Spirituality and Worship
Worship at Church of the Pilgrims—11am on Sunday mornings.
Child care provided for infants up to elementary age children
In 2003, Church of the Pilgrims re-designed its worship space to express the Biblical experiences of community, equality, intimacy, and the sacraments. Our worship at Pilgrims reflects these elements through storytelling, ritual, preaching, worship leadership, and how we receive and experience the sacraments of communion and baptism.
Our worship at Pilgrims evolves continuously as we create worship that is relevant to our own, individual lives and how we live out our faith in a world that needs peace and justice. Worship planning teams come together at various times throughout the year to reflect, plan, and imagine new and innovative ways to worship together. It is our hope that worship at Pilgrims is honest and attentive to our longing to connect with God, the stories of God, and to make certain our community is equipped to live out God’s Way in the city and world we live in.
The confirmation of Martinique Elsa Duran Gigax
While we seek new and imaginative ways of worshipping together, you can expect our worship to open with music and song, followed by community sharing of thanksgiving, a children’s circle, prayer, reading of the Biblical stories, sermon, community prayers, and a closing song. We serve communion on the first Sunday of the month. Baptisms take place throughout the year.
As Pilgrims in an intergenerational congregation, we plan our worship services so people of all ages can connect with God and the stories of Jesus. Children, families, young and old all take responsibility for the worship leadership at Pilgrims. 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.
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 inclusive and diverse nature of God’s creation. 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.
Click here for information on the Choir at Pilgrims.
