We gather again this year for Lent, and to gather as the community of God gathered in mission, service, and worship together in Marion. This year, our worship will be online, and shared with our community in a prerecorded format. Videos will be posted to premiere at 6 pm on Tuesday evenings in Lent, as woudl be our time if we were…
* 1200 South Carbon Street *Marion, Illinois * Sunday School at 9:00AM * Worship at 10:30AM
1200 South Carbon Street · Marion, Illinois
Faith Development – 9:00 AM * Worship Service – 10:30 AM
Faith Development – 9:00 AM * Worship Service – 10:30 AM
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Due to the existing snow and ice, and the weather forecast for tomorrow that has the weather arriving mid-afternoon, we have decided to cancel the in person Ash Wednesday Service. Attached is the order of service, and I have made a brief video for you to use, if you’d like. There is also an Ash…
We will worship on Christmas Eve in a different fashion this year. Many of you have contributed to this worship experience as readers, prayers, and musicians, and it is my hope that all of you will enjoy this service and find comfort and hope, as well as a new energy to worship and glorify God…
Advent means ‘”coming.” Well, it has come, and it is upon us. We are waiting and preparing for the coming of the Christ. Each new liturgical year starts with Advent, and then enters into the life of Christ at Christmas. You can find more about Advent here. Together we will journey towards Bethlehem, towards the…
Friends, The Session wanted to relay to you some of our discussions about worship as we head into the fall and Advent and Christmas. We have been worshiping via Zoom for 7 months now, and we have begun to have a small group of people back in the worship space. In the short term, we will continue holding a hybrid worship service.…
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. -Matthew 5:9 The season of peace is 4 weeks prior to World Communion Sunday (the 1st Sunday of October) and the giving and receiving of the Peace and Global Witness Offering. It is a time for individuals, families, congregations, and communities to grow…
As our world has turned and churned and changed over the past months, one of the things that has been brought to the light is that we, as humans, are very good at being bad to one another. Calvin’s total depravity has been on witness throughout these months, over masks, and restaurants, over toilet paper,…
We’ll be hosting a Red Cross Blood drive on July 28th, 2020 from 2 to 6 pm in the Fellowship Hall. The summer months have a particularly high need for blood, and a number of blood drives have had to be cancelled over the length of the COVID-19 pandemic, so supplies are down. If you…
For the foreseeable future, our worship will be based online. We are using Zoom as our worship platform. You can download Zoom from https://zoom.us/download or from your mobile platform app store. For the connection information please contact the church office. If you’d like to follow along in worship later, then we have two options: You can find our online worship recordings on…
Zoom is having issues this morning. The meeting is up, but none of you can join. If this persists, we’ll record the service from here as best we can and post it.