Come to Pilgrims on Tuesday evening, June 2nd (we'll start at 5pm, but you can come any time really), and help make soup to share with our neighbors at Open Table. We chop and stew up a bunch of soups to freeze and share later. We'll have all the supplies and directions! You just need to show up and cook! Hope to see you there!
5th Sunday Worship at Western - 5/31
On Sunday, May 31 we will meet at Western Presbyterian Church for a casual, conversational worship service in the Courtyard Room - WITH MUFFINS! We’ll be reading from Acts 2 and we’ll be talking about the shared values in our blended Western/Pilgrims community.
Bring your favorite muffins to church - whether you have a favorite recipe from your grandma, a new gluten-free recipe you've been wanting to try, maybe you're known for your egg-bake made in muffin pans, or perhaps you're great at buying whatever the grocery store has on sale - we hope you'll bring some muffins to share!
We will still sing, and pray, and read scripture, and explore God's call together, but on this special fifth Sunday of the month, we'll do all that, WITH MUFFINS!
Hope to see you at Western on May 31st!
Summer Worship Planning Meeting - 5/21
Come to Western Pres (2401 Virginia Ave) on Thursday 5/21 at 6:30pm to help plan our summer worship series. Bring your ideas, suggestions, favorite hymns, best jokes, cool books, and whatever else you’d like to contribute to the conversation. No experience or special skills needed! Hope to see you there!
Craft Night is Back! 4/24
Come to Pilgrims on Friday, April 24th at 6pm (or whenever you can make it) and let's craft together. Do you have a knitting project sitting on your shelf? Just began a new crochet item? Maybe you make cards or scrapbook or have been trying out embroidery? One time someone was even making food art! Bring a craft you enjoy, or come learn a new one. Oh, and we'll have snacks! Hope to see you there!
Church Trip to the Tulip Festival - 4/12
After worship on Sunday, 4/12, let's head across the river to check out the Tulip Festival at The Netherlands Carillon (1400 N Meade St, Arlington, VA 22209). The flowers will be in bloom, they'll have live carillonneurs playing, and all sorts of good fun. Take the metro, carpool, bring a blanket and a snack, and let's check it out together!
Holy Week Schedule
Come and be a part of Holy Week with Western and Pilgrims:
We’ll begin Holy Week with Palm Sunday at Pilgrims with our 11am worship service which will be a journey from the palm procession to the passion story.
On Maundy Thursday, we’ll gather at Pilgrims at 6:30pm for a bit of story and supper. Come, bring some food to share, and experience the Holy Week story in an informal service around tables.
On Good Friday, we’ll hold open space for anyone who would like to come and reflect and pray at Pilgrims from 11am - 1pm.
On Easter Sunday, at 6:30am we’ll gather with folks from several local Presbyterian congregations on the West side of the Capitol Reflecting Pool for a sunrise service.
Then, at 11am on Easter morning, we’ll share in a full worship service at Western Presbyterian Church, with an egg hunt to follow worship!
Lent with Western and Pilgrims
In John 10:14, Jesus tells the people, “ I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and my own know me…”
We will read this text on Ash Wednesday, and think deeply together of what it means to be known by the Holy One, and what it means to get to know that Holy One. Throughout the season of Lent, we’ll dig into knowing - getting to know the prayers of one another’s hearts through our homemade Lenten Devotional, featuring the daily prayers of our own congregation. Getting to know the passion story in a deep way, as we follow the Narrative Lectionary’s cycle of readings through the passion story from the Gospel of John in our Sunday worship. And then praying about knowing and being known at mid-week Sacred Supper gatherings, where we will share a meal and a bit of silence and sharing together. Come and get to know God this Lent. Come and be known this Lent.
Details:
Ash Wednesday worship is on 2/18 at 7pm at Western.
Sacred Suppers are Wednesday nights at 6:30pm at Western
Lenten Devotionals - available Sunday at worship!
Soup Night - 2/10
Help us chop, simmer, and stew as we make soups for the upcoming weeks of lunches with Open Table (our ministry where we share a meal with hungry neighbors every Sunday). No special knife skills required. Just show up at Pilgrims on Tuesday 2/10 any time after 5pm and help make a bunch of soups to store and freeze for the next couple of months. See you there!