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Christ
Episcopal Church
We celebrate children's church during the 9:00 am service, consisting of appropriate psalms, lessons, and musical selections, starting at 9:00 AM. The children join their families in the church at the time of the Peace. The laity participates in leading worship. At the Sunday Eucharists, members of the congregation bring the bread and wine to the Altar at the offertory and serve as lectors for the reading of the lessons. Laity also serve as Acolytes, Lectors, Lay Liturgical Eucharistic Ministers, and Ushers. Frequently, a healing ministry takes place at a side Altar during the distribution of Communion. We highly value our Sunday services, but worship and prayer also take on other forms for us. We have well-attended Lenten and holiday services including, for example, a very popular children's Christmas pageant and a moving All Saints service. Recently we have reintroduced a mid-week Eucharist, at noon on Wednesdays. We celebrate and worship in services we take to nursing homes, and we occasionally involve children in these services. We regularly carry the Eucharist to the ill and disabled, sharing with them the joy of God's love. We have active Intercessors and a Pastoral Care group. We integrate worship with learning during Bible study and in the daily chapel services at Christ Episcopal School. Worship is a high priority of our church community. Opportunities for Service ACOLYTES
assist the clergy in the orderly
conduct of worship. The acolyte corps at Christ Church offers an opportunity for
service to young persons from age 12 through high school seniors. The acolytes
are schedule Contact:
ALTAR GUILD prepares the altar and the church for all services, and maintains all the silver, linens, brass, altar frontals and hangings, and clergy vestments used in our services. The Guild is responsible for keeping the supplies of Eucharistic wine and bread and the candles used in our services. Members of the Guild serve in crews of two or three, for scheduled two-week periods. The Guild meets as a whole prior to Christmas and Easter to clean and prepare the church for these seasons. Contact:
LAY LITURGICAL EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS (LLEMs) are licensed by the Bishop to assist in the administration of bread and wine at the Eucharist. Liturgical Lay Eucharistic Ministers (LLEMs) assist the clergy in Sunday services by reading the epistle, leading the prayers of the people, and receiving the elements during Holy Communion. Pastoral Visiting Lay Eucharistic Ministers (PVLEMs) are licensed to take Holy Communion to hospitalized or homebound parishioners. service. Contact:
LECTORS read the scripture for services as members of the congregation. Lectors are regularly scheduled to read the first lesson at the early and late Sunday services. Service as a Lector is available to all who would like to contribute to our worship in this way. Contact:
USHERS are scheduled to greet and assist the congregation at all Sunday services, special services, and some funerals. The ushers are responsible for taking up the collection and for keeping records of attendance. They play an important role in representing our parish to visitors and newcomers. Contact:
10:00 am Service Usher Schedule
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We set aside Sunday as the principal
time to gather in Christ's name and hear the Word of God. Although Christ Church has a
history of traditional prayer book worship, our three Sunday services meet
differing worship needs. At 7:45 a.m. we celebrate a quiet liturgy including a
sermon, but no music. The 9:00 a.m. service draws more families with children
and tends toward a less formal
practice. The 11:00 a.m. service offers a more formal, liturgical style
service. The
early service follows Rite I. The 9:00 am service is always Rite II, and both Rites I and II are
seasonally rotated for the 11:00 am
service. The two later services include more ceremonial practices, with
liturgical processions, chanting of the Sursum Corda and Preface, and rich
congregational and choral music. Between Memorial Day and
Labor Day, we have only two services on Sunday, one at 7:45 am and one at 10:00
am. The 10:00 am service draws from both the 9:00 am and 11:00 am winter
services.
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to serve in rotation for all of the Sunday services. They also serve at the
special services of Thanksgiving, Christmas, Holy Week, and Easter, and for many
weddings and funerals. In order to become an acolyte, a teenager participates in
an intensive eight week training program (usually in the Fall) on liturgy and
church history, as well as the mechanics of serving as we practice it at Christ
Church. The acolytes meet socially from time to time for dinner and fellowship.