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Upcoming Events
Easter Services
Join us at 6:15 a.m. for our Sunrise Service or 9:30 a.m. for our Traditional Easter Worship Service.
Sunrise takes place at the Willow Street UCC cemetery. Bring a lawn chair if you'd like! Come back to Willow Street Church after for light refreshments or to attend our 9:30 a.m. worship service!
Free Community Meal
Every Fourth Tuesday, Willow Street Church hosts a community meal. All are welcome, and the meal is free to all. Come and spend time with your Willow Street neighbors.
Creation Care Sunday
Join us for a special Sunday celebrating our call to care for Creation!
Consistory Meeting
Our congregation is led by the Consistory, our lay leadership team. They meet every fourth Monday to prayerfully navigate congregational decision-making, administrative tasks, and other church needs. Reach out to President Dick Peipher with any questions or concerns: office@wsucc.com.
Preschool Sunday
Teachers and children attending our Willow Street UCC Preschool are invited for a special end-of-year celebration in our Worship service! We love our preschool!
Juggling Fun with Boston Bachert
Join us in the Fellowship Hall to enjoy juggling fun with Boston Bachert. Learn more at https://www.bostonbachert.com/gospel.
Graduation Sunday
We are celebrating God's faithfulness to our graduates. Join us for a pre-ception at 8:30 a.m. followed by Worship at 9:30 a.m.
Consistory Meeting
Our congregation is led by the Consistory, our lay leadership team. They meet every fourth Monday to prayerfully navigate congregational decision-making, administrative tasks, and other church needs. Reach out to President Dick Peipher with any questions or concerns: office@wsucc.com.
Free Community Meal
Every Fourth Tuesday, Willow Street Church hosts a community meal. All are welcome, and the meal is free to all. Come and spend time with your Willow Street neighbors.
An Evening with Jeff Chu
Join us for an evening with author, Jeff Chu, as he discusses his book: “Good Soil.”
In his late thirties, Jeff Chu left his job as a magazine writer and found himself at Princeton Theological Seminary’s “Farminary”—a twenty-one-acre working farm where students learn to cultivate the earth while examining life’s biggest questions. Now, he unpacks what he learned about creating “good soil,” both literally and figuratively, drawing lessons from the rhythms of growth, decay, and regeneration that define life on the land.
In gorgeous, transporting reflections, Chu introduces us to the cast of characters, human and not, who became his teachers. While observing the egrets that visit the pond, the worms that turn waste into fertile soil, and the Chinese long beans that get passed over in the farm’s CSA, Chu considers our desire to belong, the story behind the food on our plate, and the significance of his own roots. What is the earth trying to tell us, if we’ll only stop and listen?
Good Soil helps readers connect to the land and to one another at a time when we seem drawn most to the phones in our hands. For nature lovers, foodies, and anyone who has daydreamed about a more fulfilling life, this book is a tribute to friendship, to the sacredness of our bond with the natural world, and to how love can grow from the most unlikely of places.
Jeff Chu is an award-winning journalist and editor-at-large at Travel+Leisure. He is the author of Does Jesus Really Love Me? and the co-author, with the late Rachel Held Evans, of the New York Times bestseller Wholehearted Faith. Chu is a former Time staff writer and Fast Company editor whose work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Modern Farmer. In his weekly newsletter, “Notes of a Make-Believe Farmer,” Chu writes about spirituality, gardening, food, travel, and culture. He lives with his husband, Tristan, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Lenten Study with Pastor Zach
Join Pastor Zach for a weekly lenten study exploring the book, Job and the Mystery of Suffering, written by Richard Rohr.
Get your book and sign up by contacting us today: office@wsucc.com.
Lenten Study with Pastor Zach
Join Pastor Zach for a weekly lenten study exploring the book, Job and the Mystery of Suffering, written by Richard Rohr.
Get your book and sign up by contacting us today: office@wsucc.com.
Lenten Study with Pastor Zach
Join Pastor Zach for a weekly lenten study exploring the book, Job and the Mystery of Suffering, written by Richard Rohr.
Get your book and sign up by contacting us today: office@wsucc.com.
Free Community Meal
Every Fourth Tuesday, Willow Street Church hosts a community meal. All are welcome, and the meal is free to all. Come and spend time with your Willow Street neighbors.
Lenten Study with Pastor Zach
Join Pastor Zach for a weekly lenten study exploring the book, Job and the Mystery of Suffering, written by Richard Rohr.
Get your book and sign up by contacting us today: office@wsucc.com.
Consistory Meeting
Our congregation is led by the Consistory, our lay leadership team. They meet every fourth Monday to prayerfully navigate congregational decision-making, administrative tasks, and other church needs. Reach out to President Dick Peipher with any questions or concerns: office@wsucc.com.
