Looking for a few precious moments of peace and perspective in your busy week? We hold worship services each Sunday at 10:30am.
Our worship ministry has many components that are updated each week. We encourage you to "mix and match" the pieces to find out what works best for you.
WORSHIP UPDATE
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Sunday, December 21st is the fourth Sunday of Advent, the Sunday of Love, and at First-St. Andrew's that also means its Vince Guaraldi Day! Minister of Music, Chris Fischer will be joined by Peter Hysen on bass and Greg Mainprize on drums. Together this trio will play a selection of works by Vince Guaraldi from the well-loved "A Charlie Brown Christmas." In addition to this fun Christmas music, our Senior Choir will perform "O Radiant Dawn" by James MacMillian for our Musical Reflection and Chris Fischer will present Jason Robert Brown's "Hope" for our Musical Offering. The congregational hymns this week are TLUS #57 "We Wait for God," VU #1 O Come, O Come, Emmanuel," VU #17 "O Ancient Love" and VU #879 The Race That Long in Darkness Pined."
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Rev. Dr. Joshua Lawrence will lead our worship service. He will be joined by David Girvan who will read our first Scripture lesson, Psalm 34: 1-9. The Gospel reading will be Matthew 1: 18-25. The sermon, entitled "Second Chances," is based on the text from this reading. We are grateful to Children's & Youth Program Coordinator Christina Lindsay for this Sunday's Puppet Ministry. Special thanks to Alastair Smyth, Barrie Evans, Leah Morise and Chris Wood for bringing our puppets to life.
We warmly invite you to join us on Christmas Eve at 6:30 pm for Christmas Music and 7pm for our Inter-generational Worship Service, which includes Candlelight Communion.
Want to know the names of those who greeted you or read scripture on a given Sunday? Find out here.
Our Online Ministry
You can access the video of this week's worship service below. But if you missed Sunday's livestream, you can see the recorded version of this particular service any time up to seven days after the live version by linking from the same video graphic..
To select and watch any of our past video recorded services,
link to our YouTube Channel from the icon.
(To see the Sunday Slide Show which plays in the Sanctuary prior to Worship, go to our Billboard Page)
GROW YOUR FAITH! Listen to recent sermons on your portable device. You can take us with you to your workout, on your daily commute, or whenever and wherever you have some personal time.
"Deep Dive" provides an audio commentary on the most recent Sunday message. Listen to a thoughtful discussion by using this link and once there, go to the STUDIO section and open the commentary link there.
"PostScript," produced weekly, is an intimate five-minute video in which Pastor Joshua reflects on the message of the past Sunday. Give it a try!
Ready for a break from all your screen time? Why not join either the Fall or Winter/Spring session of Bible Study on Thursdays at 11am? It's much more than Bible Study, though. We discuss the message of the Bible through the lens of a book or commentary. Contact the church office for details. We'd love to see you in person!
Have you been benefitting from our online ministry? Perhaps now is the time to give back so that we can continue to offer this outreach. Just link from the red "DONATE" button below.