
Welcome to the beginning of our church program year! As we all return from summer vacations and endure the last heat wave of the season (hopefully!), we invite you to come lift your voices in song and prayer together in the sanctuary on Sunday mornings at 10am (also on livestream). Rev. Will Burhans will offer a reflection on […]

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music. (Johann Sebastian Bach) Speaking to one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs of the Spirit, sing and make music to the Lord from your heart…(Ephesians 5: 19) It is hard to believe that summer days […]

Join us on Sunday for worship at 10am in Ripley Chapel or online. Laurie Roby will be preaching a sermon entitled “Lost and Found” based on the scripture in John when Jesus asks Peter to feed his sheep. Rev. Lucy Sanders will be offering a special piece of music with Todd Gordon. And we’ll have an opportunity to […]

Join us on Sunday at 10am in Ripley Chapel or online for a sweet summer worship service. Rev. Jonathan Goodell will be preaching a sermon entitled “Ruffled” and Janet Vaughn and Todd Gordon will offer some special music. There will be time for prayer and singing and simply being together as we orient ourselves once again at […]

Join us at 10am in Ripley or online for another lovely summer worship service. This week Julianne Zimmerman will be preaching, Scott Nicholas will be leading our music and Carol Weir will offer a special piece on classical guitar. It’s the first Sunday of August so we will also share in communion together. Come be […]

The doors of Ripley Chapel will be wide open to welcome you in this Sunday at 10am for our summer worship service and our live-stream door will be open to you as well. This week, just days away from our country’s 4th of July celebrations, Rev. Eileen Morris will be preaching on the theme of freedom. […]

Come join us in person or online for our final service in the sanctuary before we move into Ripley Chapel for the beginning of our summer services. This will be the last service with the full choir for the season and Rev. Will will share the second part of his 2-part sermon on his 30-Day retreat. Come […]

Join us this Sunday for our closing worship service of the program year where we’ll hear from Rev. Will about what rises when you let the dust settle with 30 days of silence and prayer, appreciate some of our Sunday morning volunteers, say goodbye to a couple of families who will be leaving us this summer […]
Taizé chants + prayers + candle lighting Wednesday, June 14, 2023, 7:30 p.m. Live in-person from the stunning Ripley Chapel As we welcome the return of the light and the coming Summer Solstice, please join us for a joyful and poignant service, featuring the ecumenical prayers and gorgeous musical chants of France’s Taizé community. All […]

Memory … fascinating and fickle at times … is our topic for this Sunday. We will explore the ways we shore up memory in our lives. And we will respond to the Holy Spirit’s gift of new memory… the special resources of our faith that keep essential memory, core memory, memory that undergirds our identity … alive […]