Leader: Chris Truty
Meeting: The first and third Saturdays of each month, beginning on September 7
Time: 7:30-9:00 am.
Coffee and a light snack will be provided. For more information on the group, please contact Chris Truty at ctruty@gmail.com.
Join us this fall for a book discussion on the classic book, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom.
We will explore Celtic wisdom about themes of friendship, solitude, work, the imagination, and many others. Because the book is written for a general, not explicitly Christian, audience, consider also inviting friends who may be interested in spirituality!
Please get your copy of the book and read chapter 1 for our first meeting! Sign up at the info table or via this link; contact Heidi Truty with questions.
Friday evening, October 25
6pm at the Glen Ellyn Boathouse, in Lake Ellyn Park (645 Lenox Road, Glen Ellyn).
Suggested donation of $10 per person ($25 max / family), but if that’s outside your budget, come anyway.
A retreat for all ages? Why yes! Sunday, October 6, from 2:00-5:00pm at PHCC.
Join us for a seminar led by Dr. Mark Yarhouse, Professor of Psychology at Wheaton College and Director of the Sexual & Gender Identity Institute.
All are welcome, though he will be speaking especially to parents and teens. There will be time for Q&A.
Time: 10:00am- 12:00pm
Where: Pleasant Hill Community Church
**A limited number of books by Dr. Yarhouse will be available for sale. Cash or check only, please.
When: Friday, September 13th
Time: 7:00pm
Where: Pastor Mary’s home.
Looking forward to a time of fun, treats and catching up!
We invite college students to stay after the service for a pizza dinner to celebrate the beginning of the school year and to get to know some of Savior’s clergy and staff.
When: Saturday, Sept. 7th
Time: 7:00 PM
Please RSVP to Pastor Sarah at sarah@friendsofthesavior.org.
After the service, outside at PHCC, on Saturday, August 24th. We will be catering Chipotle to build your own bowl or burrito.
If your last name falls between A-L please bring chips, and M-Z please bring guacamole. Hope to see you there!
Children’s Worship will resume. For all those in Kindergarten to 5th Grade are invited to worship with us!
We will pray for students (from preschool through post-docs), for educators, and for parents. It’s Savior’s rich tradition to pause and invite the Holy Spirit into this upcoming season of “excitement and new beginnings”.
All you and their families are invited to dinner at Pastor Mary’s house after the service on August 17.
Join us to reconnect after the summer travel and find out what to look forward to this fall.
When: Saturday, August 10th
Sign up at the info table to bring your favorite sweet treat to share.
We want to spend some time getting to know others in the Savior community.
Weather permitting we will be outside, near the parking lot; in case of rain or heat, we’ll gather in the gym.
When: Saturday, July 20th
Sign up at the info table to bring your favorite salty snack to share.
We want to spend some time getting to know others in the Savior community.
Weather permitting we will be outside, near the parking lot; in case of rain or heat, we’ll gather in the gym.
When: July 16th, 17th, and 18th
Where: PHCC
Time: Daily from 10am-2pm.
It will be a time of drawing closer to God through fellowship, learning about the liturgical anglican traditions, and lots of fun!
Register your child[ren] here.
Please reach out to Sydney with any questions.
When: Saturday, June 29th
Sign up at the info table to bring your favorite salty snack to share.
We want to spend some time getting to know others in the Savior community.
Weather permitting we will be outside, near the parking lot; in case of rain or heat, we’ll gather in the gym.
Enjoy breakfast in the great outdoors, followed by morning prayer.
Sunday, June 2, at 8:30am, at Herrick Lake Forest Preserve in Warrenville.
(Please note new location: At Herrick Lake at the East Shelter.)
Palm Saturday: Saturday, March 23rd, 5:00-6:30 PM — PHCC
Maundy Thursday: Thursday, March 28th, 7:00-8:30 PM — PHCC
Good Friday: Friday, March 29th, 4:00-5:30 PM — PHCC
Easter Vigil: Saturday, March 30th, 5:00-7:00 pm — PHCC
Easter Celebration: Sunday, March 31st, 10:30 am-12:00 pm — Tyndale House Publishers
Praying for Holy Week:
• For the grace to open ourselves to God’s Spirit and receive all He has for us in this Holy Week.
• For anointing on the reading, preaching, and singing of God’s Word, that we would hear it with new ears and take it in deeply.
• For a palpable sense of our union in Christ, so that isolation would be swallowed up in Christian community.
• For creativity to live into these ancient practices in fresh ways.
• For people beyond Savior who view the services to meet God.
• For our Good Friday Gift.
This year, we’re holding the Stations ahead of Holy Week, as a Lenten devotion for all ages. Times are listed below:
Friday, March 15, 2:00-8:00PM
Saturday, March 16, 9:00AM-3:00PM
Sign up for a time here.
Mark the beginning of Lent with this solemn service of repentance and remembrance of our need for Christ. Service held at PHCC; families are welcome.
At the beginning of each year, we gather as a church to discuss and vote on our:
* proposed budget (coming after Wednesday Vestry meeting)
* proposed slate of new vestry members
* proposed changes to our bylaws (coming after Wednesday Vestry meeting)
Join us for our family conversation over Zoom. Click here to join the zoom meeting.
All may attend. This is a great chance to ask questions.
