WORSHIP WITH US on Sunday, May 5, at 10:15 a.m.

WE LIVE STREAM OUR WORSHIP SERVICES AT 10:15 ON SUNDAY MORNING. You can join us online in real time at https://vimeo.com/event/1424751. This streaming address is the same each week.

The video of Sunday’s worship service will be posted after worship at https://vimeo.com/channels/1547852.

You can view and download the bulletin here.

A quarter of a century ago, one church consultant warned about the “financial meltdown in the mainline.” Trouble was on the horizon for many churches.

The problem for Mainline Protestant churches is more than financial, however. Our United Church of Christ is in its seventh decade of decline in the number of congregations and in the number of members. Between 1987 and 2021, membership in our denomination declined by 52%.

That something different is happening here on this corner is due, in part, to the genius of Congregationalism.

Thinking about all of this, during the past week I read again those words of Jesus as he eats with his followers before his arrest and crucifixion.

“I am the vine,” Jesus says. “You are the branches.”

I think that this is as good a description as any of what has been happening here and why.

Jesus promises a great deal in these few sentences. He speaks of the possibility of being people who flourish, people who are truly alive.

Scripture Lessons: Isaiah 27:2-6; John 15:1-5

Sermon: “How to Get Things Done”

The Rev. Bill Lovin preaching

SOLO  “Be Thou My Vision”

            Chris Nakielski

No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here.