Sunday Worship

8:45am and 10:30 am

9:30 AM

June 27th through

September 5th

On a monthly basis, we combine both services and share a meal. This is typically the 2nd Sunday of each month. Check the events page and calendar for information on current/coming events at Saint Peters as well as within the greater body of local Christians.

Understanding Our Worship

Worship, teaching, and healing/prayer ministry are the foundational dynamics of our fellowship together each Sunday. This fellowship we share in the Holy Spirit is the fruit of dedicated lives (EPH 2:21- 22; 4:15-16).
The Holy Eucharist is central to our understanding of worship at St. Peter's. Our present practice is to offer two celebrations

Sunday morning at

8:45 a.m. Traditional Eucharist

10:30 a.m. Contemporary Worship Eucharist with Children's Church

The 8:45 a.m. celebration of the Holy Eucharist provides for a much more conservative and traditional approach to worship. Many, but not all, of the members of our community of faith enjoy this time as their desired worship style.
However, in a community where 85% of the population is younger than 45 years of age and some 38% of the population is yet to graduate from High School, a conservative and structured, yet informal and friendly, opportunity for families to worship was needed. The Family worship at 10:30 a.m. is designed to meet such a need.

The 10:30 a.m. worship time therefore, is less conservative than the 8:45 a.m. celebration and being more contemporary, offers a ministry of healing, and encourages informality. Both multi-media and creative arts [drama, dance, video, etc.] may be incorporated for the edifying of the Body of Christ through enhancement of the worship and/or teaching.  Many, but not all, of the younger members of our parish participate in this celebration. It is particularly designed with a focus towards families and, because it is offered as a basic entry into the worship life of St. Peter's, we design it to be "user friendly."

What we interpret Sunday mornings at St. Peters to be all about - that being the time when we as a Parish family come together to have our own needs met through sacrament, worship and teaching, while seeking to transform Sunday morning into an opportunity to serve all those whom the Lord draws to this house. It is our intention to impart an understanding of our Sunday service whereby we see it more in the light of taking the servants towel and blessing others. "Our Sunday Service" thereby becomes another service opportunity for Parish members as they offer themselves in gift-based ministry to one another and to all in attendance. Discipleship training and release through worship, word and work is undertaken at a different time, and so we emphasize both home groups and our leadership training for those who desire to grow deeper.

We believe both times of worship to be truly representative of our Anglican tradition and so we do not evaluate one against the other nor do we elevate one above the other: Jesus, as the Living Word, as the Transforming Sacrament, and in His Real and Holy Presence is Host of both celebrations.

The teaching embraced by these two celebrations is offered under the direction of Pastor Tim. All talks are audio recorded and are made available upon request.

At St. Peter's we understand worship to be intimacy with the Father through the sacrifice of the Son and in the ongoing ministry of the Holy Spirit. We consider it imperative then, that our coming before Him is in spirit and truth (JN 4:23-24); ie. in sincerity and openness.

It follows, in our thinking, that there can be no outwardly correct way of worship, for worship is ultimately a matter of the heart, and it is the nature of our heart that matters most to the Lord (DEUT 13:3; 1SAM 16:7; PS 147:10; IS 29:13). We do, however, call for decency and order in our time of worship together (1COR 14:26-33,40).