SUNDAY SERVICE
We would like to invite you to our Sunday Service. Here’s what a typical Sunday morning service includes:
-Welcome And Announcements
-Prelude Hymn
-Call To Worship
-Hymn Of Gathering
-Unison Prayer And The Lord’s Prayer
-Gloria Patri
-Offertory Hymn
-Doxology
-Unison Prayer Of Dedication
-Pastoral Prayer
-Hymn Of Preparation
-Scripture Lesson
-Sermon
-Affirmation of Faith
-Hymn Of Parting
-Benediction And Congregational Response
-Joys & Concerns
-Prayer For Ourselves And Our Loved Ones
-Postlude Hymn
Hawker Church has a tradition of holding a reception in the fellowship hall for refreshments after the church service. This gives everyone a chance to mingle and get to know each other better. One Sunday during each month we celebrate birthdays with cake! If you are interested, there are teams who coordinate and provide the refreshments each Sunday.
HAWKER CHURCH CHOIR
Choir season is September through May. We have rehearsals on Thursday’s from 7:00pm-8:30pm. The choir presents a choral introit and anthem each Sunday during the choir season. Anybody is welcome to sing in the choir. Our goal is to sing beautiful and challenging music to glorify God.
Our Minister of Music: Danny Voris
vorisdanny@gmail.com
On Palm Sunday we hand out palm fronds (the long strips), we’ll also be giving you palm crosses. Besides their obvious devotional meaning, the crosses are a way for us to help support self-help programs and community projects in East Africa.
Each palm cross is handmade by someone in one of seven villages in Tanzania. Often, whole families are involved in the project. Tanzanian workers are paid generous wages for their labor of love.
The crosses are imported by a volunteer-run program of fellow Christians in America. All of the net proceeds from their sale are returned to East Africa in the form of non-denominational grants. They have enriched the lives of hundreds of African people who desperately need assistance, encouragement, and hope for a better tomorrow. Projects supported through the palm crosses included agricultural and vocational training schools, safe community water systems, and emergency relief for victims of civil strife, drought, and other disasters.
Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early on Sunday morning and found Jesus’ tomb open and empty! She ran to tell the disciples. Peter and John ran to the tomb to see for themselves what had happened. Peter looked into the tomb and “saw the linen cloths lying there, and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself” (John 19:7). Jesus Christ had risen from the dead!
Join us for our Easter Service this year either for our outside service at 9:00am or later for our inside service at 10:30am.
2020 marks the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower’s voyage from Plymouth, England, to Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts. The passengers who spent three long months on a tiny ship were some of our United Church of Christ spiritual ancestors, the Pilgrims. They brought the Christian faith and the concept of self-government (look up the Mayflower Compact – it was a revolutionary idea for its time) to the New World.
Come and gather with thankful hearts as we share a simple meal of soup and bread, followed by a service of Thanksgiving.
God loves all of the creatures He created, and He wants to bless your beloved animals. So we’re inviting you, your pets, and your neighbors to our annual Blessing of the Animals.
We’ll gather at the picnic pavilion, rain or shine. Please ensure your pets are on a leash or in a cage or crate. If your animal is not very friendly, or is sick, you can bring a photo instead. And children are welcome to bring stuffed animals. We’ll have a brief ceremony which includes blessing each animal by name, and then a few light refreshments.
Hawker Church has several services as well as an annual summer and fall picnic outside in our picnic pavilion and you, your family, your neighbors, and your friends are invited. We’ll have both of our worship services – with Holy Communion – (8:30 and 10:30 a.m.) in the picnic pavilion, so dress appropriately for the warm weather.
Following the second service, we’ll fire up the grill and enjoy hot dogs, hamburgers, and German sausages. Bring your favorite homemade or store-bought salads, sides, and desserts to share.
Our Fourth of July picnic is always a great day in the life of Hawker Church. Plan to be here for all the fun!
Advent begins on November 27th, so we need to decorate Hawker Church for the holy season.
Join us on a Sunday in November for the Hanging of the Greens, following the morning worship service. We’ll have a light reception in Fellowship Hall (‘cause you’re going to work up an appetite). Then at noon, we’ll start hanging garlands and wreaths, putting up trees and the nativity scene, setting up the Advent wreath, and much more as we prepare the church for Christmas.