A note from Leigh…
WE’VE CHANGED THE NAME
The Saturday evening worship has changed its name. We now call ourselves
“SATURDAY VESPERS”. The term vespers was used as one of the canonical
hours; i.e. matins, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers and complin. I’ll bet you
never heard of those “hours”. Vespers were sung at sunset—early evening—and
many monastic orders still adhere to the canonical hours for their daily worship,
as well as faith traditions in the Protestant communities, especially vespers.
There will be little change in worship experience on Saturday evening, but we
will be more aware that our worship is an “end-of-the-day” fellowship. We will
still have some jazz/gospel ditties, the poetry corner for advent and lent and
those wonderful hymns from the Methodist tradition. Vespers also opens up a group of hymns that get left out of
the morning worship because they are the “evening” hym have some wonderful words to enrich
our journey. We will still be casual, laid-back, with extraordinary hospitality and creatively different than Sunday
morning services. Think of “Saturday Vespers” when yo he end of a stressful week at work; a Saturday
of cleaning out the garage; working in your garden/lawn; maybe a week or day when nothing seemed to go “right”;
maybe the children or significant-other in your life have been cranky and you or they need some calming, comfort-
ing words and a prayer. Saturday Vespers: a time for singing, scripture, preaching and prayer...We look forward to
seeing you! 5:00 p.m….”Saturday Vespers”...and we love to have children in our gathering—they bring much de-
light and blessings...