Special Services

Visit our Worship Service Videos page to participate in the below events…

Christmas Services

* If you are looking for a quiet prayerful time of reflection or know a friend who might benefit, please join us on Wednesday, December 21, at 7:30 p.m. for our Longest Night service. Refreshments will be served after the service. (This service will not be streamed.)

Our Christmas Eve service (Saturday, December 24) will be at a new time: 4:30 p.m.

Christmas Day, December 25, is on Sunday this year. Please join us at our usual Sunday worship time: 9:30 a.m. We will be serving cocoa and cider while we sing many of our favorite carols. Attire is casual- Christmas sweaters and PJs!

Both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services will be streamed.

Holy Week

During the final week of Lent, we celebrate Palm/Passion Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter.

Sunday, April 5, 9:30 am: Palm/Passion Sunday we celebrate Christ’s entry into Jerusalem as a King of Peace and then follow his steps to the cross.

Thursday, April 9, 7:30 pm: Maundy Thursday service is a Tenebrae service with communion. We remember the night that Christ was betrayed and his final commandment, “Love one Another.” Maundy comes from the Latin word for commandment; Tenebrae is Latin for shadow or darkness.

Friday, April 10, 7:30 pm: Good Friday we worship using the last seven words from the cross and special music.

Sunday, April 12, 9:30 am: Easter we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

All Saints

We celebrate All Saints Day on the first Sunday of November. We remember and give thanks to God for the people who have died in the last calendar year. Worship that Sunday ends with a brief service in our memorial garden. If you would like to remember someone by name in our All Saints Service, please contact the church office by the Thursday before All Saints Sunday.

Christmas

Friday, December 24th at 6:30 pm, Christmas Eve Service sharing the story of Jesus’ birth through special music, Scripture and the singing of Christmas Carols by candlelight.

Sunday, December 26th at 9:30 am, the First Sunday of Christmas we sing Christmas Carols.

Confirmation

We offer confirmation classes for young people interested in confirming their baptismal vows. When you are ready to be confirmed, please contact the pastor.

Installation/Ordination

In our tradition, the offices of Deacon and Elder are ordained. They share the leadership with the pastor for their congregation. Following a period of instruction by the pastor they are ordained for life and are installed for three years of active service which can be renewed.

Youth Sunday

Join us when the children and youth of our congregation lead the congregation in worship through song, liturgy, and scripture. Children and youth are active in worship during the year as liturgists, musicians, and acolytes.

For more information about children and youth in worship please see the Sunday School page.

Ash Wednesday/Taize

Each Ash Wednesday Southminster shares in a Taize service, a form of worship that includes sung prayer, scripture reading, silence, and music. We offer Taize services on exceptional occasions as well, such as one we held for Haiti after its recent earthquake.