Church Life

Worship
Children's Church
Nursery Care
Lord's Supper
Sunday School

Bible Hour

Prayer Meetings
Bible Studies and House Churches

Fellowship Meals

Home School Support

Social Events

S.A.L.T.

Worship

As Christians, we will be worshiping God for all eternity, and we don't want to wait for heaven to get started!  We gather for worship on Sundays at 10:00 am. Our worship music style is a blend of contemporary Christian songs and the great traditional hymns of the faith. Our sermons are expository in nature, seeking to draw out the true meaning and message of the scriptures. We tend to preach through books of the Bible, although from time to time we present sermon studies on relevant topical issues.

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Children’s Church

During the first half of our Sunday worship service, children stay with the adults to join in song and prayer. During the sermon, the children are dismissed and meet for their own  time of worship and instruction from God’s Word. This is an opportunity for them to learn more about worship and and receive instruction from the Scriptures in  a manner geared more to their age level. The children meet in two separate groups covering ages 5-8 and 9-12 respectively.

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Nursery Care (Ages 4 and under)

During our worship service, Sunday School/Bible Hour, and all other major church events, we have nursery care available for children 4 years old and younger. 

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Lord's Supper

We celebrate this remembrance of Christ's sacrificial death together during Sunday worship on the second Sunday of each month.

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Sunday School

“Bring up [your children] in the training and instruction of the Lord” (Eph.6:4b). 

The mission of the church to take the good news of Jesus Christ to every nation begins at home with our children.  We take this charge very seriously, desiring our children to be raised up as people who love and serve God with all their hearts.  We strive as a church to help parents in this task by offering Sunday School classes each Sunday morning after the worship service from 11:45am to 12:30pm.  Our lessons are Bible-based with a view to teaching the children how to apply Scriptural principles to their daily lives.  

Bible Hour

“Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth” (2 Tim.2:15).

Bible Hour (Adult Sunday School) provides us with the opportunity to dig more deeply into a book of the Bible, or a topic of theology, apologetics (defense of the Christian faith), or principles for living as a Christian. This is a place where we can broaden and deepen our understanding of God’s Word more than we might be able to on our own.   The goal of this study is to be better equipped to serve God.  Some topics that we cover fairly regularly include: marriage, parenting, understanding the cults, understanding world religions.  We have also studied through Bible books ranging from Genesis to John in recent years.  Bible Hour is held after the worship service each Sunday from 11:45am to  12:30pm.

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Prayer Meetings

As a church we realize that “we can only go forward on our knees;” or as the Lord Himself put it, “Apart from Me you can do nothing” (John.15:5c). For that reason, we as a church place a high priority on individual and corporate prayer.  Our desire is to bathe every one of our efforts in prayer.  Along with the other Evangelical Free Churches of New England, we have taken a two year pledge to pray daily for revival and awakening throughout the country and the world. We also have a weekly Harvest Prayer meeting  specifically devoted to prayer for the spread of the good news of Jesus Christ worldwide.  We also gather for prayer as a church on at least one additional evening per month (usually a Friday) to intercede for the needs of the church and God’s greater Kingdom.

If you would to contact us for prayer, click here.

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Bible Studies and House Churches

In keeping with our desire to be regularly feeding ourselves upon God’s Word, we offer several Bible studies which meet throughout the week for fellowship, prayer and study of the Scriptures. These include a Singles Bible Study, geared primarily toward older singles; a College and Career Bible Study, aimed primarily at younger adults; and House Churches which cater more to families, but are open to all and tend to be quite mixed.    

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Fellowship Meals

We realize that some of the best fellowship occurs across a table at mealtime!  Knowing this, we enjoy sharing a potluck meal together on the second Sunday of each month (July and August excepted.)  The meal takes place immediately after Bible Hour/Sunday School.  The food is always great, second only to the encouragement of time with others.

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Home School Support

A number of families in the church have chosen to home school thier children.  As part of our support for them, we welcome a Christian home school co-op that meets weekly in the church building.

http://www.masshope.org (Massachusetts Homeschool Organization of Parent Educators)

Social Events

We have searched the Scriptures cover to cover and have yet to find any place where it says Christians can’t have fun once in a while. Consequently, we hold fun events from time to time such as church picnics, retreats, ice cream socials, game nights, baked good auctions (to raise money for missions), Parents’ Night Out (free babysitting for parents) and Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (where you don’t know which families or individuals are coming over for a potluck dinner until they get there), just to name a few. If you’re interested in joining us for any of these fun events, just let us know; it’s a great way to meet people in the church and find out what we’re all about.

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S.A.L.T. (Salt and Light Team)

Those who believe God is calling them to ministry in particular social and political issues that are so important to the Gospel; monthly ministry and special events.