Serving God and serving together has been one of the main ways we have stayed connected throughout this year. We ended 2020 by hosting the Synod of the Southwest's Navajo Food delivery. And have faithfully hosted monthly Guadelupe Food Bank collections, East Valley Men's Center sack lunches and regular Meals on Wheels delivery. We also hosted Family Promise three times in person. This year we also tried a few new projects. We gardened at St. Vincent de Paul twice and helped at St. Mary's Food Bank throughout the season of Lent. 

We hope that in the coming year we will be able to plan a mission trip in the coming year.  We have also been accepted to the Churches in Mission Cohort, a Lily Funded Grant out of Western Seminary to help us discern how we can help serve our neighborhood.

2020-21 GOAL  •  Creating Multigenerational mission trips and projects.

We began this program year one hundred percent virtually. Sunday Worship started online until the fall when we slowly started to come back to a few things in person. But that didn't hold us back. We have done some fun things this year in worship including Holy Week services, worship in the park, a testimonial Sunday, a Christmas pageant and we can't forget about the installation of our new Pastor! 

Our Adult Sunday school classes gained attendance online. Our C.R.E.W. Youth Group started meeting in person for meetings and mission. We decided to deliver monthly lessons to families which was a huge success called Take Out Sunday school. We hosted an Advent and Lent festival at the church for family which were both a lot of fun!

This year our Worship Commission conducted a Worship times survey. The results came back showing that people wanted to attend worship at 9 a.m. 9:30 a.m. or 10 a.m.  Session, commissions leading ministries and groups that would be affected by the change all were included in the discussion along with a lengthy report which you can read here. Session voted beginning September 12, worship will be at 9:30 a.m. 

We are looking forward to our Urban Mission Trip, planning more fun worship experiences and in person Sunday school beginning in the fall.

2020-2021 GOAL  •  Building an engaging worship experience through a variety of ways.

Although this year has made connection more challenging, we have risen to the challenge. We started a phone tree to keep members connected throughout monthly phone calls. (If you would like to be added to the phone tree contact the church office.) Members gather on the first and third Friday's of each month on Zoom for Happy Hour from the comfort of your own home. We also had Advent and Lent bags that we delivered to families. We packed Sunshine boxes for our college students and even hosted a church work day to get the church flowerbeds looking good. On Easter we began having Hospitality after worship each Sunday which has been so much fun! We have also had 10 new members join us throughout this year.

This year we also updated our logo and our website. Thank you to the team that worked so hard to make it all happen!

We are looking forward to having opportunities for fellowship and time to be together this fall.

2020-2021 GOAL  •  70% percent of members engage in church life each month.