Quaker Kids – Collecting for the Community

Quaker Kids – Collecting for the Community

This Sunday (September 17), we are going to start a new “regular thing” during worship service. Ministry & Counsel invites everyone that comes to Sunday worship to bring an item or two with them that can be donated to local helping organizations. Some suggestions...
Joe and Andi (a children’s message)

Joe and Andi (a children’s message)

What are you waiting for? This is a story about a brother and sister named Joe and Andi. Joe and Andi lived together in a house on a small farm with their mother and father. Joe, who was four years older, was the big brother; Andi, who was four years younger, was the...
Quaker Clutter Sale

Quaker Clutter Sale

Come one, come all, we’re having a Quaker Clutter Sale! It’s Saturday, July 22nd, from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Everything will be laid out in our basement, which you can enter from the wheelchair accessible door on Mulberry St, or by coming in through...
Mary and Martha

Mary and Martha

Set your burdens down.  Set your expectations down, and center.  Hear these words from Mary Oliver: I don’t want you just to sit down at the table. I don’t want you just to eat, and be content. I want you to walk out into the fields where the water is...
Self-directed Worship Service on the Beatitudes

Self-directed Worship Service on the Beatitudes

[Quotes taken from here.]   Opening Song:   Gathering Moment: Dietrich Bonehoeffer: “Humanly speaking, we could understand and interpret the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. Jesus knows only one possibility: simple surrender and...
Fall 2021 Conversation Series: Living Witness

Fall 2021 Conversation Series: Living Witness

2000 years ago, give or take, Christians believe that Jesus was raised from the dead. This remarkable event is retold in the ancient versions of the Gospels, in the familiar strains of Handel’s Messiah, and literary allusions from A Tale of Two Cities to Harry Potter...
Preparing for Worship: The Lord’s Prayer

Preparing for Worship: The Lord’s Prayer

This devotional experience is meant to introduce you to this Sunday’s passage and offer you paths for reflection. Please go through it at your own pace, lingering on the aspects that are most meaningful for you.  One time Jesus was praying in a place. When he...