This weekend is an exciting weekend for Abiding Presence! Bishop Richard Graham will be with us to preach and preside at all services. He'll also be at The Abiding Table at 10:00 a.m. to meet with senior high and adults over breakfast. Please make sure you're here for our special services this weekend!
Read MoreHave you sung in choir any time during the 40-year history of Abiding Presence? Know anyone else who has? We're going to make our 40th Anniversary Festival Service at 10:00 a.m. on May 20 an opportunity for a giant music ministry REUNION! Spread the word...
Read MoreAbiding Presence is sending 13 senior high youth and three adult chaperones to the ELCA Youth Gathering in Huston, TX this summer.
We're looking for members of the congregation to invest in our youth by providing financial contributions to make the Youth Gathering experience possible. The youth have made up their own "start-up company," APSOF, which is the acronym for Abiding Presence Seeds of Faith. The “start-up company “ The idea is to invite the congregation to invest in this company (i.e. the youth!) in order to help them raise money so that they can experience the ELCA Youth Gathering. The APSOF initial public offering (IPO) launched at the Abiding Table on Youth Sunday with much excitement and a price of $25 per share. For more information you can read the APSOF prospectus, visit the display in the church narthex or talk with one of the teens that is planning to attend.
Donations can be made online or by taking an envelope from the display in the narthex.
Check out the video put together to tell the story of why investing in our youth to attend the ELCA Youth Gathering is something important for the church to be about.
Read MoreAbiding Presence is celebrating our 40th anniversary on Sunday, May 20. There will be a festival worship service at 10:00 a.m. followed by a luncheon. (Please note, only one worship service this weekend.)
RSVP if you are attending the luncheon by May 2 so we can get an accurate count for the caterer. There will be a basket for freewill donations for the luncheon. There is no need to RSVP if you are just planning to attend the service.
Volunteers are needed Sunday morning to help with various tasks. Please sign up to volunteer.
It is going to be a fabulous morning of giving thanks for God's Abiding Presence that has led this congregation for the past 40 years and will now lead us into the next 40 years!
Read MoreVBS will run July 9-13 from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and is for children ages 3 (and potty trained) through rising 6th grade. Click to register, to volunteer, or to get a preview!
Read MoreOne of the ways that Abiding Presence is about living out Jesus' commandment to "love our neighbors" is to support refugees who are resettling in our community by partnering with Lutheran Social Services.
Read MoreWhen I was in high school I had the opportunity to attend the ELCA Youth Gathering. My congregation didn't have any high school youth interested in going, but my friend's congregation invited me to come along with them. I have many, many memories of those fives days that were filled with thousands and thousands of high school Lutherans.
Read MoreAs part of the celebration leading up to our 40th Anniversary, Bishop Richard Graham, Bishop of the Metropolitan Washington DC Synod, will be visiting Abiding Presence to preach and preside the weekend of April 28 and 29. Bishop Graham will preach at all services that weekend and host a question and answer session for adults and high school youth during The Abiding Table. We look forward to welcoming Bishop Graham to our congregation.
Read MoreThis Maundy Thursday at 7:30 p.m., we welcome a special group of jazz musicians to help lead our worship service. Meet them below, and catch a preview of the service with this video of Christal singing Craig's arrangement of "I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger."
Read MoreEaster is a “family reunion,” at least according to one of the blogs geared for pastors that I regularly read. It’s the Sunday during the church year where everyone tends to show up. The whole church family gathers together to rejoice and share in the good news that Christ is risen.
Read MoreWorship on Easter Sunday at one of our three services - 8:30, 10:00 or 11:15 a.m. Petting Zoo on the lawn from 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Read MoreThis weekend we begin the end of our Lenten journey that will take us through the events of Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Our services will begin with waving of palm branches, shouts of, "Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!" and singing one of my all time favorite hymns "All Glory, Laud and Honor." I wait the whole other 51 Sundays of the year for the once-a-year occasion of belting out, "All glory, laud and honor to you redeemer king."
Read MoreHosanna in the highest! Join us...
Read MoreJoin us this Holy Week as we take a deep dive into worship enriched by the traditions of jazz, African-American spirituals, and shape-note singing.
Read MoreThese two rich American traditions of hymnody and music learning form the basis for our Good Friday worship this year at 7:30pm. Learn more about the fascinating history behind the music...
Read MoreDaylight Saving Time starts this Sunday, March 11, 2018, at 2:00 a.m. (clocks spring forward to 3:00 a.m.).
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