Faith Seeking Understanding

On September 12th, the times for both Sunday Services will change. The first service will begin at 9:30 AM and the second service will begin at 5:30 PM. We hope this slightly later time will make the first service more accessible both to parishioners and to the community while preserving our custom of an early main service.

The 5:30 PM Sunday Service will be something different. While we will keep the bilingual option, we will also be trying a bring a more casual, and a more meditative tone to the service. Darryl and Todd Houck will be helping with the music; and I hope, over the next several months, to develop an alternative worship experience at 5:30 PM. This will take a while, but bear with us, and help us with ideas and suggestions.

For a number of reasons, including the new Godly Play program on Sunday morning, we are going to change the 11:30 AM service to 5:30 PM on Sunday evenings, beginning September 5th. Darryl Knapp will be overseeing the music, and Doña Josie will be the usual Celebrant, although all of us will participate from time to time. We hope this change will both give us more time on Sunday morning, and allow us to try some less formal and more varied worship. When it is needed, the service will be bi-lingual.

Also, the Vestry and Rector are talking about the best time for our Sunday Morning service. We would like to hear from as many of you as possible on the idea of moving the time to 9:30 or 10:00 AM. We know that we can’t make everyone happy with this one, but we do want to do the best thing for the parish. Let us know what you think.