Spirituality and Worship
Each Sunday we give thanks to God, share our lives, hear the stories of our faith, renew our spirits, and discover strength and hope to meet the challenges of our daily lives. Sunday morning at Pilgrims is a participatory and energetic event, focused on biblical texts and all are invited to share in the act of worship. Members and friends of the congregation are invited to share in worship leadership and planning, bringing their own creative gifts and ideas. Our worship service provides a sacred opportunity to explore a blend of music styles, occasional drama, times for silence, and a lifting up of thanksgivings and prayer concerns. We serve communion on the first Sunday of the month. Baptisms take place throughout the year.
On any given Sunday morning you are likely to be led in worship with organ, piano, guitar, flutes, or even unaccompanied voices. It will only take a short while for a visitor to realize that there are few musical limits for us at Pilgrims. Our music is chosen to reflect the reign of God in all its truth beauty and goodness and to help our community to participate more fully in worship and to grow together. We sing music of many lands and times and peoples in our worship - music that faithfully reflects the lessons and the themes of our Sunday Liturgy: Praise songs, Taizé chants, Lutheran chorales, Gregorian chant, Gospel hymns, Genevan Psalter tunes, English hymns, spirituals, songs from Latin America and Asia. In other words: we sing everything from Gregorian Chant to Amy Grant.
The confirmation of Martinique Elsa Duran Gigax
As Pilgrims in an intergenerational congregation, we plan our worship services so people of all ages can feel touched by the spirit of God. We have a children's circle especially designed for our toddler and preschool age children and we work hard to incorporate the spiritual needs and concerns of young children into our worship life. One of our hopes at Church of the Pilgrims is that people can be themselves in the life of our congregation. We have the same hope for our children. We encourage children and parents to worship together and supply worship bags to help children be as calm and centered as possible. After the children's circle or reading of the Gospel lesson, children can go back up to their Sunday school room for child care. Child care is provided for infants during the full worship hour.
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