Category: Worship

Commitment Sunday and Dinner

Cheri Simonet
Imagine Generosity Campaign 2024

November 10th

Imagine this: cello music by Jesse Nummelin of the Griffon String Quartet, an anthem by our own choir, and increased commitments of time, talents and treasure to the glory of God!

Our annual generosity campaign will conclude on Sunday November 10th as we dedicate our pledges in worship and imagine what God wants of us in our next year. We hope that you have ‘been framed’ in one of the picture frames and added to our gallery of imaginings, and that you have added your own post-it note visions for what our impact could be in the coming year to the frames in the sanctuary.

Your pledge to the work and ministry of our church in 2025 will help us all to imagine the next great things God is doing among us. Remember to bring your pledge card to worship and plan to stay for a celebration lunch in Banner Hall catered by Renards. All are welcome!

Joint Thanksgiving Worship Service – November 25, 2024

Cheri Simonet

We Gather Together to Ask the Lord’s Blessing

It is our turn to host the joint Thanksgiving worship service with our sisters and brothers in Christ from First United Presbyterian Church in De Pere!

We will gather here on Monday, November 25th at 6:30pm in the sanctuary. Choir members from both churches will join to be directed by our Music Director, Michael Raught.

A homemade pie and hot apple cider reception will follow the service in the Fellowship Room. Come give thanks with us!

Confirmation Sunday

Cheri Simonet
Confirmation

November 24th

In the Presbyterian tradition, young people confirm the faith their parents chose for them when they were baptized as infants.

Five students from our congregation have been working for more than a year on topics including scripture review, worship, beliefs, church history, and much more. They have contributed to the design of a Sunday morning service for November 24th and will share their personal statements of faith with the Session prior to that date.

Please join them in celebrating faith as well as doubt in the journey on Sunday, November 24th.

Worship Service October 27, 2024

Cheri Simonet

This 23rd Sunday after Pentecost, our readings are Mark 10: 46-52 https://bit.ly/3NFE9MJ and Ephesians 3: 14-21 https://bit.ly/4fm3lU7 and Pastor Katie preaches “Just Imagine”.

Worship Service October 20, 2024

Cheri Simonet

On this 22nd Sunday after Pentecost, we continue our focus in Mark’s gospel with Mark 10: 35-45 https://bit.ly/4dJw97S and Pastor Katie’s reflection on “Reserved Seating”.

Worship Service October 13, 2024

Cheri Simonet

On this 21st Sunday after Pentecost, we turn to a familiar story from the gospel of Mark 10: 17-31 https://bit.ly/400IYaC about the rich man who asks Jesus what he should do to obtain eternal life. Pastor Katie will reflect on “One Thing We Lack”.

Worship Service October 6, 2024

Cheri Simonet

On this first Sunday of October we celebrate with Christians around the world for World Communion Sunday and receive the Peace and Global Witness offering. Nancy Siewert will offer the message “Flinging Seeds Everywhere” based on Luke 8: 4-8 https://bit.ly/4eI8beJ and Zechariah 8: 12, 16-17 https://bit.ly/3XQcldd.

Worship Service September 29, 2024

Cheri Simonet

On this 19th Sunday after Pentecost, Pastor Katie’s reflection is on Switching the Operating System. Our readings are Psalm 1 https://bit.ly/3TOytDi and James 3: 13-4: 3, 7-10 https://bit.ly/4eFRwIJ.

World Communion Sunday and International Food Potluck

Cheri Simonet
World Communion Sunday

Sunday – October 6, 2024

World Communion Sunday began way back in 1930. The PC(USA) has long promoted this occasion with encouragement to its churches to not just offer “communion as usual”, but to explore the use of different breads, global music, and creative liturgy to enter into the spirit of the celebration and allow congregations a taste of the sacrament from our sisters and brothers around the world.

We will celebrate this year with Christian churches around the world as we share the sacrament together on Sunday, October 6th. Each tray passed will offer several different kinds of bread from which to choose, symbolizing different communities around the world who share the sacrament with us. We look forward to a special message in this service from Taylor Wittman, currently serving in the Peace Corps in Albania.

International Food Potluck

Following our celebration of World Communion on Sunday October 6th, the congregation is invited to a very special potluck lunch in Fellowship Room.

We will continue the global community emphasis by inviting your international food contributions for the potluck—plan to try out a new recipe or bring a favorite from your own ethnic background, but the point is to have a wide variety of foods from around the world as our lunch together. We first tried this last year and had a great time tasting Swedish meatballs, Greek lasagna, Indian curry and more.

Bring a label for your item with ingredients listed or make one with blanks provided here as you drop it off that morning. We want to inform everyone about what they can expect as we enjoy fellowship around the tables and sample foods we may have never tasted before!

Imagine: Picture the Possibilities

Cheri Simonet
Generosity Campaign

The Generosity Team is hard at work designing a creative way to consider the future of our church and the responsibility the whole church has to contribute to that future.

Sundays in our Generosity campaign this year will be October 27th, November 3rd and November 10th. We are grateful to everyone who has answered our request for large empty picture frames—watch for how those will be used in the Sanctuary and Fellowship Room in the coming weeks!

For now, you are simply invited to begin to imagine: imagine what God wants us to look like, imagine what our mission outreach could become, imagine what we could do as a congregation if we had the resources needed to move into our future with faith.