Join us online or in-person each Sunday @ 11am
Ives Chapel UMC offers both virtual and face-to-face worship services.
Typically, our morning worship follows a more traditional order of worship with responsive liturgy, affirmations of faith, and doxology. Music is a mixture of contemporary and traditional. We invite you to fully participate in a meaningful worship experience. If you're not able to attend in person, please join us online each week.
Typically, our morning worship follows a more traditional order of worship with responsive liturgy, affirmations of faith, and doxology. Music is a mixture of contemporary and traditional. We invite you to fully participate in a meaningful worship experience. If you're not able to attend in person, please join us online each week.
Communion
We celebrate and share Holy Communion on the first Sunday of the month. Traditionally, we have practiced offering this sacrament by using intinction--dipping a piece of consecrated bread into a common cup. As a response to the pandemic, we now will serve Communion by offering individual Communion cups and individually cut pieces of bread to each participant as we observe safe distancing practices. We will have baskets available for empty cups that we'll wash and sterilize each month. Since Jesus invites us to share this holy meal with him, our Communion table is open to everyone who desires to love and follow Jesus.
We celebrate and share Holy Communion on the first Sunday of the month. Traditionally, we have practiced offering this sacrament by using intinction--dipping a piece of consecrated bread into a common cup. As a response to the pandemic, we now will serve Communion by offering individual Communion cups and individually cut pieces of bread to each participant as we observe safe distancing practices. We will have baskets available for empty cups that we'll wash and sterilize each month. Since Jesus invites us to share this holy meal with him, our Communion table is open to everyone who desires to love and follow Jesus.
Worship is not just Sunday Morning
Worship is the ongoing practice of faith, and not only the practice by the actual experience of it.
Whether it takes place around a kitchen table or the carved marble altar of a great cathedral,
worship is how the people of God practice their reliance on their Lord.
Through liturgies of word and table…we do what we were created to do.
We pray, we listen to God’s word, we confess, we make peace, we lift up our hearts,
we hold out our hands, we are fed, we give thanks, we go forth.
We practice the patterns of our life together before God, rehearsing them until they become second nature to us.
Through the practice of worship, we expand our images of what it means to be human and what it means to be divine,
so that we are better able to live into the fullness of our heritage as sons and daughters of God.
--Barbara Brown Taylor
Worship is the ongoing practice of faith, and not only the practice by the actual experience of it.
Whether it takes place around a kitchen table or the carved marble altar of a great cathedral,
worship is how the people of God practice their reliance on their Lord.
Through liturgies of word and table…we do what we were created to do.
We pray, we listen to God’s word, we confess, we make peace, we lift up our hearts,
we hold out our hands, we are fed, we give thanks, we go forth.
We practice the patterns of our life together before God, rehearsing them until they become second nature to us.
Through the practice of worship, we expand our images of what it means to be human and what it means to be divine,
so that we are better able to live into the fullness of our heritage as sons and daughters of God.
--Barbara Brown Taylor
