Sunday Schedule

Morning Schedule

Worship Service

9:00 AM Children's Options during Worship
Sunday School 10:00AM Sunday School Options for all ages
Worship Service -Traditional 11:00 AM Children's Options during Worship

Evening Schedule

Bell Choir 4:00 p.m. (currently on break)
Youth Group Activities 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
   

 


What to expect in worship each week:

Central to our being the Church is the coming together as community to worship God. Recognizing that importance, our church gathers weekly to offer praise and prayer and to hear the word read and proclaimed. Praise, prayers, scripture, interpretative words and communion of the faith community are ‘essential'. The styles, the times, and the order of the service are important, but not ‘essential'. They merely help us prepare and focus on that which is our real purpose.

In order to focus on the essential (the very worship of and presence of God in our midst) it is important to have an attitude, atmosphere and environment which enhances each person's worship experience. We are fortunate at Creekwood to have two worship services that allow for a slightly different approach and style for our worship experience.

Creekwood invites you to join us for one - or both- of our worship services each Sunday morning. If you're a visitor, please stop at the welcome booth by the front door to collect your welcome bag filled with lots of great information and a gift for you!

Worship at 9 a.m. or 11:00 a.m. !

Both services includes the elements of worship that we as a church and denomination hold reverently dear. Those include greeting one another and welcoming our visitors, a children's sermon, the Lord's Prayer, scripture, an opportunity to give, communion, a message (sermon) and an invitation to discipleship.

The 9 a.m. service has contemporary music using instruments and praise and worship songs that are found in the Chalice Praise books or heard on mainstream Christian radio broadcasts. The music encourages the congregation to worship by participating and celebrating God through song. The service is structured to last just under an hour. Communion is shared by intinction.

The 11 a.m. service has a more traditional style of worship and music, using the Chalice hymnal and occasionally the Chalice Praise book, drawing the congregation into worship and celebration of God. The Creekwood Choir provides an anthem and communion is shared by passing trays.

Communion is offered weekly at Creekwood. Jesus invites all who believe in him to participate in communion; Creekwood does too.

Body-life celebrations, such as baptisms, dedications, commissionings, and special events, are experienced in both services as appropriate.

Sunday school for all ages starts at 10 a.m. Childcare/nursery is provided during all 3 hours.


Children's Options During Worship

Nursery Infant - 3 years old

Creekwood offers a professionally staffed nursery for infants to three years olds. (All staff attendants attend Creekwood's Child Protection Training and complete Background Checks.)

Godly Play (previously Children's Church)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pre-School through Second Graders

Children who are three years old through second grade are led to Godly Play classrooms following the Children's Sermon.

Children 3 – 5 years old (not yet in kindergarten) meet for Godly Play each Sunday.

Children in Kindergarten – 2nd grade meet each Sunday (except when there is a fifth Sunday in the month, or as noted in the worship bulletin on special Sundays).

In Godly Play, children enter their own worship center where they may encounter God through stories, sensory experiences and creative expression.

Storytellers invite children into the Bible stories with the use of figures and props (Montessori style). A time of “wondering” follows the story. Then children may use a variety of art materials to express “what is most important or most special about the story” to them. Or they may choose to work with the story materials.

Time in Godly Play closes with a shared “feast” and a special blessing for each child as their parent arrives.

Godly Play follows a similar flow to that of our congregational order of worship, with the goals of both providing our children a special place to worship and encounter God, and of better preparing them for full participation in worship as a part of the congregation.

Godly Play was developed and classroom tested for more than 20 years by Episcopal priest, author and teacher, Jerome Berryman, and is used in churches of many denominations throughout the United States.

Godly Play . . . join the team!

Godly Play, our worship ministry for children, needs new storytellers for the coming school year. Storytellers serve during worship, two Sundays per month, at their preferred service time. Godly Play incorporates Montessori style storytelling in a worship format. If you would like to learn more about this ministry, or are interested in becoming part of our Godly Play team, please contact Suzan Hendrickson in the church office.