At our last men's group meeting, it was decided to take the summer off from meeting together and allow everyone to enjoy some nice Saturday morning weather. Consequently, our next gathering will be Saturday, Sept 6 at 7:30a where we will resume with Part III - Change (Chapter 8) which is how Jeff Haanen suggests we implement the five practices.
Leader: Chris Truty
Meeting: The first and third Saturdays of each month
Time: 7:30-9:00 am.
Location: Pleasant Hill Community Church, 26W401 Geneva Rd., Wheaton, IL 60187. The library.
Coffee and a light snack will be provided. For more information on the group, please contact Chris Truty at ctruty@gmail.com.
In this self-guided, interactive journey for all ages, move through the final 14 key moments of Jesus’s life, from his betrayal to his burial. This year’s time slots are:
Tuesday, April 15, 6-9pm
Wednesday, April 16, 8:30-10pm
Thursday, April 17, 7:30-9:30pm, and
Friday, April 18, 12-3:00pm with nursery available.
Palm Saturday: Saturday, April 12th, 5:00-6:30 PM — PHCC
Stations of the Cross: April 15-18, PHCC
Maundy Thursday (Eve): WEDNESDAY, April 16th, 7:00-8:30 PM — PHCC
Good Friday: Friday, April 18th, 4:00-5:30 PM — PHCC
Easter Vigil: Saturday, April 19th, 5:00-7:30 pm — PHCC
Easter Celebration: Sunday, April 20th, 10:30 am-12:30 pm — Tyndale House Publishers
PHCC = Pleasant Hill Community Church, 26W401 Geneva Rd, Wheaton
Tyndale House Publishers is located at 351 Executive Drive, Carol Stream
Read our Holy Week Guide for more details and what to expect at each service.
Leader: Chris Truty
Meeting: The first and third Saturdays of each month
Time: 7:30-9:00 am.
Location: Pleasant Hill Community Church, 26W401 Geneva Rd., Wheaton, IL 60187. The library.
Coffee and a light snack will be provided. For more information on the group, please contact Chris Truty at ctruty@gmail.com.
We invite you to enter into Lent with a silent retreat on Saturday, March 8th from 9 am - 1 pm at First Presbyterian Church in Wheaton (715 N. Carlton Ave.). A light breakfast and hot drinks will be provided; the suggested donation to attend is $20 to help cover our costs, but don’t let cost stop you from attending. Please register online or at the Info Table; contact Pastor Sarah for more information.
Worship with us Ash Wednesday, March 5th.
Time: 6:30PM
Where: Pleasant Hill Community Church, (26W401 Geneva Rd., Wheaton, IL 60187)
If you are unable to attend in-person, we invite you to connect with our livestream:
Christians around the world have traditionally celebrated the day before Ash Wednesday by eating all the rich foods – like sugar and dairy – they would be giving up for the fast of Lent. Savior is joining that tradition by hosting a Shrove Tuesday Pancake Dinner on March 4, from 6-8pm, at PHCC. Savior will provide pancakes and beverages; we invite you to bring your favorite (nut-free) topping to share! Sign up online or at the Info Table so we know how many pancakes to flip.
Savior is hosting a short evening retreat on Thursday, December 12 from 6:00 - 9:00. Join us at 6 for a soup dinner; the retreat will begin at 6:45. This mini retreat will be an opportunity to slow down and connect with God in the midst of this often hectic season. Please register here so we can provide enough soup! Reach out to Pastor Sarah with any questions.
Join us for this wonderful Savior tradition for all ages! December 7th at PHCC after the service, and dinner will be provided. Please sign up here or in the foyer, so we know you’re coming. The cost of the first kit is $25 and $20 for each additional kit (Please pay here; where it says “General Fund” change to “Gingerbread Nativities”). If you are new to Savior in the past year, your kit is on us.
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!
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.
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.)
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!
