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September at FCUCCSR


The Long Way Home: Life as a Spiritual Path


Worship: 8:30 and 10:30 am, Sunday morning


Come and be with us on Sunday morning


Sept. 14
Exodus 17: 1-7
Water! Water!


Sept. 21
Exodus 19:1-25 - selected
Approaching Mystery


Sept. 28
Exodus 20:1-20
Mountaintop Law

 

We have two worship services at First Congregational United Church of Christ. At 8:30 a group of us meets for The Gathering. The Gathering is an informal time of worship where we talk, pray, sing and each week, celebrate communion. The10:30 service is our more formal worship celebration. At 8:30 we have piano and guitars. At 10:30 we use the organ and the choir is present.

Worship is a time for spiritual formation. Gathering together each week our heats are opened to one another and to God. Encountering one another in this way we are transformed. We worship By Heart, involving our whole selves in the worship experience, asking God’s presence in our togetherness. Worshipping by heart we are privileged in our encounter with God.

 

“The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.”

--Dorothy Thompson, US journalist.


Worship at First Congregational is a time for opening to God’s presence

in our lives. Our worship celebration is one of out loud joy and contemplative quiet. Our music is contemporary and traditional. We laugh, we cry, sing and pray as our hearts are opened to the Holy One. During worship, we are present to one another in love. As one body we engage our lives at the deepest level, finding that, at root, we are the beloved community. Worship is our deepest expression of what it is to be human.

Once a month we share our worship with the First Samoan Congregational Christian Church of Santa Rosa, reaching across cultures for our common life in God.


First Congregational United Church of Christ  •  2000 Humboldt St., Santa Rosa, CA 95404  •  707-546-0998
Sunday Services - 8:30 a.m. THE GATHERING - 9:15 a.m. Over Coffee - 10:30 a.m. Worship Celebration- Children's Sunday School