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The Christmas Eve service will be online at 4 pm on December 24. The current restrictions don’t allow us to gather to worship in person. However, you may join your church family as we carol for the community from the church lawn at 6 pm on Christmas Eve. Dress festively, and wear a mask. We will socially distance and sing for about 20 minutes.
Pastor Hannah is working on finding a safe way for us to gather for Christmas Eve. Let’s help adorn the chancel with poinsettias for Christmas, whether we worship online or in person. Each 6 1/2" plant is $10 and orders are due by Tuesday, December 8. You may order online here.
Thanks to everyone for their patience as we’ve been working out the bugs in our live streaming setup. It’s been a complicated process to get all the AV inputs, new software, and networking issues resolved, but I think we’ve got it all working now.
Don’t forget to turn your clocks back one hour before you go to sleep tonight. We’ll be streaming live tomorrow at 10:00 am. Don’t miss it!
On November 1, we will be honoring loved ones who have passed on since last year’s November 3 remembrance service. If you lost a loved one in the past year, please let the office know so we can honor your loved one during this special service.
While we thought we had addressed our streaming issues Wednesday night, we obviously still have some work to do. We’re sorry for the poor quality of the worship stream this morning. The video of the full service was recorded and is now available online for anyone who wishes to view it.
The worship service will be live streamed beginning this Sunday, October 4th. That means when you tune in at 10 am via sewickleyumc.org, YouTube, or Facebook, the service will be happening as you watch it. Only the worship participants will be present in the sanctuary.
We have heard from many people regarding questions of when we will return to in-person worship. The answer remains the same: we cannot say with certainty when that will happen. A couple of things have to take place before we can begin to discern a timeframe.
Maybe you feel like everything is spinning out of control. How did it come to this? It’s never too late; never too far for Him to reach you. He’ll find you in the hurricane. Much love from Leap of Faith!
We were all looking forward to welcoming Pastor Hannah during her first worship service at SUMC. However, the restrictions set forth by Allegheny County make it necessary to keep our doors closed this Sunday and to return to online worship, at least for July 5. Below is a letter from Pastor Hannah about the closure.
The July 5 worship service with Pastor Hannah will be available here on our website beginning at 10 am on Sunday.
Kelly already gave you a peek of this week’s extra song on Facebook. We had a number of songs that supported Kim’s sermon. Here’s Crowder’s Lift Your Head Weary Sinner.
If you’ve heard about Creation Music Festival or thought about attending in the past, but weren’t sure it was for you, consider viewing Creation’s “Tribute to our Creator” Facebook livestream event starting on Friday June 26 at 6 PM and continuing on Saturday June 27th at the same time.
As we continue to live with changes during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative for us to take complete and accurate attendance each time we gather to worship. Volunteers are needed to record names and contact info as people come for worship. Please let Pam Honeychurch know if you can serve in this capacity this Sunday or upcoming Sundays.
The service ran way over Sunday, so we skipped our last song. Here it is for your enjoyment. How great!
Three songs per service isn’t enough! Here’s a little something extra we recorded for you last week. We love you all, and we can’t wait to be back worshipping with you in-person.
On Sunday, June 14 at 10 am, we will resume in-person worship. This will be Pastor Russel’s last Sunday with us before he retires. Masks (for everyone over 3 years old) and social distancing will be required, and the nursery will not be offered.
This week’s extra song is dedicated to Bill Utterback. Nothing stays the same when we pray.
We’ve received requests for more music, since you’re getting a little less from us in the online services each week. You don’t have to ask twice to get us to play another song!
During the coming weeks while we are in the "Yellow Zone," a very limited number of people (approximately 20) will be able to be present in the sanctuary as the sermon is recorded. For more information and to RSVP click here.
What started out as a crazy idea, turned into a powerful worship moment in our city. In less than 2 weeks, nearly 30 churches unified to sing a blessing over our city of Pittsburgh. This video was revealed during many of the Easter online services in churches across the city of Pittsburgh during the COVID-19 pandemic.
