Here Flesh - Joy - January 22 @ 10am
In this indelible work of contemplative storytelling, Cole Arthur Riley invites us to descend into our own stories, examine our capacity to rest, wonder, joy, rage, and repair, and find that our humanity is not an enemy to faith but evidence of it.
This discussion group meets in the 1st Floor Conference Room and is open to all. Led by Director of Christian Formation, Charlotte Elia.
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This Here Flesh - Memory - February 5 @ 10am
In this indelible work of contemplative storytelling, Cole Arthur Riley invites us to descend into our own stories, examine our capacity to rest, wonder, joy, rage, and repair, and find that our humanity is not an enemy to faith but evidence of it.
This discussion group meets in the 1st Floor Conference Room and is open to all. Led by Director of Christian Formation, Charlotte Elia.
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Taizé Prayer Service - February 11 @ 7pm
A Taizé prayer service is a meditative form of worship characterized by simple, repetitive chants, scripture readings, prayerful silence, and candlelight. It's a communal prayer experience aimed at fostering a sense of peace, spiritual connection, and reconciliation. Led by Roshan Chakane, Director of Music, and Charlotte Elia, Director of Christian Formation in historic Wyatt Chapel.
For a preview of music planned for this service, please visit our Spotify playlist.
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This Here Flesh - Liberation - February 19 @ 10am
In this indelible work of contemplative storytelling, Cole Arthur Riley invites us to descend into our own stories, examine our capacity to rest, wonder, joy, rage, and repair, and find that our humanity is not an enemy to faith but evidence of it.
This discussion group meets in the 1st Floor Conference Room and is open to all. Led by Director of Christian Formation, Charlotte Elia.
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Requies Divina: Blissful Sleep Meditation - March 11 @ 7pm
Wear comfortable clothes for this time of guided contemplation and centering prayer for spiritual rest and renewal. Utilizing breath work and simple affirmations, this session should leave participants feeling more spiritually aware and physically relaxed.
Our session will last approximately 45 minutes. Free and open to the public.
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The Lamentations of Jeremiah - April 4 @ 10am
Readings from the book of Lamentations have traditionally been used in observances of Holy Saturday to mark the despair, fear, and loneliness experienced in the time between Christ's death and resurrection. As the city of Jerusalem and the Temple of Solomon not only symbolized but actualized the presence of God among his people, so too did the physical body of Christ actualize the presence of God in this world. As the destruction of the first Temple was both a cultural trauma and a spiritual loss, so much more is the destruction of the Temple of Christ’s body.
Join us in historic Wyatt Chapel for this solemn meditation as Director of Christian Formation Charlotte Elia delivers these verses in unaccompanied plainchant. This program will last approximately 45 minutes.
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Requies Divina: Blissful Sleep Meditation - April 15 @ 7pm
Wear comfortable clothes for this time of guided contemplation and centering prayer for spiritual rest and renewal. Utilizing breath work and simple affirmations, this session should leave participants feeling more spiritually aware and physically relaxed.
Our session will last approximately 45 minutes. Free and open to the public.
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Taizé Prayer Service - May 13 @ 7pm
A Taizé prayer service is a meditative form of worship characterized by simple, repetitive chants, scripture readings, prayerful silence, and candlelight. It's a communal prayer experience aimed at fostering a sense of peace, spiritual connection, and reconciliation. Led by Roshan Chakane, Director of Music, and Charlotte Elia, Director of Christian Formation in historic Wyatt Chapel.
For a preview of music planned for this service, please visit our Spotify playlist.