The vote will take place at the Annual Business Meeting on Saturday, Feb. 3rd. It will be held in person, at Pleasant Hill, immediately after the service, approximately 6:30–6:45pm. All may attend, but only members may vote. (And per our bylaws, no absentee voting, except by prior arrangement with the Vestry in cases of medical inability to attend.)
On January 6th, plan to stay after worship for a piece of rosca, the traditional “kings’ bread,” as we observe the kings’ worship of Jesus. We’ll have hot cocoa, too.
If you find a small figure of baby Jesus in your rosca, save it in order to bring it back on February 3rd, when we celebrate the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple.
(Need to run? Take a slice of rosca with you.)
Join us for our Christmas Eve service. We will sing favorite Christmas carols by candlelight.
No childcare will be provided, children are welcome in the service. Coloring pages will be available.
We will be meeting on December 16th at PHCC after the service.
Dinner will be provided.
We hope you all can join us for this wonderful tradition!
Sign up here!
We are once again excited to support the Outreach Christmas Store, a one-day event hosted by Outreach Community Ministries that allows local low-income families to purchase Christmas gifts at reduced cost. You can support the store in two ways:
Donate one (or more!) gifts – either purchase from this list and bring the gift to Savior by Saturday, December 2nd or order online from Amazon or Target and have gifts shipped directly to Outreach (gifts must arrive by Monday, December 4th).
Volunteer either at the store on December 9th or in a variety of other roles preparing for the store – click here for the volunteer application.
Join us on Sunday, September 17, from 2-5 pm at PHCC for our annual All-Church Retreat!
We’ll spend the afternoon connecting with God in a variety of ways. This retreat is designed to be accessible to all ages, including children and youth; childcare will be provided for our littlest ones, children from kindergarten up will be guided through the retreat by adult volunteers, and youth can participate alongside adults.
Please register at this link so that we have enough materials, and let Pastor Sarah know if you have any questions.
This class is for anyone who is interested in being confirmed, which means making a public commitment to the church and receiving, through the laying on of hands by our bishop, a renewed empowering of the Holy Spirit. This class is also open to anyone who wants to dive a little deeper into the theology, history, and spiritual traditions of the Anglican church, even if you are already confirmed or unsure about confirmation.
The class will meet for 10 sessions on Saturdays, from 3-4 pm at PHCC, beginning on September 16th.
After the service, outside at PHCC, on Saturday, August 26th. We will be catering Chipotle to build your own bowl or burrito.
If your last name falls between A-L please bring chips, and M-Z please bring guacamole. Hope to see you there!
This summer we will be introducing 5 spiritual disciplines to our children. These 5 events will take place at PHCC from 3-5pm
The dates are:
June 11th - Nature Walk: Spending time in God's creation, observing His great love for me.
June 25th - Breath Prayer: To pray a simple, intimate prayer of heartfelt desire before God.
July 9th - Examen: To notice both God and my God-given desires throughout the day.
July 30th - Praying the Scriptures: To allow God to shape my prayer life through the words of Scripture.
August 13th - To turn my concerns and worries into prayer; to enter God's heart for the world and then pray from there.
At each event we will introduce a spiritual discipline and provide opportunities to explore, practice, create, and engage with the spiritual discipline. Our time together will include a snack as well. If you have any questions or concerns or if your child has a food allergy,please contact Sydney. You can sign your child up for the June 10th event here.
Our joy continues with this in-person celebration. We hear the Gospel account of the first Easter, sing favorite Easter songs, and celebrate the Eucharist with one another. Then, we’ll enjoy a continental breakfast, games for kids, and above all a chance to be with one another, enjoying community and thanking God for all he has done among us during Holy Week.
Image: “Myrrh Bearing Women”, 2000 ©Laura James Used with permission
The service comes in 4 parts:
Service of Light: the Paschal (or Easter) Candle is lit, symbolizing
Christ, the light of the world. We share in that light by lighting our own
candles.
Service of Lessons: we hear how God saved his people in ages past and
respond with songs and prayers. That culminates in the Acclamation
that “Jesus is risen!” which is shouted and celebrated.
Baptism: we renew our baptismal vows.
Communion: we celebrate the victory of Life over Death in this holy
feast and continue the celebration with singing and dancing.
Image: “Myrrh Bearing Women”, 2000 ©Laura James Used with permission
The Story
Christians call this disastrous day in Jesus’ life—an event of government- sponsored torture and public execution—“good.” In what possible way could “Good Friday” be good? Because a greater plan was at work. Several times Jesus predicted that he would be betrayed, tortured, and killed (Luke 9:22; 9:44; and 18:31-33). Incredibly, this was part of God’s plan (Luke 22:22) and the reason Jesus came ( John 12:27-28).
Image: “Nativity Station no. 2”, 2002 ©Laura James Used with permission
The Story
The word “maundy” comes from “mandate,” because on the Thursday night before he died, Jesus gave his followers a mandate: “Love each other just as much as I love you” ( John 13:34). In this service, we are the disciples, and we see how much Jesus loves us:
He washes our feet
He gives us his life in the Last Supper
He prays in agony in Gethsemane so he can take on the suffering for
our sake.
Image: “Emmaus Story”, 2000 ©Laura James Used with permission
