The heart of Holy Covenant is experienced during our Sunday morning worship. With a participatory style of liturgical worship, our service follows the Christian year: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost. Our worship services combine moments of reflection through prayers and silent meditation as well as times of challenge and inspiration through the preaching and music. We are a lay-led church, which means that we involve members of the congregation in our worship leadership as well as our ministers, deacons and elders. We honor the primacy of Scripture and typically include a reading from the Psalms or other Hebrew Scripture, an Epistle lesson and a Gospel reading.

For Christians the new year begins with the season of Advent, four weeks prior to Christmas. Advent is a time of preparation for the coming of Christ into the world. Our Advent candles and wreath mark the increasing light of God’s presence with us. The liturgical color blue is emphasized during this season as a marker of the royalty of Jesus’ lineage. The Christmas season is celebrated with joy and enthusiasm as the Christ candle is lit and our liturgical colors shift to the purity of white.

The second major season of the Christian year begins with Lent and Ash Wednesday, observed 40 days prior to Easter. Ash Wednesday is a time of repentance and our sanctuary colors highlight this with purple as the liturgical color. Resurrection Sunday (Easter) is the culminating celebration for Christians as we affirm the hope that under girds our faith. Easter season is continued for fifty days and then comes the festive experience of Pentecost when God’s Spirit was imparted to ALL the believers assembled in Jerusalem. The season of Pentecost extends through summer and fall and culminates with the final Sunday of the year when Christ’s Reign over all is observed.