Lenten Study with Pastor Zach
Join Pastor Zach for a weekly lenten study exploring the book, Job and the Mystery of Suffering, written by Richard Rohr.
Get your book and sign up by contacting us today: office@wsucc.com.
Lenten Study with Pastor Zach
Join Pastor Zach for a weekly lenten study exploring the book, Job and the Mystery of Suffering, written by Richard Rohr.
Get your book and sign up by contacting us today: office@wsucc.com.
Lenten Study with Pastor Zach
Join Pastor Zach for a weekly lenten study exploring the book, Job and the Mystery of Suffering, written by Richard Rohr.
Get your book and sign up by contacting us today: office@wsucc.com.
Free Community Meal
Every Fourth Tuesday, Willow Street Church hosts a community meal. All are welcome, and the meal is free to all. Come and spend time with your Willow Street neighbors.
Consistory Meeting
Our congregation is led by the Consistory, our lay leadership team. They meet every fourth Monday to prayerfully navigate congregational decision-making, administrative tasks, and other church needs. Reach out to President Dick Peipher with any questions or concerns: office@wsucc.com.
Free Community Meal
Every Fourth Tuesday, Willow Street Church hosts a community meal. All are welcome, and the meal is free to all. Come and spend time with your Willow Street neighbors.
New Year's Time Out
What better season than New Year to pause, look back, look around, look to God and look ahead?
In a guided session of reflection, Willow Street Church member, Rev. Jim Haun, will be inviting us to consider God's hand in our lives.
It is not as intense as it may sound, and you will be surprised by the joy experienced and insights received.
This will all be done in a relaxed setting around tables in our chapel, and will start with a light brunch from 10:30 to 11:00.
There is no charge. A sign up is in the Gathering Place, or just show up!
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Christmas Eve Candlelight Worship Service
Join us for lessons and carols, a traditional worship service celebrating the birth of Jesus.
Light-Up L.S.
Cub Scout Pack 58 and Boy Scout Troop 58 of Willow Street presents… Light-up L-S, a Luminaries Fundraiser.
On December 24th, let’s transform our neighborhood into a beautiful winter community. Come together and join us in celebrating this Christmas season by lining our neighborhoods with candle luminaries. #LightUpLS
Participating households will line the street in front of their house and if desired, their driveways and walkways, too. The luminaries are placed 2-3 feet apart and everyone lights their candles by 5:30 p.m.
Luminary kits include: 10 candles that burn for 10 hours, white paper bags, sand and instructions.
$15/kit delivered in L-S area / $12 kit if picked up.
Please order by Friday, December 6. Any questions? Email troop58willowstreet@gmail.com
Scouting58.org
Proceeds benefit Cub Scout Pack 58 and Boy Scout Troop 58 for program activities.
Thank you for your support!
Pastor's Advent Study
Pastor Zach will be leading an advent study on Mondays at 1PM November 25th - December 23rd. The study focuses on the experiences of four sets of often overlooked characters in the Nativity story. We’ll be reading An Unlikely Advent by Rachel Billups, exploring the themes of hope, love, joy, and peace by sharing the stories of Elizabeth and Zechariah, Herod, the Magi, and the shepherds. Each set of unexpected characters has something to teach about living faithfully on the journey to Christmas.
You can purchase your book online or we do have some copies available in the church office for $15.00/each. The book will support the Advent Sermon Series, so you may wish to purchase it and read it alone, even if you can’t attend the study time.
*If you’d like to participate in the study, but you can’t purchase the book due to financial constraints, just let Pastor Zach know, and we’ll be sure to get you a copy!
Sign up by calling Katie in the Church Office or by using the sign-up sheet in the gathering place.
Blue Christmas Service
The Holidays can be a tough time for anyone, but especially those of us carrying grief. Join us for a special service where we make space for the complicated parts of Advent and Christmastime.
Free Community Meal
All are welcome for our free December community meal! Please note December 17th date-- a week earlier than usual. Join us in the Fellowship Hall!
Pastor's Advent Study
Pastor Zach will be leading an advent study on Mondays at 1PM November 25th - December 23rd. The study focuses on the experiences of four sets of often overlooked characters in the Nativity story. We’ll be reading An Unlikely Advent by Rachel Billups, exploring the themes of hope, love, joy, and peace by sharing the stories of Elizabeth and Zechariah, Herod, the Magi, and the shepherds. Each set of unexpected characters has something to teach about living faithfully on the journey to Christmas.
You can purchase your book online or we do have some copies available in the church office for $15.00/each. The book will support the Advent Sermon Series, so you may wish to purchase it and read it alone, even if you can’t attend the study time.
*If you’d like to participate in the study, but you can’t purchase the book due to financial constraints, just let Pastor Zach know, and we’ll be sure to get you a copy!
