Please join us on Christmas Day at 11 a.m. for a quiet observance of the holiday. This is an opportunity to observe the holiday after the opening of presence and before Christmas dinner.

The service will include carols, lessons, a sermon by our priest associate, the Rev. Mary Beth Rivetti, and Holy Eucharist (Communion). All are welcome.

No need to dress up – come in your Christmas morning pajamas if you’d like. The church will be warm and cozy.

All are invited to celebrate the arrival of the Christ child on Christmas Eve. This family-friendly candlelit service will begin at 5:00 p.m. with the singing of traditional carols. After a short pause, the service begins at 5:30. It will include lessons of God’s good news for the world, an inspirational sermon by our vicar, Amma Linda Bartholomew, and Holy Eucharist (Communion).

Everyone is welcome, no matter where you are on your faith journey. Come as you are!

Our annual Blue Christmas service (5 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 14) is offered for anyone who

may be experiencing sadness, loneliness, or loss during the holiday season. All are welcome to

attend this candlelit service of remembrance and hope.

The service includes quiet time for reflection, prayers, poetry, and music. Participants

will have an opportunity to light a candle in memory of a loved one and as a symbol of hope for

the future.

Music will be provided by Linda Wharton, cellist; Sue Smalley, St. Mark’s pianist, and

Melissa Parkhurst, a music faculty member at Washington State University. After the service, all

are invited to gather in the church’s fellowship hall for warm beverages and holiday treats.

The last service of Easter Day, when we hear the evening story of the journey to Emmaus, when two bewildered, grieving friends, making their way back from Jerusalem, are met by a stranger who is apparently the only one in all Jerusalem who hasn’t heard what happened … The celebration of Easter continues for fifty days, concluding June 8 with the fiery tongues of Pentecost.

We proclaim the triumph song of resurrection in our Easter celebration, with bright colors, flowers, exuberant singing, and celebration. Upon arrival at the church we bedeck the wire cross with bright cut flowers, sign of our hope and faith. Following the service, the children are invited to an Easter egg hunt, and to chase one another with cascarones, brightly painted egg-shells stuffed with (biodegradable) confetti

This service begins in dark and in quiet. We light new fire, and illumined by candlelight, we recount the story of salvation revealed in ancient scripture, proclaiming that the God who in the Hebrew scriptures is revealed as the maker and ruler of all creation is the same God disclosed to us in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, the Anointed One. 

This is a brief prayer service in the middle of the day, when the body of Jesus is lying in the tomb. In some ancient Christian traditions, this apparently silent day is when Jesus descended to the realm of the dead and proclaimed good news, breaking the bonds of death. 

The day is marked by great solemnity, devotion, self-examination, and prayer. The liturgy invites the congregation even deeper into that mystery. The traditional passion gospel and prayers have been modified in recognition of the ways our own sacred texts have historically been used as an instrument of terror for the Jewish people.

This service marks the institution of the Lord’s supper, the last meal that Jesus shared with his friends before he was arrested, tried and executed. In keeping with that commandment of love, and in imitation of the example set by Jesus, we share the option of washing one another’s feet. At the conclusion of the service, the altar may be completely stripped of all its furnishings, all the church decorations removed, leaving behind only a simple table with the sacrament reserved from the Eucharist, covered in a veil, and lit with a candle.