CUCC now has two major Sunday morning worship services.

• Taize Service -- 9:00 - 9:30 AM
• Main Worship Service -- 10:30 - 11:45 AM

The Taizé Service is a quiet, contemplative service that typically includes songs and chants, scripture readings, brief prayers, and a substantial silent time for meditation.

The Taize service is planned and led by a lay group from the congregation on a rotating basis. Musical leadership is varied with guitar, organ, hammered dulcimer, and piano employed from one week to the next.

The 10:30 am main sanctuary service combines elements common in most American Protestant worship services with some reflecting particular Community UCC traditions and values.

The call to worship, welcoming of visitors, prayer of invocation, and scripture readings occur while the children are present with their families. These are followed by the children's story, after which the children and youth go to their church school classes.

Special instrumental or choir music, additional scripture readings and the sermon express the Word of God for our day. The service moves toward an outward focus with a sharing of the life of the community and the prayers of the people near its close; joys and concerns of the faith community, announcements, and expressions of social action and mission activities are a vital part of the sharing time.

During the 10:30 am sanctuary service, open prayer time, hymns, and responses sung by the congregation provide opportunity for participation and reflection on the theme of the day. Dialog sermons involving one of the pastors and others from the congregation, sermon and sermon-substitutes done by the Wider Outreach Committee, the AIDS Care Team, the Youth Groups, the Church School Children, chancel drama, and lengthier musical presentations add variety to the expression of God's Word. Communion is celebrated on the first Sunday of each month at the 10:30 am sanctuary service.

During the week, regular scheduled worship opportunities include the following.

• Monday lunch group (12:15 pm every Monday) CUCC members and friends meet for a brown-bag lunch and discussion of spiritual topics.
• Wednesday night Bible study (6:00pm - 7:30pm on the first and third Wednesday of each month) The group meets for a brown-bag supper and fellowship followed by reading and discussion of the lectionary for the upcoming Sunday.

Additional services include:

• Christmas Eve worship at 5:00 and 11:00 pm
• a traditional Ash Wednesday service
• a service of healing
• a Maundy Thursday Tenebrae service
• an ecumenical Thanksgiving Eve service
• an ecumenical Easter sunrise service
• occasional joint worship opportunities with our Congolese congregation
• services expressing concern for peace and justice

Some of our educational programs include worship as an integral part of the sessions. In small groups and large with a variety of settings and styles, we worship often!