Worship Services

Longing for Homesickness – Presenter, Danika Monarski Negative emotions such as homesickness and sorrow allow us to appreciate the beauty in having things precious enough to miss.

Stuck on Repeat: The Stuff We Love to Hate - The Rev. Brian Mason, preaching We say we believe in change—until someone actually tries to. This Sunday, we’ll look at what happens when forgiveness is withheld like a prize instead of offered like a practice. How do we become people who believe in growth, even...

From Blisters to Blessings Every pilgrimage—whether across miles or through a season of life—leaves its mark. The journey can be long, the load uneven, and the blisters real. But along the way, something shifts: we’re changed not just by where we’re going, but by how we walk and who we walk with. This Sunday, we’ll...

Building and Engaging Our Church Community - Led by the Conflict Transformation Team Our diversity and differences can make us a stronger and richer congregation. The members of the newly formed Conflict Transformation Team will share information, insights, possibilities and resources we’ve gathered to serve our beloved church community.

Questions of Faith What if faith isn’t about having the right answers, but about learning to live with the questions? Join us as we explore how uncertainty can deepen our spiritual lives, and why the questions we carry might be the very path to connection, meaning, and hope.

Dogs and Their Bones – The Rev. Brian Mason, preaching “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” A sermon on treasure, love, and the strange things we cling to.

The Untouchables - The Rev. Brian Mason, preaching How grace breaks barriers, heals what’s hurting, and frees us from the labels that hold us back.

Lessons from Listening to Sargasso – led by Juanita Sundberg, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia In this presentation, I offer lessons learned from listening to sargasso, a seaweed currently landing in unprecedented volumes on Caribbean shores. Listening to seaweed, I suggest, challenges our imagined separation from nature and invites us into...

Water Communion & Ingathering Join us as we begin the 2025 – 26 church year with our beloved Water Communion service! Everyone is invited to bring a small container of water, whether from summer travels or a meaningful place closer to home, to add to our shared waters. Community Focus Collection (CFC) On the third...

Learning to Bless What We Cannot Fix – The Rev. Brian Mason, preaching In a world quick to offer answers, what do we do with the wounds that can’t be healed and the problems that can’t be solved? This Sunday we’ll reflect on the quiet, transformative practice of blessing — of seeing and naming goodness...

The Mercy of Being Forgotten – The Rev. Brian Mason, preaching We fear being forgotten, and yet sometimes forgetting is mercy itself. History, God, or the universe holds more than we can carry—the good, the bad, and the unfinished. What does it mean to live knowing that we are part of a story far larger...

Life Believing In Itself – The Rev. Mark Richards, preaching We are a nation divided by fear. Some say it is an existential fear of those who have a fundamentally different understanding of truth and reality.  Others say it is a manufactured fear, generated by those seeking power playing on the unconscious prejudices of a...