SUNDAY SERVICES
8:00 a.m. | Holy Eucharist, Rite II
10:30 a.m. | Holy Eucharist Rite II, livestreamed
Welcome to St. Alban's!
SUNDAY WORSHIP
8:00 a.m. | HOLY EUCHARIST, RITE II
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10:30 a.m. | HOLY EUCHARIST, RITE II
This service includes music and is typically livestreamed to our YouTube channel for those worshiping online. Nursery care is available for children ages 0–3 on the lower level. Sunday School for Children and Youth takes place at 10:15 a.m. Age 4 – 5th Grade will meet in the Preschool area. Sunday School for Middle and High School Youth (6th-12th grades) will meet in the Youth Room downstairs.​
Advent 2025 at St. Alban’s
Migrants & Mangers:
God’s people on the move
Abraham and Sarah.
Ruth and Naomi.
Joseph and Mary.
Our Lord Jesus.
Each of these biblical figures (and many others) left their homes to journey to unfamiliar lands. Some set out to escape hardship or violence. Others went in response to a call from God. What awaited them when they reached their destinations—a manger of welcome, or the stigma of the outsider?
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With immigration dominating our national and local news, this Advent season offers the opportunity for a timely exploration of why and how God’s people moved from place to place in Holy Scripture, as we consider our approach to today’s issues through the lens of our faith.​
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December 14 ~ 3rd Sunday of Advent
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9:10 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. Dead Women Walking: Ruth and the Alien’s Redemption, part 2 (Parish Hall)
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In our time in which borders seem impermeable and the life of strangers in peril, we do well to tend to ancient stories that remind us of how faith allies with the crossing of boundaries, daring acts of hospitality and accompaniment, and the risks of scandalous association. The Hebrew Bible offers precisely this in the book of Ruth, a comic novella and trickster narrative that dramatizes the need of the outsider as well as the outsider's role in redeeming insiders from death-dealing obsessions. A potent story in the cultural wars of Israel’s post-Exilic restoration, the book of Ruth holds a mirror up to our contemporary crises concerning the migrant and the different and offers itself as a guide to the way of dead women walking whose steps beat the path of our own salvation.
Dr. Karl Plank will be our leader and guide for this three-part Advent series. Karl has been a member of St. Alban’s since the Lorimer days. He is the J.W. Cannon Professor of Religion, Emeritus, at Davidson College where he taught from 1982-2023.
December 21 ~ 4th Sunday of Advent
9:10 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. Dead Women Walking: Ruth and the Alien’s Redemption, part 3 (Parish Hall)
December 24 ~ Christmas Eve
3:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist with Pageant
This service will feature our Children’s Pageant and will be livestreamed. All children are welcome to join the Pageant. All are invited to bring a new teddy bear to this service. The bears will be placed at the Christ Child’s crèche during the service and then distributed to local nonprofit Bridge of Hearts for children experiencing homelessness.
5:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist
This service will feature a sermon, music led by the Choir with pre-service music beginning at 4:30 p.m., and will be livestreamed.
11:00 p.m. Candlelight Holy Eucharist
This service will feature a sermon, congregational carol singing, and the lighting of candles.
December 25 ~ Christmas Day
10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist
Together We...Gather to Worship, Scatter to Serve, and Love Like Jesus
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