Worship Schedule

Sunday in-person worship resumes March 7

Beginning March 7 we will welcome people to Sunday worship in-person at 9 and 10:30 a.m. (No in-person worship on Lenten Wednesdays). We can accommodate up to 75 people/service.

Following safety protocols to reduce the risk of infection, we require all people who come to worship to:

• Wear a face mask
• Practice social distancing
• Not come to worship in person if you are not feeling well or have a fever.
• Registration for in-person worship is required to ensure adequate space and, if needed, contact tracing (You can register either online, or by calling the church office: 952.937.8123).
• All safety protocols and practices are available on our Reopening page.

Worship services will continue to be livestreamed: www.immanuel.us/worship/live

Lent

Wednesdays in Lent, Feb. 24 - March 24:

• 12 p.m. Lenten Healing Service: A Heart of Flesh (Livestream only; no in-person worship)
• 7 p.m. Lenten Worship with Holden Evening Prayer (Livestream only; no in-person worship)

Live Streaming and On Demand

• Live streamed worship is available every week on Immanuel's: Facebook page | Website | Livestream page
• We invite you to submit the Respond & Connect form after worship!
• Please see our Notice of Recording Audio/Video in our Sanctuary

Holy Communion During the Pandemic

• At-Home Communion:  Holy Communion is celebrated in our homes every week (during this time of social distancing).  Please have bread/wine or juice/crackers available for at-home communion.
• Individual and Household Communion: Experience private, in-person, socially-distanced communion with our pastors by yourself or with your immediate household in Immanuel's Fellowship Hall.  Please sign-up for a 15-minute increment
• When In-Person Worship is Possible: During the pandemic single serve disposable communion kits will be available for in-person worshippers.

REfuel

Wednesdays, 6 p.m.

REfuel is a 20-minute, livestreamed (and on demand), mid-week, informal worship, refuleing children, youth and families to care and serve. 

It will feature worship songs, prayers, a Student Leader talk and a brief devotional message.  It will be part Confirmation opening, part Sunday School opening and part Stepping Stone.  It is especially designed for families and youth, but all are welcome!

As restrictions ease and as comfort levels return we will welcome people to gather in-person.

Immanuel's pastors and staff welcome you to REFUEL with us.

All are welcome!  More about REfuel

Welcome!

Whichever worship service you attend, the good news of Jesus Christ will be proclaimed and you will share in the blessing of being with God and with God’s people as we come together to celebrate God’s gifts, grow in faith, and serve in love!

Parking

• Immanuel is blessed with wonderful attendance at our worship services. Our 9 a.m Sunday morning service is especially popular. We always welcome visitors to join us in worship and encourage members to leave parking spaces available for guests by car pooling as much as possible, taking advantage of street parking, parking in the Kowalski’s parking lot, just south of the church.
• Handicap parking spaces are located near the north (main door) and west entrances, where automatic doors are located.
• Handicap access: Our worship and education spaces are all located on one floor. There are no stairs. We can easily accommodate wheelchairs in our sanctuary. Ask an usher for assistance.

Holy Communion

• All children, youth and adults are welcome to come and receive forgiveness in the bread and wine - it is The Lord’s Table - and all are welcome.
• Anyone coming to The Lord’s Table with an open hand will be served Holy Communion.
• During the pandemic single serve disposable communion kits will be available for face-to-face worshippers.
• Read more about children and communion
• Holy Communion is celebrated in our homes every week (during this time of social distancing)

Families with Children

• Children are very welcome and encouraged to worship. More...
• Rainbow bags, which include quiet activities for young children may be picked up by the West entrance to the sanctuary (These bags will be available again as soon as Covid restrictions have been lifted).
• A nursery is available for children under 3. More... (Available when Covid restrictions have been lifted).
• A room dedicated for nursing mothers is available off the nursery. More...  (Available when Covid restrictions have been lifted).
• Sanctuary Sundays: Once a month - Family Worship. Worship together as a family. While we encourage our Sunday School children to worship with their families each week, in addition to attending Sunday School, this is not always possible, so we support families who want to worship together by not holding Sunday School on the third Sunday of the month.
• Anyday Sunday School, a tool for use in your home, is available to children age 3 through Grade 4 and God Squad for grades 5 & 6 at 6 p.m. on Wednesdays More...

Other services to assist you with worship

• Hearing devices are available at the Welcome Desk.

Directions and contact information

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