We welcome your visit, and look forward to seeing you in person. We welcome anyone who is seeking Jesus.
When you enter the service, someone will be there to greet you. As our services are intentionally not elaborate, you should be able to follow along with little effort. If you want someone to sit next to you to explain what is occurring, please feel free to ask.
We do not have any expectations as to how visitors dress. Often the men wear a button-down shirt and dress pants, commonly referred to as “business casual.” Women normally wear a dress or skirt and cover their long hair with a covering or veiling. This is not expected of visitors. Come as you are.
Children are very much a part of our lives individually, and of our church as a whole. We appreciate the blessing of multi-generational worship so children usually stay with their parents or other adults during the entire service. On Sunday mornings there are Sunday school classes for children 3 years and older from 9:00 – 10:00 and then families sit together for the main service.
On a Sunday morning, the service begins with us singing some worship hymns. The congregation sings in four-part harmony without accompaniment. Don’t worry if you have never done this before, we invite you to participate. After a brief devotional meditation, the Sunday School classes are dismissed. The classes conclude at 9:55 and return to the auditorium. From 10:00 – 11:00 there will be a message from the Bible taught by one of the ministry. If the leader calls for people to kneel in prayer, we face the seat we were sitting on, towards the back. If you would prefer not to kneel, just keep your seat. Some of us do this as well.
We look forward to seeing you!
John 15 (NIV)
The Vine and the Branches
1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command.