First Time Visitor
Frequently Asked Questions – First Time Visitor
We hold worship at 9:15 and 11am most of the year and at 10:30 am during the summer. Our summer schedule runs between Memorial Day and Labor Day. You can participate in-person or watch or livestream at home. For your first service in-person, we recommend arriving about 15-20 minutes beforehand. A greeter will answer any questions and orient you.
We have social hour after each worship with coffee, tea, and conversation in RE Main.
Learn more about worship here.
We offer childcare for babies and children under 6 in the nursery at both services. Religious education for school aged children ages 5 & up takes place during the 11 am service. You do not need to fill out any forms before your first visit. You can find more information about programming for children and youth here.
Most Sundays, school aged children start in the sanctuary with their parents and leave together after the Story for All Ages.
Our Sunday morning dress ranges from casual to somewhat dressed up. Jeans, shorts, sandals, and flip flops are totally fine, as are suits and dresses. Wear what feels right for you.
The Greeters will invite you to make a name tag each visit. It is our custom to wear name tags to help us learn each other's names, and to avoid embarrassment when we forget names! When you no longer consider yourself a "visitor," we invite you to sign-up for a permanent name tag at the greeter table. We have stickers available to identify your pronouns as well.
If you'd like to watch online instead of attending in-person, you can watch our livestream on Sunday mornings. We use BoxCast and a virtual usher will be available in the chat to answer your questions. You can watch the livestream directly on our website or you can find more details about this coming Sunday in our weekly newsletter.
In-person, we have large print hymnals available on our hymnal cart, located just inside the door to the sanctuary. Both Assisted Listening Devices and a Braille hymnal are available upon request from an Usher. Please plan to arrive 10-15 minutes before the service begins if you’d like to use one of these items.
We have wide aisles and at least three dedicated wheelchair spaces in the Sanctuary as well as accessible stalls in both of the main building bathrooms. Wheelchairs are available to borrow as well due to the distance from the parking lot to the buildings. Our Religious Education building is less accessible unfortunately, but we are happy to creatively problem solve with you if you feel comfortable discussing it with staff or our Sunday morning ushers and greeters.
Online, we are committed to offering closed captioning to our Sunday morning livestreams. We also stive to offer multi-platform opportunities via Zoom for many of our small groups and committee meetings so folks can participate remotely.
The easiest way is to fill out a new visitor form so we learn how to best connect with you. On that form you can request an information packet and sign up for our online newsletter. We offer opportunities to connect in person and online.
Ready to dive in? You can find ways to volunteer here and upcoming events here.
You can also explore our path to membership classes or our small group ministry program called chalice circles.
During worship ushers will come by with baskets for the offering. Funds from these collections are shared through our Change for the World program. Sometimes a special offering will be held on a specific week and announced from the pulpit. If you would rather donate 100% to the church, you can include a note with your offering or donate online here.