On this third Sunday of Advent, we welcome the Griffon String Quartet to provide special music in worship. Our children will also sing, and Jeff Verkuilen will substitute at the organ. Our From the Manger theme will have us consider how joy comes from the manger. Texts include Isaiah 12: 2-6 https://bit.ly/3PbBJpX and Luke 2: 8-20 https://bit.ly/3ZuCIpW and the sermon title is “Stirring Up Joy.”
Category: Worship
Worship Service December 8, 2024
On this Second Sunday in Advent, we continue our series on what comes From the Manger with a look at Luke 2: 8-16 https://bit.ly/49klVKs and Luke 10: 1-6 https://bit.ly/3OFugPq to discover how PEACE comes. Pastor Katie’s sermon is “The Peace of Christ.”
Worship Service December 1, 2024
This Sunday is the first Sunday of Advent! Our Advent theme has us considering what comes From the Manger: hope, peace, love, and joy. We will light the first candle on our Advent wreath as we look to Luke 2: 1-7 https://bit.ly/3ZoYj46 and see how the birth of the Savior brings hope to a weary world.
Thanksgiving Worship Service November 25, 2024
Please join us for our Thanksgiving Worship Service when we celebrate with members of First United Presbyterian in DePere and Wequiock Presbyterian. With members from each church we have a full choir of 22 singers.
2024 Season of Advent
Our theme for this year’s 2024 season of Advent is From the Manger.
Hunger is a universal human experience, drawing attention to our most basic needs for food and nourishment and our more complex needs—peace, liberation, and meaning in this life. So, it’s no wonder the story of Jesus—the one who came to feed the hungry—begins, ends, and centers around food.
From the Manger gathers around the birth story in Luke 2, embracing the playful symbolism of a newborn Jesus being laid down to sleep in a feeding trough in a town called “House of Bread”. Beginning Advent with the birth of Jesus may feel a bit unconventional, but we hope this liturgical dissonance will invite you to reflect on the life-sustaining hope, peace, joy, and love Jesus brings and notice how the baby born in a bread town continues to feed a hungry world today.
Christmas Eve 2024
Our Christmas Eve worship service will be held at 6:00pm on Tuesday, December 24th in the sanctuary.
Adult and children’s choirs will sing, the children’s message will be an extended story time, and familiar carols will be sung. Bring your family and friends to celebrate this special evening together.
2024 Blue Christmas
Thursday, December 12th at 6pm
For any of us who have experienced loss or are in the midst of struggles, the holidays can be a particularly painful time, stirring up grief in acute ways. As a result, churches of every denomination and style have adopted the practice of a “Blue Christmas” service. We continue this tradition with a Blue Christmas service on Thursday, December 12th at 6:00pm in the sanctuary.
This time of worship is designed to provide space for prayer, reflection, and remembrance in the midst of the holiday hustle and bustle. It will include special music, candle lighting, and the sacrament of holy communion.
All are welcome to join us for this contemplative service of worship. A dessert reception will follow in the Fellowship Room. Invite a friend or neighbor!
Griffon String Quarter in Worship
December 15th
You may have heard the monthly mid-week concerts, but now we are delighted to welcome the Griffon String Quartet to play for our Sunday morning 10am worship service on December 15th.
Don’t miss the opportunity to hear these four wonderful string players during this special season. Bring a friend or neighbor!
2024 Annual Pajamas and Carols Worship Service
Sunday, December 29th
Break out your favorite Christmas pajamas or ugly Christmas sweater or even just a festive tie—it has become our tradition to celebrate the Sunday between Christmas and the New Year by encouraging folks of all ages to wear pajamas or other seasonal garb to our 10am worship service!
The Worship committee will serve hot chocolate and donut holes BEFORE worship in the back of the Sanctuary. Our service will feature all the Christmas carols you want to sing one more time, and Bruce Deadman and friends on brass will add to our festivities.
Please join us!
Worship Service November 24, 2024
On this Christ of King Sunday, our readings are Revelation 1:4b-8 https://bit.ly/4g3GtZM and John 18: 33-37 https://bit.ly/3OmVjz3. Pastor Katie will preach on “Singing the Truth”.
