Saturday Sanctuary Service 5 pm

Our Saturday service is a more relaxed and tranquil service with weekly communion. The liturgy is either spoken or sung to familiar hymn tunes.

Sunday Sanctuary Service 8 am

Our 8 am Sunday Sanctuary Service is a traditional service using liturgies from both Evangelical Lutheran Worship and With One Voice. Communion is celebrated on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Sundays of each month, every Sunday during Advent, Christmas and Easter and on Festival Sundays.

Sunday Sanctuary Service 10:30 am (Summer 9:45 am)

Our 10:30 am Sunday Sanctuary Service is a traditional service using liturgies from Evangelical Lutheran Worship and With One Voice. Communion is celebrated on the 2nd, 4th and 5th Sundays of each month, every Sunday during Advent, Christmas and Easter and on Festival Sundays. During the summer months of June, July and August this service begins at 9:45 am.

Sunday Contemporary Service in the Parish Life Center 10:30 am

This Sunday service is a contemporary service in our Parish Life Center with weekly communion. Led by our Praise Band/Choir this service features contemporary music, multi-media worship and a more casual atmosphere.

Additional worship services are held on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Ash Wednesday, Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday of Holy Week, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and each Wednesday during Lent. Thanksgiving Eve worship is held in conjunction with other ELCA congregations in Springfield.

In the Sanctuary Services large print worship bulletins are available. In both the Sanctuary and Parish Life Center worship services assistive listening devices are available. CDs are available of the Sanctuary Services.

Children at Worship

As you look around the Sanctuary at any service, you will see that children are part of our worshipping community. Their presence here grows out of the Biblical tradition and conviction that children are members of the worshipping community. We make room for children in our worship by having a time for children, making sure that worship activity bulletins are available and by scheduling events throughout the year where children can use the gifts which God has provided them and share them with all worshipping. Your children are always welcome at our worship.

Music

St. John’s has been especially blessed with an unusually strong and versatile music program. In all of our worship services – traditional and contemporary – we are assisted by a variety of musical expressions which include: Chancel Choir, Bells of Glory [Adult Hand Bells], Children’s Vocal and Chime Choirs, Women’s Ensemble, Hosanna! [a cappella group of 12 members], Men’s Ensemble, instrumentalists and soloists. In addition each week in our Contemporary Service in the Parish Life Center we have a gifted Praise Band/Choir composed of guitarists, percussionists, keyboardist, and a weekly vocal leadership group of 24 members, 5 to 6 of which sing each week. Rehearsals for all these musical groups are held weekly – please check with our Director of Music – Jean Welch at 793-3933 – for times.

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