Mark your calendars now! Pilgrims
Homecoming will be on Sunday, September 8th!
We'll worship together with special music and extra fun, then bring a dish to share and stay after for a potluck good time!
Have you started to think about what food you will bring for the party?
Hope to see you there!
Our Next Summer Fun activity will be a Cookie Bake-Off on Sunday, August 11th after worship.
You are invited to make your very best, most famous, most delicious, or most love-infused cookies and bring them to church. After worship, we'll set up outside and taste-test, and invite others to help us taste-test! Together we'll pick a cookie champion, and obviously there will be a fabulous prize!
Start sifting through your recipe books now, friends...
If you love worship, and you have some ideas, or enjoy listening to other folks' ideas, we'd love for you to come and be a part of planning worship for this fall at Pilgrims! We're going to meet in person, in the Bird Room, on Wednesday, August 7th at 6pm. Hope to see you there!
Once again this summer we'll be stuffing backpacks full of school supplies for students participating in Friends Place's programming. We're going to go ahead an buy all the goods, then in worship on August 4th, together, we'll stuff the sacks. If you'd like to make a donation toward the purchase of the backpacks and supplies, you can do so on our website (be sure to select "Backpacks Friendship Place from the drop-down menu).
It's time for our next Summer Fun event! This Sunday, 7/21, after worship we'll all go over to the Dupont Farmer's Market together. Maybe you get some fresh veggies, maybe you talk to a vendor about their business model, maybe we all buy snacks and sit in the grass in the circle and eat and enjoy the day? The possibilities are endless! Let's go see what fun we can find together!
Open Table Cook Out July 7th
Join us after worship on Sunday, July 7th for our annual Open Table Cook Out. We'll light up the grill and share a meal with our neighbors.
Click here to sign up and to tell us what you'll bring to the party!
It’s an Issues Among Us Outing to Friendship Place! Come take an inside look at another Friendship Place facility and learn about the programs at their Welcome Center. On Wednesday, June 26th at 5:30pm you are invited for an inside peek at Friendship Place’s flagship program. This will be a little more DIY than our usual Issues Among Us outings, as it’s not our event, but we think it is such a great opportunity to get out and learn about the programs and offerings of FP and to see how our support of their programs makes a difference.
You need to RSVP for this event.
Please RSVP by email to crutledge@friendshipplace.org.
Join us on Sundays for our new summer worship series: What We Say We Believe. We are exploring the creeds, confessions, catechisms, and statements of faith collected together as the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s Book of Confession. We'll consider what the ancient, reformed, and modern declarations of faith and theology and practice mean for our tradition and for our lives as a congregation now.
Each week, we’ll pair a confession or two with a couple of scripture readings and dig into both the history and theology at play.
Some folks might already own a paper copy of the Book of Confessions, but all of us can download a free copy of the 2016 updated Book of Confessions (with the Belhar Confession included) here: https://www.pcusa.org/resource/book-confessions/. Feel free to download and read along as we go. Or just show up and listen in.
Church of the Pilgrims is a congregation in the Presbyterian Church (USA).
We are also a member of More Light Presbyterians, welcoming the full participation of LGBTQ persons in the life and leadership of the congregation.