{"id":11,"date":"2013-07-26T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T20:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchonmainstreet.org\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-10-31T12:52:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:52:27","slug":"worship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/churchonmainstreet.org\/?page_id=11","title":{"rendered":"Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p><a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/PANORAMIC-LIGHT-PHOTO.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/PANORAMIC-LIGHT-PHOTO.png\" alt=\"PANORAMIC LIGHT PHOTO\" width=\"1248\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<strong>SERVICES<\/strong>\n<p>There is both a form and a flavor to our church services. The form is that we meet at 10 a.m. every Sunday. Services last about an hour.\u00a0Our Sunday morning service offers a wide variety of music that we sometimes enjoy as a presentation from the choir or guest soloist, or as participation with the congregation when we sing a wide variety of hymns and songs from different eras, cultures and countries.<\/p>\n<p>The sermon is always based on Biblical stories and sayings, and occasionally also based on wisdom literature from other faiths, cultures, and countries. The sermons predictably invite us to relate lessons of faith and spirituality to our personal lives and community commitments. The service provides both a place of temporary rest and sanctuary <i>from<\/i> the world; as well as a resource for being refreshed, inspired, spiritually-centered and strengthened to return <i>to<\/i> the world at the conclusion of the service.<\/p>\n<p>The church follows the seasons of Advent and Christmas, Lent and Easter, and other Christian holidays. There are special services held throughout the year (Christmas Eve, Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Interfaith Thanksgiving Service). We observe and celebrate two sacraments: Christian baptism and Holy Communion.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sunday Worship begins at 10 a.m. Come &amp; join us!<\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SERVICES There is both a form and a flavor to our church services. The form is that we meet at 10 a.m. every Sunday. Services last about an hour.\u00a0Our Sunday morning service offers a wide variety of music that we sometimes enjoy as a presentation from the choir or guest soloist, or as participation with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchonmainstreet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchonmainstreet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchonmainstreet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/churchonmainstreet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/churchonmainstreet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"http:\/\/churchonmainstreet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"http:\/\/churchonmainstreet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchonmainstreet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}