Sign up by calling Katie in the Church Office or by using the sign-up sheet in the gathering place.
Christmas Pageant
Join us as our children lead us in worship for our annual Christmas pageant. This year's play is called, "Sleepover at the Stable."
Pastor's Advent Study
Pastor Zach will be leading an advent study on Mondays at 1PM November 25th - December 23rd. The study focuses on the experiences of four sets of often overlooked characters in the Nativity story. We’ll be reading An Unlikely Advent by Rachel Billups, exploring the themes of hope, love, joy, and peace by sharing the stories of Elizabeth and Zechariah, Herod, the Magi, and the shepherds. Each set of unexpected characters has something to teach about living faithfully on the journey to Christmas.
You can purchase your book online or we do have some copies available in the church office for $15.00/each. The book will support the Advent Sermon Series, so you may wish to purchase it and read it alone, even if you can’t attend the study time.
*If you’d like to participate in the study, but you can’t purchase the book due to financial constraints, just let Pastor Zach know, and we’ll be sure to get you a copy!
Sign up by calling Katie in the Church Office or by using the sign-up sheet in the gathering place.
Breakfast with Santa in Willow Street, PA
On Saturday, December 7, 2024 at 8:30 a.m. enjoy photos and breakfast with Santa.
All proceeds support Willow Street UCC preschool:
$7/adult ticket ages 12+
$5 child ticket ages 3-11
Children 2 and under are free.
Christmas cookies will be packaged by the dozen and sold for $7.00/each.
Light-up L-S Luminary Orders Due
Cub Scout Pack 58 and Boy Scout Troop 58 of Willow Street presents… Light-up L-S, a Luminaries Fundraiser.
On December 24th, let’s transform our neighborhood into a beautiful winter community. Come together and join us in celebrating this Christmas season by lining our neighborhoods with candle luminaries. #LightUpLS
Participating households will line the street in front of their house and if desired, their driveways and walkways, too. The luminaries are placed 2-3 feet apart and everyone lights their candles by 5:30 p.m.
Luminary kits include: 10 candles that burn for 10 hours, white paper bags, sand and instructions.
$15/kit delivered in L-S area / $12 kit if picked up.
Please order by Friday, December 6. Any questions? Email troop58willowstreet@gmail.com
Scouting58.org
Proceeds benefit Cub Scout Pack 58 and Boy Scout Troop 58 for program activities.
Thank you for your support!
Pastor's Advent Study
Pastor Zach will be leading an advent study on Mondays at 1PM November 25th - December 23rd. The study focuses on the experiences of four sets of often overlooked characters in the Nativity story. We’ll be reading An Unlikely Advent by Rachel Billups, exploring the themes of hope, love, joy, and peace by sharing the stories of Elizabeth and Zechariah, Herod, the Magi, and the shepherds. Each set of unexpected characters has something to teach about living faithfully on the journey to Christmas.
You can purchase your book online or we do have some copies available in the church office for $15.00/each. The book will support the Advent Sermon Series, so you may wish to purchase it and read it alone, even if you can’t attend the study time.
*If you’d like to participate in the study, but you can’t purchase the book due to financial constraints, just let Pastor Zach know, and we’ll be sure to get you a copy!
Sign up by calling Katie in the Church Office or by using the sign-up sheet in the gathering place.
Adult Bible Study
Join Mr. Tom Loane for a time of study, discussion, and learning together!
Hanging of the Greens
Join us for our annual time of preparing the church for the beautiful season of Advent. Contact the Church Office for more details.
Free Community Meal
Every Fourth Tuesday, Willow Street Church hosts a community meal. All are welcome, and the meal is free to all. Come and spend time with your Willow Street neighbors.
Consistory Meeting
The leadership team of the church meets together to plan, discern, and dream. For more information, contact the church office.
Pastor's Advent Study
Pastor Zach will be leading an advent study on Mondays at 1PM November 25th - December 23rd. The study focuses on the experiences of four sets of often overlooked characters in the Nativity story. We’ll be reading An Unlikely Advent by Rachel Billups, exploring the themes of hope, love, joy, and peace by sharing the stories of Elizabeth and Zechariah, Herod, the Magi, and the shepherds. Each set of unexpected characters has something to teach about living faithfully on the journey to Christmas.
You can purchase your book online or we do have some copies available in the church office for $15.00/each. The book will support the Advent Sermon Series, so you may wish to purchase it and read it alone, even if you can’t attend the study time.
*If you’d like to participate in the study, but you can’t purchase the book due to financial constraints, just let Pastor Zach know, and we’ll be sure to get you a copy!
Sign up by calling Katie in the Church Office or by using the sign-up sheet in the gathering place.